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• Use @ for notebooks: Use an @ symbol followed by the name of your destination notebook
• Use # for tags: Use a # symbol followed by the tag or tags you wish to assign. You can have multiple tags just make sure each one starts with an #

For example, Subject: Trip to Florida @travel #expense report

Would create a note titled Trip to Florida in my travel notebook, tagged with expense report.

I'm a huge fan of Evernote and rely on it everyday on a variety of devices and computers. I also frequently email to Evernote (it's great from the Blackberry). I've often wanted to tag notes as I email them, but that wasn't possible...until now.

In addition to tagging, I can even specify the destination notebook! It uses the familiar #hash and @ conventions as Twitter, so it's really easy to remember.

General Motors Co. has freed up cash to fund a major update of its full-size pickups, a bet that consumers and businesses will resume buying trucks after a long lull in sales.

Chairman and Chief Executive Edward E. Whitacre Jr. has agreed to fund the move, said GM product chief Tom Stephens. The remodeling could cost the company close to $1 billion, a person familiar with the matter said.

GM, which had relied on full-size pickups such as the Chevrolet Silverado for a major portion of its U.S. revenue and operating profit, had put off redesigning the trucks as its finances collapsed and it underwent a government-backed bankruptcy reorganization last year.

Haven't we already been here? If I remember correctly, it didn't work too well.

I guess our (US Taxpayer) 60% stake in the company really doesn't get our hands dirty with GM's operation.

(Although I admit I have a truck and don't plan on giving it up anytime soon.)

A version of this article appeared in print on December 6, 2009, on page MM18 of the New York edition.

Whoa. It's December 3, but the NYTimes shows us the future 3 days from now.

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Print Friendly is one of my favorite websites and Bookmarklets. It takes any web page and creates a print friendly version (catchy name, eh?)

The best part, though, is it will then create a PDF of that page for you to download. I use it all the time when I'm at a PC that doesn't have a PDF converter installed or even if I'm on my Mac and I want to print a page without its own "print friendly" (e.g., WSJ.com, NYTime, The Register) version.

Starbucks is re-launching its Starbucks Rewards program that's linked to registered Starbucks Cards. The "Green" level has the same perks as the current Starbucks Rewards program.

You earn one star every time you pay with your registered Starbucks card. Five stars will keep you at Green. After 30 stars, you're at the Gold Level and get a free drink after every 15 stars!

If you go to Starbucks every day, that's 1 - 2 free drinks a month. Nice. :)

Back in 2007, Canadian researchers discovered that a common seashore plant, called a sea rocket, can recognize its siblings — plants grown from seeds from the same plant, or mother. They saw that when siblings are grown next to each other in the soil, they "play nice" and don't send out more roots to compete with one another.

But as soon as one of the plants is thrown in with strangers, it begins competing with them by rapidly growing more roots to take up the water and mineral nutrients in the soil.

Mulberry, you hear me over there? It it SO on!

What email provider do you use? The classic Hotmail? Perhaps the rising Gmail? Or maybe you just Yahoo because you find it ironic. Whatever you use, here is a terrifying thought: there is a decided connection between what email provider you use, and what your credit score is.

Don’t believe me? A survey was taken with 20,000 credit scores, and the score and the email providers were linked, and it became clear: the word after the @ in your email address tells more about you, than you thought. Take a look:

I'm amazed BellSouth is so much higher than Comcast and GMail. Could it be people with older, more established credit histories using their personal email address vs. their work one?

Cruft (occasionally kruft) is computing jargon for "code, data, or software of poor quality".^[1] The term may also refer to debris that accumulates on computer equipment. It has been generalized to mean any accumulation of obsolete, redundant, irrelevant, or unnecessary information, especially code.^[2]

I've been deciphering a software install I didn't do and have definitely found lots of cruft. One problem, though, is I'm not always sure what the cruft is (and so I leave it in).