Brett

Google Search Nirvana

I’m so pleased when others help to outline the most important tips to access fast, quality searches. Shoemoney.com recently outlined some quick ways to use Google search more effectively. OR word or “|” character  – enables you to search for variants Tilde (~) character – uses synonyms.  So like lets say your looking for a…

Google Chrome Speech Recognition

Crazy days when we can speak to our machines and have them actually understand us… Even more crazy when that dictation functionality is free. I wonder how Nuance/Dragon feels about this. http://ctrlq.org/dictation/ (with Chrome only) Update: Here’s the results from Sonia’s recipe reading… Original magazine recipe: Dictation results (using Chrome app):

Evernote Fail

It is a beautiful tool most of the time, allowing for notes for all the iOS devices and desktop machines, however when someones internet goes down, this was the last thing I expected. Consider this a warning. I suppose it has something to do with syncing notes and non-syncing notes. In the past I’m almost…

Best NotePad iPad Apps

I haven’t done a crazy review of everything, however after some research at this very point in time, it appears that the cream of the crop for quick and helpful note taking are below. Any other suggestions are welcome. We’ll be checking these out immediately however. Notability Penultimate Note Taker HD Dropbox synchronization and friendliness…