A huge congrats to Pete Licata, the QA manager at the downtown location of Parisi coffee, for winning the 2013 World Barista Championship.

Over the last 10 years, Kansas City has exploded with some absolutely fantastic coffee shops: Broadway (of course) and the Roasterie have been around for a while. We now also have Oddly Correct, Quay, and Parisi, among some others.

A few months ago Parisi opened up a second cafe that’s closer to where I live, and it’s become my new favorite spot to work from on Tuesdays (the day I leave my home office to get out and work from somewhere else).

Rick Stawarz’s story of switching from Things to OmniFocus back in 2010 and then switching back again a few weeks ago:

During my three-year affair with OmniFocus, Things had grown up quite a bit. It finally gained cloud sync and a couple other powerful features.

It’s hard not to pit these two apps against one another because in they’re the two kings of the to-do list hill when it comes to powerful, feature rich, well-designed task apps for the Mac.

And, Rick does a good job at comparing them without claiming one is better than the other, or vice versa. Because one isn’t better than the other — they are both good, they’re just different.

Personally, I love the look of Things as well as Things’ OTA sync, which, though late to the game, is incredibly well done. Also, the scrolling date picker within Things on the iPhone is one of the best and easiest-to-use date picker designs period — Apple themselves should adapt its design.

But I’m an OmniFocus user not so much because I’m a “power user to-do guru”, but because I’ve become too hooked on the Forecast and Review modes of OmniFocus, and the new-ish Mail Drop feature. Also, I use OmniFocus on my iPad a lot, and arguably the iPad version is the best of the 3-app suite. Whereas with Things, the iPad version is arguably the worst of their 3-app suite.

While OmniFocus certainly serves well the “extreme power user” it also has some great features which still suite the more casual user as well. You don’t have to be hardcore to use OmniFocus (though it helps).

Radium is a new way to listen to internet radio. It sits in your menu bar and stays out of your way. And it just works.

With its clean user interface and album cover display, you’re always just a click away from beautiful sounds. Add your favorite tracks to the wish list and check them out later on the iTunes Store. Take the sounds with you using Radium’s built-in AirPlay streaming support. It’s all there.

With the proliferation of services like Spotify and Pandora, why choose Radium? Because with Radium, you don’t have to build up playlists, constantly answer questions about your music preferences, or navigate a cumbersome user interface. Radium is all about the sounds. And these sounds come from over 6000 free stations, maintained and curated by real people like you.

Available for $10 on the Mac App Store. Check it out.

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My thanks to Radium for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.