Manton and Daniel talk more about task-management, the Cheddar app sale, and the value of automating tedious tasks.

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• OmniFocus – Task-management app from The Omni Group.
• TaskPaper – Task-management app from Hog Bay Software.
• Folding Text – Superpowered plain-text editor app.
• Free OmniFocus – OmniFocus 1.0 license code for all to use until 2.0 is release.
• Scrivener – Dedicated prose writer’s app for Mac OS X.
• Cheddar For Sale – Task-management app up for asset-sale by Sam Soffes.
• Cheddar Open Source – MIT-licensed source code for Cheddar Mac and iOS clients.
• Founders Talk #38 – Part 1 of a 3-part interview with Sam Soffes, developer of Cheddar.
• Screenshot Lightning – Post from Daniel’s blog about automated screenshot capture.
• Campaign Monitor – Email-delivery service with template features.

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Manton and Daniel talk about valuing apps for acquisition, CocoaPods source module management, and following through on uncompleted projects.

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• Cheddar is For Sale – Announcement of availability for acquisition of To-Do application.
• Sam Soffes – Developer of Cheddar. Also on Twitter.
• AppShopper – App Store search site showing historical availability and pricing.
• Friday Q&A – Technical blog from Mike Ash, possessor of insights.
• Sortfolio Going Once… – 37signals announcement that Sortfolio could be bought for $480K.
• Brent Simmons – Original developer of MarsEdit and all around popular guy,
• CocoaPods – Objective-C source code module dependency management.
• Eloy Durán – Collection of tweets from the creator of CocoaPods.
• Ship Everything – Manton’s post espousing a general philosophy of working only on things you will ship.
• Merlin Mann on 1.0 – “You can try that stuff you read about in magazines later.”
• Application Acquisition – 2008 talk by Daniel with tips about acquiring and selling software projects.

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Daniel and Manton talk Android on the desktop, consistency of programming languages, and various approaches to to-do list management.

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• TwUI – Twitter’s open source Mac UI framework.
• Chameleon – Iconfactory’s open source Mac UI framework.
• Google Web Toolkit – Google’s framework for building JavaScript-backed sites from Java source.
• Node.js – Streamlined JavaScript based web-development platform.
• Taskpaper – Simple To-Do app from Hog Bay Software.
• Getting Things Done – The productivity methodology by David Allen.
• OmniFocus – To-Do management software from The Omni Group.
• 43 Folders – Merlin Mann’s dormant blog about productivity and creativity.
• Back To Work – Merlin Mann’s podcast recently re-focused on Getting Things Done.
• Asana – To-Do management system for teams.
• Things – To-Do management software from Cultured Code.
• Trello – To-Do management and project organization service from Fog Creek.
• Lose It! – Calorie-counting software for iOS from FitNow, Inc.
• Forget Feature Requests – Chapter from 37signals’s Getting Real about ignoring feature requests.

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Manton and Daniel talk about Macworld’s Eddy Awards, the rollout of Twitter’s tweet archives, and developing Safari extensions.

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• Macworld Eddys – The 2012 winners of the Macworld editor’s choice awards.
• Some winners we mentioned:
  • Tweetbot – Mac Twitter client from Tapbots.
  • Coda – Mac website building tool from Panic.
  • MacJournal – Mac diary and blogging app from Mariner Software.
• appFigures Featured Report – A tool to easily monitor app store features.
• Scaling Crashlytics – Slides on how Crashlytics uses Redis.
• Download All Tweets – The Next Web on Twitter’s rollout of full-archive downloads.
• Tweet Library – Manton’s Twitter client and personal tweet archival tool.
• ThinkUp – Social network content analysis tool from Gina Trapani and crew.
• WordPress Tweet Importers – Internal call from WordPress developers to support importing Tweet archives.
• Tweet Marker – Manton’s web service for tweet sync with new $1/month subscription.
• Safari Extensions – Development documentation from Apple.

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Daniel and Manton discuss working while sick, how not to change a light bulb, Twitter photo filters, Flickr, and a question about organizing shared code.

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• How to remove a broken light bulb — The potato trick.
• Twitter adds photo filters — New app uses the Aviary SDK.
• Biz Stone “Systrom Failure” — Tweet from the Twitter co-founder.
• Om Malik writes about Twitter — What is Twitter’s core competency?
• Flickr’s new iOS app — Completely redesigned.
• 500px — Popular new photo sharing site.
• Marissa Mayer removing the ® — “Legal assures us that our trademark is implied and quite secure.”
• Beanstalk project hosting — Subversion, Git, and Mercurial.
• CocoaPods — Library management for Objective-C.
• iOS-framework — GitHub project and documentation.

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Daniel and Manton discuss the end of The Daily newspaper app,  trademark infringing copycat apps, and using a shared family computer for work purposes.

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• News Corporation PR – Press release including announcement of The Daily’s ceasing publication.
• The Daily Failed – Marco Arment’s take on the end of The Daily.
• Evening Edition – Digest of world news from the folks at Mule Design.
• Tweetmarks to Tweet Marker – Manton’s tweet noting his product renaming based on trademark conflict.
• Watermark Trademarks – An example of the variety of trademarks based on a common word.
• Dropbox – File sharing service mentioned in context of using whatever computer do do one’s work.
• iTunes Match – Apple’s subscription-based cloud music syncing service.
• PowerTunes – Fat Cat Software’s application for managing multiple iTunes libraries.

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Manton and Daniel chat about Thanksgiving aftermath, Manton’s harrowing database failure, and the pros and cons of zip vs. dmg in Mac app distribution.

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Links for the show:

• Tofurky Feast – Classic vegetarian alternative to Thanksgiving turkey.
• Amazon EBS – Elastic block storage cloud service from Amazon.
• Redis – Open source key-value store used by Manton in Watermark.
• NUCLiOS App – iOS catalog of various UI solutions from NUCLiOS.

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Daniel and Manton talk more about passwords and security, the value of marketing for increasing revenue, and the loss of some favorite podcasts.

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Links for this show:

• Kill the Password – Mat Honan’s Wired article about the ineffectiveness of passwords.
• Hacking My AOL Account – Daniel’s post confirming the ease of hacking his own account.
• Beef Up Password Security – Article from Brian Krebs on improvements companies can make to password security.
• How to Get Good at Making Money – Jason Fried’s article for Inc on becoming more profitable.
• Making time for marketing – Manton’s post reflecting on Fried’s article.
• Build and Analyze Ending – Marco Arment’s post announcing the end of Build and Analyze.
• Hypercritical will end at episode 100 – The tweet from John Siracusa that says it all.

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Manton and Daniel discuss the handling of critical App Store bug fixes, the evolution of App.net, and the challenge of preventing and detecting server-side hacking.

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Links for this show:

• Stream Marker – New Tweet Marker-style timeline sync service from App.net.
• Netbot – App.net client app from Tapbots.
• Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive – Cloud-based storage services.
• Tripwire – Unix-based security tool for detecting changes to files.
• My Epic Hacking – Mat Honan’s terrible ordeal being hacked on many fronts.

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Daniel and Manton talk more about new iPads and iPhones, the recent corporate shakeup at Apple, and Manton’s recent switch away from PayPal.

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Links for this show:

• Another Billion Dollars – Horace Dediu of Asymco on Apple’s weekend of iPad sales.
• Identical Cousins 5 – Podcast from Brent and Michael Simmons discussing executive changes at Apple.
• Apple, Attentions & Competition – Om Malik on Forstall: “Steve’s guy, not Steve Jobs.”
• Stripe – Payment processing service with developer-friendly features.
• I ♥ Stripe – Dan Wood of Karelia on switching to Stripe.
• Ross Boucher – Early employee of Stripe and a co-founder of 280 North.

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