{"id":2883,"date":"2011-09-23T22:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2011-09-23T22:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T02:20:47","slug":"take-note-this-is-one-great-cloudeight-freeware-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/take-note-this-is-one-great-cloudeight-freeware-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Note! This is one great Cloudeight Freeware Pick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week while preparing this newsletter I was fooling around with a few new  programs, one of them a PDF program installed drivers to my Windows 7 computer.  Any time you install drivers for a program or whatever it seems something in  Windows gets mentally unbalanced or angry. Windows got angry with me.<\/p>\n<p>Now for years I&#8217;ve written the newsletter in a Notepad-like application  called &#8220;MetaPad&#8221; (which I really like, by-the-way). The newsletter sort of grows  through the week as I find things and write about them &#8211; and each of these  articles is stored in a MetaPad file. Now I know better than to keep an open  file on my desktop without saving it periodically &#8211; because Windows, not even  Windows 7 is completely error-proof. But last week I lost almost three days of  work because I didn&#8217;t follow a simple rule of Windows &#8212; ALWAYS SAVE YOUR WORK  OFTEN. I got up from the computer, went to get some lunch and came back and  Windows had rebooted. Normally, and for the longest time, Windows always played  nice and went to sleep when I was away for a while. When I came back, a shake of  the mouse or the press of a key would wake Windows and I&#8217;d go back to work. But  when Windows reboots and you haven&#8217;t saved your work &#8211; it&#8217;s gone with the  Windows. I suppose I could have downloaded and some forensic tool to extract  everything I&#8217;ve ever typed on my computer &#8211; for $500 or so (no, the free ones  won&#8217;t do what I needed done). But I don&#8217;t have $500 or so and so I was up until  about 3AM re-writing the newsletter from memory. The program that installed the  drivers had disturbed the gentle balances of Windows and instead of going to  sleep &#8211; it died in its sleep. The best you can hope for, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Now,  quit your yawning. I&#8217;m getting to the point. This week I decided I&#8217;m never going  to go through that again. And you&#8217;re thinking I decided to save my work more  often. You&#8217;re right and you&#8217;re wrong. I will do that, but after a few weeks or  months I&#8217;ll get lazy again and won&#8217;t save work as often as I should. Someday in  the future, I&#8217;d be up writing at 3:00 AM or worse, pulling an all-nighter. I&#8217;ve  done too many of those too &#8211; but not since the days of Windows  98\/ME.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a program I keep hearing about called Evernote. And  frankly I had tried it several years ago before the dawning of the age of the  cloud. I wasn&#8217;t impressed. But being the good and wonderful guy I am, I decided  everything and everyone deserves a second chance. Look, I&#8217;ve given EB about  fifty second-chances but she never acquiesces &#8211; but I keep trying to get her to  see things my way. In short, I gave Evernote another try &#8211; and I&#8217;m here to tell  you, I&#8217;m mucho gladiolas I did.<\/p>\n<p>What a fantastic program Evernote has  become. This entire newsletter was written in Evernote. I&#8217;ve got snippets of  freeware and tips I want to try for future newsletter stored in Evernote. I&#8217;ve  got some notes on Windows 8 ( you&#8217;ll see those in coming weeks) stored in  Evernote. I&#8217;ve got software keys and boilerplate templates &#8211; I&#8217;ve even got  recipes and reminders stored in Evernote.<\/p>\n<p>I really believe that every  single one of you (except those of you still using dialup) could benefit from  using this program. Whether you use it to keep track of household expenses, or  to write notes to yourself, or to keep recipes or photos or snippets of Web  pages, or images or photos&#8230; whatever, Evernote makes it easy to do &#8211; and  you&#8217;ll never have to worry about your computer going belly up and leaving you in  the lurch with nothing. Everything you enter in Evernote is synchronized between  your computer and the space in the cloud Evernote provides you. And if you have  a smartphone (iPhone or Android) or an iPad you can synchronize your notes and  other things in Evernote with all of these.<\/p>\n<p>Evernote is great for  collaboration too. If you want to give someone access to your files and notes in  Evernote you can give them access. If you&#8217;re working in a business setting this  feature it great. EB has access to Evernote so she can review what I&#8217;m writing &#8211;  and I can leave her nice little messages to assist me with things I need  assistance with &#8211; which is mostly everything. If you wanted to write a novel  with a friend, Evernote is for you. If you don&#8217;t want to share anything with  anyone and you want to keep all your stuff private, Evernote is for you  too.<\/p>\n<p>OK you&#8217;re getting really tired of my droning. How about a little  picture to wake you up?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/evernote.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"660\" height=\"289\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Evernote is super fast and very easy to use. You can store data  locally on your computer and synch it to a folder in the cloud so you never have  to worry about your computer going down or belly up and losing everything you&#8217;ve  saved. Evernote automatically saves notes \u2013 there\u2019s no reason for you to look  for the \u2018save\u2019 button.<\/p>\n<p>Your notes are stored inside Notebooks &#8211; how  clever. Just create a Notebook for each category or project you want. If you  want tag your notes, you can easily do that (tagging makes things easier to find  by using keywords).<\/p>\n<p>Evernote creates excellent screenshots. You can use  it alone or you can share your work with others. You can even keep certain  Notebooks private while sharing others. You can email notes from within Evernote  &#8211; or you can add things to any Notebook by sending an email to the special email  address Evernote gives you when you sign up.<\/p>\n<p>You can access your  Evernote Notebooks from anywhere using your laptop, desktop, smartphone, or  iPad.<\/p>\n<p>You can use Evernote&#8217;s todo lists to remind you of things you need  to do. You can add &#8220;Ink Notes&#8221; or &#8220;Audio Notes&#8221; (if you have a microphone on  your computer). You can even export your notes as a Web page (HTML) which makes  it great for me because HTML is the format of the newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t  list every possible way you could use Evernote. You can use it in so many  different ways &#8211; ways I&#8217;ve never even thought of.<\/p>\n<p>Evernote&#8217;s free version  gives you 60MB of space each month. That&#8217;s a lot of space for notes. It&#8217;s not a  lot of space if you&#8217;re going to store a lot of images &#8211; but since its name is  Evernote and not Everimage &#8211; keep that in mind it more for notes with small  images than an image-storage service. If you need more space you can upgrade to  Evernote Premium &#8211; but really folks, 60MB of space for notes each month is a lot  of space. I can store every InfoAve Premium newsletter for a year in Evernote  and not even use up one month&#8217;s allotment &#8211; and as you know, InfoAve Premium  contains a lot of text \ud83d\ude42 Every 28 days, just like the cycle of the moon, your  Evernote gives you another 60MB of space. I haven&#8217;t been using it long enough to  know, it&#8217;s only been three heavenly days &#8211; three wonderful days of not having to  worry about losing everything I&#8217;ve written to the woes and whims of Microsoft  Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>Enough of this. By now, Evernote sounds like the best thing  since fresh peaches to you &#8211; or it doesn&#8217;t sound like anything you&#8217;d use  (really?). If you want to learn more about Evernote and download it, you can get  it from here. <a href=\"http:\/\/evernote.com\/\">http:\/\/evernote.com\/<\/a> . <a href=\"http:\/\/evernote.com\/\">Get it and use it &#8211; you&#8217;ll love it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The particulars:<\/p>\n<p>Evernote<br \/>\nA note-taking, snippet-saving, list-making, everything-keeping program almost everyone can use<br \/>\nWorks with Windows XP, Vista, Seven (32bit\/64bit)<br \/>\nAlso works with iPad, iPhone, and Android smart phones<br \/>\nSynchronizes between your computer and its free cloud storage space &#8211; as well as between your computers, smartphones and tablets.<br \/>\n60.24MB download (Dialup users, this won&#8217;t work for you)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week while preparing this newsletter I was fooling around with a few new programs, one of them a PDF program installed drivers to my Windows 7 computer. Any time you install drivers for a program or whatever it seems something in Windows gets mentally unbalanced or angry. Windows got angry with me. Now for years I&#8217;ve written\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/take-note-this-is-one-great-cloudeight-freeware-pick\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}