This is all I see when I try to launch Evernote. I keep repeatedly trying it because maybe I didn’t click the mouse right before or something. I upgraded through the App Store, and since then it just won’t work. I deleted every crumb from my Mac and reinstalled, and then I deleted every crumb
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I like Day One for journaling. I’ve kept paper journals for decades, but Day One makes it so easy if you have sipped the Apple Kool-Aid…it’s journaling with the simplicity of firing off a tweet to yourself, and it syncs among my laptop, iPad, and iPhone. SWEET. The Day One blog says they’re working on
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I’m totally still procrastinating, but it’s to prepare me for work. This is actually pretty cool. I like to write in Multimarkdown, so I’ve got Byword running on my Mac, and I’m using DisplayPad to mirror my Mac’s screen on my iPad so I can have Marked running right next to me. This prevents the
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I spend a lot of time and money trying to find the perfect to-do system. Yes, a system. It’s not enough to just keep a list. That would probably work better and leave me with more time to actually get stuff done instead of messing with my system, but I want something geeky and electronic.
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This holiday season totally got away from me. Oh hell, the last 6 months have gotten away from me. I remembered the new Cards app, downloaded it, and fired off a few cards, figuring maybe my friends and family would forgive their lateness and lack of actual gifts because they got PERSONALIZED cards. I’m not
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via tipb.com This works and is damn handy. It basically gives the functionality of SBSettings to a nonjailbroken iPhone, and that was last thing I missed about no jailbreaking.
This is one of those things so simple you don’t think of it. I like the new Mail.app in Lion. I’ve used the Gmail Web interface for years, but I’ve switched more or less totally over since Lion (I also like the calendar torn-edges look—don’t judge me). I’ve been bothered daily by flags labeled “Green”
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One reason I was stoked about iTunes Match was the idea I could have my Air anywhere and stream my music to it. I’d have my entire iTunes library with me everywhere, even without carting around my external media drive. It doesn’t work. Why? Because if you are using a laptop on which iTunes thinks
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Well, at least I have some fun geekery to share. I’m going to sell my iMac because I never use it. I use my Air exclusively; the iMac had become a big media server. I moved the media off of it. So I now have a crapton of media and other stuff on a 1-TB
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I’ve had iOS 5 for months now, and I initially rejected Reminders after a day or so, largely because the cool location-based feature drained my battery instantly, but also because it was too rudimentary. I don’t mind simple to-do lists (I like Google’s task list, and it’s pretty bare bones), but I just didn’t see
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