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When travelling, bring along photocopies of things like passports and visas. Store travel documents as PDFs in Apps like iBooks. you can also store them in emails in Gmail. Not particularly secure but...

keePass is probably the best of the passwords apps - but how many of these do you need with you at all times? A password on your phone is meaningless security - VERY easy to hack.

CatalogChoiceworks IF the vendor agrees to remove your name. Some don't. I paid $20 to have them go after the recatricamtoffendors and saw a further improvement.

Now my name is getting around again - silly me for buying things from new sites - so backto C.C. I will go.

Silestone is quartz, not granite - and quartz countertops ding

Since you can always find the manual on-line, why not bookmark it and retrieve it when you need it?

I wouldn't save manuals on my iPad - PDFs, especially large ones - are very large files. If there's something I don't want to just bookmark, I would save it to my laptop/desktop. I mean, why do you need your printer or audio receiver with you all the time?

Not only am I completely addicted to mine but I bought it so I could demolish a beautiful home office in my small loft and open up the space. It has worked brilliantly. I tuned a closet into my home office and use my desktop mostly when I need to scan, print or do real work - maybe an hour a week. When the silicone keyboard I backed on Kickstarter is produced, I think I will be able to blog on my iPad. I got rid of my travel netbook and avoided buying an Air because of the iPad.

My iPhone is good when I am on the go - but reading on my phone just doesn't compare.

Friends who need Flash find it frustrating - but there is a new technology in the works that should make Flash obsolete.

Don't store. Fabrics for any significant period of time on wood shelves - the acid I the word will burn the fabric (this is how white fabric gets brown stains) and don't store fabrics in plastic, which out gasses. If you are storing for less than a year, you might be OK - but longer than that, nope. Also, no sharp creases, no foam cores (out glass) and Ph neutral tubes are truly the right option. Halogen light can have as much UV as daylight; ditto other types of fabric. Different types of fabric have different Ph requirements. Plastic bags are also a bad idea.

Does this seem obsessive? Read up on textiles storage if you care about your fabrics.

The first question is how you can incorporate universal design without making it institutional looking. For example, if she needs to be in a wheelchair, how does the kitchen need to be designed so she can use it? That might mean a space under the sink. Should the upper cabinets be lowered a bit? What type of hardware is easiest to use?

For the stove, I would buy EXACTLY the same technology she currently uses. Adapting to, say, induction, is a lot to ask for someone who has cooked all her life. I would also buy a stove and microwave with as many safety features a feasible - and think about the size of type on the appliances and the ease of use. This is not to say Mom is mentally incompetent - but she will be getting older, and frailer, so put things in place now, as it will be very hard to get her to accept these changes once she is living there.

I would put in light modern cabinets and a medium toned counter top that won't show stains.

I would put things like the microwave on the counter top because removing hot things from above could be a problem.

If possible, go with 2 burners and a small fridge.

No surge protection.

Wow. Nothing like a spread legged Asian woman in front of a stuffed...bloom to sell a pixelated rug. I wonder what Georgia O'Keife would think.

When they first opened, I went all the time and bought interesting, expensive but affordable things. In recent years they have developed a particular, very expensive - and peculiar - aesthetic. Maybe that is why sales are low, despite all the design media aclaim. I don't even bother going in.

And, yes, the rents.in SoHo are insane.