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[30 Jun 2010]
Maybe I was too critical about the iPad

I wrote earlier about how I was underwhelmed by my Apple iPad after the first few weeks of use.  With my iPhone and my laptop always handy, I just never had a real need to use it.   Now I need to (slightly) revise that opinion.
I just came back from a 2 week vacation with my kids, my wife, and her parents, and the iPad was in constant use by all 6 of us.  The USA Today app is fantastic (while its free) and we all used it to get …

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[4 May 2009]
Evernote: my new personal database

I was in desperate need of a productivity “pick me up” – a personal database to house those websites, notes, articles, pictures, and anything else digital or scannable that I came across and wanted to save and reference later. I use Microsoft’s OneNote 2007 as an online binder for taking notes with my tablet, but it just didn’t seem to be the best solution for a broad personal database.
I had heard a lot of positive buzz about Evernote (www.evernote.com) so I decided to try it out. (With their tagline …