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@booksdofurnish I travel with lenses and my camera often and have never had to take the camera or lenses out. The pieces of tech that sometimes need to be removed along with laptops are tablets and eReaders.

@ Tarama The Kindle I bring when I know I'll be doing a lot of reading outside. The iPad and laptop I use for work, reviewing apps, writing posts, editing photos etc. I also use the iPad when flying to view content and read in addition to the Kindle. I don't always travel with the laptop, all depends on my work load... ie do I have to use Photoshop heavily.

@ Denacho I typically have about 10 - 20 items that need to be done each day and since they almost all revolve around the internet or use the internet in some way, I create a tab for each item that needs to be done first thing in the morning.

Today for example, I have a tab with a piece I need to finish writing, a resource I need to read for the piece, the hotel site where I need to book a reservation, the site where I need to book airfare, an eBay conversation I need to follow up on, and a Krrb transaction I need to reply to, just to name a few. As I accomplish each task (using the site in the tab), I close the tab.

It might sound weird, but it's been very helpful to me as I don't have to bounce from list to then searching for each site I need to use to accomplish the items on the list. I just go across (I usually drag the tabs in order), from left to right and accomplish each task inside the tab and call it a day.

@ Strudelganger The bag is the 14" satchel from Cambridge Satchel Company and fits my 13" MacBook Air, iPad 1 in Dodo Case and Sony Nex5N as well as a pair of sunnies and px glasses, and a small cosmetics bag.

For those recommending ear buds, I have heard that these are a no-no with the pressure changes on plane rides and can cause quite a bit of pain. Have you found this to be true on long plane rides? Most of my plane rides are over 7 hours...which also makes things challenging.

@Witchbaby thanks... I will be on the lookout! I have had this camera for years and it has served be well but it is definitely finicky at times.

@alliebasii I was working on a piece about transitioning between smartphone operating systems and just keep both now because it's better on long days on a single charge. The iPhone 4 does not like iOS 5 battery life wise and if I use it as an iPod + phone I can only make it a few hours. I also like to keep my Mac and Windows worlds separate and it makes it easier for media streaming to the Xbox 360

@alison78 The printer pictured (our printer) is the first generation HP Envy 100. We have not had to buy cartridges for it yet as we are still using the ones it came with. When we have had to buy cartridges in the past we generally look online for the best deals and just buy them there, usually on sale from a large office supply store. Because we only print the 5 things we mentioned we don't tend to go through much ink.

@ Benjy not really because those who "engage" with their nieces or grandmas on Facebook now have much higher scores, often just a few points away from very active Twitter users who speak about several topics and interact with hundreds of people... the new algorithm seems to be very broken. Sadly everyone is not still relative to each other.

@Jdcarms... we do have that article, I wrote it (as a long time .Mac user who has still not migrated to iCloud): --> http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/what-you-need-to-know-before-making-the-mobileme-to-icloud-merge-158305

@ FightTheFuture iCloud support is built into the Lion update released today 10.7.2

Be careful about drinking too much water! I did not think there was such a thing until my doctor told me I was drinking way too much water every day and it was not healthy.