Awesome. Mike practically wrote the book on sketchnoting. Now we’ll be able to say he literally did.

A certain recent addition to the Blanc household has given me a heightened interest in photography. I’ve been playing with the beta of Lightroom 4 and as a non-photography guru I found it much easier to use than I expected — and the preset filters and settings are great.

I’ll keep using it for the full length of my 30-day trial before I decide to buy it, but so far it sure seems like a killer upgrade from iPhoto for editing.

Lukas Mathis goes through several of the better features from webOS and how they could help solve a few of the pain points on iOS. Based on the time I spent with an HP TouchPad I couldn’t agree more with Lukas’s suggestions — especially regarding one app, many screens and and quick access to regularly-changed settings.

Want to make time-lapse or stop motion videos with your iPhone? Get this app. It rocks.

A lot of furious feathered friends in these lists.

A big thanks to my internet pal, Federico Viticci, for being a guest on the show this week while I took some time off to hold Noah and change diapers.

I was a guest on Jeremy Fuksa’s fun video podcast for creative folks, The Cocktail Napkin. Since we’re both KC locals we recorded the show in person at a local coffee shop. Jeremy asked me about how I got into writing, the story of taking this site full time, and a few other fun things.

That drink in my hand? It’s an Americano.

I’ve noticed that a few times per week Backblaze the mds load would kick in at 100% and it was driving me and my MacBook Air’s fans bonkers. I knew it was related to Backblaze but didn’t know if it was normal or not and if not then what to do about it. Well, it’s not normal and this trick worked for me.

(Thanks, Andy.)

I love how Marco is always making things a little bit better and a little bit better and a little bit better. Another for instance: the Instapaper mobilizer web view was also recently updated and looks a whole lot nicer.

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

TinyLetter is the simplest way to send email newsletters. Creating signup forms is a breeze, and TinyLetter even makes it easy to reply to your readers individually. It’s also free.

TinyLetter doesn’t have all the features most email services offer. It’s built for people, not business. Just compose your message, send it to your readers, and find out what they think. That’s all there is to it.

Nicholas Felton’s annual reports are one of those things I look forward to every year. There are still things where the print version is far superior to the digital version, and the Feltron Report is one of them. I just ordered mine, and you should too before the limited-edition print run sells out.

Episode 48 of The B&B Podcast is now available. Ben and I talked mostly about Things and OmniFocus.

Brought to you by this month’s fine sponsors: Jumpchart and Doxie Go.

Duncan Davidson:

For TED2012, there’s a pretty big change in the media room. Instead of dozens of MacPros and piles of SATA drives like there have been in the last eight TED events I’ve been part of, the room is full of iMacs and Thunderbolt drives. Lots of Thunderbolt drives.

In its first nine days in the App Store, Clear sold 350,000 copies. Next stop: iPad and Mac apps.