Never forget the last point.

Speaking of websites that provide a valuable product, Ars Technica launched version 7.0 today, and it looks fantastic.

I was going to write up some thoughts about this piece by Ben Brooks (and Stephen Hackett’s response), but Macdrifter did an excellent job:

But here’s the thing, it’s not the reader’s problem. It’s capitalism. Provide a valuable product that is unavailable somewhere else and people will pay for it. If they don’t, then I guess it wasn’t valuable enough. Maybe all they think a site is worth is a split second of looking at an ad. Maybe they can find that same link or analysis on a dozen other WordPress sites.

I couldn’t agree more. Read the whole post here.

Nice utility to extract graphics (and other resources) from .webarchive files with a folder structure. Works great with Apple.com webpages. [via Klein Maetschke]

I don’t usually link to infographics, but this one by Sortable is very nice, and it reports up-to-date numbers and other cool tidbits.

Nice new site featuring Retina-ready iPad wallpapers. They accept original submissions here.

Macdrifter:

I’d prefer if Evernote went Full Monty with these acquisitions. Integrate Sktich image editing into Evernote. Provide direct support for Penultimate sketching in Evernote. Both of these apps have overlap with the reasons I want to use the Evernote app. I’d like Evernote to stop buying sharing buttons and start buying Evernote enhancements.

Following yesterday’s news of Evernote acquiring Penultimate, I wrote:

With the acquisition of Penultimate, it’ll be interesting to see whether Evernote will also make changes to its own iPad app to include deeper integration with the standalone handwriting software, and if the main Evernote interface will gain new filtering tools to better organize text notes and handwritten ones (which already support optical character recognition for search when saved to Evernote).

I am a big fan of Evernote – I use the service every day – and I was...

Reminds me of the “iDish” article from July 2010 for some reason, which, to date, is the weirdest thing we’ve published on MacStories.

The demo video posted by iDownloadBlog looks already very solid and well-implemented.

Remember how Apple hired MobileNotifier’s Peter Hajas right ahead of WWDC last year?

John neatly summarizes the issue with the iPad’s software keyboard in response to a concept video that’s been making the rounds this week:

Once you get used to it, the iPad keyboard isn’t bad for typing, but no matter how acclimated you are it’s poor for editing. It’s fiddly, slow, and (because you have to take a hand off the keyboard) disruptive to select text.

Like I said, I think Hooper’s proposed solution makes a lot of sense:

By allowing users to tap and swipe on the keyboard, this system could, in theory, allow for faster selection, also in combination with keys like Shift. Almost every area of iOS now supports taps and swipes: why not the keyboard?

A popular argument I’ve heard from those who don’t think Apple should ever consider an implementation similar to this is that it would break the metaphor of directly manipulating text on screen. Which is true, and which is also...