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Agreed, I have it on my phone, but I never really started using it in other areas. Currently I could really use a program like this to organize my notes (rather than emailing them back and forth and having no availablility on Iphone). All this huge praise for Evernote (although apparently only in Tokyo and Silicon Valley) makes it seem like a good solution, but outside of this Company of the year business, I haven't heard much since I got the app ~6 months ago.

(This is more in response to Sunbeam)

I did actually find this quite helpful, as a Canadian I usually gloss over the km/mile conversion with a nice 1 km ~= 1 mile, as with most things you talk about (speed < 60, distances less than 100) the difference is fairly miniscule (and handwavey!). I didn't realize 1million miles is only 621,000 km! Thanks from an ignorant Canadian :)

While maybe unsolicited advertising is annoying, good luck with your mental notes though. I assume you are writing your posts on a computer? Sure hope Intel or AMD never ran a commercial...

PDFs also aren't working for me. Does anyone know if there is a higher-res picture of the rendering posted? I would love a version as close to 1920x1080 as possible! (http://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Scre...)

It does make you a product. Google can take the millions of you searching for that term and say "hey you people related to that term", and sell them based on the fact that you searched for it an a small percentage of you will click that advertisments. I almost feel that we are lucky that advertisements are more profitable when they are more useful to us, god forbid if A/B testing showed that FULL PAGE FLASHING BANNERS somehow brought in more revenue.

No one is ignoring advertising revenue, harvesting millions of users in order to bring in said advertising revenue is the problem.

I was also unnerved by the fast cycling, and looking for something just like this. Inexplicably unadvertised indeed, thanks!

"Every time a vulnerable LaserJet printer accepts a print job, it scans that job to see if it includes a firmware update."

"but what if an employee at a company is spear-phished with a hacked-firmware-laden PDF or DOC?"

I guess the OP thinks it is possible? I wouldn't know.

If the human body isn't built for sitting 8 hours a day, I'm damn sure its not made for standing 8 hours a day (not mine at least!)

Have you used Goodreads? When you first sign up they ask you to rate books, and each time based on a book you read it shows 4 more that are related, I was VERY surprised how accurate it was for some chains of books, especially when compared with Amazon.

Having said that, this sounds like an awesome idea, waiting for an invite now!