There is a feature of Photo Stream on iOS 6 that I didn’t know about. And it’s extremely similar to yesterday’s aforelinked app, Photoset.

Photo Stream allows you to create your own online galleries. I knew you could share streams with other iPhone users, but didn’t realize that the stream could also be turned into a web site.

Moreover, Apple’s Photo Stream sharing feature has solutions to all my aforementioned quibbles with Photoset. You can select multiple images at a time from the Camera Roll, you can edit a stream after it’s been published, and you can delete the stream.

However, in a twist of irony, I find Apple’s photo stream sharing to be more feature rich while I find Photoset to be more “fun” and better designed. Usually it’s the other way around when comparing a 3rd-party app to something Apple built.

Okay, so this new iOS app from the Tumblr peeps is awesome. (No, you don’t need a Tumblr account to use it. It’s a stand alone app and service.)

Using your iPhone or iPad you snap pics or add them from your camera roll, arrange them around in a grid, and then upload the photo set to a private URL and share with whomever you like.

My quibbles so far: (1) you can’t select multiple images at a time from the Camera roll (you have to go back in and drill down several taps for each and every image you add); (b) you can’t edit, update, or even delete a photo set once it’s been published.

(Also, anyone else thinking Flickr should have made this app?)

Apple’s ad for the new iPods is so good.

This week on The B&B Podcast, Ben and I bust out some of our favorite tips, tricks, and workflows for an app we all know and love: OmniFocus.

Update: I forgot to include my OmniFocus theme in the show notes. It’s since been added, and for those asking about it here you go.

The Magazine launches today. It’s the new endeavor by Marco Arment. It’s an iOS Newsstand publication:

The Magazine is for people who love technology, especially the internet, mobile, truly great personal computers, and related fields influenced by technology such as photography, publishing, music, and even coffee.

This morning, while my 7-month-old rolled around in his play yard, I drank a cup of Guatemalan AeroPressed coffee and read through the first edition. Both the content and the app are simply fantastic.

It’s an awesome idea, executed very well. Moreover, Marco is putting his money where his mouth is in terms of values for digital publishing: The Magazine puts a lot of trust into the goodwill of the subscribers and a lot of honor towards the writers.

I’m honored to have been asked to be a regular contributor. Marco is a great guy to work with and I agree a lot with his business practices and values when it comes to digital publishing. In a couple weeks, you’ll find an article by yours truly in issue number 2.

In 19 minutes, 21 courses of sushi at $20 per course. And apparently totally worth it…

Mountain Tweaks is a swiss army knife app by Fredrik Wiker that gives you one-button access to change various settings and elements in Mountain Lion. Such as removing the Corinthian Leather from the Calendar and Contacts apps, showing the ~/Library folder, disabling the 3D dock (for those weird folks who prefer their dock on the bottom), and much more.

(Via Christopher Breen.)

Fascinating (and, perhaps, a bit scary?) answer to the question: “What’s possible at a billion-plus users that wasn’t possible at, say, 500 million?”

See also: the breakdown of Facebook’s billion users.

Nick Bilton posted a great profile of Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO, in The New York Times over the weekend. I’ve been on Twitter for years, and it’s by far my favorite social network. Though I’m not fond of all the changes that have been happening to Twitter as a service since Costolo stepped in as the CEO, Bilton shows us a different side that I thought was great to see. This quote from Costolo was one of my favorite bits of information that I picked up from reading the profile:

“It’s really difficult to change a company’s culture, but I did this by making sure I stayed late,” he says. “I’d go home, have dinner with my kids and then come back into the office. People knew that if they were in the office at 10 p.m., I’d be here, too, and that’s when I would go around and talk to people and answer questions.”

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.