That would be delightful. Also, in theory, it could potentially remove the need for 3rd-party Twitter developers to use OAuth in their full-featured iOS Twitter apps.

A great look at both the good and the bad of Windows Phone 7 — and it’s a lot of good. In fact, if it weren’t WP7’s lack of such fantastic 3rd-party apps, Lukas would easily be sticking with the Windows phone over his iPhone:

Now that I’ve used a WP7 phone for a few weeks, I’m asking myself the same question: should I go back to my iPhone? After looking at the clean, ascetic visual language of WP7 for such a long time, iOS suddenly seems garish, overdone, and kind of ugly. Looking at iOS 4 feels like looking at a screenshot of a pinstriped Mac OS X Cheetah from 2001.

I would love to spend some time with WP7 and really get a feel for how it compares to iOS. Also, I’m looking forward to seeing how many of things Lukas points out that WP7 does better than iOS (such as notifications) get addressed in iOS 5 next week.

The task-management app that’s been in beta for years, and which many people thought was abandoned, is now officially a 1.0 release. And it looks great. Moreover, there is a corresponding iOS app (sounds like iPhone-only) that is pending approval in the App Store.

The desktop version has always been popular. And rightfully so: it is fast, easy to use, and has a slightly different approach for organizing and displaying your tasks compared to Things or OmniFocus. In fact, for those that love the simplicity of Things but wish for the syncing of OmniFocus, then The Hit List might be right up your alley.

The Hit List is shipping with over-the-air syncing for all your desktop and iOS versions right out of the box. Though syncing is by way of a paid subscription service that will cost you two bucks a month or $20 a year.

The Hit List costs $50, and is even available in the Mac App Store. But if you happened to get a serial number for The Hit List during the MacHeist Bundle of 2009 then that serial number still works.

Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud.

(Which means that, so far, my iCloud predictions are accurate.)

Memorial Day weekend is the busiest time of year for the Weber Grill hotline. It’s mostly men calling in for emergency advice and it’s mostly women who are coaching them on how to light the grill or how to cook their burgers.

(It’s a New York Times article, so here is a Twitter link if you’re past your monthly allotment.)

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Ben and I talk about standing desks, cloud-based remote backups and backups in general, and Amazon’s new Mac Downloads Store. (Note: we recorded early this morning so I had to bring my coffee to the show.)

Brought to you by the definitive guide to Evernote: Brett Kelly’s Evernote Essentials.

Sounds like the “I’m a PC” guy from the commercials was in charge of the installation experience as well.

“Given our current technology and with the proper training, would it be possible for someone to become Batman?”

The top answer from Mark Hughes is off the charts.

I love Amazon and shop there all the time. But I’m just saying, this feels like if the “I’m a PC” guy from the commercials had switched to Mac and then opened a software downloads store.

Also, John Gruber notes about the name, “Amazon Download Store”:

Interesting too, in the context of Apple’s legal pursuit of a trademark for the term “app store”, is that Amazon went with “downloads store” rather than the closed-up “appstore” they use for their Android store.

I think they have to call it the “downloads store”. Not because of trademark issues, but for customer communication purposes.

For the past decade if you’ve bought any software from Amazon.com you were buying the physical media and you got it shipped to your house or office. Which means they’ve got ten years of learned behavior from their customers, and if they called their new Mac app store the “appstore” it wouldn’t be enough to communicate that this software won’t be sent over in a cardboard box.

Dave Pell hits close to home:

I used to feel an immediate sense of accomplishment when I wrote an article or came up with a joke that I thought was good. Now that feeling is always delayed until I see how the material does. How many views did my article get? Did it get mentioned the requisite number of times on Twitter and Facebook. I need to see the numbers.

This link is to a Flickr set featuring images of some of the personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, which are being auctioned by the U.S. Marshals Service. The pictures are curiously interesting and frightening at the same time — particularly the typewriter which Ted Kaczynski used to type his 35,000-word “Unabom Manifesto”.

Proceeds from the auction will be given to Kaczynski’s victims.

(Via ★feltron.)