Steve Deakin's Web Log » Windows http://www.stevedeakin.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:10:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Evernote http://www.stevedeakin.com/2010/10/12/evernote http://www.stevedeakin.com/2010/10/12/evernote#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:41:12 +0000 Steve Deakin http://www.stevedeakin.com/?p=197

 

 

Evernote (www.evernote.com) is cloud based storage system for notes, pictures and PDFs that provides web and native clients for a wide range of browser, desktop sand mobile operating systems.

Unlike most cloud based services which only have browser-based web clients and email facilities, Evernote also has rich native clients for Apple MacOS X, Windows Vista/7, RIM BlackBerry and Apple iPhone/iPad.

The native clients for desktop systems also have clipping tools for browsers and screenshots. The native clients make the service far more useful in capturing and searching for information and provide access to the materials when offline or if the service ever becomes unavailable for some reason. The notes can be categorised using tags to create hierarchies and relationships in addition to the more traditional folder structures.

Evernote search indexing performed on their servers based and includes a text recognition in pictures, with handwriting to some extent, alongside keyword searching in notes.Evernote also provides an API so third party services can provide additional functionality and reuse Evernote functionality instead of creating their own implementation.

The free account is limited to uploading 40MB per month whereas a premium account provides a 500Mb per month limit, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) data encryption, the ability to upload any file type and search with PDFs.

[Disclaimer: I have no relationship with Evernote other than being a full paying customer of their subscription service]

]]> http://www.stevedeakin.com/2010/10/12/evernote/feed 0 Nitro PDF Professional http://www.stevedeakin.com/2009/07/24/nitro-pdf-professional-6-0 http://www.stevedeakin.com/2009/07/24/nitro-pdf-professional-6-0#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:29:19 +0000 Steve Deakin http://www.stevedeakin.com/?p=136 This is very cool software for Microsoft Windows that allows you to create, edit, and publish PDF files without the need for the expensive Adobe Acrobat which is priced for high usage professional and not for occasional user.

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