One of my new years resolutions was to reduce some of the clutter in my office. I had several piles of documents that needed sorting. You know the drill. The monthly bills arrive and after paying them your left with a pile of receipts to file.

At the same time I decided to upgrade my personal scanner as our old multi-function machine (printer/scanner/copier/fax) would no longer support the latest software. Now this is for another article I am writing on scanning. But my point here is if you have a scanner or you plan to purchase one in the future you can greatly reduce the required storage space and your carbon footprint by converting those month-end receipts into digital records. As I said more on this subject later.

By ERIC WILSON, Published: August 27, 2008, STYLE.COM, the online home of Vogue, is introducing an iPod Touch application this week designed to enable dedicated followers of fashion to watch runway shows during New York Fashion Week next month on their phones,

within hours of the last model’s exit from the catwalk. Just imagine all the editors watching the Marc Jacobs show from Monday night, Sept. 8, while sitting at the Badgley Mischka show on Tuesday morning.

It is no small measure of the demand for immediacy in fashion that customers can now turn their cellphones into shopping portals. Ralph Lauren announced last week a mobile version of its online store, and Chanel introduced its own iPhone application last month that offers video from its fall haute couture show, as well as the ability to direct-dial stores that carry Chanel around the world. Hello? Saks Fifth Avenue in Columbus? I’ll have look No. 32.