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Gadget freak, iPhone / Android fanatic, SharePoint Admin, father of 2
Gadget freak, iPhone / Android fanatic, SharePoint Admin, father of 2
Thought I would share this. Nice feature updates and "bug" fixes - great to see it addressed so quickly.
Evernote, a Mountain View-based startup devoted to helping people remember everything, is maturing as a platform with the launch of an app store today.
Called Trunk, the store has about 100 apps or add-ons from 67 companies, covering everything from games to productivity apps to add-ons that let you create physical, personal scrapbooks. About 30 of them are brand new and come from the company’s 2,000 developer partners.
“The next phase of Evernote is about being smarter and giving you the ability to leverage your memories to support everyday activities like scheduling, cooking and writing,” said chief executive Phil Libin. The company is still working out details of a revenue sharing program. There will be an affiliate program coming later this year.
Many of the Evernote partners that demoed today weren’t companies that were exclusively dependent on Evernote. They were startups like Seesmic or very large corporations like SAP.
Libin was cautious about using the phrase “app store,” saying that there are plenty of other channels to distribute and make money from apps. Instead, the point of Trunk was to show off what the company’s developer partners could do with its technology.
“The focus isn’t necessarily to build an app store. We want to be a showcase,” Libin said. “If the easiest way for a user to access these features is to buy something within Evernote, we’ll do that.”
Since publicly launching two years ago, Evernote has grown to support 3.7 million users, and Libin said revenue has grown 12 percent month-over-month for the past two years. About 6,000 new members join a day.
Evernote’s business model is relatively simple — it’s free for everyone, but if you want premium services, you’ll pay $5 per month. Libin said Evernote’s conversion rates, while low at first, rise the longer people use the service. A half-percent of users opt for the paid premium service in the first month. But eight percent of users choose to pay for Evernote if they’ve used it for two years.
The company has raised a little over $25 million in venture funding from investors including Morgenthaler Ventures and NTT DoCoMo.
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Great application - now made even better with the addition of the Trunk. Must have app for every machine / phone / gizmo in your arsenal.
WSOP final tournament starts today. My brother is out in Vegas with a seat at a table. Wishing him luck. Last time he made it to day 3.
After struggling w/ AT&T's spotty coverage in Nebraska for the last three years, and realizing that, at least in this area, Verizon owns the rest in terms of coverage, I finally jumped shipped, moved to Verizon and have been using an Android based phone for the last 3 months. While I don't HATE my Eris - I certainly don't feel the same kind of connection to it that I did to my iPhone.
While surfing around tonight, I stumbled upon a pretty good blog, called John's blog, and while evaluating the Google Nexus One that he was using, he dropped a paragraph that describes my feelings perfectly...
At the end of the day, though, my iPhone experience is just more intimate than my Android experience — it feels more like it has my life on it, while the Android just feels like a very good phone and mobile web device. It’s just easier to get more of what I care about — my pictures, my music, my movies, games I like, and all my books (via the Kindle app) on my iPhone. So it feels more like an integrated part of my life than the Android. As frustrated as I am with my current iPhone 3G because of battery life & sluggishness & general physical-falling-apart, I still feel better when I have it than an Android.
Exactly...
MyBookmarks Syncs Bookmarks (and Bookmarklets) to Android Phones
Android: There's no built-in means of syncing bookmarks to your Android phone, unless you open and enter each one. Interactive bookmarklets, too, are generally a no-go. With the MyBookmarks app installed, you can sync bookmarks and install (most) bookmarklets in Android's browser.
To put it simply, you download MyBookmarks from the Android Market to your phone, then run it. You'll get a long string of numbers as your unique ID, and have the option to wipe out all your existing Android bookmarks. Before you hit another button on your phone, export all your bookmarks from your desktop browser to an HTML file, enter in that numeric code your received on your phone, then upload that file to MyBookmarks' webapp in your desktop browser. You can, of course, edit and remove unnecessary bookmarks from the HTML file, provided you're handy with the syntax.
On your phone, you can now hit "Import your bookmarks from RerWare.com," and it looks for the latest HTML file uploaded under your ID number. When it matches up, you can import them all at once, or approve each bookmark, one by one. When you're done, you're done—all your approved bookmarks and bookmarklets are loaded in your browser.
As far as which bookmarklets work and which don't, those that mostly pass information between sites—Evernote, Readability/Instapaper, and translation tools—seem to work, while those that activate the browser's pop-up input window seem stuck in the mud. Still, something is better than nothing, since Android's browser doesn't let you natively save bookmarks without some kind of
http://at the front, and most bookmarklets start with justjavascript:.MyBookmarks is a free download for Android systems, and it's made by the same crew as the MyBackup tools, so it doesn't seem like an attempt to steal your private bookmark data. Still, go ahead and edit out any bookmarks out of your export file that you don't feel like making semi-public.
Know of a more elegant bookmark syncing solution for Android phones? Tell us about it in the comments.
Send an email to Kevin Purdy, the author of this post, at kevin@lifehacker.com.
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02-03-10Nomad Sandals
I picked up a pair of these sandals in Hawaii many years back principally because they looked both good and tough. The latter came in handy over the many years I walked the beaches and drift timber along BC's west coast, picking out the salvageable logs. As a bonus, they provided the best traction on wet, beachsmooth logs of any footwear I have ever used.
Compared with the previously reviewed Chaco sandals, these have no arch support and they can hang on to moisture for a while, but holding them by the heel and whacking the toe on a solid surface will go a long way toward getting moisture, dirt and sand out. The longitudinal run of the rope and its texture give a nice friction bond with the sole of the feet, so my feet don't slide around in them even when they get wet. I keep a couple of pairs on the go and could have probably sold a van-load over the years to folks stopping me to ask where they could be purchased.
-- John Marian
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If your looking for an amphibious shoe or sandal, then look no further than the North Face Padda; provides excellent traction and support, and they dry in about 20 min.
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Not to mention they look really cool. No offense but I wouldn't be caught dead in these rope sandals.
I had a pair of these, and I'm gonna say they were not worth it. Yes, they look cool and are comfortable, but they suck moisture in and give you wet foot. One puddle step and your foot is wet all day. They take forever to dry and are pretty much a wet blob until then.
So these might be great in the desert, but are worthless anywhere near water - be it a puddle or an ocean
The gurkees are probably about to be famous since the two new characters on LOST, the Man In Black and Jacob are both shown wearing these.
I just ordered one of each; nomads in natural and the gurkees in olive.
I'll let you know what I think of each.
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Nice work Terry. McGraw-Hill CEO, in an interview with CNBC, confirmed the existence of the tablet. That it will be revealed tomorrow, that their content will be on it, and that the OS is iPhone based. Goodness, but I would love to be a fly on the wall when Steve Jobs watches that interview...
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