See all your OS X applications at once
Boing Boing: See all your OS X applications at once. Cool…
A backpack for back-to-school
One of the good things (maybe the best thing) about working for Adobe Systems is the enduring ‘do the right thing’ culture engendered by founders John Warnock and Chuck Gieschke. Adobe is the best company, all things considered, I’ve ever worked for: for one thing, it has the least toxic work environment I’ve experienced in […]
FireFox and Google Spreadsheets
Two examples of free and very useful software that I have come to use as much as any similar product are the FireFox browser and Google Spreadsheets. It’s interesting that the two come from different organizations and economic models and both arrive at the same place: they’re both free and very good.
FireFox comes from Mozilla.org, […]
A week’s worth of paper: 21 bills, receipts et al.
Here’s the Fujitsu ScanSnap with the week’s scans - 21 bills, car service receipts, charitable deduction letter et al., on the platten that catches the scanned docs. At some point, when I’m sure the scans have been OCR’d, keyword-tagged, plugged into the paperless project and backed up, they’ll go into the recycling bin. A refinement […]
Life after Earth
A respectable, non-apocolyptic group recommends off-site backup for humanity’s most precious assets: Life After Earth: Imagining Survival Beyond This Terra Firma in the New York Times. My bank keeps backups of its finacial records offsite: should we do the same for humanity itself?
The real problem with paper
The hardest part about the paperless project has not been the scanning and computer time and discipline to scan everything in. It’s only taken a few minutes to scan in this week’s additions (21 new paper documents plus moving over months of previously scanned and faxed documents). The Fujitsu scanner’s fast, motorized automation, along with […]
200 ‘paperless’ documents later
There are now just under 200 formerly paper documents that have moved into our paperless PDF archive (aka the Paperless Project) - bank statements, faxes, medical records, tax returns and more. The process continues to be relatively painless and low maintenance (a key feature), and at the same time, it’s relatively easy to retrieve the […]
Queries as URLs
A nice feature of database-driven web content management systems like WordPress is the ability to assemble content by sending a query embedded in a URL. The last version of gulker.com relied on flat HTML pages on the webserver’s file system. If I wanted to provide the reader with a list of all the posts on […]
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