Welcome to ATLChris!

Posted at May 23rd, 2008 by Chris Lentz / Comments

Hey everyone, welcome to ATLChris.com! This is my new personal blog. I will be posting about technology, the internet, and some personal stuff. I am proud to announce that we are being hosted at Media Temple which is one of the best host out there. Media Temple host is know as a reliable host who has provided hosting services to some of major companies. With Media Temple, I will never have to worry about my site going down during high traffic times!

I am also going to be using a new web statistics program, called mint. This web application was created by Shaun Inman. You can learn more about it at http://www.haveamint.com. It provided more then enough information to help me understand what my readers are interested in.

ATLChris.com is also using a new state of the art discussion system called Disqus. This new commenting/discussion web app. I am hoping this will help to develop more of a community feel to my site. I want my readers to voice their oppinion about my articles. You all are as much a part of this site as I am!

If you have any questions or comments please post them! I really want my readers to get involved with this blog.

Evernote, How Did I Ever Live Without It?

Posted at May 8th, 2008 by Chris Lentz / Comments

I first heard about this program on the TWiT Podcast. It sounded pretty interesting so I decided to check it out. It is currently in private beta mode; this means you have to get invited to use it. After my invite came I installed the Windows XP version of the program which also installed a Firefox button.

This program allows you to make notes in many different ways and share it across platform and hardware. You can make a note in a Windows Vista machine and view that same note on your iPhone with one click of the synchronize button. It works with Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X, Windows Mobile, iPhone (currently a web application, but soon to be an on phone application), and Blackberry OS (coming soon.)

I use this program daily, anytime I see a interesting article I would like to remember, or need to finish reading later, I don’t bother adding it to my, already bloated, favorites in Firefox. I just clip it into Evernote and save it. Then when I get home it is on my desktop, and if I am on a public computer I can also get to it through Evernote.com.