Simplenote is one of my favorite apps on the iPhone, and by far my favorite notetaking app. They have a web service so that you can view and edit any notes you take on your phone from any browser. It was well worth the money I spent on it.

As of Friday, Simplenote is now free, but ad supported. Go download it.

A letter to our users: Simplenote is now free, Simplenote Blog

Making A Living (Barely) On The iPhone App Store is a really great post by Noel Llopis in which he reveals the sales figures for his app, Flower Garden, and describes how marketing, time, and even adding in-app purchases affected his sales figures.

Noel also has one of the best app demo videos that is footage of an actual phone that I've ever seen.

It's hard to beat comic books about an armor wearing, spaceship flying dinosaur.

by Dave Brubeck

Following the band's set-ending performance ofLead Belly's "Where Did You Sleep Last Night", Coletti tried to convince the band to perform an encore. "Kurt said, 'I can't top that last song.' And when he said that, I backed off. 'Cause I knew he was right."

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After fighting with Time Machine a few hours tonight and getting to the point where it looked like I would need to wipe my drive and start all over again, I decided to find a different solution for backing up my Mac. So, I checked out Super Duper! and Carbon Copy Cloner.

They're both great applications, but the fact that Carbon Copy Cloner has most of the paid features of Super Duper! for free (with a donation request attached) settled it for me. I'm now doing incremental backups of my drive as a bootable image, rather than Time Machine's recoverable, but not bootable, backup format.

Every once in a while I'll bump into an issue where Time Machine backups fail, and usually once that happens the problem won't resolve itself when I run the backup again. So, here's what to do when that happens. First, run the following in Terminal:

sudo grep backupd /var/log/system.log

You should see something about the backup failing and the error number. Here's my latest error:

Google the error (there are quite a few of them that can come up), and usually that will tell you how to resolve your problem.

This song had me dancing awkwardly while I did the dishes tonight. Her latest album, like the last, is one of those albums I can listen to over and over again.

Meet Wild Boars is an awesome book about what might happen if you invite Wild Boars to your house. The book has a really conversational style, like Allan Ahlberg's books.