Transport email from your Inbox to Evernote in a keystoke

Evernote is an online service that promises to allow you to capture information in any environment, on any device, on any platform and make that info searchable at anytime, from anywhere. (The service is currently in invitation-only beta)

One of the ways you can get information to Evernote is to email it. This means you can also use it to process incoming email by selecting messages you want to capture and sending them to Evernote.

It would be nice if there was a simple key command that would use Mail.app's redirect to send emails from your Inbox to Evernote and then delete them from Mail. It would be nice and there is a simple way to do it.

Enter Mail Act-On.

Mail Act-On is a donationware Mail.app add-on that allows you to create rules and have key commands associated with them. It's great for quickly organizing emails into mailboxes and adding email addys to Address Book. Now you can also set up a rule to redirect emails to your secret Evernote email address and then automatically dump the emails in Mail's trash can once the transfer is made.

Here's the rule I created. Setting up this rule in accordance with Mail Act-On's modus operandi (read the documentation that comes with it to learn the proper placement of the rule in your list) will result in the ability to hit Ctrl-E and have the selected email sent away to "Evernoteland" before being dumped in Mail's trash.

Once the message arrives in your Evernote notebook, you can organize it with all the camera phone pictures, screenshots and web bookmarks you have collected.




Turn your Old iPod into a Disaster-Evading Escape Pod

Who do you contact in an emergency? What do you grab if the house is on fire? How to you access your accounts if you've been robbed?

We don't like to think about what might happen in an emergency, but with a little planning and technology you can ensure you have the information you need.

Join me for a Pro Pod Power tip and get the skinny on how to transform your old music-playing friend into a powerful tool we hope you never have to use.


Iconfactory's counting down to the new Indiana Jones movie. Now you can too.

Any geek worth his weathered fedora is eagerly anticipating the release of the new Indiana Jones movie. While arguments abound on the subjects of messing with the sacred original storylines and the use of CGI sets and effects in the upcoming film, fans still can't help but be jazzed about what is to come.

It is with that very brand of geeky joy that the folks at The Iconfactory have re-themed their website header and opened a special Lucasfilm approved Indiana Jones page that promises to offer icons from all four Indy motion pictures.

Currently, the page only has Anthony Piraino's beautiful Raiders of the Lost Ark icons, but elsewhere on the site a special Indiana Jones Desktop can be found; available in 16:9 and 4:3 aspect ratios as well as a special edition for the iPhone.

If Dashboard Widgets are more your thing, you should check out the Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Countdown Widget. It's free and it does what you'd expect... counts down to the release of Indy IV.


Add some flickin' scrolling abilities to your Mac

Do you like the way you can flick through long lists on the iPhone and iPod touch? Do you wish your Mac had the same functionality? Thanks to Marcmoini's Smart Scroll, you can bring the same flickin' scrolling abilities from the iPhone to the desktop.

The USD$19 System add-on runs on Mac OS X 10.3.9 to 10.5.2 (PPC/Intel) and offers "Super Scroll" and something called "Grab Scroll" which allows you to move a window's contents by "throwing" it. Very weird. Very cool.

Smart Scroll got a bug fix update today, so if you are already a Smart Scroll user, be sure to update.

Browser Updates 08

Have you been hearing about browser upgrades, but lost track of what's new?

As the browser wars have gradually rekindled, the candidates have become more interesting.

Join me for a Freeloader Friday quick compare of the newest incarnations of your favorite browsers.


Movies available for purchase from iTunes Store on DVD release date

Apple today announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and catalog titles will be available from 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, Image Entertainment and First Look Studios. Movies purchased from iTunes can be viewed on an iPod with video, iPhone, Mac or PC or on a widescreen TV with Apple TV, with new releases priced at USD$14.99 and most catalog titles at USD$9.99.


Initiate Blambot's FREE font for May 2008...Autodestruct!!

Nate Piekos of Blambot his posted his FREE Font and Pro Font for May 2008. Blambot offers a wealth of awesome well made fonts. It's one of the few places where you download any of the free fonts and not put your machine in jeopardy. And, in fact, you will more likely make your Mac cooler.

This month's free font, Autodestruct, was deisgned to be the perfect dialogue font for comics with speaking computers or androids but it could just as easily and appropriately be used for logos or titles! It comes with regular and bold in a myriad of font formats.


CreatureCutes freeware icons released

Fast Icon has released CreatureCutes, which contains 12 freeware icons of rather odd little creatures.

This icon collection is available for download for Mac OS X, Windows Vista as well as a handy PNG files for Linux, web or blogs.