Many thanks to App Cubby for being the debut sponsor of the RSS Feed and promoting their iPhone app, Gas Cubby. David Barnard and the App Cubby team are exceedingly dedicated to building and developing top-notch iPhone applications. They’re an intuitive and detail oriented team, and their work shows it. Gas Cubby is just one in their lineup of fine iPhone apps.

Tyler Hall:

It’s hard to describe how incredibly powerful Perspectives are until you actually spend a few days with them in your workflow. Other task managers have smart folders or dedicated “Today” lists, but they absolutely pale in comparison to the flexibility that Perspectives afford.

I’ve been using OmniFocus for nearly a month now, and I couldn’t agree more. Or, as I wrote last week:

Organization and output is what makes OmniFocus so mind-blowingly powerful. I’m not exaggerating when I say that OmniFocus pretty much organizes your lists for you. It will take your relevant tasks and intelligently order them for you so you only see what you need to see without worrying about other stuff.

In his brand new book, my friend David Appleyard has distilled an incredible amount of information to help acclimate new iPhone developers to the iPhone App Market.

I have read the whole book, and it truly is a fabulous resource for iOS developers. As I wrote in my endorsement: “iPhone App Entrepreneur will help you to create and sell the sort of app which gets used and talked about in living rooms, back offices, and everywhere in-between.”

And if you grab a copy using this link, I will get a small kickback.

For the past several years a good friend of mine, Tim Cone, has had a vision to launch a Christian record label which gives away its digital music. This week that dream was realized and Churchyard Records has opened its doors.

Their first release, an EP from Spacesuit, is absolutely fantastic. I mean, it’s really, really good. And it’s 100% free to download and listen to at painfully loud volumes.

And speaking of the Pipeline, Dan’s interview with Andy Ihnatko is likely my favorite episode so far. Jam packed with fantastic Q&A for writers and freelancers.

The Pipeline is such a fantastic podcast. If you’re not already subscribed, you should at least catch Dan’s recent interview with Marco if you want to find out about how Instapaper came to be, what Marco thinks of office hours, and more.

Also, Marco Arment was just interviewed on The Setup (long live the matte display!).

These two ads for the new Windows 7 phone are super clever and funny. But the campaign tagline — “It’s time for a phone to save us from our phones.” — seems odd. It’s cute, but who are they talking to?

I certainly have my iPhone out all too often. But never once have I thought it was due to a problem with my iPhone. (Wouldn’t that be nice?) So why or how could another smart phone relieve me of the constant distraction that is my current smart phone? The answer: it can’t.

Chairman Gruber has the same quibble. His thought?:

Perhaps this message from Microsoft isn’t targeted at existing smartphone owners. It’s for those shopping for the first smartphone, who, because they don’t have one yet, see existing smartphones as something unpleasant — gadgets that turn friends and family into anti-social heads-down faces-underlit jerks. I can see how that message might work.

A forked version of Notational Velocity that brings full-screen mode, a left-hand column for your notes lists, and a few other cool tweaks. I’m using it now and it works great.

Amen. And my quibble isn’t so much that the WP Touch theme and the default Tumblr mobile theme are both ugly, but that they look just like every other site using them. It’s like placing your resume into a Microsoft Word template.

Clever tip. Works for “Save PDF to Yojimbo…” and “Mail PDF” too. (Via Chris Bowler.)

“If you want to tell the most inner workings of an artist’s mind, then of course the desk is the most telling space for that.”

A nice short film about desks by Imaginary Forces. (Via Kottke.)

A service that lets you email documents into your Dropbox folder. This could be especially helpful for those who are creating a document on their iPads and wishing for a more integrated way to sync and share. (Via Brian Hoff.)

Cloud service which syncs your Basecamp projects and tasks to OmniFocus. If you don’t use Basecamp Spootnik can still sync OmniFocus for you for free. If you’re a heavy Basecamp user, plans run as high as $30 / month.

The feedback I received after posting my initial thoughts on OmniFocus yesterday can be summed up in two groups: (a) those welcoming me to the “OmniFocus community” (I had no idea there were so many of you over here. Hi, guys.); and (b) those assuming I’m trying out OmniFocus because Things is so lame now. The latter is simply not true.

In my review of Things almost two years ago, I said:

Each of us has our own way of dealing with responsibility and our own expression of productivity. Tinkering and then switching is usually not the fault of the software. We’re not looking for the best app, but rather the best app for us.

My reason for switching to OmniFocus from Things is not the same as buying a new car because my old car blew a head gasket. Things is still a beautiful piece of software which does everything promised on the tin. But for me, today, some of the features are not enough — that does not imply Things has a blown head gasket.