Evernote keeps bringing the big updates, this time for Mac users

The folks at Evernote have been rolling out updates at a breakneck pace lately, with recent updates to both its Windows and Android platforms over the last three weeks. Today, Evernote for Mac receives an update, which includes new features such as social sharing, audio recording and search speed improvements.

Sharing notebooks was added in Evernote?s last update for the Mac platform, and today it goes a step further by adding individual note-sharing capabilities over Facebook, Twitter, email and more. Clicking on the ?Share? button opens up the opportunity for users to share their notes with others, whether it be a grocery list among roommates or meeting minutes for an organizational team. The increasing desire for users to share their stuff with others, adding this functionality allows sharing to be done quickly and easily.

Evernote for Mac?s new Audio Note option allows users to record audio as they add text, attach a file or simply sit back and let the microphone do its work. Audio notes can also be started within existing notes and recordings will continue in the background, which is great for those who want to work in other applications and keep track of what they?re doing with audio all the while. Free users of Evernote for Mac will have about 2 hours of total recording time, while Premium subscribers will have about 4 hours, provided that?s all there is in the note.

As Evernote has grown in popularity among users (myself included), so have the amount of notes users are putting into the application. Searching through the notes had, as a result, become slower as more and more notes were added, but today?s update for the Mac platform increases the speed of overall Evernote search functionality. This is a wise move on Evernote?s part (and perhaps the most important feature addition), because users need to be able to access thier data effectively and efficiently. Evernote now has both of those covered for the Mac, even for users who have thousands of notes in the application.

Evernote for Mac can be downloaded directly from Evernote now, or current users can simply check for updates. For anyone who downloaded Evernote from the Mac App Store, the Evernote team says that this latest update will be available very soon.

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The Caucus: Why Republicans Are Skipping a 2012 Presidential Run

Haley Barbour?s decision to forgo a run for the presidency in 2012 puts him in the company of a half-dozen top Republicans who have considered ? and rejected ? a challenge to President Obama next year.

The question is: why?

In a statement that surprised much of official Washington, Mr. Barbour indicated that he does not have ?absolute fire in the belly? to mount a campaign that, if he wins, could consume the next 10 years of his life.

?I cannot offer that with certainty, and total certainty is required,? he said.

Others have offered different reasons. Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, said he considered himself ?best positioned to fight for America?s future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.? Representative Mike Pence of Indiana hinted that he might run for governor instead, saying that he and his family ?choose Indiana.?

Among those who have turned down the chance to run in 2012: Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey; Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida; and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee. Mr. Christie said that he could win but that ?I?ve got to believe I?m ready to be president, and I don?t.?

An additional half-dozen potential 2012 hopefuls remain on the fence about whether to run, leaving just a handful of major candidates who appear certain to take the plunge.

But the publicly stated reasons often mask other considerations as politicians consider whether to run for president. Here are five reasons why some of the Republican Party?s brightest stars might be opting for the sidelines this year.

1. Biden. If Mr. Obama wins re-election, there is almost zero chance that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. would run for the presidency in 2016, when he would turn 74 years old. That puts him in the same place where Vice President Dick Cheney was in 2008. That means that Republicans who can afford to wait until 2016 can assure themselves not only that they will not face an incumbent Democratic president, but also that they won?t face a sitting vice president.

2. The economy. Mr. Obama?s approval ratings have dipped below 50 percent, but he remains personally popular and by many calculations the economy appears to be improving ? if slowly. Even Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and one of the handful of very likely candidates, said last September that Mr. Obama would be ?difficult to beat? if the economy continued improving, which he predicted it would. (He later changed his tune and said Republicans should focus on the economy if they wanted to win.)

3. Money. Mr. Obama is expected in some quarters to raise $1 billion for his re-election campaign, and he has no serious primary opposition, which means he will be free to aim that firepower at his Republican adversaries. For a potential challenger, that raises the stakes for fund-raising at a time when more outside groups are competing for the same dollars, many of which, even on the Republican side, would go to congressional races.

4. The Tea Party. The emergence of the Tea Party movement as a force inside the Republican Party requires potential presidential candidates to pick sides in an intraparty philosophical struggle. The risks are clear for some Republicans who may have to alter or modify earlier positions to get through a contentious primary. Less clear are the benefits of having that support during a general election, especially if it means alienating independents in the process. Some of the most high-profile Tea Party candidates in 2010 did not fare so well in the general election.

5. The media glare. Candidates for president have always had to contend with scrutiny from the press. But the intense, Internet-driven political environment in 2011, when everyone has a camera phone and every offhand comment can be recorded, is enough to scare away even the most hearty of politicians. Mr. Barbour?s family apparently hated the idea of his running for president (though reports suggest that they had made peace with the idea, were he to have run). Candidates who have been on the fence about making a run often consider the consequences to their privacy if they do.

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Governor of Mississippi Won?t Run for President

In a telephone call to supporters, followed by a brief statement, Mr. Barbour said he lacked the ?absolute fire in the belly,? that a candidacy would require. He apologized for flirting with a presidential bid over the last six months and then backing away, but said he had concluded that he was not ready to dedicate himself to the ?all-consuming effort? a campaign would require.

?I cannot offer that with certainty,? he said, ?and total certainty is required.?

The decision by Mr. Barbour, 63, provided the biggest shake-up yet of the 2012 presidential race. His departure adds another layer of uncertainty to the wide-open fight for the party?s nomination and set off a scramble among other candidates seeking to sign up his donors and supporters.

Throughout the spring, Mr. Barbour has been traveling to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, testing his support among Republicans who cast the first votes. He recruited a team of operatives in those states, along with national campaign strategists, and rivals expected him to join the first Republican debate next week in South Carolina.

But his candidacy faced many challenges. As a lobbyist, for example, he represented tobacco companies, the pharmaceutical industry and several foreign governments. He sought to sell the experience as an advantage, telling audiences, ?I saw the sausage factory up close,? but his aides braced for intense scrutiny.

Mr. Barbour founded the Washington lobbying firm now known as BGR in 1991 with Ed Rogers, a close friend who had worked with him in the Reagan White House. The next year, Lanny Griffith, who worked in the administration of President George Bush and also hailed from Mississippi, joined them. They formed the foundation of a powerhouse firm with close ties to the Republican establishment.

Mr. Barbour left the firm in 2004 when he became governor of Mississippi, but associates say he is a frequent visitor to the office when he is in Washington. Since his formal departure, reports have shown that he has continued to draw hundreds of thousands of dollars from a blind trust that held stock in the firm?s parent company.

His decision touched off a new round of speculation about Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, a close friend who is also weighing the possibility of entering the Republican race. Mr. Daniels has said he intends to make a decision as early as next month. (Representative Ron Paul of Texas is set to announce on Tuesday that he is opening a presidential exploratory committee.)

It remained an open question where Mr. Barbour?s supporters would go ? or if he would try to direct them to one candidate ? but his decision could help other contenders, including those trying to emerge as the leading alternative to Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts. Tim Pawlenty, a former Minnesota governor, probably faces an easier time winning establishment support with Mr. Barbour out of the picture.

Newt Gingrich, a former speaker of the House from Georgia, is now expected to be the only Southerner in the race. That could help him in the South Carolina primary, which follows the opening contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Katon Dawson, a former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, said in an interview that he believed Mr. Gingrich would stand to gain the most from Mr. Barbour?s decision. But Mr. Dawson said that the contest remained remarkably unpredictable and that other potential candidates, like former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, needed to make their decisions soon.

There had been questions about Mr. Barbour?s health. He had back surgery last week, hoping to correct a condition that caused him noticeable pain. Last month, he said he had lost 20 pounds and intended to lose 20 more by the end of April.

But nine days ago, after speaking at a Republican county convention in South Carolina, Mr. Barbour grabbed a doughnut before heading for the door. He had not been seen doing that ? in public, at least ? in months.

Eric Lichtblau contributed reporting.

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Really Remote Data

Researchers at Cambridge University want to put data centers in places so remote they aren't on any power grid. Their models indicate that moving data-hungry computation to places such as scorching deserts, windswept peaks, and the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?all rich in sunlight and wind energy?could allow this otherwise unharvestable energy to do useful work.

In a paper to be delivered at the 13th annual HotOS conference in May, the authors offer an extreme model of how cloud services could incorporate remote data centers powered only by renewable energy. Their scenario sites one solar- and wind-powered data center in the desert of southwest Australia and a second one in Egypt, on other side of the planet. This placement is no accident: putting them in different hemispheres, on opposite sides of the earth, maximizes the solar and wind energy they can harvest.

One catalyst for such a radical rethinking of how data centers can be sited and powered is the increasing availability of advanced fiber-optic networks.  Connecting a remote renewable-energy plant to a power grid remains prohibitively expensive, reasoned the researchers working on this project?Sherif Akoush, Ripduman Sohan, Andrew Rice, Andrew W. Moore, and Andy Hopper?but running fiber-optic cable to such a plant would be relatively easy and cheap.

"We envisage data centers being put in places where renewable energy is being produced and you could never economically bring it back to heat a house," says Andy Hopper, senior author on the paper and head of Cambridge University's computer science department. "But you could lay a fiber and use energy that is otherwise lost, in that it's not economically transportable." One way to think of the underlying principle, he notes, is that it's easier to move bits (made up of photons) than electrons.

Jonathan Koomey, a researcher and consulting professor at Stanford, cautions that a number of real-world factors could render the Cambridge team's hypotheticals invalid. While data centers are costly, Koomey explains, the value they create is so far in excess of those costs that anything that reduces their effectiveness would reduce their net benefit to society.

"If the actions you take to save costs would also cut into the number of computations that you can then deliver, you'll reduce economic benefits from data centers, and that's presumably not what the authors had in mind," says Koomey.

Hopper, however, points out that the larger effort of which this paper is a part?the Computing for the Future of the Planet project?takes it as a given that more computing is always good, because the virtualization of goods and services displaces more energy-intensive activities in the physical world. He says that a system like the one he proposes would be implemented only at either "no cost to overall performance [of a cloud computing system] or at an attractive cost to performance."

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Law Firm Won?t Defend Marriage Act

Gay rights groups had fiercely criticized the law firm, the 126-year-old King & Spalding of Atlanta, saying that its agreement to defend the law, which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriages, would hurt its ability to recruit and retain lawyers. The firm?s chairman, Robert D. Hays Jr., said in a statement Monday morning that the firm would no longer defend the law.

?In reviewing this assignment further, I determined that the process used for vetting this engagement was inadequate,? he said. ?Ultimately I am responsible for any mistakes that occurred and apologize for the challenges this may have created.?

The firm?s abrupt reversal highlights the continuing potency of same-sex marriage as a complicated issue that has scrambled traditional political calculations in Washington. President Obama has often called the marriage act ?abhorrent,? but his Justice Department defended it for more than a year before declaring it unconstitutional. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced in February that the administration would no longer defend the act in court.

Theodore B. Olson, a solicitor general under President George W. Bush, has joined gay rights groups and Democrats as a leading advocate for same-sex marriage. And several high-profile Republicans, including Mr. Bush?s wife and his daughter Barbara, have said publicly that they support gay people?s right to marry. But House Republicans, led by Speaker John A. Boehner, have vowed to defend the law in court.

Paul D. Clement, another solicitor general under Mr. Bush and the King & Spalding lawyer hired to lead the Republican case, resigned after his firm?s decision to withdraw. In a letter, Mr. Clement said the firm had a duty to resist pressure and complete the job for which it was hired.

?I resign out of the firmly held belief that a representation should not be abandoned because the client?s legal position is extremely unpopular in certain quarters,? he wrote. ?Defending unpopular clients is what lawyers do. I recognized from the outset that this statute implicates very sensitive issues that prompt strong views on both sides. But having undertaken the representation, I believe there is no honorable course for me but to complete it.?

Mr. Clement wrote that his personal opinions about the marriage act were irrelevant ? and he did not indicate what they were. But he said he intended to represent the House in its defense of the law as a partner at Bancroft P.L.L.C., his new employer.

King & Spalding, founded in 1885, is one of the nation?s largest and most successful law firms, with offices around the world. American Lawyer magazine ranks it as the nation?s 34th-largest, measured by gross revenue.

Griffin B. Bell, who was attorney general in the Carter administration, was managing partner at the firm. Its partners have included Senator Dan Coats, Republican of Indiana, and two former senators,  Sam Nunn,  a Georgia Democrat, and Connie Mack, a Florida Republican. The firm  represents the top ranks of corporate America, including General Motors, Google and  Wal-Mart, and it has had a long relationship with the Coca-Cola Company.

The firm has been the subject of criticism before. A sex discrimination case against it in the 1980s went to the Supreme Court before eventually being settled.  

It remains unclear why the leadership of King & Spalding chose to withdraw from the contract to defend the constitutionality of the marriage act, which would have paid the firm up to $500,000 for its services, at a rate of $520 per hour.

The statement from Mr. Hays did not cite pressure from gay advocacy groups as a reason for the change. His stated reason ? that the approval process for taking on the assignment was inadequate ? could refer to a clause in the contract with House Republicans that prohibited the firm?s lawyers from any advocacy for or against bills that would change or repeal the marriage act.

Legal experts said that clause is broader than most restrictions in contracts and could have severely limited the activities of the firm?s partners and employees.

?It would be one thing for the lawyers to agree not to pursue litigation on the other side of the matter,? said Andrew M. Perlman, a law professor at Suffolk University in Boston and an expert on legal ethics. ?But this would have prohibited any lawyer in the firm from even writing a letter criticizing the Defense of Marriage Act.?

Gay rights groups claimed victory, saying their criticism of the firm had its intended effect.

Richard Socarides, the president of Equality Matters, an advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, said Monday: ?Mr. Clement?s statement misses the point entirely. While it is sometimes appropriate for lawyers to represent unpopular clients when a important principle is at issue, here the only principle he wishes to defend is discrimination and second-class citizenship for gay Americans.?

But Stephen Gillers, an expert in legal ethics at the New York University law school, said the firm caved in, adding that the ?firm?s timidity here will hurt weak clients, poor clients and despised clients.?

In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Boehner, Brendan Buck, said: ?The speaker is disappointed in the firm?s decision and its careless disregard for its responsibilities to the House in this constitutional matter. At the same time, Mr. Clement has demonstrated legal integrity, and we are grateful for his decision to continue representing the House.?

Democrats, including Representative Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader, have criticized Mr. Boehner for seeking public funds to defend the law. A spokesman for Ms. Pelosi said in a statement that she ?vigorously opposes? using ?any taxpayer resources to defend discrimination, at a time when Republicans in Congress are cutting critical initiatives like education and infrastructure.?

Michael D. Shear reported from Washington, and John Schwartz from New York.

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Law Firm Won?t Defend Marriage Act

Gay rights groups had fiercely criticized the law firm, the 126-year-old King & Spalding of Atlanta, saying that its agreement to defend the law, which prohibits federal recognition of same-sex marriages, would hurt its ability to recruit and retain lawyers. The firm?s chairman, Robert D. Hays Jr., said in a statement Monday morning that the firm would no longer defend the law.

?In reviewing this assignment further, I determined that the process used for vetting this engagement was inadequate,? he said. ?Ultimately I am responsible for any mistakes that occurred and apologize for the challenges this may have created.?

The firm?s abrupt reversal highlights the continuing potency of same-sex marriage as a complicated issue that has scrambled traditional political calculations in Washington. President Obama has often called the marriage act ?abhorrent,? but his Justice Department defended it for more than a year before declaring it unconstitutional. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced in February that the administration would no longer defend the act in court.

Theodore B. Olson, a solicitor general under President George W. Bush, has joined gay rights groups and Democrats as a leading advocate for same-sex marriage. And several high-profile Republicans, including Mr. Bush?s wife and his daughter Barbara, have said publicly that they support gay people?s right to marry. But House Republicans, led by Speaker John A. Boehner, have vowed to defend the law in court.

Paul D. Clement, another solicitor general under Mr. Bush and the King & Spalding lawyer hired to lead the Republican case, resigned after his firm?s decision to withdraw. In a letter, Mr. Clement said the firm had a duty to resist pressure and complete the job for which it was hired.

?I resign out of the firmly held belief that a representation should not be abandoned because the client?s legal position is extremely unpopular in certain quarters,? he wrote. ?Defending unpopular clients is what lawyers do. I recognized from the outset that this statute implicates very sensitive issues that prompt strong views on both sides. But having undertaken the representation, I believe there is no honorable course for me but to complete it.?

Mr. Clement wrote that his personal opinions about the marriage act were irrelevant ? and he did not indicate what they were. But he said he intended to represent the House in its defense of the law as a partner at Bancroft P.L.L.C., his new employer.

King & Spalding, founded in 1885, is one of the nation?s largest and most successful law firms, with offices around the world. American Lawyer magazine ranks it as the nation?s 34th-largest, measured by gross revenue.

Griffin B. Bell, who was attorney general in the Carter administration, was managing partner at the firm. Its partners have included Senator Dan Coats, Republican of Indiana, and two former senators,  Sam Nunn,  a Georgia Democrat, and Connie Mack, a Florida Republican. The firm  represents the top ranks of corporate America, including General Motors, Google and  Wal-Mart, and it has had a long relationship with the Coca-Cola Company.

The firm has been the subject of criticism before. A sex discrimination case against it in the 1980s went to the Supreme Court before eventually being settled.  

It remains unclear why the leadership of King & Spalding chose to withdraw from the contract to defend the constitutionality of the marriage act, which would have paid the firm up to $500,000 for its services, at a rate of $520 per hour.

The statement from Mr. Hays did not cite pressure from gay advocacy groups as a reason for the change. His stated reason ? that the approval process for taking on the assignment was inadequate ? could refer to a clause in the contract with House Republicans that prohibited the firm?s lawyers from any advocacy for or against bills that would change or repeal the marriage act.

Legal experts said that clause is broader than most restrictions in contracts and could have severely limited the activities of the firm?s partners and employees.

?It would be one thing for the lawyers to agree not to pursue litigation on the other side of the matter,? said Andrew M. Perlman, a law professor at Suffolk University in Boston and an expert on legal ethics. ?But this would have prohibited any lawyer in the firm from even writing a letter criticizing the Defense of Marriage Act.?

Gay rights groups claimed victory, saying their criticism of the firm had its intended effect.

Richard Socarides, the president of Equality Matters, an advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, said Monday: ?Mr. Clement?s statement misses the point entirely. While it is sometimes appropriate for lawyers to represent unpopular clients when a important principle is at issue, here the only principle he wishes to defend is discrimination and second-class citizenship for gay Americans.?

But Stephen Gillers, an expert in legal ethics at the New York University law school, said the firm caved in, adding that the ?firm?s timidity here will hurt weak clients, poor clients and despised clients.?

In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Boehner, Brendan Buck, said: ?The speaker is disappointed in the firm?s decision and its careless disregard for its responsibilities to the House in this constitutional matter. At the same time, Mr. Clement has demonstrated legal integrity, and we are grateful for his decision to continue representing the House.?

Democrats, including Representative Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader, have criticized Mr. Boehner for seeking public funds to defend the law. A spokesman for Ms. Pelosi said in a statement that she ?vigorously opposes? using ?any taxpayer resources to defend discrimination, at a time when Republicans in Congress are cutting critical initiatives like education and infrastructure.?

Michael D. Shear reported from Washington, and John Schwartz from New York.

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TweetDeck releases a brand new iOS app

TweetDeck, the preferred 3rd party social media client that allows you to monitor and manage both your Twitter and Facebook feeds has just polished off a shiny new iOS app.

The new app, released today is a brand new version ?rebuilt from the ground up to be fast, flexible and full-on powerful.? In a blog post from TweetDeck,

?Not only is new iPhone TweetDeck more beautiful, it offers a new flexibility that has never seen before. Making the ?pinch? gesture on a column give you access to options that will allow you to add any combination of your feeds into a column. Twitter timelines, Mentions, DMs Favourites, Lists, Searches, Facebook feeds?.all can be blended together into columns that suit you?

And of course, the new app supports all the basic social media functions like sending updates, retweeting both native and classic style, favoriting posts, mentions, DMs and search on Twitter and status updates, notifications, wall posts, Likes and comments on Facebook.

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TweetDeck releases a brand new iOS app

TweetDeck, the preferred 3rd party social media client that allows you to monitor and manage both your Twitter and Facebook feeds has just polished off a shiny new iOS app.

The new app, released today is a brand new version ?rebuilt from the ground up to be fast, flexible and full-on powerful.? In a blog post from TweetDeck,

?Not only is new iPhone TweetDeck more beautiful, it offers a new flexibility that has never seen before. Making the ?pinch? gesture on a column give you access to options that will allow you to add any combination of your feeds into a column. Twitter timelines, Mentions, DMs Favourites, Lists, Searches, Facebook feeds?.all can be blended together into columns that suit you?

And of course, the new app supports all the basic social media functions like sending updates, retweeting both native and classic style, favoriting posts, mentions, DMs and search on Twitter and status updates, notifications, wall posts, Likes and comments on Facebook.

Check out a video for a full tour of the app below:

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Google reportedly to unveil Video Chat for Android smartphones at Google I/O

Despite providing the platform and the tools to third-party developers, allowing them too roll out their own video calling applications, Google hasn?t ported its video chat service to the Android operating system just yet.

That is all about to change, if a statement made by Twitter user @MAFiA303 are to be believed. The individual, who ?works with Samsung? posted a revealing message to his Twitter account, stating that he had been testing Google?s video chat on a Google Nexus S:

Just had a video call using gmail on Nexus S. Impressive quality @googlenexus Gingerbread 2.3.4 #io2011

If we are to believe the information contained in the message, Google looks to be readying its video chat service to roll out at this year?s Google I/O event, commencing on May 9. The feature could make its debut in a new build of Gingerbread, pushing numerous bugfixes but also what looks to be a couple of new features.

The development isn?t groundbreaking ? it has been available for owners of Honeycomb-powered Android tablets ? but it sees the technology ported to smartphone devices, providing an official alternative to Qik and Skype.

We only have a couple of weeks to find out what Google has planned, something tells us that video chat is just a small feature in a long list of announcements.

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