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Evernote 5 for Mac is finally here … sort of. At least the beta is here, but that’s totally out now. Of course, you may not wanna jump into the madness of a beta — Evernote’s warning users that they could suffer data corruption, data loss, or other such calamities. Should that be the case, you’ll only have to wait “a bit” for the public release of the final software. Also, if you snagged Evernote via Apple’s App Store, your local notebooks may be endangered by the beta; “if you install the beta, you will lose all of your local notebooks,” Evernote says. Should you be bold enough to participate, instructions are right here.

What does Evernote’s latest release contain, pray tell? Smarter search with TypeAhead, for one, not to mention a more graphics-heavy note interface. The fine folks at Evernote have a full video rundown of new features in Evernote 5, which we’ve dropped below.

Continue reading Evernote 5 for Mac beta is here to keep you on the bleeding edge of hyperorganization (video)

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Evernote 5 for Mac beta is here to keep you on the bleeding edge of hyperorganization (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Wallet hasn’t had much uptake in the real world. When most of its use has revolved around one carrier, few payment points and even fewer phones, most of us have had to sit on the sidelines. If an Android Police source really did come across a leaked future build of Google Wallet as he claims, though, we may know how Google surmounts that problem: going old school with a real-world card. Screenshots in the app supposedly show a mail-in option for plastic that could completely replace credit and debit cards without turning to NFC. Any charges after a typical swipe of the magnetic strip would simply go to whatever payment source is set as Wallet’s default, letting minimalists slim down their actual wallets while sharing in the same discounts as their phone-wielding counterparts. Digital-only purists would still get something out of the deal, as the update could also bring person-to-person money transfers and support for mass transit cards. How soon the as yet unconfirmed app would appear is still a mystery, but it dovetails with Google teasing a Wallet revamp that’s rumored to take mobile use beyond its Android-only roots; we just didn’t anticipate that the company might bypass our phones altogether.

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Google Wallet update purportedly leaks plans for a real-world card, transfers and transit passes originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s no secret that Hurricane Sandy has worked a number on communications infrastructure, but now a time-lapse video created by Renesys gives us a clearer picture of when and where internet outages occurred as the storm made landfall. Green squares on the map above indicate that 99.95 percent of networks in the area are reachable, while red squares denote that more than five percent of networks are down. In Manhattan’s case, Renesys estimates that there was only a ten percent failure, which it considers impressive since power was cut to much of the island. Ten percent may not sound like a huge outage, but the firm points out that population density makes it equivalent to taking a country the size of Austria off the grid. As for the 90 percent of networks in the borough that stayed online, they survived thanks to generator power. If you’d like to witness the playback of outages between October 29th and 30th, head past the jump for the video.

Continue reading Time-lapse map shows internet outages as Hurricane Sandy makes landfall (video)

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Time-lapse map shows internet outages as Hurricane Sandy makes landfall (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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