Shawn Blanc

A substantial reason why the native iOS Gmail app is so poor is that it’s just a web view of their mobile friendly Gmail site wrapped in a native app.

So I go upstairs to make some eggs and by the time I come back to my computer the Gmail app had been released and nearly the whole Internet has already determined it’s a piece of junk. That was anticlimactic.

Your nerd trivia lesson for the day.

Billings Pro is a multi-user time tracking and invoicing solution for the Mac and iPhone, that includes a Web app for timekeepers.

With Marketcircle Cloud you get the Mac and iPhone experience with the convenience of the Web. Let us worry about all the setup, hosting, and backup of your data, while you focus on your business.

We host it, you access it — from anywhere, anytime.

A Twitter / photography project by Chris Floyd, One Hundred & Forty Characters is 140 portraits of folks that Chris follows on Twitter and the folks that they follow.

You can read more about the project on Floyd’s interview with Phil Coomes on the BBC site.

Something Ryan Cumley mentioned in the aforelinked article about using his iPad as his work setup was not just that he was able to get most tasks done on his iPad, but that working from the iPad was noticeably less distracting for him. Cumley said:

I find myself markedly more deliberate in my actions, focused on completing the short list of productive things I have to do, and less prone to distraction.

This is something that I’ve found true of working on my iPad as well. Last summer I touted iOS as the best piece of anti-distraction software I own.

Ryan Cumley runs an online business, Numbers For Startups. He went to the local coffee shop one day to work and realized his wife had taken the car with the laptop and so all he had was his iPad. A few purchases from the App Store later and he found out he was able to do all his business related work (track sales, update his company weblog, communicate with customers, transfer funds) right from his iPad.

Speaking of giving out your email over the phone…

Matthias McGregor intentionally set up his email address so it would easy to give out over the phone or in person. Clever. It’s like a custom short URL, except this one is for those times when you have to tell someone your email.

Drew Phillips profiles Icon 4×4’s new, gorgeous, amazing, drool-worthy, custom rebuild of the Ford Bronco. (Via 512 Pixels.)

For the past several weeks I have been holding on to the overages from the original print run to make sure everyone who pre-ordered got what they wanted and that no shirts were lost in the mail or accidentally showed up the wrong size.

And so, there are a few shirts available again in just about every size and they’re shipping immediately. If you didn’t get one earlier, now’s your chance.