Sweet home.

Once a luxury (think 867 cable stations) and now the bane of many gadget geeks, choice or rather a desire to have it filtrated into a united form, has motivated 173 mostly frothy comments and 153 diggs, a response that has in turn egged on web programmers and platform providers Teehan + Lax to actualize a dream interface the pair were initially only speculating about in their blog.

The dream app is a live iPhone home screen featuring bespoke, scrollable lists of notifications tracking everything from missed calls, unread email and calendar events to Facebook, Twitter and Tripit updates. T+L describe it as: "A screen that doesn't require you to scan for red dots with numbers inside of them. Instead it displays information and notifications of things that are new and relevant to you."

Deadly simple and very sweet.

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Your choice.

Choice is ironically both the privilege of the few and the biggest bane of digital denizens the world over – though not only is there an overwhelming amount of digital content available online, but such a plethora of aggregate sites around these days that one might be forgiven for seeking an aggregate site to link them all together.

The Filter, Peter Gabriel's new recommendation engine, is one service that is promising big in this department – in claiming to act as a "life jockey." Drawing inspiration from computer scientist Bill Joy, who in describing the service claims, "The first wave of freedom is of choice and the second wave of freedom from choice", the site brings together applications such as iTunes, retailers such as Amazon and Flixter and social music platforms such as Last.fm, while also enabling you to add word-of-mouth recommendations from people you know in the real world, too.

It might sound like they're having their cake and eating it, but try out The Filter's new aggregate service yourself if you want to – or don't go near it if you haven't got the time. It's, er, your choice.

Via The Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast.