A virtuoso on water-filled crystal glasses
This clip took me by surprise. I’ve seen water-filled crystal glasses played well before, but nothing like this.
Evernote for the Mac - I can’t wait
Wow, just wow. I just watched the video for the upcoming version of Evernote, an application I used to use regularly back when I was a Windows user.
Evernote’s claim to fame was that it allowed users to capture notes in a never-ending ribbon of paper paradigm. You could simply scroll back in time endlessly looking at the notes and information that you had captured to your Evernote file. Neat stuff, and really useful.
I’ve never really found a note taking utility on the Mac that was as seamless as Evernote was on Windows. But I’ve also moved a lot of my note taking to online tools like Google Notebook and Backpack. I like being able to get to my notes from my phone or Pocket PC.
Jay Hathaway, one of my fellow bloggers at Download Squad, wrote a post that mentioned that Evernote has a beta version for the Mac coming out, along with a web version and mobile versions. Wow! As excited as I was to hear this, I couldn’t help but think that I’m not sure I want to be tied to an offline software tool for ubiquitous capture of information.
Then I watched the screencast of the new Evernote that is coming out. It blew me away.
Everything you put into your system can be synchronized and is therefore available from the web and mobile devices. Plus, it has built-in character recognition so if you take a photo of something with text on it and put that into your Evernote library, the text in those objects is searchable - even handwritten text!
Of course I signed up for the beta right away. I can’t wait to give this a try. The screencast shows some very mature looking user interfaces, so I suspect the beta will already be a very usable product. This is one product release I’m looking forward to.
Which TV shows are coming back after the strike?
If you’re wondering which TV shows are scheduled to come back now that the writer’s strike is over, TV Guide has an exhaustive list.
I’m bummed to see that Chuck isn’t coming back until next year, but it’s great to see that there will be more episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Numbers, and How I Met Your Mother.
Testing MarsEdit
This is a simple, short test blog post to see how MarsEdit works with my WordPress blog.
Since it has no real purpose, I’m going to include a photo of my boys that was taken last fall that I really like. It’s a camera phone shot, so the quality is low, but I like their expressions quite a bit.
