A few months ago I never would have thought that I would be writing an Evernote review.

I mean…I had heard about it, read about it, even viewed videos about it. And every person that would talk about it had good things to say.

So, of course, I signed up for my own free account. But, that was it. I didn’t use it.

Heck…I didn’t even really know how to use it. I mean, why would I need to store notes online? I loved using the little sticky notes on my MacBook, I had tons of them on my desktop. I used Google Docs to keep lists and I would bookmark websites on my Chrome Browser. Certainly I didn’t need Evernote!

But, then one day I decided to log in to Evernote once again to “check it out”.

I perform my own oil changes on my car (that is as mechanically inclined as I think I’ll ever be)…but I always forget the mileage at which I performed my last oil change because I use the 15,000 mile oil.

So, I decided to save the mileage in an Evernote. And that was the only note that I had in my account.

Wouldn’t you know it that several months later I thought that the time might be coming up for me to perform another oil change. But, damn!!! What was the mileage last time???

Ha! I think I saved an Evernote about that! Lo and behold, I was a couple hundred miles past the point that I really needed an oil change (I already told you…I’m not mechanically inclined).

So began my romance with my little note buddy.

I now use Evernote for everything, such as:

• Oil Change Log
• Recipes
• Favorite Websites
• To Do Lists
• Passwords
• Seminar Notes
• Business Card Snapshots
• Addresses
• Receipts
• Confirmation Notices
• ‘Print This Page’ Notices
• Things I See In SkyMall
• Article Ideas
• Drink Recipes
• Phone Numbers
• Measurements
• TV Remote Codes
• A List of My Android Apps
• Grocery Lists
• And More…

The best part is that I can access my notes from anywhere; My iMac, my MacBook, my wife’s MacBook, my Android Phone, and basically anywhere that I can get an internet connection from.

I can add a title and multiple tags so that I can search for the note later just in case I can only remember a snippet from my note.

You can take picture notes, text notes, audio notes. Basically anything you ever want to save and retrieve later can be added to Evernote.

But enough about me…what are your thoughts on Evernote? How have you used it? Let me know in your comment below.

If you haven’t signed up for your own free account, you can do so here —> www.Evernote.com.

It’s no secret that a creative environment will help you get your creative juices flowing. Whatever your budget is…whatever type of home or apartment you have…with just a little forethought and follow through you’ll have a beautiful home office workspace of you own.

But, if you feel you still need an idea or a little inspiration for your own project, I put together a list of 13 Beautiful Home Office Workspaces to Make you Salivate. Enjoy and post your comments below.

With so many people and businesses trying to dig into social media and wanting to showcase that on their websites, we need to have a constant supply of social media icons so we don’t use the same ones on each project.

With that in mind, I thought it would be cool to put this list together of 10 high quality social media icons for you.

I know there’s tons out there…but these are…NICE!

Vintage Icon Set for Bloggers
Possible streaks and worn look are intended. This is what makes it different and unique.
Each icon is in .png format with transparent background, sized at 256×256px or 128×128px.

Social Networking Icons by ~deleket
Available in PNG and ICO formats for your dock or bookmarking needs.

Wood Social Networking Icons
108 high resolution wood social media icons. PNG format.

65 Bookmarks and Social Icons

OLED Social Icons
Every icon is 16x16px OLED display, glowing dots & stuff.

Social Networks Pro Icons
Available as PSD shape layers and transparent PNG.

CS Social Icons

Colourflow
4 icons: 512px.

Another CS Social Icon Pack

Sleek Tabbed Social Icons
This set is great if you are using DISQUS.

This post on crumpled paper textures was inspired by the guys over at Six Revisions. They had a nice post on Free Grungy Paper Textures and so I thought I would share some more wrinkles with you.

Creating a CSS website layout in Dreamweaver can be super simple and save you a lot of time.

The tutorial pros over at TutVid.com put together a nice video tutorial to show exactly how this is done. It is a little bit on the long side (like 30 min.), but after watching and perfecting this, you will save tons of time on your future projects.