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In response I received a nice email from the Founder, explaining their long-term strategy, which included some of my Cloud dreams.  But somehow I could not get used to the scrolling tape UI, and soon after abandoned Evernote.

A few years later the iPhone and our new level of mobility gave a tremendous boost to Evernote’s popularity.  It’s not longer just a scrawny notetaker, in fact it is no longer just a notetaker – the company likes to refer to their products as one’s digital brain, and it’s not far from the truth. Watch this funny video:

You can literally throw anything at Evernote: text, Word doc and spreadsheet, PDF, images, video, handwriting and voice.  Chances are if you’re sitting at a computer, you’re just managing your files, but Evernote really shines when you’re out in the real world, with your mobile phone: use text input, record a conversation or voice memos directly, take a picture – whatever the input, Evernote handles it, with added smartness.  It will analyze your images and convert any recognizable text, thus making them searchable – a great way to “memorize” places, street signs, product labels…etc. Needless to say it runs OCR on your PDFs, too ( I might add it’s recognition is better than the OCR that came with my HP scanner.)

Best of all, it is platform-agnostic.  You can be on a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7 and a number of other platforms,  Evernote has a client for your device, and seamlessly synchronizes your data between them – or just use the native Web UI.  As always, there is a little trade-off: the myriad native apps are all at different stages of development and there are feature and UI inconsistencies when you use several of these devices.

Finally, it has an ecosystem of value-added product / service proveders, the Evernote Trunk .

I admit I’ve become their slave (again) – I find myself manage bigger and bigger chunks of my digital life in Evernote.  When I started using it again, I thought I would just be using it for notes.  Then I realized I can manage my PDFs a lot better ( I have a lot of PDFs, in an effort to get rid of paper, I scan anything and throw away the originals) and from there the next logical step was to recognize I can organize all my docs easily.  Smartly utilizing all organizational tools – several notebooks, stacks of notebooks, tagging, combining several original docs and images into one note…etc creates a document management system far superior to the ancient Windows folder / file system (how dumb is it for Windows to still not support tagging?

The best freeware virtual PDF printer: a comparison ...

PDF Virtual printers are a convenient way to create PDF files. These programs can save any kind of printable document as a PDF; all you need to do is to select ‘print’ from your favorite program, then select the virtual PDF printer and get a PDF file.

There are many excellent free virtual printers. We have tested 15 of these and selected 10 of them to evaluate and compare. These (in alphabetic order) are: Bullzip PDF Printer, Doro PDF Writer, PDF Printer (PdfSvg), PDF reDirect, PDF24 Creator, PDFCreator, Perfect PDF 7 Master, Primo PDF, Print2PDF Free and qvPDF.

The virtual printers that we tried but decided to exclude from the comparison were Bolt PDF Printer, CutePDF Writer, ImagePrinter, pdf995 and PDFlite, mainly because they were inferior by functionality, configurability, ease of use or contained ads.

[ Note : this post was written by Freewaregenius contributor Priit L.]

Licencing and technical details

At last here is the information about licencing and some technical details like 64-bit Windows support and GhostScript requirements.  (Note: GhostScript (GS) is a common development tool that is used as a part of PDF conversion process, some virtual PDF printers contain this software or need it to be downloaded and installed separately.

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