From Lifehacker:

Remember The Milk is a free on-line to-do list management service. It has all the features you’d expect from this sort of site: multiple lists, priorities, due-dates, repeating tasks, etc. Then it adds the cool stuff.

I knew Remember The Milk was something special during the signup process. It’s the best signup form I’ve seen yet — A wonderful ajax implementation.

I created my account, logged in, and things only got better. I’ve been longing for a better online task management system for a while. Ta-da List never quite did it for me. This web application is so freakin’ intuitive — there’s way too many features to list here. See ‘em for yourself. Best of all: Totally Free!

Seriously, go sign up! And feel free to add me as a contact. My username is “summerville” …

The new Video iPod is out. Looks cool and all, but I don’t plan on trading in my iPod Photo anytime soon.

The importance of the new Apple announcement lies in the release of iTunes 6, specifically the ability to buy television shows. Finally, a revenue model for IPTV is beginning to appear.

With the poplularity of TiVO and Media Centers, and cable companies offering DVRs, the days of the 30 second commercial as we know it are numbered. Minus sports and important events, I hardly ever watch “Live TV” anymore. Instead, I record everything I want to watch and always skip through the commercials.

iTunes 6 offers a way for broadcasters to make money in lieu of selling advertising. Are all TV shows there? Of course not. Is it the best quality video? No. And obviously, you have to watch the show on your computer via Quicktime, or on your new Video iPod. The important part is that iTunes makes it easy to purchase and watch a TV show legally.

This is very new and very cool stuff — and it won’t be long before others jump on board. What I’d like to see is the ability to buy TV shows from a couch, with a remote, and watch them on a television. Cable companies already offer On-Demand movies — why not TV shows as well?

Be sure to check out Mark Cuban’s “How Bob Iger Saved Network TV” if you’re interested in this kind of thing.

I’m at the October IPSA meeting where this month’s special guest is Macromedia. Greg Rewis, Macromedia’s Chief Web Technologies Evangelist, is giving us a look at many of the new features packed into Studio 8 and demonstrating the tools and tricks that will make our design and development workflows more efficient.

Flash 8

• Garbage collection cleans up unused resources automatically (similar to Java) which enables much better performance and faster play time.
• Vectors are converted to images during movie playback so the entire screen does not have to be redrawn on each frame.
• New video codec = much better video quailty
• Alpha channel support in videos! Overlay a video with a transparent background over any other object.
• Automatic update of Flash Player on any platform/browser combination
• Full control over anti-aliasing of text makes small text easier to read and less “fuzzy.”
• “Skin” the Flash movie controls. Comes with over 30 default skins or you can create your own really easily.

Dreamweaver 8

• No more “inline” CSS is generated when using the GUI editor. Instead, an appropriate selector or div is created and the CSS code is placed in the head or external stylesheet.
• Layout outlines let you easily “see” all of the different layers. Zoom in super close to get your spacing and such exactly like you want it.
• Just as you can zoom in, you can also zoom out to view an entire page as a whole.
• Mouse over an object to view all sorts of CSS properties about it while in GUI mode.
• When an object is selected, a synopsis view lets you see every rule - not just the rules for that particular div, etc. - that applies to that object.
• Select a media type (print, handheld, etc.) when creating a link to a style sheet. View content using the print stylesheet (or any other associated style sheet) to preview how a page will look when printed.
• XSL - eXstensible Stylesheet Language. Create styles for an XML file to match your page/site, then bind the XML feed into a page. Full tag hinting/code completion for coding of XSL.
• Code View - Expand/collapse sections of code that you aren’t using.

Greg also notes that if you have any version of Studio, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, or Freehand, you can upgrade to Studio 8 for $399.

After reading Linking iPods and Car Radios over at PCMag.com about the options available for hooking up an iPod to a car stereo, I figured I share my solution since I recently integrated my 60GB iPod Photo in my 4Runner.

Being a bit of a stereo connoisseur, I’ve spent a decent amount of money on my car’s audio system. The most important thing to me was finding a solution that would do it justice.

First I tried the easy way out and bought an FM Transmitter. I picked up the Monster iCarPlay from Best Buy for 70 bucks - a little more pricey than some other models - because it received good reviews. Let me just say that FM Transmitters suck! Reception was in and out, every nuance of static was amplified through my speakers, and it just plain sounded like crap. I returned it 2 days later.

I have a Pioneer deck and I’d heard about the CD-IB100 iPod interface adapter. Having the artist name and song title show up on the head unit would be awesome, but after some research, I learned that while connected, you can no longer use the iPod screen and Click Wheel to navigate the iPod. You have to use the head unit controls, which bottom-line is slow. Sure it’d sound great, but it would take forever to navigate through 10,000 songs. No way.

The Solution

I went with the SiK imp In-Car Charger/Line-Out which has both a 3.5mm stereo (miniplug) line-out jack and a car charger too. I used the Soundgate AUXCBLPIO Pioneer IP-Bus to RCA connector to convert my head unit’s CD Changer hookup into standard RCA inputs. Then I went to Radio Shack and picked up a Miniplug to RCA adapter.

SiK imp In-Car Charger/Line-Out

After tucking the wires away neatly and leaving a little bit of slack, I now have an in-car solution that’s easy to use, sounds freakin’ awesome, and’ll charge my iPod. Perfect!

Cost

• SiK imp: $29.95
• Soundgate AUXCBLPIO: $9.99
• Adapter: $5.99

So for under 50 bucks, my solution is a lot cheaper and sounds a million times better than the $70 Monster iCarPlay.

Well it seems the big news of the day is the launch of 37signals‘ new product, Writeboard. Lots are already talking about it - here’s my quick 2 cents.

It’s alright. Sure it’s nice that it only takes half a second to create a new writeboard, and it’s got the standard no-frills, let’s get down to business interface, but I really don’t have any use for it. Eh, maybe one day…

You really have to give it to 37signals though. They’re one of the most talked about “Web 2.0″ companies and are obviously well respected by the masses. I mean, look at all they hype their getting for a -dare I say- mediocre product.