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News - Just added article posts to my twitter feed!

Monday, February 9, 2009 Posted by Mike

Well, the subject pretty much sums it up,

I am now officially posting articles from my blog to my twitter feed via twitterfeed.com

I know i don't post much, but hopefully I can find some additional writers for my blog!

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MyMobileMusings on Twitter

Thursday, January 29, 2009 Posted by Mike

Check out my new twitter feed at twitter.com/MyMobileMusings - I have been updating that a few times a day, check out my tweets on the right side of the page!

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Evernote Windows Tip: Send To Evernote

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Posted by Mike


I love Evernote. Plain and simple. I could go on and on about why I love Evernote, and how many times It has come in handy.

I know what many of you are thinking "Wow, another notebook app" but that's not what makes it special. In my line of work we throw around the word High Availability.


High Availability

High availability is a system design protocol and associated implementation that ensures a certain absolute degree of operational continuity ...

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

Basically, the key is to have access to the data when you need it. The same can apply to Evernote. Evernote for windows/mac synchronizes every hour by default with the server. That means your notes are there even when you arent online. Beyond that, you can also access them online from any mobile phone, or any internet connection. There is also a version for Windows Mobile and the iPhone which gives you even more flexibility.

Adding notes to Evernote is amazingly simple:
  • Firefox and IE web clippers let you clip selected text or an entire site with one button press which makes it so easy to save useful information. (Tip: Create a notebook with your online SN - make this your default notebook to add notes from websites)
  • Email Notes - With your Evernote account comes a custom email address. Anything sent to this address automagically is added to your default evernote notebook (Login to evernote.com, under settings is your email address)
  • Screen Clipper - Evernote for Windows remaps your print screen button to run the evernote screen clipper utility. With this you can clip a screenshot to evernote, save to file, or even copy to clipboard. This utlity is a GREAT improvement over the default windows copy to clipboard printscreen function. (Tip: After selecting the size of your screenshot, right click to toggle drawing mode - GREAT for adding notes on a tablet PC)
  • Windows Mobile / iPhone App - How many of you have your phone with you at all times? With the evernote mobile software, its easy to add a note (Editing is obviously a bit of a burden right now, but they have made substantial improvments recently to the software, and continue to work on them, we should see something shortly from them)


For windows however, there is one function so obvious I'm amazed they missed it: "Send to Evernote". How often do you want to simply add a note from MS word, or from your desktop? Lifehacker has a great article on how to customize windows "Send To" menu here: Customize Windows Send To Menu

Instructions after the Jump


Here are the steps (Windows XP):
  • Start > Run > "C:\Program Files\Evernote\Evernote3" (without the quotes)
  • Right-Click on Evernote.exe and select "Create Shortcut"
  • Rename the shortcut something like "Evernote - New Note"
  • Copy/Cut the shortcut
  • Start > Run > "C:\Documents and Settings\SendTo\" (replace the userID with your login id)
  • Paste the shortcut you created into that directory
You're done!

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Tip - Using the D-Pad on a Touch Pro/Fuze Explained

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 Posted by Mike


As an AT&T Fuze owner. I too have been annoyed at the Left/Right buttons on the D-Pad. I thought "Great, it must be a defective phone, I'll have to RMA it eventually....." While stumbling around WMpoweruser.com I came across this article.

I just tried it out, and can say that it does in fact work much better! That was something that bothered me for a while!


(Full credit for image to wmpoweruser.com )

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Phone Disassemble Guides

Thursday, November 20, 2008 Posted by Mike


While stumbling around the internet. I came across one of those websites you just have to bookmark (or Evernote in my case). ForMyMobile.co.uk has a list of mobile phone disassembly guides.

Complete list of phones by manufacturer after the jump.



LG


Motorola

Nokia


O2


Samsung


Siemens

Sony Ericsson



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