Anyone who is serious about committing their piles of paper and other media to digital format asks this question from time to time. And it doesn’t seem to matter how large hard drives have grown over the years—the media files seem to grow to keep pace quite nicely. I would like to share with you [...]

Many of us have smartphones these days that hold substantial quantities and varieties of data. What happens to that data and how you replace it are two key questions to consider in the event that a mobile telephone is lost.
If you haven’t thought about it much before, why not take a few moments to consider the factors involved and any changes you might want to make to help minimize the stress from such an event.

Work flow is inherent in the kind of work that we do when scanning, indexing, searching, filing, tagging, and backing up all of our documents, photos, music, and video. Once you are committed to digital media, you will find that you often need to cobble together different programs in order to do away with some of the tedious manual labor.

You know all of those useless ad-filled pages that come out along with the one sheet you really needed? How about that last page that has nothing but the web site’s copyright statement or FAQ links? I just took a look at a product called GreenPrint that helps you print exactly the pages you want [...]

Last week I received my shiny new copy of iLife ’09 in the mail, and I found that the new Faces feature of iPhoto has turned out to be far more interesting than I had imagined based on the reviews. Once the application had finished searching through my library of thousands of family snapshots, I [...]

Those tiny USB drives we so casually toss about are convenient and easy to lose. Here’s some thoughts on making sure you don’t lose your secrets to strangers. While my family was on vacation over the holidays, I managed to calmly back our rental car into a concrete column in a parking garage, denting the [...]

Do you have an aging machine gathering dust in the corner of your closet? Why not give that machine new life as a Network Attached Storage device, providing a central disk drive that everyone in your house can access. What does this have to do with going paperless? Sooner or later as you go down [...]

There are many large content-management tools out there that provide similar drop-box functionality, but this one seems to have a sweet spot for simplicity.