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Side by side comparison of Evernote’s digital ink and rendered image

It is difficult for me to explain the difference in how writing notes with digital ink is different while looking at the original ink, versus a representation of the ink notes. It occurred to me that I could take a screenshot of the original digital ink note for comparison.
This is what you would see [...]

Google Docs Vs. Evernote Premium for Archiving

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Google recently announced that you will be able to use their Google Docs service to store files of any type. They are adamant that this is not the fabled GDrive. Based on my preliminary experience, I would have to agree. While Google’s new file storage service is very affordable, [...]

BlockChalk offers anonymous location-based messaging

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The other day, I stumbled across BlockChalk.com, a website that interacts with your mobile phone’s GPS. Unlike Twitter, Foursquare, BrightKite, and others, BlockChalk allows you to message with others; but you do so anonymously. At first, I was not sure what to think of it. After all, what’s the point of [...]

Echo Media: Life Enhancement Through Personal Content

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I know that the whole world is talking about how social media is revolutionizing life as we know it. Being a social media geek myself, I would have to agree with that. However, there is a growing market for what I am calling Echo Media, which consists of content aimed not [...]

Update Your G1 to RC33 for Google Latitude

If you just bought a T-Mobile G1, you may be disappointed to find out that Google Latitude is not included out of the box. You must wait for an OTA (over the air) update to be able to use the service. You can also cheat a little and download the update and install it yourself. [...]

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Google Turns Grandcentral Into Google Voice

I had the need to log into my Grandcentral account today and discovered that it is transitioning to Google Voice. Google Voice takes many of the great features of Grandcentral like call screening, listening in to voicemail, call blocking, sms alerts, phone routing, and call forwarding, amongst others; and adds features like voicemail transcripts, personalized [...]

Google Sync for Windows Mobile

Google can now sync your Windows Mobile calendar and contacts with your Google Calendar and Gmail contacts. They announced this a couple of weeks ago on their blog. Today, I finally got around to trying it. I have to say that it gives new life to my 2 year old Windows Mobile phone. I’ve [...]

Going Old School

Do you ever get tired of the newfangled stuff and feel a need to go old school? On occasion, I get tired of how complicated modern conveniences make life. It seems that whatever convenience we have gets evened out by an inconvenience.
For example, your nearby convenience store is great for picking up a quick [...]

Godaddy Drops the Ball

I’ve been hosting with Godaddy for a while, maybe over 2 years. They used to be pretty good about taking care of stuff. In fact, they used to call me on occasion to make sure everything is OK. Something must have happened because they are just not able to take care of things as quickly [...]