The Post-it era is dead. If you’re like me and you’re curious about everything and have a bookmark file that contains too-many-URLs-to-browse-in-a-lifetime-but-you-gotta-go-back-and-read-that-page-but-you-do-not-have-the-time or you’re just googling for something and found the info you were looking for but you can’t properly organize all those notes in a decent way, well, there’s something for you! No more notes spread across Post-it, notebooks, text files and pieces of paper…
Evernote, that’s what it’s called. From what I read on the website the first time, it seemed too good to be true. In fact, my initial thought was “this thing is soooo exagerated that it can’t be, can’t even be called vaporware cause it can’t just be possible”. Well, it just works as advertised!
Really, really, really worth a look! And it’s free if you use it locally (you have the option to save your data on the web so it’s accessible from anywhere). Grabbing stuff, almost any kind of data, from your web browser or from elsewhere is so easy now… And did I mention, it can handle written notes and recognize text found in a picture… You can also store audio notes! It can handle text, html, PDF, jpeg, gif, png, wav and even mp3 files! Works on multiple platforms, mobiles, the web, etc. Well, read and experiment it by yourself! Just take the tour and be amazed!
Next coolest thing I am playing with these days is Pharo, a Squeak fork. The team behind this project is pushing fixes and updates at an incredible rate. These guys are really serious about making Pharo a serious choice for an open source and professional Smalltalk development solution. As an extra, Pharo made me stop whining about Squeak look and feel… Cause it looks professional (read with a nice look & feel), right out of the box. And finally, Morphic is undergoing a major cleanup, as are all base classes. Lean and clean they say. Well, with the number of fixes going into the image every week, you can be sure they’ll reach their goal really quick!
Next, after a short break, I came back to Icebergradio.com again. Totally free and has lots of channels. A necessity if you’re like me and can’t code without music!
Finally, for die-hard Rush fans like me, you MUST connect to RushRadio.net. Free and… only Rush all day!
