The Canon L80 printer is an excellent printer to use to produce standard office documents. If you want to have a hardcopy of an email or memo, printing it allows you to save it in a physical file. Your spreadsheet or analysis of a business plan can be printed as well.

Before getting started, there are a few things that can help you make better quality prints. You might have to make some changes on your printing preferences to come up with attractive finishes. There are some projects that might have you use more printer ink and cartridges. Therefore, find out if you can get such items affordably to lower overall costs.

If you have a scrapbook or you enjoying maintaining interesting memorabilia, a Canon L80 printer can be of good use. You can consider scanning most of these items and making spare copies. This allows you to preserve original copies so they do not get spoiled or damaged. After scanning a particular document, you can print it out and include it in your scrapbook or use it as you like.

Sometimes we collect items that we enjoy such as DVDs or music CDs. If you have a Canon L80 printer, you can have an interesting collection of the things you like that are also well organized. It can be helpful to make copies of original CDs or DVDs on blank discs. You can store the original ones safely. Print out unique labels and attach them on the copies instead of using markers.

A printer can be used to make homemade stickers that you can place on your refrigerator or desk. To make them even better and appealing, get colored paper to have variety and it also allows you to end up with unique designs. You can make bumper stickers or get well cards for your friends and loved ones.

If you are involved in projects at home or in the office, you can let other people know about the upcoming event by posting creative print outs. There is quality software such as Apple iPhoto or Microsoft publisher that allows you to come up with great designs. After printing final copies, you can have them posted on notice boards or send them via snow mail to the people concerned. It is a creative and fun way of getting word out.

If you enjoy creating and designing beautiful things, using a quality printer can make provide enjoyment while making your hobby affordably. You can make interesting and unique designs for your tee shirts, dresses, hand bags or table mats using iron on printer paper.

A Canon L80 printer with Canon toner can be used to produce interesting and customized wrapping paper. If you have anniversaries, graduations or birthday parties coming up, it is possible to design unique gift wrappers that can be printed with Canon L80 compatible toner.

John pooh poohs Google Chrome OS, just like he pooh poohed the Palm Pre. John’s a smart guy, and has some good insights into the technology world. But on the issue of Google Chrome OS, I think he’s wrong. Google isn’t in the operating system market, it’s in the software services market. The easier Google can make it to get to their hosted applications, the more customers they’ll have. To paraphrase Larry Ellison’s famous quote, “the web is the operating system”.

I’ve been watching my friends and family struggle with computers for years. Not a single one of them really cares about what operating system they use. What they care about is doing something with their computer. The operating system is the interface through which they can do stuff. Invariably it gets in their way, and causes nothing but frustration. People don’t care about their operating system because they don’t care about their computer. Just like they don’t care about their cars, or any other household appliance. People grudgingly add more RAM to their systems because they get bogged down with antivirus software, and printer monitor utilities to remind them they’re out of paper, and all sorts of useless doodads that suck up system resources without providing any value to the experience of using the computer. “This thing’s only a year old, and already it’s so slow!”

In the dark ages of personal computer history, everyone wanted to use Microsoft Publisher to make fliers and calendars and what not. People used Microsoft Works, or ClarisWorks, or WordPerfect, or whatever it was that came bundled with their PC in order to print up phone directories for their churches, or whatever. Printing in color was a luxury. But dammit, we were happy! We didn’t have to update our antivirus software every day. We didn’t have to run spyware scans regularly, or worry about the Windows registry getting corrupted. Our computers worked, by and large, because the operating systems stayed out of our way and let us use the applications that we wanted to use.

Now, in the Internet era, everyone’s using Facebook and Twitter and web-based email. No one cares how they access Facebook, as long as they can access Facebook. Regular people might have a minor preference for Microsoft Internet Explorer, or Mozilla Firefox, but at the end of the day no one’s going to not use Facebook just because the computer they’re using doesn’t have their favorite browser installed.

And here’s where Google’s Chrome OS represents a significant shift. To do stuff on Facebook, or other hosted applications, you don’t need all the hooplah of a traditional desktop computer. You don’t need a “real” computer with gobs of local storage. Facebook is your storage. Google Docs is your storage. You don’t need a device with Bluetooth to check your Windows Live email. You don’t need a full operating system, you just need a browswer. If you can pare down the OS, you can pare down all the requisite crap that we’ve come to associate with modern (Windows-based) computers. If you don’t have a full OS, what do you need a virus scanner for? Why do you need user accounts on the computer if the sites to which you connect enforce user accounts and permissions for you? Why do you need to constantly update your operating system with patches? Because it’s a complex, multi-purpose device. It doesn’t need to be, though. A single-purpose appliance (like the CrunchPad!) is more economical for the casual Internet user. It will be less frustrating for the end user because it will get in their way less. The user will be able to do stuff without being interrupted by the operating system.

Obviously, there will always be a need for traditional computers. If thin clients were the be-all-end-all of the computing world, someone like Citrix would have long ago replaced Microsoft as the dominant player. The appliance model doesn’t work for people who need to work while in an airplane, for example. Businesses, entrepeneurs, and freelancers will still need local storage, and the ability to work without network access. Parents may still want user accounts to restrict what their kids can and can’t do. But for a huge population of computer users, Google’s Chome OS — and no doubt countless hangers-on that will follow — provides everything they need.