Many thanks to Coding Robots for sponsoring the RSS feed this week to promote MarkdownNote.

MarkdownNote is an iPad app specifically designed for those who write in Markdown. And if you don’t write in Markdown, who are you? I write everything in Markdown, not just stuff that’s for the Web. Emails, plain text documents, blog posts? All in Markdown.

MarkdownNote has live preview so you can see your Markdown as parsed HTML. But it’s killer feature is that it has a custom keyboard for quickly add Markdown syntax to your document. Because, on the iPad, typing in Markdown can be a pain at times, when you are always having to switch between the QWERTY layout and the numeric / symobls layout.

It’s available in the app store for just $4.

A simple, photography-inspired icon t-shirt by photographer extraordinary, Jorge Quinteros. I’m not even a photographer and I would totally wear one of these. Just $15 plus shipping.

My Good First Impressions Based Only by Looking at the Website:

• I’ve always thought webOS was an elegant and attractive operating system, and the TouchPad looks like a great device.
• The Touchstone looks like a very slick accessory. It’s a stand for the TouchPad that also charges the tablet wirelessly.
• The coolest feature, though, is the integration between the TouchPad and the Pre3:

The next generation of Touchstone technology makes HP devices work better together. Easily share a URL with your Pre3 simply by tapping them together. Receive text messages and answer phone calls on your TouchPad so you don’t miss a thing. Start reading a website or blog on a TouchPad and then tap your smartphone to take it to go.

I would love to see this on iOS — better sharing of what you’re working on at that moment. That’s what I love so much about Simplenote, and it’s what the app Handoff is trying to solve.

My Bad First Impressions Which Are Also Only From Looking at the Website:

• It’s got a plastic back yet it weighs just slightly more than the iPad. The weight is what I like least about my iPad, because that’s what makes it most difficult to hold with one hand.
• It doesn’t ship until the summer.

“In hindsight Courier is such an obvious name, but only through iterating on our idea did we actually come up with it.”

And, speaking of growing as a writer, this 2-year-old article by John Gruber is great inspiration for “anyone who wants to publish or write on the web to pursue their obsessions in a serious way.”

Love that orange.

Some mind-blowing stats. Like: 200 Trillion text messages are received every day.

Update: In fact, that’s so mind blowing it can’t possibly be true. 200,000,000,000 text per day, divided by 310,500,000 (the population of the United sates) would mean each individual gets 644,122 text messages every day.