I am an avid watcher of GeekBrief.tv, with Cali Lewis. In Brief # 358 she talked about something called evernote. I had to know more so I signed up for the beta. I LOVE IT. Basically its a note taking application that goes the extra mile. Exactly what I have been looking for since losing Microsoft OneNote when I switched over to a MacBook. The coolest feature….It can search images for text. No Joke. I was thinking about possible uses and here is what I came up with:

-Take Pictures of stuff I’ve white-boarded in classes I teach.
-Take Pictures if receipts that I need to expense or track
-Ever see a funny license plate? Take a PIC and search for it later.
-Have a network diagram with IP addresses and such—-there ya go!

What I really like about it is its cross platform capabilities. You can integrate a “Clip to Evernote” in your browsers (IE, Safari, Firefox). You can install the Software on MAC and windows and sync them.

Here is a screen shot of the desktop application. I’ve been working on a DMVPN lab and searched for the word “Hub”

Anyhow, sign up for the beta or shoot me an email if you cant wait and I can send you an invite directly.

So I got the Microsoft Wireless Presenter mouse and wanted to give my opinion of it.

As far as I’m concerned, if you use Powerpoint for you presentations this is a great mouse to run the presentation with. The one downer is that I switched to a MAC and it doesn’t work with a MAC even though Microsoft sells the Office:Mac edition.

At any rate, it’s bluetooth and has a button on the top that changes it to presenter mode. You then flip it over and it has buttons to advance through the slides and black out the screen. Its has a button that turns on the mark up tool but you have to go back to mouse mode to write on the slides. The batteries last for a good amount of time. It comes with a bluetooth adapter but I used the internal bluetooth on my Thinkpad T60.

Well thats it….my optinion- Thumbs up for trainers that are heavy with powerpoint.