Tag: Google

Evernote and Other Appy, Nerdy Stuff

A couple of days ago, my wife suggested I use Evernote. I had installed the app on my phone before, but never really used it. I thought it would be cool for grocery shopping lists, but I can’t get any cell signal at the grocery store. Now that I’m a supervisor at work though I find that requests get thrown at me so fast that it s really easy to lose track of them. Gmail helps a ton, what with labels and starring and such, but I am afraid I am going to miss something.

Yesterday morning when I logged into work I brought up Evernote and entered a couple of ideas for additions to the group web page. I had a meeting at 10:00am so I also made note of a couple of emails I wouldn’t have time to get to right away. When I got back to my desk I had Gmail open in one window and Evernote open in another. Between the two sites and questions coming to me in person, over the phone, and via Hangouts, I was able to get to all of the higher priority stuff and not lose track of the lower end things.

It seemed to work nicely yesterday, and so far today it’s the same thing. I had heard that Google had an Evernote of their own coming. I think it’s available. My company is all about Google these days (Gmail! WOOHOO!) so maybe I should use that for bandwagon’s sake. A quick Google search tells me it’s called Keep. Maybe I’ll check it out.

As for WordPress.com, I mentioned that I was trying to set up categories. Wouldn’t you know it, I screwed up the tag to category transfer and now every post I have (all 6,300 or so) have the tag “uncategorized”. So I have begun the slow and painful process of updating each post to include a category and to remove the uncategorized tag. Happy Days. This project will probably run out of gas quickly. We’ll see.

Chrome Add Ons

The company I work for uses Google Apps.  Gmail, mostly, but also Drive, Sites, and Hangouts.  Hangouts default to opening a sub window above your gmail window.  That is a little annoying as you only get a notification in the task bar.  If you have another tab on top, you don’t know some one is sending you a message.  Someone at work suggested using a Chrome Add On that pulls Hangouts into it’s own window, which also pops up when you get a message.  Win, thinks me.

Since then I have been all about extending Chrome.  I put the Hangouts app on my home computer as well as work.  I’ve also got a download helper, and a Gmail notifier.  Cool.  I have now set to finding anything else that might be even the slightest bit cool.  Forexample, I am writing this post using an Add On called ScribeFire.  It’s pretty cool.  I am also hoping to go all crazy on greasemonkey scripts that will extend Flickr.

I’ll let you know how it all works out.

April Fools Pranks

There was a time when Google rolled out the best April Fools pranks you could ever hope to find on the internet.  These days, you still get the feeling that April Fools is like Christmas, New Years, and your birthday all rolled into one for many Google employees, but the pranks are not what they used to be.

They have a couple of decent ones today.  I’ve only found two, but I’m sure there are more.

Google Nose (Beta)

Gmail Blue

I have also heard that some one posted that the Red Sox have signed Curt Schilling.  That’s a good one.

I saw one last night too and that threw me off completely.  Soundcloud’s blog posted something that seemed ridiculous.  I thought it was an April Fools joke that leaked early.  A minute ago it dawned on me that Soundcloud is based in Germany.  The joke wasn’t early, I was.  Oh well..