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Annoyances Nixed with Evernote 3.5

When Evernote first came out there was a lot of hype surrounding this all purpose information collector and sorter. Unlike anything that we had really seen before, Evernote allowed users to capture content either in video, internet, or photo, save it and store to the Evernote account and have all devices sync with your account. It was a great way to share information you would need later, or capture something as simple was scribbles on a napkin without actually having to carry the  napkin with you. For web surfers specifically the ability to save an entire page along with the URL or just highlighted content allowed us a new way to capture just what we needed without bookmarking an entire site. Evernote really changed the way we capture data on our mobiles and  now it gets an upgrade.

Evernote 3.5 for Windows was recently released in beta and it’s nothing significant, but does address a lot of previous annoyances. Evernote has always existed in many formats; an app, a browser button, and a desktop application rounds out how you can find Evernote. The desktop version for windows was nothing fancy, in fact it could be described as clunky, glitchy, with a UI that was not as intuitive as it could be. With it’s Apple counterpart running smooth and clean, it was a wonder why the Windows version could not mimic that same look and feel.

Some updates you will see are as follows:

• three views offered for looking at notes: List, Mixed, and Thumbnails
• geo-location tags activate a map that slides into place to show its location
• interface feels a lot more Windows 7 than its older counterparts
• search database has been improved, and you can save and edit your search filters
• multi-language spell check

So with these minor improvements we’ve seen a nicer desktop app under the hood. The application is still free, with a paid pro account alternative offering more functionality for the power users.

Ingboo -Keep it Together

There are probably a dozen other web apps like it, but none as cool as Ingboo, and none that do their job half as well. Keeping things in the one place isn’t that hard of a task. Just set up some RSS feeds, subscribe to a few sites, create a twitter profile and only use YouTube. Wait, that’s not really keeping things in the one place. That’s keeping things in several places with you hoping it all balances out, right?

Ingboo is a cool new web app that takes all of the feeds you have, your accounts such as your twitter and your online interests such as finding a job, low prices on products or simply flagging keywords for you and puts then all in one place. It’s incredibly simple to use also.

When you first go to the homepage, you’ll see all the services. They’re under tabs such as News, Jobs, Entertainment, Sport and Popular.

Let’s say you click on the YouTube button. You’ll be greeted by the screen seen below. All you have to do is fill out the form and all of the related YouTube videos will be keeps on file for you. Simple. It’s the same process for tweets, jobs, news, entertainment, sport, business, blogs and just about any other website form you can think of!

If you like the online realms to the point where you have things flying at your from all angles, then Ingboo is something you should be seriously considering as your new best friend.