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Hello, I'm Evan. I write about tech from my perspective – that of the average tech geek, sometimes with my lawyer glasses on. You can also find me on Twitter and at my real-life job as a lawyer.    MORE ABOUT ME.

Posterous Digest – Add Items to Evernote With Your Voice, and more

40techposterous It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following items:

 

Windows Phones Coming October 6 – Microsoft reveals some news on Windows Mobile phones that are coming on October 6, including a revamp of Windows Mobile.

Add Items to Evernote With Your Voice – using ReQall via your telelphone, iPhone, or Blackberry, you can send information to Evernote by speaking.

 

If any of those headlines interest you, check out the 40Tech Posterous site.


Google Voice – 5 Changes Needed for Perfection

Google Voice Google Voice offers many great features, such as transcription, call filtering and free U.S. calls.  Voice is not perfect, though.  In fact, there are a few aspects of the service that are downright disappointing.  Fortunately, Google does have time to work out the kinks, as Voice only has limited availability at the present time.  In the meantime, here are five improvements that Google Voice needs to make before going mainstream. 

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How to Secure Evernote on a Shared Computer

This article has been updated in a newer post, How to Password-Protect Evernote, which shows an easier way to open an encrypted version of Evernote with a simple desktop shortcut.

Secure Evernote with True Crypt Do you want to keep your Evernote data secure on a less-than-private computer?  Right now there is no "built in" way to secure your Evernote data, aside from using your operating system’s user account features to set Evernote to be available only to certain user accounts on a machine.  Fortunately, there are third party solutions which are even more secure.  One such solution is to pair Everote with a third party program like TrueCrypt, so that your Evernote data is encrypted and protected from prying eyes.

 

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40Tech Posterous Digest – Gmail Signature Boost, Firefox Tab Enhancements, and More

40techposterous It is time for another digest of recent content on 40Tech’s Posterous site, where we post content that is too brief for this site, but too long for Twitter.  Since the last digest, our Posterous site has taken a look at the following items:

Set Up Tiny, Permanent Tabs in Firefox – how to set up permanent, reduced-sized tabs of selected sites in Firefox.

If a Browser Is Released in a Forest and Nobody is Around to Hear It . . . – the Opera 10 Release Candidate is out, with the final release just around the corner, but will anybody notice?

Favicon Alerts for Google Voice – a Greasemonkey script to put a count of the number of unlistened Google Voice messages into the favicon of your Google Voice tab in Firefox.

WIndows 7’s "Problem Steps Recorder" – a tool to record and annotate problems you have in Windows 7.

Multiple Gmail Signatures in Firefox Using "Blank Canvas"
– a Firefox plugin that allows you to have multiple HTML-compatible Gmail signatures that can be tied to particular sending and receiving addresses.

 

 If any of those headlines interest you, check out the 40Tech Posterous site.


Google Reader Basics – Share, Like, and Add Star

Google Reader logo RSS Readers are a convenient way to stay on top of many web sites, without having to visit the sites directly.  One reader, Google Reader, stands head and shoulders above other readers in terms of popularity.  That doesn’t mean Google Reader is easy to understand, though.  Many users (including me, until recently) either don’t use or don’t understand three of Google Reader’s features – the ability to "Star," "Share," and "Like" an item.  Here we take a look at those three features of Google Reader.

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