I think it’s acting up again….
Day: August 6, 2011
Google Plus to Evernote
There is a great deal of terrific content that people are sharing on Google Plus. Some of it is great links to resources whereas other content is people’s original thoughts and/or discussion. Sometimes, it’s even things that I want to read later.
Now, for the links, I have a technique for keeping them for later. A link can be sent to Diigo or Instapaper so that I don’t lose track of them. But, what to do with the rest of it?
That’s where Evernote comes into play. It’s a great place to tuck away these clippings and resources. I use the following technique and it’s very fast and almost effortless. And, it shows another use for Circles.
Here’s what to do. Log into your Evernote account and to your settings. If you take a look at your “Account Summary”, there’s a special email address that is tied to your account. You’re going to want to keep it private but it does the magic in this case. Make a note of the special email address.
Now, head over to Google Plus and create a new Circle. You’re going to add one person to this Circle. This person is your special Evernote Email Address.
Now, when you want to take a post to Evernote, just send it to this circle and you’ve got it. I haven’t been able to send it to a specific folder in the account so that remains something that I do manually after the fact. It’s such a simple process.
So, on a roll, why can’t I do the same thing to send a message from Google Plus to Twitter. In the back of my mind, I seem to remember a setting in my Twitter account where I could post by email. But, alas, either it was there at one time and gone now or I was dreaming. But, there is another way.
Twittermail is a service that lets you send it an email message and it posts to your Twitter account. So, the route would go from Google Plus to a Circle to Twittermail to Twitter. It would work although it introduces another service into the middle of things. While it would work, it’s convoluted even for me. I think I’ll pass and wait for something a little simplere.
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OTR Links for 08/06/2011
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QR Codes in Everyday Life « Thumann Resources
QR Codes in Everyday Life
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You’ve got to smile when you read these and just be happy that it’s not you.
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Microsoft kicks off $250,000 security contest – Computerworld
Microsoft today launched a $250,000 contest for researchers who develop defensive security technologies that deal with entire classes of exploits.
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Home – Stay Cool Windsor-Essex
The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit (WECHU) is monitoring the Humidex forecast for extreme heat events. The Humidex is a combination of temperature (°C) and humidity (%) to reflect perceived temperature.
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Integrating Technology Into the Language Arts Classroom
Integrating Technology Into the Language Arts Classroom
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360 Panorama – Realtime panorama creation from Occipital
Realtime Panorama Creation
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tobyprice’s Public Shelf
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The TSA Blog: TSA To Pilot Using QR Codes® on Checkpoint Signage
TSA understands the usefulness and the power of QR codes® and we’re about to start using them in a few airports to see how well the codes work with our checkpoint signage.
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Education Week’s Digital Directions: Social Networking Goes to School
At New Milford High School in New Jersey, the school’s official Facebook page keeps its 1,100 fans updated on sports events and academic achievements. Students who traveled to Europe this spring for a tour of Holocaust sites blogged daily about their experiences, and received comments from all over the world. Other students have used the video voice service Skype to talk to their peers in states like Iowa for school projects.
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21 Days to a More Engaging Facebook Series. — Tommy Is My Name
Here you’ll find all of the content in the 21 Days to a More Engaging Facebook Presence Series.The purpose of this series is to help you develop messaging customers love interacting with, and products they can not live with out.
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Take a Chomp out of Your Learning Goals « techchef4u
Challenged and inspired with the task of designating my own professional learning goals, I retreated to my iPad kitchen to reflect upon which appy ingredients I had in my pantry. What would be the best app to share these goals? After running into ScreenChomp in TCEA’s Twitter feed last night, I was eager as ever to take a bite out of the new app. Indeed, it did not disappoint my appalicious taste buds.
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Google Docs Tests New Interface
Google Docs has a new interface inspired by Google+ and you can try it here. The interface is cleaner and there’s a lot of white space. You’ll also find the familiar red buttons, the gray buttons, the new scrollbars and the labelless search button.
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How To Protect Yourself From Twitter Spam & Viruses
This would be a welcome feature. I like the concept of checking for virus and phishing accounts. Gmail and others do it – there has been a real rise in phishing attempts lately.
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How To Protect Yourself From Twitter Spam & Viruses | Social Media Marketing Blog
Twitter announced this week that a “parental controls”-type feature is in development. In your feed, you will soon notice an additional flag on Tweets that contain links that may contain content not suitable for the younger Twitter users.
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Researchers Discover How to Steal Credit Card Data Using Square
Researchers attending the Black Hat security conference on Thursday demonstrated two ways in which Square — a mobile gadget that enables Android, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users to accept credit card payments — can be hacked to steal credit card data, with very little technical hardware required and “no technical skills at all.”
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Apple could merge iOS and OSX next year, says analyst
It’s starting to feel that way. Navigation has harmonized over the years with Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Would this be a divergence? At least now, I can edit the way that scrolling works.
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Apple could merge iOS and OSX next year, says analyst | ZDNet
If you have spent any time at all with Lion, the latest upgrade to OSX, you may have noticed how much like iOS the whole deal feel as times. It’s not bad, exactly – just strange. It’s also evidence that Apple could one day merge to two platforms.
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The beautiful Montbretia flower photo shown here is our 6 billionth photo! It was uploaded Monday by eon60.
Over the last 5 years uploads have been increasing 20% year-over-year and we love hitting a milestone like this. It’s the ability to wander through the titles, tags, geotags, camera info, groups, comments, favs, and everything else associated with the photos that make the huge collection of photos on Flickr so unique. The more photos you upload, the more we all can explore!
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25 Interesting Ways* to (possibly) use Google+ … – “Google Docs”
25 Interesting Ways* to (possibly) use Google+ to Support Learning
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New 802.22 Wi-Fi standard has a range of 62 miles | DVICE
Tired of your Wi-Fi cutting out every time you take your laptop into the bathroom with you? IEEE (also known as the Institute of electronics geeks) has just released a new, official standard for 802.22 Wi-Fi, and this bad boy can cover 12,000 square miles with just one single base station.
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