Joe Kissell reviews his experience of “shredding” an entire ebook by sending it to Twitter 140 characters at a time.

Although Adam Engst has designated every Friday the 13th as Verify Your Backups Day, this Thursday the 31st is also an important day for your data: World Backup Day. If you already back up regularly, be sure to check your backups, and if you don't, there's no better day to start — especially since online backup providers SpiderOak and Backblaze are offering special promotional pricing through 31 March 2011, plus a chance to win free storage.

Joe Kissell is tweeting the entire contents of his ebook “Take Control of Your Paperless Office” over a period of 17 days beginning 21 March 2011.

MozyHome no longer offers unlimited online backup storage—and has raised prices, too.

Apple redesigned its entire line of iPods (except for the iPod classic, which is still available in the Apple Store), bringing cameras, FaceTime, and the Retina display to the iPod touch; a smaller size and touchscreen interface to the iPod nano; and (finally) buttons back to the iPod shuffle.

Joe Kissell joined host Gene Steinberg on the Tech Night Owl Live to discuss the ins and outs of a (mostly) paperless lifestyle and steps you can take to replace papers with digital documents.

Code 42 Software’s CrashPlan backup software has received a major overhaul, including backup sets, more-flexible scheduling, and an entirely new pricing scheme that gives most users more for their money.

Looking for an iPhone app to provide weather conditions and forecasts that goes well beyond Apple's bundled Weather app? Adam, who cares deeply about past, present, and future weather, looks at his current iPhone weather app of choice, WeatherBug Elite.

DEVONtechnologies’ companion iOS app for their highly regarded Mac document management tools finally makes it easy to carry your DEVONthink library in your pocket. The app shows great promise, but some users may find the current version has significant limitations.

An updated version of the popular Drobo multi-drive storage device adds a high-speed USB 3.0 port. Data Robotics also announced the release of Drobo Sync software for automatic backup of DroboPro FS devices.

Joe Kissell’s revised ebook about MobileMe explores the nooks and crannies of Apple’s cloud-based service, guides you through the latest MobileMe changes, and explains what they mean to you.

If you're looking to decrease paper clutter while on the go, a portable scanner may be just what you need. Joe Kissell looks at two of this year's most popular models.

It seemed like all the other TidBITS staffers were getting them, so Joe Kissell and his wife wanted one too. On May 20, more than three weeks ahead of schedule, their long-awaited new product was delivered in Paris. Featuring a multi-touch surface, high-resolution video input, a fingerprint-resistant anti-glare finish, a 3D position sensor, wireless networking, and a (somewhat unreliable) sleep mode, this hardware-software combo has been providing them hours of entertainment and education. Frustratingly, it came without any documentation, and they've been unable to locate a mute button, but the developer promised that future upgrades will include face recognition, speech synthesis, and a power source that can last more than two hours between charges. The user interface will also be localized in French and English!

The latest version of PGP Whole Disk Encryption supports Snow Leopard and Boot Camp (at least to some extent), and sports some other interesting changes. Joe Kissell puts it through its paces.