My friends Chris Liscio and Daniel Sandler have joined forces for a very cool new product called TapeDeck.

What is TapeDeck? Well, as those of you old enough to remember tapes can guess, it’s essentially a very simple audio recorder which embraces with gusto the tape cassette metaphor. It’s pretty fun to watch the wheels of a cute little “virtual tape” turn as you record your mental notes, a riff on the guitar, whatever.

Back in the OS 9 days, Apple used to ship a default audio recorder in the system preferences, so you could easily record your own system beeps, etc. Since then, it’s been remarkably hard to “just grab some audio” in a quick and painless manner. TapeDeck might be the new solution for this problem in my day to day workflow.

Congrats, Chris and Daniel, on a very well done 1.0.

Advenio software today released MacGourmet 2.3, an update to its recipe management and generally impressive kitchen cooking helper.

Among the added goodies is a feature to allow easily sending a recipe from your catalog over to MarsEdit for easy blogging. If you run a food related blog, or just a personal blog which would occasionally benefit from an epicurean boost, this should greatly ease your workflow!

I love the idea of 3rd party applications using MarsEdit to bring the easy blogging to their users. In the future I’ll be looking at ways to offer improved mechanisms to other developers so that the process can be even more streamlined and customized.

Blogger announced today that they now officially support scheduled posting.

What does this mean for MarsEdit users? It means the nifty future posting technique that I described in a previous blog post will now work with Blogger.

In short, all you have to do is set the date (from the Post menu -> Edit Date) before you send your post to the server, and if it’s in the future, Blogger will automatically delay publishing of the post until that time. This brings Blogger’s behavior in this regard into line with WordPress, which also supports implied future posting by date. You’re next, Movable Type :)

I haven’t thoroughly tested this because it just became available, but I sent a post to my Blogger blog with a date of two minutes into the future, and sure enough it didn’t show up until the 2 minute time had elapsed. As always, I recommend testing this feature on your own blog before posting anything of a time-sensitive nature.

Congratulations to Justin Williams, who has just announced his new application, Today. This application is really nicely polished and is a good example of how an application can aim to solve something simple, yet solve it well.

This also marks Justin’s full embrace of the indie Mac development pursuit. Best of luck to you, Justin! Welcome to the party. Let’s hope Today is a success for you, and tomorrow as well!