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.

Live Macworld 2009 keynote coverage – gdgt live. iphoto got a nice update with face recognition (and upload to facebook already has name tags). itunes store will be all DRM-free. and a 17″ macbook.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion. hilarious video review.

Cruz – A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard. from the guy who did fluid. basically just gives you a pluggable safari.

obama app

So the Obama campaign has an iPhone app and it’s so effective. There’s a “Call Friends” section which lists your friends by state with a priority to swing states (so friends in Florida or Pennsylvania get ranked ahead of those in New York). It lets you keep track of whether you left a message, got their support, etc. The “Get Involved” section uses your geo-location to give you contact info for your local campaign office and how to get involved. There’s also a media section, local events, and an easy to browse Issue section to help you sway the friends you’re calling. The Calling section collects stats as well and claims that people have placed 25,000 calls through the app. Not bad.

AppleInsider | Boxee takes social networks, web video to Apple TV. kinda like a xbmc project for the appletv. wouldn’t mind having some kind of always-on machine like this in my house.

Silverback — guerrilla usability testing. really slick app for recording usability testing sessions.