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Tap Forms is a pretty great information manager for the iPhone. It’s got a steep price (for an iPhone app), but it’s worth it.

I love finding these type of gems; great apps with a small (one-man) development team. ✓


The $300 Million Button.

We were wrong about the first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They resented having to register when they encountered the page. As one shopper told us, “I’m not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something.”

(Via Airbag.)  ✓


This article on how to develop locally without using localhost from Noah Stokes has me reconsidering my development workflow. I especially like the live database integration this method allows. ✓


I’m not sure how I missed it, but jQuery 1.3 was released last week.  ✓


How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s Inaugural Address.

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.

It’s a good thing I’m not a Secret Service officer because I would definitely peg a few of those individuals as suspect. ✓


Bohemian Coding has released FontCase 1.0, a $45 font management application with some nice interface mojo.  ✓


John Mayer walks his dad through finding Entourage on his Mac … over the phone. This has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. If you’re reading this blog, chances are you can relate. ✓


Ladies and gentlemen, we may finally have found our iPhone “killer” an iPhone alternative — two years later: the Palm Pre.

It’s got smooth, quick scrolling; a large, bright screen; a responsive, multi-touch interface; and a full hardware, slide-out keyboard.

The smartphone looks like it matches the iPhone features well enough, but its interface is what convinced me they’ve got a winner on their hands. Check out Engadget’s in-depth impressions and photo/video gallery to get a better look.  ✓


Is John Gruber doing VO work for Apple now? Sure sounds like it to me.

(My apologies for the terrible audio edit job.) ✓


TrueFlirt is a forthcoming iPhone app that let’s you send “virtual ‘Flirts’ to the object of your affection”. What makes this app so unique, though, is that it’s built using VixML, an XML-based framework for creating content for iPhone apps. Very intriguing. ✓


Joshua Bryant asked what people use as their TextMate theme, which got me thinking (and Googling). I found this. ✓


EE Insider is a a great, new resource for learning and keeping up with ExpressionEngine. ✓


Sequel Pro, the successor to CocoaMySQL, is a free MySQL database management app for the Mac. ✓


Google tells users to drop IE6. Done.

(Via Nathan Smith.) ✓


Gratitude! from HappyTapper is a “gratitude journal” for the iPhone.

Write down five things you are grateful for each day in your Gratitude Journal and your life with change forever

Great idea and implementation. ✓


Looking for a great sans-serif and serif font pairing? Look no further ✓



To Go from Sean Sperte on Vimeo.  ✓


Faruk Ates shares another great idea how to use Dropbox: for syncing TextMate bundles.

(Posted via TextMate, by the way.) ✓


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