It didn’t come as a surprise to me when, just hours after Steve Jobs announced the iPad, the good folks over at Evernote announced plans to modify the current iPhone and iPod touch app so that it becomes one killer iPad App. In their own words…

Evernote is going to support the Apple iPad. Oh Yeah. We’re gonna support the hell out of it. We’re glad to see that the current Evernote iPhone app will run on the iPad without modification, but we’ll be modifying it anyway to optimize the experience on the larger device. Oh how we’ll be modifying it! Expect rapid improvements to our iPhone app which will benefit all of our iPhone, iPod Touch and, now, iPad users in the near future.

The blog post goes on to mention support for other tablets as the “Year of the Tablet” unfolds…

Ok, so we’re excited by the iPad itself, and by the HP Slate, and the Sony VAIO L series, and the Nvidia Tegra, and by the added light that these and other devices will shine on touch computing in general. I’m looking at some happy engineers right now.

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If you’re like me, you probably set up the Mail application on your Mac at first. And it’s a perfectly fine email program, if you want your mail stored locally. I set mine up when I bought my iBook (the last of the G3 models…what a great little computer!), using my comcast email address.

Then GMail came along and changed everything. I had always hated web based email, preferring to use Outlook on my PCs and Mail on my Mac. But the GMail interface was so much better than what the desktop options offered, I immediately jumped ship to the web based site and never looked back. Except, of course, for the 25,000 times over the next few years that I needed an old email: someone moved, I needed to reference a long-ago email chain, etc.

Now, if you’ve had the same experience and use Google Apps, you can move all your old emails to your Google Apps email, freeing them from the claws of Mac Mail (or Thunderbird or Eudora) forever! Head over to the Official Google Mac Blog and grab the download, then watch as magically you can search years of email, from anywhere! We truly are living in a golden age.

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I got word a short while ago that Evernote 3.5 for Windows was out of Beta. The Beta version was released in late September. It represented a huge step forward as it included a User Interface makeover that made the client simpler and more like the superb Mac client experience many of us enjoy. Among the new changes were the ability to view thumbnails and three different notebook viewing formats.

Since releasing the Beta, Evernote for Windows has underwent four iterations that included bug fixes, interface enhancements and FireFox support. All of this was in response to user feedback which is, after all, what a Beta version is SUPPOSED to be all about. Version 3.5 is compatible with Windows 7 and offers a much better experience than the previous Windows version

Among the included updates:
Single note editing with more functionality,
Better searching with saved and editable search filters,
Map viewing for Geo-tagged notes,
Multi-lingual spell check / language support,
Improved database support.

To take a look and download the client visit Evernote here.

Call me an Evernote evangelist if you like. It’s actually rather accurate. Evernote is probably the single most important productivity tool that I use. Looking back over my “relationship” with the service I realized that I’ve been involved with Evernote from early on. I joined the beta program within days of that initially rolling out. And I became one of their premium users every day it became available. There isn’t a single day that goes by that I don’t actually use Evernote numerous times and I never miss an opportunity to tell others about service and to encourage them to give it a try.

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In the past if you wanted to use all the great space on your Google account, you had to install other third-party apps or scripts to make use of it all. Google now will be adding a native storage feature to Google docs over the next few weeks. This new storage should directly challenge already existing services such as Dropbox and Box.net, which are currently available in both free and paid subscriptions.

Free users get 1GB of space to store whatever type of files they want. The only limitations I see is that a single file size must be less than 250MB. The paid subscription is pretty cheap, 1GB  only costs $.25 a year. So 25GB would only cost you a total of $6.25 a year to store a whole Blu-ray disc worth of information. Hopefully there is a smooth integration into Android so you can backup all your mobile information and Rom’s into your storage account. Google will also be adding the ability to search for shared and uploaded files from the Docs viewer.

I’m sure with competitive pricing and solid family name like “Google” behind it, the storage will be a big seller. There are not many things that you can’t do through Google services if you so wish. The all-in-one package deal with Google is hard for us consumers to pass up. Phones, email, finance, documents, map, calendar….you get it all and thats just the a few of the things currently available. Is this just add another piece of the puzzle in Google taking over the world….? Yes. But its kinda hard to turn down great services at little to no cost or free. Look for it to be rolled out in the coming weeks.

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CES 2010 is over. Everyone else has taken off already and I’ve got one more night here in Las Vegas before flying out to meet Elana to celebrate a family friend’s wedding. I spent this morning getting a bit organized, trying to figure out how many get everything on the plane, and doing some wrap up with regard to all of many people I had the privilege of meeting over the past week.

I have a tremendous number of business cards and, knowing myself as I do, I’ll lose most of them before I finally get home in week if I don’t do something first. That’s where Evernote comes in. I have written about Evernote numerous times in the past and as the service continues to improve I find it ever more useful for organizing my life. (In fact I had the privilege of meeting with the company’s CEO yesterday and will be writing that up sometime the next few days.) This time around Evernote is helping my gather, save and organize all the bits of information I have gathered here in Las Vegas.

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Apparent is a company based out of North Carolina that is primarily known for barcode scanners, credit card readers and custom asset tags used by businesses to keep track of their inventory.  This year they’ll be showing off a brand new product at CES:  the Doxie portable scanner.

Oh, I know.  You’ve seen portable scanners before.  So what makes the Doxie noteworthy in a sea of products?  How about being able to set up the Doxie to scan directly to cloud services like Evernote, Google Docs, Scribd, Backpack or Flickr?  Need to share documents via IM, Twitter, or e-mail?  No problem.  You can set up Doxie to do all of that for you as well.  That’s right, send all of your documents and photos  directly to the sites and services you use every day in one fell swoop.  No scanning, then saving, and then uploading.  Bada-bing, bada-boom.  Done!

Interested?  Let’s take a look at the pricing and features.

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The geek comunity has been worried for sometime about running out of IP addresses.  Luckily, there has been talk about what to do about it.

From a article on Slashdot:

There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million in 2009. So it’s a near certainty that before Barack Obama vacates the White House,we’ll be out of IPv4 addresses. (Even if he doesn’t get re-elected.)

Now why is this important to John Q Public?  Well, right now there is an explosion in the world of new portable technology.  Verizon and Sprint have their MiFi which is a 3G cellular network access point.  Microsoft and Ford are coming out with the next version of Sync  for vehicles which will have an WiFI access point built in.  Kindles and Nooks have Internet connections.  Smartphone/superphones/cellphones all are using Internet connections. Are you seeing a pattern here?

Any device that requires an internet connection requires an IP address.  The more consumers buy Internet connected devices, the more IP addresses get used.

So yeah, this has potential to be a problem…but dont worry.  With geeks around the world working on the problem, an answer will come before Obama leaves the White House.

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Google is furthering their quest for world domination by getting more involved in voice communication. Google is already adding new services and products daily to the already huge list of whats available. According to eWeek, they will soon be adding VOIP services to their Google Voice client. Currently you must be tied to a carrier to use voice but soon they hope to change that with VOIP. This would allow calls to mobile phones and landline using Google Voice via the internet instead of using up your voice minutes.

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I am a huge fan of Evernote. The cross-platform service allows me to capture my thoughts, pictures and voice notes no matter where I am or what I’m doing. I can use Evernote on my iMac and then later access new notes on my iPhone. I can write something on my Windows tablet PC and then finish the process on my MacBook. I’m even able to access Evernote on the new Camangi Webstation thanks to the recent release of a client for the Android platform.

Well new numbers were released today and they show that I’m not the only one using Evernote. In fact, the adoption rate of people using Evernote is rather remarkable.

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Thanks to Evernote, WebIS’ Pocket Informant and Appigo’s ToDo and Toodledo, we had four “Get Organized In 2010″ packages to give away to our FaceBook Friends.

Each “Get Organized In 2010″ included a one year subscription to Evernote Pro (value $45), a copy of Appigo’s ToDo (value $9.99) and a copy of Pocket Informant (a $9.99 Value) and a six-month subscription to Toodledo Pro (a $7.50 value).
Entering was simple- you just needed to visit our Facebook page, become a Fan and a tip or trick you use to get and stay organized to our “Get Organized In 2010“ note.
The tips… and the winners… follow.

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Evernote has had an iPhone app since 3rd party apps were allowed on the iPhone a year and a half ago. The initial release was good… but limited. Among the biggest issues with it was that notes stored in Evernote were only available when the device had a data connection. Some time ago Evernote took the plunge and began to allow off-line notes. While it was a step in the right direction it was still more than a bit limited since each note you wanted had to be individually selected.

All that changed this morning with the release of Evernote for iPhone 3.2.0. Premium accounts can now store entire notebooks offline. It is a feature many of us who swear by Evernote have long wanted. Better still, it adds other great new features, as well.

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I come from a relatively small family…

…but I married into a far larger family (and they all stay in touch)!

(It is so large, in fact, that two of my aunt-in-laws walked into a funeral I was officiating a few hours ago.) It’s hard to keep everyone straight. Fortunately somewhere along the line someone in the family signed us up for a service called Geni. Usually I don’t sign up for things like this but I did and I am glad I did. Why? Because it pings me with important dates, reminds me when someone has a birthday and generally keeps me in the loop.

So, while I would not have forgotten it, it is nice that Geni reminded me that my brother-in-law turns 35 today! And it got me thinking, and now writing, about the service.

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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to review the Seagate FreeAgent Go. It is a small, pocket-sized external hard drive that looks sleek and has a tremendous capacity. One of the nice features of the hard drive is that it has only one port- a Mini USB. You can, however, purchase an optional dock for the hard drive that lets you simply slip the hard drive into the cradle when you’re ready to use it. The company offers a similar looking cradle that does much more, however. By incorporating a PogoPlug into the cradle Seagate has created a simple way for even the most non-technical person to create a network drive that is, in fact, accessible from anywhere in the world so long as you have Internet access.

I’ve been using one of these amazing FreeAgent DockStars for over a month and a half and absolutely love it. It’s simple to use, works perfectly, let’s me let go of some of the “cloud” storage I’ve been paying for on a monthly basis and, perhaps festival for me, thanks to a free iPhone app anything that’s on this drive is immediately accessible right on my iPhone.

Let’s take a look…

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The iPhone is a fantastic organizational device. It carries and organizes my email, address book, notes, documents, tasks and much much much more. But as good as the device is, there are a few iPhone apps and services that make it far better. Over the last few years I have tried just about every organizational app and service and there are four I keep returning to.

My favorites… Evernote, WebIS’ Pocket Informant and Appigo’s ToDo and Toodledo.

Evernote is great because it works with Mac, Windows, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android as well as through a web interface. In other words… it is available EVERYWHERE. Pocket Informant for iPhone is a fantastic calendaring and task app that works with Google Calendar and Toodledo. Appigo’s ToDo is great because it is a full-featured task management app that syncs with Toodledo, Remember The Milk and Appigo’s own desktop sync program. And Toodledo is a web-based task management system that simply rocks!

Over the next few days we’ll be sharing some tips for using each. In the meantime we want to tell you how you can win them in order to “Get Organized In 2010″!

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