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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Productivity Porn: 7 tricks for beating procrastination. Photo via Bigstock We procrastinate for a variety of reasons.
Fear. Intimidation. Laziness. Distractions. 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. No matter how big or intimidating the task in front of you, giving yourself a limit of just 10 minutes to get it started often feels far more manageable and something you could get rolling on immediately. 3.