I don’t recall seeing a dedicated page like this on Amazon.com for the PlayBook, iPad, iPad 2, Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab, or others.

And speaking of the HP TouchPad, from what I’ve seen, I really think WebOS 3.0 looks great. It went on pre-order yesterday and will be available on July 1. But so far as I can tell the pre-orders begins shipping, not arriving, on July 1. So if you want one right on launch day you may want to drive to a store (call me crazy, but I’m guessing there won’t be much of a line).

I am very much wanting to use and review the TouchPad, but my attempts to reach out to HP media relations have fallen on deaf ears. (No surprise.) So I may just buy one, use it for a few weeks, write about it, and then try to sell it on eBay.

Hey friends, if you’ve got 60 seconds I’d love it if you answered a few questions for me.

We had to skip last week’s show due to a combination of poor hotel Wi-Fi and my travel schedule. So this week I fill Ben in on my trip to WWDC, and we talk about Apple’s new Back to School promotion with the $100 gift card, as well as beta software and other things.

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I’m telling you, SSDs make all the difference.

Today’s quintessential example of the word meta. (Via Jim Ray.)

I think we’d all agree with Julen: Apple’s new features in Lion and iOS 5 will not “kill” Dropbox, Instapaper, OmniFocus, et al. I know this because I’m sure I’m not the only one who says you can have these apps back if you pry them out of my cold, dead hands.

I missed linking to this when the Universal version came out a few weeks ago. It’s a great update to a very polished, personal journaling app. Day One now works on and syncs with your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. I ditched OhLife for Day One about two months ago, and I’m glad I did. Though, to be honest, I really suck at keeping a daily journal. But!… When I do journal, I really like the design, feel, and overall way that Day One works.

Speaking of off-site backups, Mosaic is an up-and-coming cloud-based photo-storage service that works as a plugin with Lightroom. I’m not a photographer and I don’t use Lightroom, but reading through the Q&A between Jorge and Gerard (the co-founder of Mosaic), Mosaic looks really, really cool.

This is a great piece by Oliver Reichenstein. For one, Oliver is an articulate and intelligent communicator; I learned a few things reading this article. Secondly, iA Writer is a great app and I love reading the stories behind good apps. (Via Ben Brooks.)

Brian Stelter, a reporter for the New York Times, was on his way to the final taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show when he learned of the tornadoes that had just hit Joplin. He booked a last-minute flight to Kansas City, rented a car, drove 176 miles to Joplin, and reported on-site primarily with his iPhone using text messages, Twitter, Instagram, and McDonald’s Wi-Fi.

Here’s a link to the front-page story his Tweeting helped write.

(Via Minimal Mac.)

One of the most difficult things about Typekit is finding and choosing a typeface. Here’s a nice recourse for finding some of the gems in Typekit’s vast library.

Dan Sung wrote a great overview and comparison of iCloud, Amazon’s Cloud Drive, Google, Dropbox, and Microsoft SkyDrive. Dan covers what each service does and doesn’t offer, what they cost, and more. And never before have I seen Apple’s ease of use likened to falling off a log.

After Nathan Henrie records a voice memo with DropVox, and it’s been uploaded into his Dropbox account, it gets automatically added to OmniFocus as an action item.