Everybody loves the Internet’s dynamic nature.

It is constantly changing and evolving to meet the needs of its users.

A few of my favorite web applications launched new features this week, or at least they hit my account this week!

Of course, you should check out my posts about the new WordPress version 2.6 - WordPress 2.6 Released a Month Ahead of Schedule and Shareaholic - Shareaholic helps you share your favorite websites, if you haven’t already.

1. The WordPress Themes Repository was relaunched! Yay! I can stop by the site and check out new and updated themes - no more Google searching for themes - find the good ones right on WordPress’ website!
2. Firefox 3.0.1 = Patched Up and Ready for the Masses; which was a great addition to my week, because it fixed some bugs and security holes - but it broke a couple of my extensions. Read Firefox 3.0.1 and Your Add-ons Not Working to find out how you can get your Add-ons back in working condition - it is simple to do, but be careful when modifying extensions!
3. Google Contacts Get More Useful with “suggested” contacts in Gmail, instead of just adding every person you email all willy-nilly!
4. Using Google Documents gets even better with Google Docs Templates! Search by category or by “hottest” and use these templates to your heart’s content!

Have you checked out these new features or updated applications? If so, let us know what you think in the comments - or suggest some other web application or software we should check out!

Evernote is gaining fans all over the blogosphere with its free, feature-filled service that works on various platforms - Windows, Mac, Windows Mobile, online, offline; and is sync-able and searchable!

The coolest feature is Evernote’s handwriting recognition. Just start typing in the search box for whatever word or string of text you are looking for, and watch Evernote find it for you!

photo credit: Gustav H

Evernote works off of the premise that you will save items that you don’t want to forget or lose into the program. Then Evernote will sync the information across the desktop program and online, to make sure you can access it where ever you are, whenever you need it. Adding tags is easy, as is searching. We all like tagging support because you can add any kind of triggers that help you remember the information or have it available for searching later. (I use tagging support on my blog, too!)

When you are on the go, you can email reminders to your Evernote account, and when you get back to your computer or online, the information’s there. Additional ways to add information to Evernote are to scan and upload documents (great for receipts!), pictures (Evernote is so smart, that it can recognize text in photos!) and dragging and dropping files from your desktop.

Evernote is easy to use, which makes me like it, but it also has the capability to be used over a variety of platforms. I don’t feel limited by my cell phone’s data plan to access Google Notebook when I’m on the go or feel pressure to carry a notebook with me 24-7. I am also able to search my notes and add/remove/modify tags, which is incredibly helpful. The interface is bright and easy to use, and the help documents and community are great.

Have you ever clipped or saved something and then forgotten where you got the information from? Every Evernote clip has the source hyperlinked, if available, for easy viewing at the source.

I have 20 Evernote invites available.

Just reply in the comments with, “I want an Evernote invite!” and I will send one to you!

All invites on a first come-first served basis!

We have all sent print jobs to the printer to only realize - “I shouldn’t have sent that!” But when you right-click on the job and press delete, the job says “Deleting” but never goes away!

The only way I knew of to fix this was to restart my computer. But, that’s a huge pain when I have four or five programs open and working online, too!

Follow the directions below to manually force delete print jobs. You won’t have to reboot your computer afterwards, either!

1. Browse to Start -> Run… and type in “NET STOP SPOOLER” - this will stop the print spooler service. (In Vista, you can just type this in the Search box; and when testing, the next two steps were unnecessary; however, try them anyway!)
2. Browse to your windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS\ folder
3. You should see files there ending in .SPL and .SHD created around the time you tried to print - delete these files.
4. Browse to Start -> Run… and type in “NET START SPOOLER” (this will restart the print spooler service)
5. Double click the printer icon in the lower-right corner of your taskbar to examine your print job queue and browse to View -> Refresh.