Oh, man, I'm so glad someone is doing this. If you want to see the apps we recommend each week on MacBreak Weekly, now you're good to go:

I've just acquired an iPod touch and I'm in love.

One small issue, though. I've added a bundle of addresses in the past few weeks using the touch, but only yesterday did I realise that they could be placed in groups if you were IN the group already when you started adding the new entry. So there's a whole load of ungrouped entries in my (frighteningly big) address book.

The logical thing would be to make a smart group for stuff that, say, isn't in a dumb group. But I couldn't see a smart group option for that. Any bright ideas?

Apologies if I'm a little cranky, but I've suffered two hard drive crashes in as many weeks, and while I was able to recover somewhat gracefully, the aggravation of watching plodding status bars for hours on end while I wait for my data to load has been unbearable. Fortunately, my wife has employed Bobby Knight-proof safety features in our home office and chained everything to the desk, or else I would have chucked it all out the window.

But since I'm finally back online, I wanted to give a tip of the binder clip to three little programs that saved my bacon during these past two weeks, one crowd favorite and two lowly OS X utilities:

Jeremy Wagstaff has posted some quotes I’d sent about paper, notebooks, and the Moleskine phenomenon. Although I hadn’t intended it as an actual essay, it more or less works together.

http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/index.html

Wow... trust me, just stop what you are doing, download the Leap Beta and spend 15 minutes playing around. Not sure what the performance will be on older machines, but it works great on the MBP 2.2GHz with 2GB of RAM. With apps like this, Leopard's new Finder seems less necessary than it did before.

Tagging, a better Get Info that shows all metadata, Spotlight integration, great options in the right-click menu, etc....

Enjoy!

Peace, Todd Russell http://groovechickenstudios.com

USATODAY.com - CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

I was a busboy in junior high and high school and a waiter in college, and I hardily concur that the behavior of a restaurant patron can unintentionally reveal loads about their character.

Talking blog stats is dull, tacky stuff, so I usually avoid it like the plague. But here’s a couple data points you might find interesting.

I would like to poll the masses on how to create really smart playlists in iTunes for use on flash-memory based iPods. How can you set up the playlist so that you select songs from your library and replace them upon syncing after listening to a given track. Making the smart playlists is easy- however I can't get the songs to replace upon syncing.

Recent remaindered links you might enjoy:

• The best time to post to MeFi is between 2 and 3 EST. | MetaFilter - Great MeFi post on the best times to do certain stuff: to buy, to eat, to travel -- even when to give birth.
• The Doorknob Condition ensures privacy - Geekologie - Clever design puts your need for privacy into stark functional terms.
• Nelson's Weblog: tech / iphone / switches - "You can measure the disaster of cell phone UI by how many button presses it takes to silence the damn ringer."
• Getting Things Done, in Emacs - Emacs implementation of GTD [via Anarchaia]
• Parents' stress and sleep deprivation can be a danger to children - "Always place something in the backseat...that requires you to open the back door every time you park." (scroll down) Life-saving life hacks in the sidebar for a tragic story.
• michael-mccracken.net » Processing Email - "[If] you’re really just tracking bugs, use a bug tracker. If you’re coordinating things in real time, use IMs or IRC." True dat, Michael. (and c.f.)
• ATPM 13.03 - Review: ScanSnap S500m - Ed's review of the ScanSnap for OS X is thorough and includes great workflow tips.
• Roo Reynolds: Merlin Mann’s tech talk - Roo Reynolds has written up a detailed set of notes based on my Inbox Zero talk. Thanks, Roo!