As a couple with several computers and gadgets in our lives, Ted and I go through a lot of batteries. My digital camera uses AA batteries, and it runs through them like candy. Ted also loves his Wii, and those remotes eat up batteries constantly. We’ve experimented with rechargeable batteries before, thinking we’d be doing [...]

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I wrote a post a while back about watching movies via download rather than on DVD because of the environmental impact. The one downfall to this, I noted, was that it sucks to watch amazing movies on a small laptop screen. Well, now this isn’t a problem for those of you with an Xbox 360 [...]

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Last night I bought a new printer. My old little Epson inkjet had become crotchety, and it needed replacing. Of course, this lead to the question, what do I do with the old printer? Ideally, I’d like to try and find it a new home, but if the hand-me-down idea fails I’ll recycle it. Many [...]

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Apple isn’t the only computer company with a recycling program; Dell rolled out its own program last year. The specifics of the program state that Dell will receive any Dell-branded product, no purchase required, and recycle it for free. You can also send them your old printers, ink cartridges, and toner cartridges for free recycling; [...]

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I’ve been an obsessive planner-user for as long as I can remember. I think it started in grade school as a way to remember all the homework I had, because I had a nasty habit of showing up to school having forgotten to do half of the day’s homework. (Gads, aren’t you glad you don’t [...]

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I really, really love vegetable juice. Before you cringe and shut your laptop, you must know that before I loved it, I hated it. I thought it was nasty, until I tried a diet that required lots of vegetable juice, and provided lots of good recipes. (Note: Diets are for lame-oes. I currently believe that [...]

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