Treasures in your office: 10 years of hardware and software

We're moving our office later this month and in preparation, we've been cleaning up over the past 2 months. Its amazing how much "stuff" you can acquire in 10 years in one location. I've recycled dozens of books, hardware products. It's aso amazing how the field has changed in recent years going from the big packaging for software to the quick, easy downloads over the last 2 years.

 One of my favorite products, the ICE Board had 8 processors, cost over $7,000 and allowed you to accelerate After Effects and Infini-D, a easy to use 3D animation software. The board paid for itself in the first project, and allowed us to make the deadline but its amazing that for about $500 today, you have more processing power and a full computer.

  I recommend everyone, at least once a month, takes the opportunity and clean up so you don't collect to many treasures.

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An actual box, package for the Netscape Browser.

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Apple's New Media Program for developers, some great resources and examples.

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An amazing CD-ROM for example and Director's Lingo Code that could be re-used in projects.

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A great way to relax and get resparked...

Just got back from vacation to Cape Cod, besides working about 40 hours in the first couple days to help the team make some deadlines, I had a great time. The first day, we took a walk on the beach and its amazing how quickly the sight and sounds of the ocean quickly clears your mind and helps you to relax. Amazing! Recommend it for homework for everyone, if you haven't gotten to walk on the beach summer get it done before it gets to cold.

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Fujitsu SnapScan: Great Scanner for meetings, notes, documents and sharing information

If you are looking for a great way to get organized, check out the great sheet fed scanners from Fujitsu. I've had the SnapScan model for about 3+ years now and love it. It's a great way to take notes that you have from a meeting, scan them and get a instant pdf, sketches for a wireframe or interface, or documents that you want to keep handy for a future use.

For the mac, they have the M series which works great with OS X and you can hit a button on the scanner and seconds later you have a PDF of your documents. You can easily e-mail or reprint later and the speed is amazing. 

Here's an example of some notes that I took on a wireframe and then shared with my team, it speeds up the whole process.
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Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M $425

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ScanSnap S300M $240

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