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Evernote Publicly launched
Digital life bookmarking tool Evernote emerges from beta for its public launch today, with a few new features I think I’ll enjoy. The first new feature I’m excited about is the new clipper tool, which works more like Twine’s bookmarking tool in that it slides down from your browser toolbar instead of redirecting to an entirely new page. The other upgrade I’m happy to see is improved organization features, which Mac users will easily appreciate as they work much like a Mac desktop.
The other major change to Evernote is the introduction of premium subscriptions. There were a few times when I described Evernote to a friend and was surprised when they asked how much the service cost, especially considering the number of free bookmarking tools that are already in existence. Given Evernote’s approach to digitizing one’s life, complete with desktop, Web and mobile apps and synchronization, I can understand how one would wonder at the monthly price for such a tool.
Evernote will cost about $5 per month, or $45 per year. Free accounts will still get a good amount of space (40MB), so only the extreme power users will need to pay extra for more space, depending on the size of uploaded content. However, other perks that come with the premium subscription option include first place in the queue for image uploads (during bookmarking, etc.), and SSL securities, which minimizes a user’s need to login frequently while clipping Web content.
View: Evernote
Source: Mashable
Yahoo! BrowserPlus
Fresh off the latest round of its public feud with Microsoft, Yahoo! has announced a new software title, to be known as "BrowserPlus".
Designed to "expand what's possible", BrowserPlus is similar to Google Gears. It allows users to extend the functionality of their browser windows into areas typically dominated by desktop applications. One of the center-pieces of these additional browser capabilities is the ability to send notifications to the desktop, eliminating one of the traditional browser limitations. Yahoo! hopes other functions, such as drag-and-drop, acquisition of online feeds and simpler file uploads, will serve to entice users.
As it has not yet been released, it remains to be seen whether or not BrowserPlus will find a substantial user-base; however, it does show that yahoo is serious about continuing to contend in the ever-more-competitive market for online presence.
View: Yahoo! BrowserPlus Home Page
Source: Neowin
Orgoo Invites
Orgoo is an e-mail/IM integration service that, like goo, sticks together all your different mail accounts, contacts, and IM buddies onto one page.
Key Features
- Send/Receive all of your email, from any account, within a single inbox.
- Talk to all your buddies, on any IM network, from one buddy list.
- Have text message (SMS) conversations with your contacts, right from Orgoo.
- See your friends in live multi-person video chat rooms.
- Stay organized with messages of all types with Orgoo’s built-in organization tools.
If anyone wants to try out Orgoo I have 5 invites available.
To request an invite leave a comment with your email and I'll send you one.
View: Orgoo
AIM Express 7.0 Beta
With AIM Express you can send IMs to your friends without installing any software. AIM Express service is convenient whenever you're away from your home computer: at school, the office, or a friend's house. Talk to your friends from any computer with a Web browser and access to the Internet.
View: AIM Express 7.0 Beta
Xobni Public Beta
Xobni (that's inbox backwards) is the next big idea in productivity enhancements for your inbox. The Xobni software is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers email management and quick access to important information in your email. But more than that, Xobni claims to "expose the hidden social network" in your email.
View: Xobni Home Page
New Nine Inch Nails Album Available For Free Download
Nine Inch Nails has made its new ten-song, 44-minute minute album entitled "The Slip" available for free download at www.nin.com (free signup required). The new set includes the songs "Echoplex" and "Discipline" which were both posted online during the last couple of weeks ahead of the new album release.
The music is available in a variety of formats, including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE (licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike license). All downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.
For those of you interested in physical products, the band plans to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in July.
View: Nine Inch Nails Home Page
Source: Neowin
Adobe Photoshop Express Beta
Adobe's Photoshop Express, its free, online version of Photoshop is live right now. Targeted at everyday consumers, it's Photoshop stripped down to a pretty slick Flash 9-powered web app we got a demo of earlier today. It's super easy to crop, adjust saturation or exposure, or perform several other simple, but solid photo tweaks, like pop color (pictured). You won't be doing any heavy lifting with it, since you can't work with layers, add text or do anything really awesome, like amazing Giz-style comic bubbles, but your mom will be able to make her pictures look better than ever.
One of the best features is that any change is reversible, and in any order—you can always go back to your original photo, or any step of the editing process. And because it's just a Flash 9 app, it'll run on any browser on Windows, OS X or Linux. Right now, it isn't integrated with Photoshop, like say, .Mac. But that's coming. A service aimed at pro users, with more storage, serious backup and other pro features is in the works, though it'll carry a fee. (BTW, if there's demand for more than 2GB free, they'll pony up.) Here's the whole press release, or you can just start playing with it right now.
View: Adobe Photoshop Express Beta
Source: Neowin
Join Pownce Now
Pownce has lifted their invite-only status and added a ton of new features. Sign up to send files, links, events and messages to your friends.
With Pownce you'll create a network of friends that you want to share items with, then you can choose whether to send it to the whole list, or specific people. Basically, whoever you want to read or see you item, will be able to. It's free, and ad supported
You might send an event out to a dozen of your friends letting them know you're hosting a party this Friday. They could easily get the event details you entered, respond with questions or comments and then quickly rsvp.
Say you had a great photo you wanted to share with all of your friends. Just add the file and all of your friends will get it right away. They'll be able to reply and tell you if it's cool. You could even post songs you recorded in your home studio to share with your friends.
View: Join Pownce
Download: Pownce Desktop Client
Download: Adobe AIR (Desktop Client requires this)
View: Pownce Tray