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I’ve got ~7 weather apps for iOS but this got me all excited. There’s something about holding a device in your hand that trumps the download.

Popped the batteries in, placed the sensor on the North side of the house and now we can tell, at a glance, the weather outside and the weather inside. No need to locate the iPhone, find the weather app, and wait for it to provide the answer.

Now, I’ve actually nothing against PairNIC. So, why am I moving? Two reasons, mainly.

1. The interface on Hover is much more modern and usable.
2. Hover tweets all the time and I kinda like hearing from my registrar.

So, tonight I took advantage of a discount code and saved some dough. I painlessly transferred four domains over to Hover and plan to let the others expire.

As part of a productivity bundle, I now own Tags, a Mac app dedicated to tagging everything including web pages, emails, files, and more.

The thing is, I find that I have tags all over the place now, and I wonder if there is more cohesion to be found in the world of tagging.

For instance, I am viewing a web page and would like to recall it at a later date. Typically, I would save it to my pinboard and add a tag. Now that I’m using the Tags app, do I tag it with Tags instead of sending it to my pinboard? Similarly, when I’m in Mail, I typically tag items with MailTags. Now, should I stop that and just use Tags?

Another issue is that I use a MacBook Air at home and a Mac Mini at work. I’m fairly certain that the tags I save with the Tags app are only ‘good’ on the machine I’m currently using. I guess it wouldn’t make sense to have my tags synced up necessarily so that’s fine.

Trying to find a suitable tagging workflow.

I’ve used various timers for this purpose. Currently, I’m using My Little Pomodoro, a Mac app and I like it. I have it set to change my IM status to busy with a custom message, ‘In the zone’.

OK, my five minute break is up. Got to get back to work!

It’s a cape cod style home with lots of custom-built work done by the previous owners. There are two redwood trees just outside the front door and one in the backyard. The yard is huge and there are fruit trees. The place is equipped with solar panels which brings the cost of electric down ridiculously low. And the master bedroom has a huge jacuzzi tub.

There’s more I could say about the place but suffice it to say that we are so excited and can’t wait to move in. The movers arrive next week.

One thing I don’t have in place is a solid way to manage the relationships between my clients and the projects I work on with them. My low-tech solution to this is by keeping track of the projects I’ve worked on in the notes field of Address Book. It works but is by no means a very good solution.

So, that’s what I’m doing with Daylite now. Instead of tracking the project in the notes field of Address Book, I now use Daylite to track projects and contacts associated with those projects. I don’t use tasks, calendar, etc. in Daylite. Overkill? Yes. Does it work? Yes. Does it work better than the low-tech solution of entering project names into the notes field in Address Book? Yes. But it is a lot more work.

Daylite is nice because it has a slick iOS app. So, I can see my projects and contacts sorted nicely when I’m away from my Mac. It’s working out well thus far. We’ll see if I stick with it though. All the extra clicks that Daylite makes me go through gets a bit tiresome.

I wish there was a Daylite Lite. If I could customize the interface to remove all the stuff I’m not using, that would be ideal. If they could somehow minimize the number of clicks and steps it takes to add projects and associate contacts, I’d be happy.

Well done. The app took me a bit to figure out at first. The interface, though somewhat sparse, has lots of little icons that don’t really make sense to me. For instance, a little circle represents unplayed podcasts. Once the podcast has been played, the circle gets filled in. Only by touching the circle repeatedly was I able to figure out its purpose. The same goes for other interface elements.

However, I’ve been using it for a few weeks now and I think I’ve figured out everything I need to in order to get the most out of the app.

Why do I like it? Well, for one thing, it gets my podcasts out of my iTunes library. Personally, I prefer music to only exist in my library so outsourcing the podcatching to a dedicated app is nice.

Also, it’s easy to discover podcasts and subscribe to them. Just scroll through the categories, genres, etc.

I like that I can easily download older episodes too. And being able to quickly remove a podcast once I’m done listening to it is great, especially on my 8GB iPod Touch.

The app is inexpensive. A couple bucks I believe. Check it out if you listen to podcasts.

For now, this only happens for those reading my posts in an RSS reader. When I get around to it, I’ll update my site’s theme to behave similarly. For now, those who visit my site will have to click on a link embedded in the post itself. Kind of a bother for me since I have to remember to add the link within the post as well as the custom field.

Here’s the Daring Fireball-style linked list plugin for WordPress.