The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, which I wrote about a while back, is now finally on sale. It’s $149 for the 1GB version and $199 for the 2GB one. I’m intrigued by the technology which records audio and links it to your written notes or drawings and interested to see if it takes off. As noted before, no Mac version yet and you can’t use it with Parallels or VMWare but Livescribe says it is “actively developing a native Mac solution … and will post more details and timing as soon as possible.”
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I’m one of those people thatbif I don’t write something down, make a list or stick a note in my Crackberry, it doesn’t get down. Problem is, although I love my Google Mail/Calendar and integrating it with my Blackberry, there’s been no way to sync tasks across my favourite apps. But this week I heard about Remember The Milk, a free Australian web app that makes it easy to organise your tasks and you can add a gadget that integrates it right into GMail, Google Calendar and your iGoogle home page. And as my Google Calender syncs with my Crackberry, I’m sorted! Now I’m hoping someone comes up with a plug-in for Mailplane, my favourite e-mail program which turns GMail into a Mac-looking app that’s available offline.
Blogged with the Flock Browser
If you’re into social networking sites, blogging and sharing stuff you find on the web, you know it can get crazy trying to keep track of it all. Which is why you might want to take a look at a browser you may not have heard of, called Flock. What makes Flock stand out from other browsers is that you can build direct links to things like your Facebook account, MyGoogle, My Yahoo, your blogs, Twitter, Flickr and so on – and makes sharing between them as easy and drag and drop right from a web page. You can also run news feeds and media from YouTube right in the browser as well as keep track of your networked buddies in handy sidebars. Importing bookmarks, cookies and other preferences from other browsers was a snap. If I have one criticism is that there seem to be so many bells and whistles that it can seem a little overwhelming and busy but once you’ve got the hang of it, it might just become your favourite browser. The much improved 1.1 version is out now.
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