I setup my always-on Raspberry Pi to run a service to support Google Cloud Print for my WiFi enab...

[G+_Marc Kline]

I setup my always-on Raspberry Pi to run a service to support Google Cloud Print for my WiFi enabled printer. So now I can print documents on my home printer from nearly anywhere. I excitedly tell my girlfriend, and she says: "who cares?". I think long and hard for a good use case for her and finally settle on "I guess just me". Only geeks get so hyped up about such features of little practical use.

http://dev.shyd.de/2012/01/remote-printing-debian-google-cloud-print/

[G+_Nick Webster]

"Ever want to print from your phone or tablet? This lets you".

[G+_Marc Kline]

I edited our conversation down a bit in the above. She actually added something like "See, I don't care about printing from my phone or anything like this. When would I do that?".

[G+_Nick Webster]

Marc Kline Oh.

[G+_Marc Kline]

In case anyone is curious, here are the instructions for setting up AirPrint as well: http://www.lynsayshepherd.com/blog/?p=1340 . Works well for me.

[G+_Jason Elrick]

Own an air print printer and my fiancée loves it. She makes it print coupons from her email from her phone. Queue up a bunch then stuff the stack in her purse. This would just encourage her to do that on the go.

 

(An aside. Most places still require you to print out the coupon for use. We'd much rather they just used the phone screen and a code or something. Poor trees.)