The Cloud. Personally I hate the word, yet I'm using it every hour of the day (when I'm not asleep). Especially my Android device helps me appreciating cloud services, to have all my emails, calendars, tasks and notes available within a few seconds. These cloud services often provide decent search capabilities and I assume they take care of making backups at a regular basis. Previously, a hardware failure could end up being disastrous without a decent backup policy, nowadays it has become merely an inconvenience. The degree of inconvenience depends on the cost of a hardware replacement.
Evernote is an online service which stores notes for you. There are various ways to create and sync your notes across machines: there's a web-interface, a reasonable Windows client and an Android client. Quite convenient to quickly jot down something.
There's also a Chrome extension providing Evernote functionality from the browser. This makes it possible to 'clip' pages (store their full content or just a URL). Since a little while the extension also provides Simultaneous Search: when you enter a search query in Google it will also show your notes containing your keyword:
Sinds een maand of twee gebruik ik Google Agenda (Google Calendar), en was sindsdien op zoek naar een goede manier om mijn online agenda te synchroniseren met m'n mobiele telefoon. Dit is een betrekkelijk eenvoudig toestel, een Sony Ericsson C902. Een normale telefoon met Java en een ingebouwde agenda, niets bijzonders. Ik heb verschillende oplossingen geprobeerd, maar het was lastig om iets fatsoenlijks te vinden.
Since two months I'm using Google Calendar, and I've been looking around for a nice way to synchronize my online calendar with my mobile phone. This is a fairly simple device, a Sony Ericsson C902. It's just a Java enabled phone with a simple built-in calendar tool, nothing special. I have tried different solutions, but it was a bit tough to get it right.
These were the solutions I have tried, the last one is the most satisfactory solution which I'm using at this moment.
