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?

  How can you keep your data from being held hostage? Have you ever stopped to consider exactly how much information is permanently stored within your favorite applications, locked down to all but the most determined command-line commando? Perhaps the easiest way to explain what I’m getting at is by way of an example…

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.

Organize Your Digital Life: How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital World by Aimee Baldridge If you are looking for step-by-step checklists and good solid advice about putting your digital life in order, then this book is for you. The author covers a very broad swath of digital media, discussing [...]

We all have them tucked in some corner of our house—a stack of old greetings cards that we can’t bear to throw out because of the sentimental value. As a paperless warrior, you have at your disposal the tools to reclaim those corners of your home, with no guilt at all! On my last birthday, [...]

Paperless office? Ha! How about a paperless life? “Is it possible to make everything digital? Is it desirable?” In this article, columnist Mike Elgin describes his attempts at going paperless and the bumps he encountered along the way. He discusses several products he has used, including Evernote, Shoeboxed, Earth Class Mail, reQall, and the new [...]

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 [...]