Checkmark is a great app, and it’s now on the App Store for just a buck.

Robert Agcaoili:

I also built this site entirely on my iPad using Textastic, iSSH, and Diet Coda all while paired to a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Case.

(Via Macdrifter.)

Horace Dediu:

[A]lmost all the value from the Android ecosystem is concentrated in Samsung. I did not include Google in this analysis since its mobile is so small as to be not visible in its accounting. A separate analysis of Android economics shows that Google’s benefit from the platform is modest. In contrast, Samsung, and Samsung alone, is benefitting greatly. It could even be said that today Samsung is the only Android profit engine.

My thanks to Nice Mohawk for sponsoring the RSS feed this week.

Ita is a brand new list-making app that’s designed to make it fast and simple to collect and organize information. You can drag items to rearrange them, tap to mark items completed, and add multiple items quickly, all from the main list view. If you make lists, you’ll love how fast Ita makes it to collect and complete your stuff.

Ita is beautiful, taking inspiration from high quality paper notebooks and classic typography. And as you use lists, they’ll show signs of wear, just like a piece of paper. Your lists will remember how they look, and that look syncs across iCloud with the rest of your data. Ita is a universal app for iPhone and iPad and is fully accessible using VoiceOver.

Ita is on sale this week for $1.99. Two bucks for the first list app that’s actually better than a piece of paper.

Sponsorship by The Syndicate

My Nexus 7 is due to arrive tomorrow. In the meantime I guess I had better sharpen my knife.

And there was much rejoicing.

Matt Alexander interviewed me for his “Real Life” series. I really love how this interview turned out — we talked a lot about how gadgets and our digital life impact and relate to our physical real life.

Nice overview of the whole enchilada by Jerry Hildenbrand.

Dan Nosowitz on the Nexus 7:

The Nexus 7 is the best of its breed, but it also doesn’t give me any evidence that the breed is one that really holds all that much promise. Aside from reading books, I think it’s pretty clear that a 7-inch tablet is not preferable to a larger one like the iPad or the upcoming Microsoft Surface. It’s like comparing a moped to a car. Both get you from point A to point B, and it’s not bad for what it is, but they’re not really at the same level as far as capabilities go.

He likes it — especially the size:

For me, the key is the size. Again, I was skeptical at first, but for many situations, I’ve come to love the 7-inch frame. The iPad is brilliant when you’re sitting on a couch or camped out in a coffee shop. In my view, the 9.7-inch iPad is slowly but surely becoming a laptop replacement. I expect this to continue. But a 7-inch tablet is different. The iPad is clunky to read in bed, for example. The Nexus 7 is perfect for that. […]

Whereas laptop sizes vary mainly to please screen size preference, I suspect that 7-inch tablets will fit naturally into different use cases than 10-inch tablets. In other words, I believe they’ll end up being closer to two different categories rather than two variations of the same category.

So if the iPad is a valid laptop / PC replacement, would that make a 7.85-inch iPad Mini more like what people originally assumed the iPad would be? Who can say, since we’re speculating about an unannounced and as-of-yet non-existent product, but perhaps “a big iPod touch” may turn out to be a fair description of the iPad Mini after all (it was a completely incorrect description of the original iPad).

This Safari extension gets a Kickstarter page to serve up the HTML5 video rather than the Flash one. It takes about 4 or 5 seconds before the extension kicks in and the video loads, but it sure beats having to change Safari’s user agent or launch Chrome.

(Thanks, Dustin Davis.)

Update: Looks like you won’t need this extension come Monday.

Dan Moren reviews Ticket to Ride for the iPad. This is one of our favorite board games. I also have it on my iPad and it’s pretty fun.

Another great board game also has an iPad counterpart? Puerto Rico.

I love facts like this. The problem is, when bringing up facts like this when I’m at the movies with my friends I only reaffirm another fact: I am way nerdier than they are. But hey, the more you know. Am I right?