The new Evernote for iPad features a revamped Home screen and much easier navigation.

As much as I'm a fan of Evernote (who isn't?), I've never really liked its companion apps. On my iPhone, for example, I've always found the interface confusing and not especially pretty.

That's about to change. According to the company's blog, Evernote 5 is coming soon for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. And it's looking mighty sharp.

The new Home screen, for example, resembles the top edge of a file drawer, with stacked tabs for things like places, tags, notes, and notebooks. One tap takes you directly to the corresponding screen.

It's also easier to create something new by tapping the Text Note, Photo, or Page Camera icon, this last used to "scan" existing documents. It's seen some improvements as well, now able to detect and crop page edges better than before.

If you're an iPad user, you'll see a swipeable list of recent notes -- a great feature I'd love to see added to the iPhone version.

Here's a full rundown of what's new in Evernote 5. You can also check out this teaser video, which shows the new ... [Read more]

A nascent Web standard called WebRTC just got a notable boost from TokBox, a provider of online chat services for companies such as Ford Motor and Coca-Cola that need a mechanism to communicate with customers.

WebRTC is designed to enable real-time video and audio chat with a Web browser, enabling Skype-like services on the Web. TokBox released a version of its software that adds WebRTC support, a move timed to coincide with Friday's release of Chrome 23, which includes WebRTC.

Having browser support for a standard is crucial to its success, obviously. But developers wanting want to use it is important for convincing browser makers to add that support; it helps crack the chicken-and-egg problem of organizations' waiting for others to embrace the new technology. Mozilla has endorsed the technology and built WebRTC into the current Aurora version of Firefox. Opera is on board, too.

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