I wrote a pretty great review of Sleevenote for iOS for The Industry, even if I do say so myself.

In short, this is an app for music lovers who really care deeply about their collection. The interface is noteworthy: with a completely black background and no UI chrome at all, the artwork of your albums becomes the interface. I'm a big fan.

(If you read Chasing Perfection because you're an audiophile like myself, be sure to read on to find out how I use Sleevenote on my iOS devices. I use it with iTunes Match in a pretty clever way.)

Volume 1 of the the J.D. Power and Associates 2013 U.S. Tablet Satisfaction Study was released this week, showing Apple at the top of the pile both in overall ranking and significantly outpacing competitors in terms of overall quality. Apple's iPad scored 836 on a 1,000-point scale of owner satisfaction and an industry-best five out of five on the J.D. Power Circle Ratings for Consumers, rating it "among the best" for tablets, a descriptor given to no other manufacturer.

Not bad.

Can’t say I disagree.

Sponsoring Daring Fireball must be a pretty tough pill for Microsoft to swallow.

I bet sponsoring Daring Fireball to promote iOS cloud services is even tougher.

Respect to Microsoft for appropriately sponsoring to push their product, though. It looks pretty solid to me.

I wrote a review of Triage for iPhone for The Industry:

The Email Problem

”I receive way too many emails every single day. I can’t even read a few of them because I feel bad ignoring the others. I wish there was a way to quickly trash the crap and get to the good bits I really want to deal with.”

Sound familiar? Perhaps Triage is the first-aid you need.

I reviewed the Mac counterpart recently. Great app, you should check it out.

I’m reminded of the difference between Apple and Microsoft:

Apple’s products say, “You can’t do that because we think it would suck.”

Microsoft’s products say, “We’ll let you try to do anything on anything if you really want to, even if it sucks.”

Christopher Nolan continues to associate himself with movies which I love. This looks to be no exception. Wow.

Great piece by Dan Frommer:

comScore’s numbers continue to show very little U.S. interest in Windows Phone. It hasn’t tanked as bad as BlackBerry, but Windows Phone subscribers are barely growing. (At least they’re not still shrinking at the moment.)

Still, the momentum Microsoft needs isn’t here. And it doesn’t look like the Surface tablet is helping, either.

On the topic of website design, here’s a redesigned Wired. Gorgeous.

The left part of this image is how reddit looks today. The right side is how reddit should look today — a couple of CSS tweaks have been made to improve readability.

If anyone at reddit is listening, I’m available for hire.

As a reddit user, all the information you need to fix reddit can be found here.

A pretty sweet update for one pretty sweet app. Rego is the address book for your locations.

My favourite part of the 1.1 update? I can now export my locations, just in case.