6 Awesome Evernote Apps That We Guarantee You've Never Seen. Evernote has announced the finalists of its 2012 Devcup. The finalists will get to pitch at the Evernote Trunk Conference on August 24 for the chance to win some development dough. For the Evernote users out there, here are six cool new apps to enhance your outboard brain. EV - Brazil EV allows the 4 billion feature phone users around the world to create notes, search existing notes and receive reminders from Evernote, all via SMS. EverClip - Hong Kong EverClip is an iPhone app that gives you most of the power of Evernote’s desktop Web Clipper for the browser.
KustomNote - USA KustomNote is a Web-based app that lets you find or create pre-set templates for nicely styled Evernote notes and fill them in through easy forms. LiveMinutes - USA LiveMinutes is a Web-based app that lets you share and collaboratively edit Evernote notes with a team in real time. PlaceMe - USA Spotwish Go! Want discounted tickets to the Evernote Trunk Conference? Hands on with Brewster: Can it evolve the address book? Excel Shortcuts You Probably Didn’t Know | Upgrade Your Life. Microsoft Excel is an incredibly powerful spreadsheet program that millions of people use. It's got so many tools in it that even experts don't always know all the shortcuts. But just knowing a few tricks can vastly speed up — and simplify — your workflow. Note: Different versions of Excel may have different commands, so a couple of these may not work in your version.
That said, here are my top Excel shortcuts that can make you a star amongst the spreadsheet crowd: 1. Insert Sum: Alt = Summing has to be Excel's most commonly used task, and this trick can save you several clicks every time. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Create Presentation Slides with iPad Drawing App Paper. iPad drawing and painting app Paper isn’t short on praise. It’s received a great response since it launched a few short weeks ago, having been downloaded over 1.5 million times in its first two weeks. Its success is with good reason – somehow, even if you’re not exactly the world’s best artist, it almost always manages to make your scribblings look beautiful. Earlier this month, I was watching a presentation at the SMC_MCR event I co-organise in Manchester, UK. Garry Byrne, Managing Director of digital agency Reading Room Manchester, did something inspired – he drew all his slides with Paper, and they looked great.
So impressed was I that I copied the idea for a presentation I gave about the future of TV a few days ago. Now, I’m sure other people around the world have done this in the past few weeks too, but it’s far from commonplace at this point. So, give it a try – and quickly before too many other people get the same idea. ➤ Paper. 10 Simple Google Calendar Tips and Tricks to Boost Your Productivity.
Google's free Calendar tool is a handy way to organize your life online, but how much time have you invested getting to know the service? We have 10 tips and tricks that will help you to get more out of Google Calendar. Discover quick ways to add events, schedule your agenda to be emailed to you on a daily basis, and many more valuable Calendar tricks. Take a look through our gallery of GCal tips. Let us know in the comments about any other handy shortcuts you've come across.
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, alexsl. Google Calendar launches “Suggested Times” feature. 4 November '11, 12:28am Follow Google continues to roll out updates that focus on usability of its existing products. Today, the company announced the addition of a feature called “Suggested Times” to its Google Calendar product. The Gmail team had this to say on its blog about the new feature: Creating an event is easy, but finding a time that works for everyone is sometimes tricky and time consuming.
To make this easier and save you time, we’ve added a new ‘Suggested times’ feature to Google Calendar.To get started, create a calendar event, add guests and click Suggested times. The resulting list will include upcoming times where all participants are available. The feature is quite useful, because the worst part about setting up meetings is when people can’t make it and they respond with “No”. Find the latest Google news every day at TNW Google. Microsoft's Envisioning Lab Reveals The Future Of Productivity.
The most unbelievable part of Microsoft's eye-catching Productivity Future Vision video, released earlier this week, isn't the see-through refrigerator, the software app that discovers a product design breakthrough on its own, or the plants growing on the wall of the ethereally white office. (That last one, actually, is a real office on the Microsoft campus.) No, the most unbelievable part is how clean every surface is--in the car, in the office, and even in a kitchen where a bake sale project is underway. David Jones, acting director of the video's creator, Microsoft's Envisioning Lab, says it's a common criticism, but then again, nearly every surface can act as a crisp, contextually savvy display.
Wouldn't you keep your counter more clean if you could watch Hulu on it? Watch the video, then read on to get the details on how that future works. Yes, we do, but that's not everybody's work, necessarily. Speech input has a really big role in the video. It knew exactly where he was. Productivity Porn: 7 tricks for beating procrastination. Photo via Bigstock We procrastinate for a variety of reasons. Fear. Intimidation. Laziness. Distractions. All reasonable obstacles. But if you’re prioritized your tasks and projects correctly, the work still needs to get done. I’ve found that procrastination can be the single-largest hurdle keeping individuals at all levels from being more productive and getting more done. It’s a silent killer, easy to justify in the moment, until that high-potential time has passed and you still aren’t done. Everybody I know who has a proactive strategy to fight procrastination still suffers from it regularly, but there are several tricks and best practices that can help you win the fight far more often than you lose it. 1.
The project at hand can seem too large and intimidating. 2. Get projects started in 10 minutes. 3. What do you get when you finish? 4. Matt Heinz It’s way too easy to entertain distractions when you’d prefer to do almost anything but the job in front of you. 5. 6. 7.