I have too much paper. Between various old documents, bills, statements, and magazines there’s reams of paper cluttering up my life. While I’ve been shifting as much as possible to paperless solutions where possible, the paper still accumulates. That’s why I love my Fujitsu ScanSnap. It’s a little scanner that tames the paper piles. While …
Category Archives: Tech
Travel Gear: Normal
While I might spend a few days at a beach resort with just my lightweight travel kit, for work related trips a “full” laptop is necessary. So here’s my normal travel setup, which centers around a new Macbook Air, and support accessories. Clockwise from upper left: Macbook Air – I’ve spent most of the last …
Travel Gear: Ultralight
I love to travel, but I don’t like carrying a bunch of luggage. Unfortunately, the geek in me needs a few tools to make it through the day. In this first travel kit entry I’d like to present my choices for trips where computing isn’t meant to play a large role. When travelling to destinations …
I’m now on twitter. I’m going to try to be more proactive about writing updates by using twitter. Since they’re smaller and more lightweight hopefully it’ll be easier for me to generate posts. You can follow my exploits in the sidebar to the right, or at: http://www.twitter.com/SandroFouche. Also, if anyone wants to recommend twitter tools …
Dealing with Spam
I get too much spam. Specifically, my home account gets close to 500 spam messages a day. Normally, I rely on SpamSieve on my Macbook Pro to filter all that noise, and it does a pretty good job (on average 1 spam a day makes it through). But now that I’m also getting my e-mail …
What’s on my iPhone?
Here’s what’s on my iPhone, what’s on yours? (mouse over for names, and don’t bother clicking, they don’t link anywhere)
Bought an iPhone 3G
So I finally got an iPhone. After waiting a full year (and desperately trying to get a 16GB black), I ended up buying an 8GB iPhone. Which pretty much means I’m only a GPS chip and a bit of speed ahead of the previous owners. Some quick notes on the iPhone. It kicks my Motorola …
Wii owners == stupid sheep
I should point out that not all Wii owners are stupid sheep, just the ones paying huge markups to get the latest widget from the folks at Nintendo. The Wii has been in (artificially?) short supply since it’s release almost 1.5 years ago, and this week Nintendo released Wii Fit; which is apparently also hard …
MacHeist II
The MacHeist guys are at it again. This time there’s 14 applications in the bundle, but it’s not as obviously a great deal as last time. I succumb to the lure of lots of programs for only a little $$$ anyway though. Here’s the list of applications along with my comments: 1Password – I use …
Backup solutions
Since I’ve started running Leopard the backup situation on my computer systems has gotten much better. It’s not just that Apple has created a slam-dunk solution in Time Machine (trust me it rocks). Or even that Time Machine is a complete backup solution (it isn’t). But that Time Machine has inspired me to get all …