Evernote is a niche and useful application for like us, using with desktop/laptop, UMPC and especially mobile day to day. You can use voice/image recognition or typing to store all information with the devices and retrieve them easily at anytime, from any where. How Evernote works with your device;
Three steps:

1. You capture the things you want to remember using what you already use—your Windows or Mac computer, the web, and your mobile phone.
2. We run everything through our recognition technology and then make it all available across your devices. You can then organize and tag the notes, if you want.
3. When you want to remember something, just search for it and there it is just like you remember it.

Find out more information on evernote.com.

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This week, I find out how much Adobe AIR, web-apps been popular and develop increasingly from web developers, recently?
Just remind the AIR applications, which are downloadable platform for running web applications on any operation system. Simply download and install Adobe AIR/applications on the desktop, and make it worth playing with them or just more interesting? Here, take a look at some applications with technical information.

Google Analytics Reporting Suite

Application: a useful tracking tool that puts all data from Google and easy to navigate the visitors' pageview, data pages' loading information and specific time spans, and more.

Technical: built using Adobe Flex 3 with a custom built ActionScript 3 API for Google Analytics.

Website:
Developer site and download.


Google Reader Air

Application: those whose use Google Reader then you can use this air applications instead and has the same basic UI layout/style.

Technical: open source and hosted on Google Code. HTML based and uses JQuery JavaScript Library for effects, AJAX and other behaviours.

Website:
Developer site and download.


DestroyFlickr

Application: those Flickr users, this is another AIR Flickr web based application and you can customize/navigate the photo as you do with Flickr.

Technical: built using ActionScript 3 and Flex builder IDE.

Website:
Developer site and download.


Klok Tracking Time

Application: useful to track the time on projects, tasks and anything really. The features include drag and drop timesheet data to your desktop as Microsoft excel file, comprehensive charts and reports and interact viewing calender.

Technical: not known but possibly using Flex framework.

Website:
Developer site and download.


Twhirl Twitter Client

Application: mini-messaging social network, enhancing the features with Twitter. Ease of use and if you're going to use Twitter during the workday, you might as well make it quick and simple.

Technical: built using Flex and handles the themes via specific XML files that change the colours dynamically.

Website:
Developer site and download.

So far I have reached 5 Adobe AIR applications that I use them currently. I have to say, they're really nice UIs/rich contents and the next generation of RIAs. Few more applications listed below.

• Doomi - to-do list application
• DiggTop - the social bookmarking application
• Snackr - rss ticker application
• Pandora Desktop - media station application
• AOL Top 100 music videos - collection of 100 hottest music videos application
• FLV play - YouTube video collection application
• Finetune - Desktop Music Player application

Related the article from Lifehacker.com.
Review more AIR Applications from FreshAIRApps.com.

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I read the article about IT Goes Green with Oracle in this month oracle magazine. The article comes on the front page's magazine from the editor. It is nice to hear that very big companines like Oracle and Dell lead investing in the green technology and keen to succeeding in what many others consider a grand challenge mission of saving carbon foot print and the climate change on our planet.

Here is the report from CRO's Best Corporate Citizens by Industry 2007, said that:-

In the technology software industry, Oracle was ranked No.1 and No.2 in the climate change and environment categories, respectively. For more information on this report and on Oracle, the environment, and energy management, check out this links below.

Oracle Magazine and Green. A digital edition of Oracle Magazine has been available for two years, and more than 100,00 subscribers receive it. If you'd like to subscribe to the digital edition - and save some trees - see the link below.

Read more on July/August Oracle Magazine.

For those of you attending Oracle OpenWorld 2008 in San Francisco, September 21-25, think green and check out the online agenda, the Green Fair, and the Green Room.

The links:
CRO's 10 Best Corporate Citizens by Industry 2007 report
www.thecro.com/node/580

Oracle and the Environment
oracle.com/corporate/community/environment

Oracle and Energy Management
oracle.com/corporate/community/energy

SUBSCRIBE to the digital edition of Oracle Magazine
www.submag.com/sub/oc?pk=oranew

More related Green Technology here.

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Gaia Ajax Widgets is an Open Source Ajax Framework for Microsoft ASP.NET or Mono.

Gaia has done nicely job for Ajax framework with ASP.Net and released Gaia Glory Beta 3 toolkit library. Highlight of samples are following:
Tree View
Grid view
Portal Example
Dynamic Image
Controls Madness
Complex Controls Mixed

There are plenty of other samples in Gaia site and as developers alike, Gaia Ajax widgets is published under a pure GPL version 2 license that you can develop the open source software. Those whose are interested developing in commercial software, buying the License which does not restrict your source code into being open source.

Check the other samples and latest development here.

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Can you imagine that one day all of sudden things change quickly so called Digital World? That's true in these days. While you're working on the desk or presenting, you normally do taking notes but sometimes can't decide whether writing on the notes or typing with the keyboard, right.
Here is a smart pen called "Pulse Smartpen" combine with mobile computing platform and normal pen with a special paper. While writing, you can do audio recording, and play it back while reading the notes with intelligent software. Of course, after all these you've done, just download the results to the computer via USB with pen's core software. Smart pen's specification is below:

The price is not that cheap however, 1GB model for $149 and 2GB model for $199. Another is a special paper as mentioned, it costs 4-pack 100-sheet Single Notebook for S19.95 and only works with the Pulse smart pen and claiming that it is comparable in cost to a standard notebook paper.

Available now in Online.

What good on this? Let you do digitally organizing, searching and sharing the notes easily but in my opinion, there is an another risk to invite your privacy or losing data in some way. I hope not happening so...

Those whose are interested in developing the programs in the area, the software development kit (SDK) will be available in the Q1 2008 and check more information on the link.
Sign up for Developers.

Those whose are interested about Pen History where and how it comes from, check the link here.

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