Great presentation by Evan Doll at Stanford University about the iPad and designing apps for it. (iTunes U Link)

Me, back in 2006, after one of many bad experiences at “The Shack”:

I was on a mission. I approached the front door cautiously. I glanced up, and there they were watching me. Staring at me. Anticipating my arrival. Just waiting for me to open the door. I had been here before, so I knew what was going to happen. But there was something inside that doorway that I needed, so I reached for the door. But before I could turn back, a bell rang, and I heard those words. Those words that I dread to hear. Those words that haunt me in my sleep.

“Welcome to RadioShack. How may I help you?”

It doesn’t matter what the store is called, I’ll still feel this way when I walk into it.

I don’t understand. “The Shack” does not sound like a nice place to go. Actually, come to think of it, the name fits the store perfectly.

My new iPhone app for poets and songwriters — a text editor with built-in access to an online rhyming dictionary. Jot down your lyric ideas on the go. Get it for $1.99 on the iTunes App Store.

MobileMe News:

The promise boils down to this: whenever you go to your inbox and other folders, no matter from where, things will be exactly as you last left them, no matter from where.

When Gmail started offering IMAP access, I switched from POP3 immediately. Obviously, IMAP is perfect if you want to keep the same hierarchy of mailboxes and messages on more than one device. But even if you only ever read and write mail from one computer, IMAP serves as an online backup. If the hard drive in your computer were to go bad, you won’t lose any of your mail, because it’s all on the server.

Tapulous:

The first-ever special edition of Tap Tap Revenge, featuring 13 tracks from the last two Nine Inch Nails albums, The Slip and Ghosts I-IV. Put your rhythmic skills to the test, tapping and shaking your way through 13 tracks hand picked by Trent Reznor himself.

This game is incredible.

Awesome.

They look amazing, and they’re aluminum and glass. No surprises there. The most interesting thing to me is the new trackpad. There’s no longer a separate button. Instead, the entire trackpad is a button. Brilliant. Why didn’t someone think of this before?

In this CNBC video clip, David Pogue explains refurbished electronics and where to buy them.

New version of Panic’s all-in-one plain-text/CSS-editor/FTP-client aimed at web developers.

A year ago, when I wrote about Coda 1.0, I dismissed it because it didn’t have a WYSIWYG editor, and didn’t allow FTP syncing. Even though these features are still missing, I use Coda frequently. I’ve realized that WYSIWYG and FTP sync weren’t really as important as I originally thought, and that Coda is indeed an awesome IDE for web developers.