Chris Enns had me as a guest on his podcast about podcasting. We talked about the starting and ending of The B&B Podcast, how awesome 5by5 and Dan Benjamin are, and my hyper-nerdy workflow for publishing Shawn Today every day.

Three years ago this morning, I was standing in line at the Leawood Apple store, waiting to buy an original iPad.

Shopster is a new kind of groceries list app that learns what you purchase and where, so it can remind you later on.

Whenever you check an item as purchased, Shopster learns the location where you got it. The next time you look for the same thing, a geofenced alarm will be triggered when you are near the location.

Features:

• Autolearning of locations when checking items as purchased.
• Geofenced reminders for your products, based on your prior buying history.
• In-place editing table, for quick corrections and editions.
• Unique ruler to quickly enter the number of items you need to buy.
• Smart autocomplete, to assist you entering frequently purchased products, based on your previous history.
• Reorder items with a simple tap and hold.

Check out Shopster on the AppStore, it’s only $0.99.

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My thanks to Shopster for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

A great piece by Khoi Vinh reviewing Moves, an app that tracks your movement and location throughout the day and the logs it for you:

No one wants to type more on a multi-touch phone or tablet if they don’t have to, so when they see an app demonstrate that typing can be eliminated entirely, it’s an eye-opening moment, for sure. But is it magic? Almost. To simplify is huge, but what matters just as much is the end result, what the user gets out of the simplification. If the simplified process produces satisfactory results, great. But it’s magic when the software generates a disproportionately meaningful output from that minimized input.

I haven’t tried out Moves yet, but I had a very similar “wow, it’s like magic” moment when the latest update to Day One came out last fall. That Day One updated added the ability to automatically pull in location and weather information and add it to your journal entry, and that little bit of extra info makes each entry seem, as Khoi would put it, disproportionately more meaningful.

Brand new weather Web app from the folks who made Dark Sky, and it’s jaw-dropping impressive. There’s a lot of weather forecast information here and it’s extremely well laid out and presented. (Via pretty much everyone.)

It’s equally (if not more) impressive on the iPhone.

John Moltz:

Would I like more information when I turn my iPad on? Maybe. But it depends on the costs associated with providing that information.

Lex Friedman put his iPhone 5 aside for a month and switched to the Lumia 920 as his go-to phone.

The grass is always greener on the other side. But once you’re over there, the new and/or different features don’t always outweigh the increase in friction and frustration they come with. iOS may be the oldest mobile operating system, but it’s also the most polished.

Simon J Thomas points out some parallels between the time leading up to the iPad and now (amidst the rumors of an Apple iWatch):

All signs point to this being a market Apple could swoop in and corner. If they wanted to. They wouldn’t be the first to market, far from it. They wouldn’t necessarily bring anything new to the market either. But what they can do is produce something that people actually want.

See also the aforelinked article by Cameron Moll.

Over the weekend, Brett Terpstra update to nvALT to use the newer Simperium sync API, rather than Simplenote’s legacy syncing API. Which means nvALT syncing with Simplenote is now faster and more reliable.

In January, when I looked at Simplenote alternatives, I mentioned a bug that existed when using nvALT and Simplenote syncing. In my testing so far with the newest version of nvALT, the previous bug appears to be squashed. New notes created in Simplenote, do not lose any data on their initial sync with nvALT. Brett Terpstra is my hero.

Wufoo? Who? It’s a web application that lets you build amazing online forms for your websites.

We host everything. We build the backend. You get an easy, fun and fast way to collect and analyze data, and it even integrates with many payment systems.

With Wufoo you get…

• Over 200 pre-made templates & themes from our form gallery
• Ability to customize branding with your own logo and themes to match
• Integration with over 50 web apps including WordPress, MailChimp, Basecamp, Stripe, etc.
• Support for beautiful typography with custom fonts and Typekit integration

Just because you’re working with forms and data doesn’t mean you have to do it without personality or style. Gathering information from your users is exciting, why shouldn’t your tools be exciting too?

Experience the difference. Sign up for Free and get started with Wufoo today.

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My thanks to Wufoo for sponsoring the RSS feed this week. I’ve used Wufoo for several projects over the past few years and they’re excellent. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Great walkthrough by Cody Fink.

Some great ideas here. Especially Paul’s suggestions of an event-specific tag and using Day One as a movie log. I almost exclusively use Day One as a life perspective type of journal and as a daily routine type of journal, but I’d love to have more reasons to use the app. (Via David Chartier.)

Here’s one from the archives. Almost two years ago I compared some of the pros and cons of using Twitter as “an RSS feed reader”, and looked at some of the ratios of popular nerdy blogs and what their RSS subscriber count was compared to their site’s Twitter count.