Evernote.

Naturally, THEIR example is a grocery list, but we all know Simmons will be taking girlie pictures with his.

From the Evernote blog:

First Look: Evernote for Google Glass

I grew up with Star Trek.  THIS made me laugh.

Bing Translator (in cooperation with Paramount Pictures’ “Star Trek:Into Darkness” of course) will now translate to and from Klingon. And they even had Marc Okrand’s assistance.

qapla’!

It’s Atari Breakout’s 37th anniversary. And what does Google do to commemorate it?

Make an HTML5 game, of course. Google search on “atari breakout” or just go here. And kiss the next 2 hours goodbye.

If “Lefty’s Bar” makes you think of a virginal middle-aged man in a leisure suit (and if you’re old enough to know what a leisure suit is…), then I have a good chuckle for you: Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded is almost here!

Replay Games of Austin, Texas, successfully funded a Kickstarter program to re-do the original, LSL in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, from scratch. They had a goal of $500,000. They’ve made over $650,000! And now they’re aiming for $750,000 to add more content. They’ve even gotten some of the original game creators on board. Oh, and they’re going to make all 7 original Sierra games. I may be female, but I am SO THERE! Those games were funny as all out!

LSL:Reloaded will be available on May 31, 2013 on the following platforms: PC, OS X, iPhone, iTouch, iPad, Android phones, and Android tablets (please, oh PLEASE let this run on my Fire…).

Yeah, baby!! Now, someone bring back the old Infocom games!

If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’re probably ticking off the days till Star Trek: Into Darkness. I mean, Benedict Cumberbatch!

Well, if you haven’t gone and gotten the Official App in the Windows Phone store, the Windows 8 store, Google Play, Amazon’s store, or iTunes (but I can’t get there without logging in, so that one you’ll have to hunt for yourself), what are you waiting for? It’s pretty good (although I confess to only having looked at the WP8 one so far) – pretty good trivia questions, posters, and other tidbits. It’s free, so if you’re a Trek fan it’s worth a little of your time

Once you’ve done that, if you’re not satisfied, and don’t mind opening your wallet a teensy bit, how about a custom email?  That’s right, you can get a @toboldlygo.com, starfleet.com (although why the fan organization of the same name didn’t jump on that is beyond me), or a ussenterprise1701.com vanity email for $15/year. Yeah, not free. You can’t have everything.

Well, I finally did it: I went and created an outlook.com email for Son’s online stuff.

What brought this on? Minecraft. I’ve got Pocket Minecraft on my Kindle for him to mess with, but he wants the full version on his PC. He’s positively OBSESSED with Minecraft.

So I finally went looking. I went ahead and signed up for a Mojang account, and I figured it was as good a time as any to use a separate email account for him, that I control. He won’t know about it until I think he’s good and ready to use it, but we can use it for games and stuff.

As I filled out the outlook.com new account stuff, I was a little surprised once I put his date of birth in that it didn’t fuss at me. Okay. But once I’d entered everything correctly and entered the captcha, hey presto! I got a totally different-looking webpage saying, “Oh look! A minor. You need to get a parent now…”

Okay, so I had to log into my outlook.com account and verify that I’m an adult – with a credit card, of course. Here came this next interesting bit: Microsoft charged me $0.50, which will not get pushed back; instead, “a portion” of it will be donated to “charity.” (Yeah, I’d still like to know how much, and to what, or at least a list of charities it could go to.)

So it was an interesting experience, and I think that Microsoft took a good approach to it.

I’ll admit up front: I’ve been using SkyWallet on my Windows Phone almost since I got my Surround with Windows Phone 7. You have a master password that has to be entered before you can get into the data. Why? Because it’s true: we have SO MUCH digital information we need to remember – user names, passwords, websites, subscription IDs, etc, etc, etc. I used to use the same small set over and over, and we all know that’s not the best idea. In the last year, I’ve been changing that to more site-individualized pass phrases. And as XTC sings, “And I’m getting older, too.”

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Today is World Book Day. No, I can’t say I’ve heard of it, either, and I’m a bookworm.

But in any event, in case you’re in iPhone or iPad user, and you have kids, today ONLY you can get StoryToys’ apps FREE.

So GO! Share the love of books with your wee geeks.

(Note, since I don’t have iTunes on my laptop, and refuse to install that piece of junk, I copied the link above from totallytarget.com. You can find the original article here, and if my copy of their link doesn’t work, try it directly from their site.)

If you have a new BB Z10, and enjoy watching … adult content on the go, you might not want to turn on the “Show What I’m Listening To” feature. Evidently it shares not just the music you’re listening to, but ANYTHING you consume in the media player. You could just let your boss know you’re listening to pornhub.com.

No, we’re not talkin’ about some Jamaican beer, mon.

The Windows Phone blog just blogged about the Windows Phone Store team’s decision about making a Thursday sale tradition: The Red Stripe Collection.

Every Thursday, a new set of 3 apps and games (‘typically one Xbox game, one indie game, and one top-rated app’) will go on sale for at least 50% off. You’ll recognize that week’s Collection items by a red strip around the app’s icon in the Store.

This week marks the first Collection: Runtastic PRO, Assassin’s Creed:Altairs Chronicles HD, and King Oddball. Each one is on sale for $0.99USD. The Collection sale runs Thursday to Thursday.

I like this idea.

(Note: The blog post says “Stripe” 3 times, and “Strip” once. So I’m going with “Stripe.”)