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Tech Tip: Evernote – A World of Knowledge at your fingertips.
So you are sitting somewhere you don’t want to be, and waiting for some thing you’re sure you will not care about tomorrow. What to do? Thinking swiftly, You pull out you iPhone from your pocket (or purse) and randomly search the web.
I believe I can speak for all of us, when I say this happens all to often, in this so called “Modern Life” we all seem to be trapped in. But what if, you could turn those moment of mindless web surfing into actionable, productive, and dare I say “edifying” moments of discovery. I know. . . sound impossible right. Well, not exactly, the collective knowledge of all human kind can be yours, if you only have the right Apps.
I know. . . sound to good to be true. And well, I may be playing it up a bit, but I do have a few suggestions on how you can turn minutes (or hours, you know who you are) of mindless web browsing into not so mindless web browsing.
The first app, is the Wikipedia iPhone app. A must have for those of us who love the random verbal tidbit, or the slightly odd meme of the moment. The second is not any app in particular, it can be one (or more) of the many news app, or any of the other site readers (Diggnation comes to mind.) It could even be one of the many eBook you can find at the app store. The source is not really the focus, it’s the collection of the interesting snippets, that we are concerned with.
The final App, is Evernote: http://evernote.com/. This application is not only on your iPhone, but on your Mac (and PC) as well. And get this. . . they sync. Now that the iPhone 3.0 software has copy-paste, you can save the things you want to remember on your iPhone, and it will sync to your Evernote account on line, then sync back to the Evernote application on your Mac (or PC) the next time you launch the app. It even allows you to have several different “NoteBooks” so you can categorize the thing you collect. It is free, but you can upgrade to a pay account.
I don’t care who are, a student, a lawyer, or just someone love to argue, and win. This application set will save you brain space, help with any project, big our small. With all the things the life can shoot your way, a little mental outsourcing can’t hurt.
Well that my two cents for this week. See in a fortnight.
-Seth
WWDC 2009
Apple had their Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today and they announced much more then we expected.
1. iPhone 3.0 software available on June 17th. Free for iPhone users. (apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate)
2. Macbook Pro’s have been updated. There are no longer any Macbooks except the $999 white machine. (store.apple.com)
3. iPhone 3GS announced with faster processor, video recording, better battery life. (apple.com/iphone)
4. Snow Leopard due for release in September. (apple.com/macosx)
The full keynote should be available for viewing shortly at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/appleevents/