Approaching Paperlessness with Joe Kissell and three great articles from Lifehacker

Hola, fellow MacValleyites and my worldwide audience.

Today I have four items for you:

1. Joe Kissell writes at Macworld.com about the difficulty of becoming totally paperless. As the old cartoon of Snoopy on the john read, “No job is finished until the paperwork is completed.”

1. Adam Dachis of Lifehacker.com has ten things every Mac enthusiast should do, or at least think about.

• 3. Whitson Gordon, also of Lifehacker.com has a great column on how to turn almost action into a keyboard shortcut. For those typing on non-Apple keyboards (this Monoprice keyboard rocks!) this looks like something to try next weekend.
• 4. Whitson Gordon has another article introducing us to Apple’s Automatorand how to make it do the stuff we want it to.

I was going to have a link to a story about how Ireland’s Parliament decided not to grill Apple executives about using Ireland as a tax haven. I think this goes under the heading of “Leave the golden goose ALONE!” and “For every island in the Atlantic that tries to give Apple grief, there are 12 in the Caribbean and Pacific with warmer winters just itching to steal Apple’s business from us.”

Tom Briant

Editor, MacValley Blog