Today I purchased a Incase Slider case for my iPhone. I’ve been wanting one for a while now. The slider case looks really cool and it fits the iPhone like a glove. I paid $34.95 at the Apple store, which was priced comparably to the online stores that I looked at. However, it took me a long while to rationalize the price of $34.95 plus tax, for a $.50 piece of plastic. That price is 1/3 the price of the iPhone 3G. I felt ripped off for paying that much, but I needed/wanted a case and really couldn’t find anything that was comparable, for a lesser price. I probably would have felt a little better about paying that price, if I had at least received good service at the Apple store.

Anybody want to start a iPhone/iPod accessory company that doesn’t rip
off the consumer?

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I’ve been using Things from Culture Code for the last 15 days. I had been meaning to try this app for quite sometime but hadn’t gotten around to it. I had/have been using 30boxes for managing my tasks, but needed something more. I’m still a huge 30boxes calendar fan, and feel that it’s way superior to GCal. But, the tasks are a bit limited and I can’t access it with my mobile. Anyway, so I finally, downloaded Things, and did their 15 day trial. I think it’s a great app, but it’s lacking a web interface and it’s a bit expensive. I had full intentions to purchase the Things license but after thinking about the price, I felt it was a bit much. I noticed that in the past, they had offered some discounts/coupon codes but I couldn’t find anything current online. I decided to email Culture Code to see if they could offer me any kind of incentive. They sent a nice response, but had nothing to offer me. Oh well, I tried. So, now I’ve moved on and am trying out Todoist, which, at first glance is really nice. If someone has a Things coupon code for me, send it my way. Otherwise, I think I’ll wait for them to lower their price and/or add a web version. Maybe todoist will win me over. What do you use to manage your tasks?

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I’ve been using WAZE for the last couple of days. Love it. It’s a free turn-by-turn navigation app for your mobile phone. It’s even more than navigation, it’s also a Social app that makes it fun to report traffic news where you live. It works on all the popular mobile devices (iPhone, android etc). You can get all the details here.

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I’ve been using postbox since they released their first public version It’s a great email app, built on top of Mozilla. Today I gave them money for their 1.0 version. If you use Postbox or want to try it. You can get $10 off by clicking on the coupon below.

If gmail would ever do imap for external accounts, I would need any other email client. Anyone know if this is in the works?

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Susan Payton did a nice write up on setting up a Facebook Fan page for your company. I think every company should have a Facebook Fan page. Twitter is not necessary for everyone, but Facebook is.

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Another TC50 Sarah Lacy interview, this time with Y Combinator’s Paul Graham. If you get a chance, you should mozy over to Paul’s site and read all of his essays.

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Check out Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on Colbert.

You can read some of the latest on the Twitter/Google deal here, here and here.