Tech journo Danny Gorog has written a good piece about new sheet-fed scanners that can scan in your bills (even double-sided ones) and save them as PDFs on your computer, eliminating the stacks of unsorted paper we all build up on our desks.
I'm going to have to look into getting one of these scanners. Paper [...]

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I've noticed more American-style "cashback" offers creeping into Australia catalogues recently. Most commonly, they're attached to $850 laptops, which come with $100 cashback, to bring the laptop price down to $750.
Why can't they just sell the laptop for $750? Can someone with some marketing knowledge explain to me what the benefit of making the consumer [...]

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I am a sucker for more of everything when it comes to computers, so I had to upgrade my MacBook Pro's hard drive to 160GB — the biggest hard drive available at retail. (Of course, soon after I ordered it, 200GB drives started becoming available and Hitachi announced 250GB notebook drives… bastards).
Anyway, it's a Hitachi [...]

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