Brian from SolutionWatch guest stars in this week’s roundup. Thanks Brian! And of course, we give ya more link love than you can shake a stick at!
AppTrap - Don’t feel like coughing up the dough for the popular Mac uninstaller, AppZapper? Then meet AppTrap, an application much like AppZapper, only simpler and completely seamless. Oh, and did I mention it’s free? Just drag an application to the trash and AppTrap will automatically ask if you want to remove all associated files too. Simple!
Inventoids - Steve invents things while travelling to work on the train. He sketches them in his moleskine notebooks. Instead of actually making them (and becoming a billionaire overnight) he posts them here for the good of mankind.
Sketchcast : Why Interaction Design Matters - Richard Ziade explains in this sketchcast why interaction design matters from a marketing perspective. If you haven’t heard of sketchcasting before, be sure to check out more of Richard’s videos and his introduction of the concept over at sketch.basement.org.
Salsa Amazon S3 Browser - Finally, an Amazon S3 file browser that works with both PC and Mac. (Download found half way down the page. Adobe AIR runtime required)
Motion 3: Finger tracking - Learn how to use Motion 3’s motion tracking and particle system to create neat light drawing effects, similar to the effect used in this Sprint commercial. Now, if only I can get a computer powerful enough to run Motion 3 
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Snitter Twitter Client - Snitter is a new Adobe AIR based application developed by Jonathan Snook that lets you post to Twitter and keep up with the latest tweets from friends.
Struggling Musician’s Toolkit - It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. Musicians are struggling more than ever. The upside is we have more professional tools available to us than ever before. Here’s an assemblage of some of the best resources online for the independent musician by Read/Write Web. Make good use of these tools and one day you may be able to quit your day job.
The Puppet Master by Robert X. Cringley - You probably don’t have to be told about the contraversial price drop of iPhones by Apple. What you may not know is how ingenious, and likely well-planned that move was, far beyond the free publicity it would generate. I usually don’t post time-sensitive news items like this in the roundup, but it’s less about the actual news and more about the marketing brilliance of this move
Task-Centered User Interface Design - Free textbook for designing User Interfaces with a focus on the user, testing, and evaluation.
AskMetaFilter - Best Books for Beginners - So you want an easy-to-understand introduction to electrical engineering, or philosophy, or public radio production? Here’s a decent list of some of the best introductory books for a wide range of fields.
oSkope - Very cool visual searching tool for Flickr, YouTube, Ebay, and Amazon, with more services on the way.
Whole Foods Recipes - Indian Dal - I can personally vauge for this recipe as my wife made it last week. Vegetarian. Nourishing. Tasty. Quick. Serve with rice or nan.
Leave Nothing - I’m not usually won over by nike commercials (or any commercial for that matter) but the Nike “leave nothing” ad I saw this past Sunday while watching football is beautiful. The link is to a flash site so I have to tell ya how to navigate to see the video for the commercial. First, visit the link, then go to Media on the main nav. Once you’re there look for the Videos sub nav on the right and click on that. It’s pretty darn amazing.
How Much Does Your Commute Really Cost You? Calculate It - Then Kill It? - If you enjoyed Tim Ferriss’s book “The Four Hour Work Week” then you’ll appreciate this reader’s contribution to Tim’s blog. Makes ya think once you do the numbers.
Freezy Freakies Commercial - Summer is over and time to start thinking about winter gloves. You know you could use a pair of some good ‘ol freezy freakies.
Original Documents Online - a good lookin’ repository for archived documents. I recently found myself peeking at The Investigations of Frank Lloyd Wright. Some interesting stuff in here once you start poking around.
Windows Live Translator - A few months back we mentioned that Google’s got one so now it’s time for Microsoft to bring it. Now how do you say “bring it” in French? Oh, that’s right - l’apporter. For some reason I’m gonna assume that doesn’t translate well.
Jason Fried, 37signals - interesting interview with Jason Fried of 37Signals. Listen hard…he has some great stuff to say regarding productivity.
reStructuredText to Anything - a django app that can take rsta style markup and turn it into any document type you want (well, not any just yet but a few like pdf, html, etc). The about page gives you some good reasons as to why and what’s ahead.