Technology consultants have been recommending the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 for years as the go-to for all your scanning needs. It is portable, fast, and easy to use—and it just works. It has been the perfect scanner for the small office looking to go paperless.

“The simpler, the better.” That phrase in Darren Tedesco’s last post, New Year’s Nonsense, really caught my eye. While he was specifically referring to business planning software, I think the same can be said about all technology.

When Samsung released the original Galaxy Note “phablet”—a cross between a smartphone and a tablet computer—only two carriers picked it up. At the time, it was hard to imagine using something five to seven inches in size as a cell phone. Size-wise, Samsung definitely went for it with the Note. But other companies have since followed suit, and phones seem to be getting bigger. Even Apple has changed its design to keep up with the demand for a larger screen. Meanwhile, more than 10 million Galaxy Notes have been sold.

Black Friday used to be the way to save hundreds of dollars on computers and TVs by waiting in line before stores opened the day after Thanksgiving. I remember buying the “sales” newspaper on Thanksgiving, going to bed extra early (mostly from my turkey-induced coma), and getting up at 3:00 A.M. to stand in line to buy a 27-inch TV for $199 at Walmart. It was too big to fit into the trunk of my Honda Civic, and it took two of us to carry it out of the store. This year, Black Friday starts on Thanksgiving Day (yes, you read that right!) at 6:00 P.M. at several stores nationwide and offers in-store deals like a 50-inch LCD TV for $199. How times have changed.

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary, sometimes called Really Simple Syndication. If that doesn’t do anything for you, here’s a quick explanation: RSS is a feed service that websites use to deliver frequently updated content to you in a simple way.