Steve Jobs on marketing and introducing the “Think Different” campaign. The reality distortion field at work. A gem of a talk.

Flood Lite – Apple’s Attention to Detail. the sleep light on macbooks pulsates at the rhythm of a human being breathing at rest.

Motorola Snaps Up 280 North For $20 Million. makers of the cappuccino web framework and atlas. that’s a lot of money for a revenue-free framework. i’ll bet that motorola basically kills the usefulness of this whole project.

Apple copying apps and then patenting the idea. that’s pretty bad.

Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing. this is a really interesting interview from 1996 when Jobs was still trying to sell NEXT and Pixar’s IPO was pending. “Have you seen the Federal Express Web site where you can track a package? It took Federal Express about four months to write that program – and it’s extremely simple. Four months. It would be nice to do that in four days, or two days, or one day. [...] Three of those four functions of the Web require custom applications. And that’s what we do really well with objects. Our new product, WebObjects, allows you to write Web applications 10 times faster.”

Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can’t get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple’s satire police » Nieman Journalism Lab. that’s brutal.

Bookbook – Twelve South. quite the fancy case for your macbook. via kyle

Apple – iPad. starting at $499. I’m impressed. the fact that it runs all existing iphone apps is awesome. the custom apps look pretty nice too.

Daring Fireball: PastryKit. seems apple has a demo website that uses javascript/css to do fixed-position content in the iphone browser (previously thought to be impossible) and change the default scroll-speed to make it work more like a native app. very interesting.

water damaged iphone

The other day I accidentally put my iphone in the washing machine. I was stripping my bed sheets & duvet cover and my phone happened to get caught in the mix. When I went looking for my phone about 10 minutes later I realized my stupidity and then spent quite some time fishing it out of the washer.

Oddly enough, the phone was on when I put it in the wash and it was still on when I took it out. After shaking it for a bit I could see the water behind the glass screen and soap bubbles starting to dry. I knew trying to dry it out would be pointless.

Luckily, I made an appointment at the Apple Store (which is 5 minutes from my apartment), walked over, skipped the line for the Genius Bar, and walked out of the store with a replacement in about 10 minutes for $250. I also backed up my phone the day before so I had a perfect replica of my old phone within an hour of pulling it out of the wash.

Lighthead – Caffeine. mac app to keep your mac from dimming the screen or going to sleep. handy while watching videos. very nicely done.

Jobs to The Little App Factory: Name change “Not that big of a deal”. that’s awesome.

Apple Developer Connection – iPhone Developers Tell Their Story. really nice promo video. all i could think while watching this was “microsoft is so fucked”.

New iPod Nano. has a video camera, an fm transmitter with pause/playback functionality, and a built in pedometer for nike+ipod.

Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers | The Onion. just genius.

Screencast: Install Internet Explorer on OSX using VirtualBox | 10 Volt Media Blog. awesome screencast for getting IE7 running on a Mac with VirtualBox and Microsoft VirtualPC images. All free, legal, and worked like a charm.

Apple Said to Be in Talks to Sell IPhone for Verizon – NYTimes.com. if they do that, maybe they can also sell them to telus and bell. Also mentions the boost at&t got from the iPhone, half of their new subscribers in the last quarter were iPhone purchasers.

Maniacal Rage on dealing with iPhone App approval and customer support. boo urns.

Apple previews iPhone OS 3.0, adds copy and paste, push notifications. subscription based apps, purchasing items in apps, MMS including sending your contacts, locations, and photos, google maps as an API, turn by turn directions. tons of cool stuff.

280 North’s Atlas bridges the gap between Web Apps and native iPhone applications. an interesting demo of an IDE using Objective-J & Cappucino.