I love the concept of applications on my mobile device and the ability to expand the functionality to meet my needs. Nobody has really done that successfully since the Palm phones and it’s great to see a modern take on that.

Although there’s a lot of crap in the store, the quality of the applications has been steadily increasing in the past weeks. My current favorites are Twinkle, Things (once it gets sync), Remote, Pennies, and Wordpress.

Very useful for all those hard to remember user defaults. And good for discovering new ones too!

I just installed it and it seems to work quite nicely. Thanks guys.

The only limitation for me is that it’s hard to write long posts or add links on the iPhone. That has nothing to do with their plugin however. Just lack of copy/paste and fast typing on the device.

Note: This was all typed on the iPhone interface but the links were added on the laptop afterwards. Lesson is to only use the phone for quick entries with limited or no links.

The idea behind the service is simple: to backup people’s entire music collection online. It doesn’t seem like they have limits for how many GB of data they store but the service is 99$/year which will probably have a limited customer base. Online music backup has been discussed by other people in the past so there is definitely a market for it.

Bandwagon posted some screenshots of their interface as well which looks simple and nicely organized.

The one weird thing about the product that I can’t figure out is why they don’t aim for a more general backup platform. For instance, I could see the need for similar backup functionality for iPhoto. It would make it more enticing to customers to have a more complete online backup solution, rather than a bunch of unique specialized ones. Something like “iLife Backup”?

Anyway, all of this is speculation at this time, since I haven’t tried the actual service. They’re shipping on February 22nd; after that, I’ll write a fuller review.

Update: Well the service ended up being a dud. They’ve dropped it and started one where the user provides their own storage online. Pretty lame!

I also liked the automatic uploading of images as you drag them into an article. Something MarsEdit could learn from.

That’s why I was really pleased when I heard about Radiant CMS today. I gave it a quick spin and it seems like it’s doing everything right (ie simple enough to work). Very nice interface.

I can’t wait till they release a 1.0 product!

Well this is as much Macromedia’s Adobe’s fault (for using a crappy installer) as the maker of said installer.

Could this be any less helpful? How about telling me the name of the file with the bad permissions? Or how about letting me authenticate to nuke those permissions?

Grr!

Check it out.

Up to now, I had my computer setup so that one of the hot corners would trigger the screensaver. The screensaver would require a password and voila! But it turns out that I don’t like screensavers much and I would always manage to accidentally trigger the hot corner.

When I saw Lock-It, I realized that a Dashboard widget is the perfect solution. However, that particular implementation didn’t appeal to me much. It was too big and the graphic wasn’t properly alpha blended. I tried to fix it up using different images. In the end, gave up and started from scratch. Heh, it’s a good way to learn about Dashboard! As it turns out, it was really quick and easy to get going.

Locker is the end product. Get it while it’s hot!