Lou Page

Taking Notes on the Web with Webnote

Need to gather information online? Then it’s time to stop copying and pasting and to start making your notes online. WebNotes, looks to be a delightfully simple tool to help you gather and and organize your online research and notes.

Update: Today I received my Beta invitation. Seems as though I have 10 invites available to give away. If you are interested, make a comment. Everyone who comments has an equal shot at the invites.

-Lou

What is WebNotes?

Simply stated, WebNotes is an online application that uses tools familiar to all of us… highlighters and sticky notes. WebNotes allows you to virtually highlight text or stick virtual sticky notes to web pages. But, it’s much more than that. After you make your notes, you can organize them in groups and share them with friends through online links and email.

How will WebNotes Help?

I can see a number of uses for those of us who work online. For students and academics who need to conduct research for papers, this seems like the perfect online solution for collecting, organizing, and sharing information.

For the business minded, I think you’ll find WebNotes a useful tool for organizing, tracking, and sharing information related to your client projects.

WebNotes is still in beta, but you can try a fully functional demo of WebNotes. You can also view the demo video of WebNotes here. So head on over and sign up. The sooner you do, the sooner you’ll be able to start using the cool tool!

Do you think a tool like this could be useful? Share your ideas in the comment section below.

Visit the WebNotes home page.

By the way, was first introduce to WebNotes though this video by Chris Pirillo. I think you’ll enjoy it too.

Easy Wi-Fi for AT&T

At last, an easy way for logging into the the free hotspots that AT&T offers to iPhone users. Using a new version of Easy Wi-Fi that appeared in the app store over the holiday weekend makes the process dead simple.

The Original Process

While the free wifi is great, the old process for logging in was painful. You had to:

A Better Way

With this app, the process is much easier: Connect to the Wi-Fi network, launch the app and it will log you in.

This version is trivial to set up too – you just need to enter your 10 digit AT&T iPhone number into the settings page.

This link will take you to the Easy Wi-Fi for AT&T page in iTunes.

Note: You may want to act quickly on this. According to this MacWorld article:

The program, which can also simplify access to a number of free hotspots that require you to click through a page, is free for the next for the next few days, but as of December 5th, it will jump to $2. Devicescape also offers a $2 version of the Easy Wi-Fi program that helps remember usernames and passwords for other Wi-Fi hotspot networks that you might access; owners of that program can use it for logging on to AT&T’s hotspots as well.