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My friends at Serious Eats have just launched a new version of their site, with help from my favorite design firm/teeshirt shop, Mule Design. Serious Eats is one of my favorite sites on the internets. Their model is similar to our model at Offsprung - provide great content, and intermingle it with the best stuff that the community members create. This new design is a simpler to use and understand, and I think it’ll be the beginning of the big time for the Eaters.

I would love it if someone would create a drag and drop interface to Google Docs for the Mac akin to the Flickr Uploadr. I get Word and Excel documents from a wide variety of sources, and they usually end up on my desktop. I’d love to be able to just drop them on an icon in my dock and have them magically sent to Google, with the option of adding a few tags on the way out. Can someone make that for me? OK, thanks, bye!

I don’t want to rant ad nausea about the iPhone, but I must say that it comes pretty close to my adolescent dreams of having my very own copy of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, especially after I installed this desktop picture. It fits conveniently in my pocket, it can wirelessly access the entire known universe of information, and it says DON’T PANIC on the cover in large, friendly letters. I just need a Wikipedia button on the home screen so that I can look up Vogons and Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters with a just swoosh of my finger. It would also be great if someone were to make iPod friendly video rips of all the Guide videos from the TV series and movie so I could explain babelfish to people AND show off my phone at the same time.

So get on that, internets.

I spent an hour or two last night adding channels to SaveToPhone. Now, when you add a link or a note, you can specify a channel too. SaveToPhone will remember the last channel you worked on, so when you add links using the bookmarklet, they’ll automatically be filed properly. Then, when you visit your list on the phone, everything will be waiting for you, just the way you like it.

Make new channels for trips you take (then file all the maps and confirmation numbers you need to take with you), or use it to file notes and links for different projects. EXCITING, I know.