Evernote Shit Show

Unless you've been living under a rock, Evernote is in a death spiral..  You don't need to be a VC to know that giving away free services competing directly with Microsoft's One Note  isn't such a great idea.

Today, I needed to pull some data off of one of my Evernote notes.  I know a few days ago, Evernote is forcing its free service users to a limit of only 2 clients.  Over the past several years, I must have installed Evernote client on 7 or more devices.  Today, I wasn't ready today to just pick two devices so I decided to log on to Evernote using my tablet's web browser.  Guess what?  Evernote is blocking web access!  They want everyone to use their mobile client on our mobile devices.  Without web access on your devices, you will be forced to upgrade to a paid plan if you own more than two devices. Their web error page even has a URL to the web app.  Fuck you Evernote.

Checksum For Your Protection

I've just started playing with Python again.  Figured I update all my tools, including PyCharm which happens to be an excellent IDE BTW.  I noticed the checksum for the PyCharm executable but never knew of any Windows program to generate checksums.  I did some Googling and found out that Windows already has a tool built-in: certutil.  Wonderful.

To generate a SHA256 checksum for a file, all you need to do is is use -hashfile give it the file name and then specify the hash scheme.  For example:  

d:\certutil -hashfile pycharm-community-2016.1.exe SHA256
SHA256 hashof file pycharm-community-2016.1.exe:
3c b3 39 66 02 aa 0c 57 06 48 9e af 16 6b 4f 52 be 78 5b d7 17 da d5 49 21 20 f3 e4 de 25 91 cb
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.