Do you have a shared computer somewhere in your life? A computer that anyone and everyone uses in order to hop online to do a quick web search or to print a document? I have been dealing with situations like this for years, working with computers in a small school and at a nonprofit volunteer [...]

In my evenings, I sometimes find myself performing the role of “Resident Geek” at my nephew’s school, tending to network issues, computer problems, and my favorite, “The Internet is down!” Over the past couple of years I have considered several different approaches for keeping a grip on which computers had which service patch, which router [...]

Anyone who is packing serious scanning hardware should also be packing serious shredding hardware. It may not matter if another Capital One offer slips into the trash intact, but there’s no way I’m going to dispose of old tax records or medical records without rendering them completely useless to the enemy.

Here is my own short list of things to look for when you are buying a new shredder.

Last week I wrote about some different ways that you can get around having a photo printer in your home. Indeed, the ubiquitous photo inkjet printer tends to introduce frustration in a life that has no pressing need of more. In this article, I address the photo printer’s more formal companions: laser printers and their [...]

Even in a paperless home we occasionally need to print something. Why put up with all of the aggravation that comes with the care and feeding of a printer when there are so many other options available?

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 [...]

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.

The central tool to any paperless home is the scanner, and here are a few thoughts on what I was looking for when I found the right tool for the job.