Thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the RSS feed this week!

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You start your day, grab a coffee and update Bob. Then you swing by your manager’s office and update him. He’s like, “Oh. Em. Gee.” (He thinks that’s cool).

Now you’ve got to update his boss.

You get back three conversations later and tell Janice what happened. You try to ignore the guy listening over the cubicle wall… but then you update him so he doesn’t spread the wrong story.

Now your coffee’s cold. You start your day.

Or, you could write a blog post inside your team space.

Work better, together inside the Igloo.

Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Phil Bowell forked my OopsieFocus AppleScript to work with Things. If you use one or the other of these apps, you probably want the relevant AppleScript.

This week on The new B&B Podcast, Ben and I talk about Ben’s reluctance to use his iPad as a work device even though he says he wants to, and despite my suggestion that he try chaining his MacBook Pro to his desk. We also talk about our impressions of the Kickstarted Hidden Radio Bluetooth speaker which we and many other backers received this week, my initial impressions of the new Kindle Paperwhite compared to the Kindle Touch, and more.

As a side note, thanks to all of you who’ve gotten in touch with the positive feedback about the shorter episodes and the change in focus for each show. The average show length since we rebooted the podcast 5 weeks ago is currently 31 minutes and 12 seconds.

And, so long as we’re on side notes, if you’re interested in sponsoring the show, please get in touch.

For a few days there our iPhones were saying our storage was extended until 2050. That would have been awesome, but it was obviously a glitch. Now the truth is that us former MobileMe members1 are getting one more year of complimentary storage. Thirty-eight more years sure would have been nice, but hey, I’m still happy with one.

This is generous of Apple, and hopefully it’s a hint that by the time next year rolls around they’ll be increasing the default free storage for iCloud members. Five GB just isn’t that much. Between my iPhone backup (3.2 GB), my iPad backup (1.2 GB), my iCloud email (3.4 GB), and a handful of apps storing documents and data (30.6 MB) I’m using 8 GB total of iCloud storage.

Jay Thrash had me on as a guest for his new cooking podcast, Sounds Delicious. We talked about some of the fundamentals of great smoked barbecue, why Kansas City barbecue is so great, my highly-modified bullet smoker, and more.

My thanks to Inkling for sponsoring the RSS feed this week.

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For years, those who’ve wanted to teach themselves programming have been caught between the trusted content found in books and the ease of use with online materials. Now, O’Reilly Media and Inkling have teamed up to reimagine the world’s most trusted technological resources for iPad, iPhone, and the web.

From embedded coding sandboxes to notes with web links, syntax highlighting, and more, books in the Animal series, Missing Manual series, and others are amplified with Inkling-only features not found in any other e-book version. Copy-and-paste bits of code as you go on your laptop, or drill down into the logic behind the syntax when reading on your iPad or iPhone.

Budding developers and tech enthusiasts alike now have some of the world’s best tech resources right at their fingertips. Watch a video that shows how it all works, and shop for books.

Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Speaking of displays disappearing and becoming the software underneath, I think this commercial is quite clever.