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Evernote

johnfb68 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:29:12 +0000

It almost seems to good to be true but there is a free product, Evernote, that allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. For example you can save whole or selected portions of web pages to Evernote. Or an entire email or just selected text. In the process of saving an item you are prompted to give it a categorization Tag so you can easily filter your saved items. I find it invaluable whether doing online comparisons in searching for a product or doing research for an article I plan to write. There is a Premium upgrade if you need some advanced features, but for the me the free version is perfect.

Posted in Application Tagged: Email, Free, Internet

Shrink Photos in Email

johnfb68 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:42:17 +0000

Want to send smaller photos? I just learned from Sandy Berger’s Compukiss eNewsletter of an excellent free utility called Shrink Pic. It allows you to use a variety of email clients and shrinks the picture in the background before your email is sent. You can select the amount of compression you want and also define what file types. While it works great on my XP Pro computer it crashes Outlook 2007 on my Vista computer.

For Vista I found two solutions:

A free program that adds a resizing selection to the Explorer Context menu http://prishcom.spaces.live.com/
Or after selecting a photo in your Explorer window click on E-mail in the Tool bar and you will get a chance to select a compressed size to insert automatically in an email message

Posted in Utility Tagged: Email, Free, Photo