Gee, I sorry if I was feeling "too good" about my purchase. But, I say if you haven't put your hands on one your experience with his machine is less than mine. At least you have spared me from someone buying one of these because "Jerry said" is worth $400. My reference to that number is what I recall reading in the add, recalling how much these machines costs just a couple of years ago. This machine came without any reference to Windows 8, has the good old fashioned glossy documentation makes me think it was "designed for" sale in a higher priced market.. If one has a home network and want to share a printer, they might be happier (at an additional cost of at least $50) if the printer is accessed off of Ethernet or WiFi. On the W8, I moved forward first on my W8 notebook to access that printer. With the great help from this site I used the information to set the printer as "shared" on the XP host computer. I then followed the directions to use the W8 Control Panel to open the network (hey, this was all looking familiar) and bingo there I found my XP machine and thus the Printer. I doubled clicked the Canon printer and W8 started to look for a driver.... I'll estimate 3 or 4 minutes later I got a failure to find a driver. The next step upon this type failure indicated to try to install the printer in W8 (W7 really specified) and that failed too. I went to the Canon web site and downloaded a driver for W8. Now ready I went back to the W8 Control Panel and opened the network and this time I couldn't find even the XP machine, never mind the printer. It was after 11 PM by that time so I decided to try again in the morning -yet to be accomplished. But, before bed I decided to look at the DVD that came with the printer. it has no indication of what OS systems it supported, but I put it in the W8 and loaded both the driver and the software to operate the scanner (which by the way is a low resolution color scanner.. low resolution for B&W too, not a picture quality scanner which is the case for all home machines I have owned). I'm yet to try again to gain access from the W8 and W7 computers. Now on my second cup of coffee, and will try to access the XP machine when I get energetic enough to go to the other room and turn it on.

We have an older laptop in the kitchen, located in the corner where two runs meet, on a stand that can be pulled forward. We mainly use it for recipes, address/phone book, & internet. DH installed Ethernet & TV cable connections in the bottom of the cabinet above it, but so far we've been running the laptop wireless. I can print using a local network connection to my printer & main computer in my office near the kitchen. We put the junk drawer & message center bulletin board around the corner from the kitchen in an area we call the Drop Zone, since it also has coat hooks, cubbies, & mail boxes. Here is a link that might be useful: Laptop stand

At the end of my refrig/pantry run I have a small section of countertop above a bank of drawers (about 21X24) where all the mail and other c**p get piled. Two of the drawers hold mailing and school supplies. The other two drawers are supposed to be for DH and me to store mail and other stuff that needs to be saved short term. Unfortunately DH's drawer remains empty while his pile on top grows ever larger. Heaven forbid he should have to open a drawer to get to something when he wants it. I have a three tier letter holder where bills, bank statements and that sort of thing are put until they get paid or whatever. From there they go directly to the file box that I keep in one of my kitchen cabinets. I wanted a filing cabinet in the kitchen, but it was one of the things that had to be scrapped due to lack of space. I wish DH could be a little neater/more organized, but as long as all the clutter stays on the one counter I guess I have to consider it a victory. In our previous kitchen there was so little counter space and his piles were so large, I had a space about 15"X24" to do prep work in. Totally Confused

CeltinNE, I have both shared and private Google Docs. We have a shared doc for family recipes. This is so handy when we're at Mom's and she can't find her beautifully handwritten recipe card, but we can find it on one of our devices and finish making it by the time she finds her card. You can set the sharing settings for each document individually. If you have handwritten recipes you'd rather scan than type, you can upload them as PDFs. Another option I've just started using is Evernote. It has an awesome web clipper browser extension that will copy the meaningful part of a web page, minus the ads, into a note in your Evernote account. Evernote will also do OCR on scanned handwriting I believe, so that it is searchable. I like Google Docs or Evernote, because I don't want to be tied into a proprietary technology that could disappear. Google supports common standards that will not be disappearing; it will export to PDF, text, Word, etc. Evernote supports PDF. Evernote is committed to the portability of your data and supports every device platform out there. I would not to get a lot of recipe content locked up in some app that's not supported a few years from now. A lot of these apps are going to fall by the wayside. Also, I want my recipes in files so I can have them on any device. And yes, there are cabinet mounts for iPad. Any kind of mount or case you can imagine, they're out there. Check out ilounge.com for a dizzying array. If you are thinking about remodeling a kitchen, and thinking about an iPad, the iPad suddenly seems cheap if you figure you can use it instead of a bunch of shelves for books, binders, or files. I have several pieces of furniture full of music in my office and realized that another piece of furniture to store music is so many hundred dollars. I am scanning and getting rid of many originals, so just in furniture storage space, the iPad is helping pay for itself. Just think about how much that shelf space in your kitchen or den is going to cost you. Now granted, this is not going to help the avid cookbook collectors, but that's not me.