I’ve been using the web-based version of Evernote in earnest ever since Google announced their intention to abandon Notebook. It’s nice overall but has some quirks that I do not like. The upload quota for one. The fact that I have to login all the time. Also the pop-up upgrade ads. And I don’t like [...]

I’ve stopped using Google Notebook twice now. The first time, I took all of my notes offline for privacy reasons and stuffed them into a desktop application. That worked great and I still do that for a lot of my notes but I’ve found there is a class of note taking that is better suited [...]

Damn. Gmail won’t give me my contact data at the moment. I need to ship a Christmas gift and I can’t get the address. This highlights an important facet of storing data in the cloud. Have a backup. In this instance, I fail (no backup) and I’ll have to wait. A similar incident a few [...]

I just got off the phone with the Better Business Bureau. They called to ask if I wanted to become a member. I thought about it for a second and couldn’t think of a single reason I would want to. The guy might as well have been trying to sell me encyclopedias or typewriter ribbon. [...]

Did you notice that Google changed their favicon (that little icon that shows up in your address bar) from a big “G” to a little “g”? I think someone in Google marketing thinks more people associate the little “g” with Google than the big version. They may be right. For a long time both of [...]