What’s really interesting, though not surprising, is the difference in sales and revenue between the green bar and the blue one. A deal and word of mouth is always more effective than a passive interruption.
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iPad Springboard Breaks Spatiality →
Lukas Mathis:
Let’s say you want to open the App Store on your iPad, and you know that you’ve put this icon at the bottom right of your apps. Turning the iPad shuffles the positions of your icons. The App Store now suddenly jumps to the middle of the second row.
Most of my apps I don’t even know which homescreen they’re on, just where they are on their screen.
‘7 iPad Apps Worth Trying’ →
iWork, Instapaper, Things, and 1Password aren’t just apps worth trying, they’re apps worthy of your first homescreen. (Of course, it’s pretty ironic for me to say this without ever even holding an iPad. Ah well… be sure check out the cool hand-drawn sketch that Cultured Code sent Mitch to show what Things on the iPad may look like.) (Via David Chartier.)
First iPad Reviews Hit the Web →
A roundup of iPad reviews via Macworld. If you’re not going to geek out over all of them, then at least dive into David Pogue’s and Andy Ihnatko’s.
Micro vs. Macro Creating →
Wow. Now there’s a quote with some great perspective.
“The Future of Publishing” →
Amen to that.
The Pipeline →
Just wanted to point out that I have really been enjoying Dan Benjamin’s relatively new podcast, The Pipeline. In less then two months Dan has already hosted some great conversations with some great folks like Shaun Inman and Jason Fried. And I especially loved the latest episode with Jason Kottke.
Reeder 2.0 →
A great update to Reeder. Version 2 is the best app available for reading feeds on an iPhone.
SymbolicLinker →
For those that create Symlinks like it’s their job yet are still not Symlink savvy, here is an OS X utility app which, once installed, gives you right-click access to create a Symlink of the currently selected item.
Symlinks Tutorial and Automator Workflow (for Dropbox) →
As John Gruber pointed out last week, you can move your Yojimbo database into your Dropbox folder for real-time backup if you use a Symlink. For those who aren’t Symlink savvy, here is an Automator workflow that will take whatever folder you pick, create a symlink for it, and save it in a new location of your choosing.
This is commonly done to keep apps like Yojimbo or Things in sync across multiple computers. But I only use one computer so I don’t need to sync. However, I very much like the fact that now my Yojimbo database and MarsEdit drafts are backed up at all times, not just nightly.
Sneak Peek at Instapaper on iPad →
The screenshots look great, but really, I love posts like this because Marco is writing about his development process.
Adam Schwabe on Gowalla at SXSW →
Adam Schwabe writing about Gowalla (and Foursquare) in his 2010 SXSW highlights:
Neither application had been particularly useful for me at home here in Toronto up until SXSW, but that changed in Austin where they were great in tracking down friends and getting a sense for what was worth checking out at the conference and beyond. This worked only because I was a part of a very similar set of users with aligned goals, motivations and contexts for using the apps. I’m not so sure the usefulness of Foursquare/Gowalla will extend beyond SXSW unless you live in an urban area with a wired population; Like all social media, they won’t take off until your friends are on board.
A Sneak Peek at Reeder 2’s Features →
Includes state persistence, item caching, and higher text contrast. PTL.
Video Demo of Opera Mini 5 for iPhone →
The whole demo is with the iPhone using EDGE, and it’s fast. The app was submitted a few hours ago and Opera has a countup to when/if Apple lets the new browser into the App Store.
As Chris Forseman said about a month ago on Ars Technica, the reason Opera is so quick on EDGE compared to Mobile Safari is because “It sends URL requests to a proxy server run by Opera, which renders a page into an image that is sent to the phone for display. This method typically offers much faster browsing than downloading an entire page and all its resources and rendering it on most underpowered mobiles, and is especially nice for devices limited to EDGE or slower connections.”