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Evernote – my to-do notepad for the road

Alex — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:37:11 +0000

When I´m on the road (and I mean that literally) I simply record a voice note in Evernote on my iPhone and then tag it with @todo. I try to get into the habit of checking this tag for notes every morning when I open Evernote and then take actions, like turning it into a to do in Remember the Milk or write down the note. Evernote already has an excellent OCR feature. Now I wish it would have the same for voice or music and sound in general. Imagine Evernote would recognise not just words but also music, like the Shazam app on the iPhone.

iPhone app usage count. A feature wish

Alex — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:12:08 +0000

Due to an unfortunate bug in iTunes I had to restore my iPhone from a backup the other day. Everything went well, except the order of my app icons. They were now all in alphabetical order. I try to arrange my app icons based on usage, i.e. the ones I use more often come first, starting with the first screen. Since all icons where back in alphabetical order this really made me wish there would be a feature which shows you the app usage. This could simply be shown in the “app wiggle mode”.

As we all know, when you press and hold an app icon, all icons start to wiggle and you can move them around or delete them. In this mode every icon could simply show how many times you pressed/used it in the last week, month or so. I made a quick mockup below to illustrate the idea. I think this feature, apart from grouping, which is supposed to be possible with v3.0, would be really helpful to organize your apps. What do you think? Or maybe I missed something and this is already planned?

Apple introduces revolutionary new laptop with no keyboard

Alex — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:38:28 +0000

It can´t get any easier than this. Time to convert to Mac!

Skydiving from the Edge of the World

Alex — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:53:20 +0000

I didn´t know that my favourite Boards of Canada song “Dayvan Cowboy” has such an interesting video clip (watch below). It features Joe Kittinger jumping off the edge of the earth in over 31,000m, which also set the world record for the highest parachute jump. And that was already back in 1960. More on Joe Kittinger here and here.

Those evil Telcos

Alex — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:20:41 +0000

Just by chance I found out that I could save 10 Euros per month on my phone/DSL bill. Want to know how? I just had to log in to my account and basically “change” to the same(!) plan I already had, which costs 10 Euros less now. Dear telecom company, you couldn’t have told me that yourself, could you?

Phun – Another great toy to waste some time

Alex — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:51:25 +0000

You’re bored or have a few minutes/hours to kill? Try this highly addictive physics game called Phun. Still not convinced? Then watch this video and than I’m sure you’ll be sold. And don’t say I didn’t warn you…