Phoneless
Two weeks out of warranty, my iPhone 1.0 becomes a turnip. Cost to replace an out-of-warranty iPhone 1.0 with a refurbished version of the same model: $199. Minimum wait time to receive the $199 replacement at the 57th Street Apple Store: two hours. That's 120 minutes, folks. Can I leave and ...

Communication Marches On
Comments off. [tags]apple, ichat, firewall, hivelogic, danbenjamin, zeldman[/tags]

A bug in Google Chrome
Between hurricanes and hericanes, you could easily have missed the technology news. Released yesterday in public beta, Google Chrome is a standards-compliant web browser created to erode Microsoft's browser dominance (i.e. to boost Google's web dominance) while also rethinking what a browser is and does in the age of web ...

Tracking Elections From the Ground Up
PollTrack is a new website that combines poll tracking data and written analysis to decipher "what voters are actually thinking and feeling" in the lead-up to the election. The site is not complete: sections are unfinished, artwork is rough, and usability problems involving labeling ("Today's Map Today") have yet to ...

A Town Called Gale
I'm still having medical problems, and at 4:00 AM I awoke in pain. The nightmare that woke me concerned a town called Gale, Kansas. It was a town for young murderesses and their parents. If your child had killed another child, your family would be relocated to Gale, to start a new life ...

Save the Accessibility Institute
Join Knowbility in urging the University of Texas to reconsider its decision to close the Accessibility Institute, founded and led with distinction by the late Dr. John Slatin. Keep John's work alive. Sign the petition. [tags]accessibility, johnslatin, accessibility institute[/tags]

SiteAssist Professional
Released Wednesday, August 27th, SiteAssist Professional creates entire CSS-based websites in minutes. Since that sounds ridiculous and impossible, I'll say it again: the product creates websites in minutes, with clean markup, and nicely optimized CSS. The software package includes 14 designs, each with 12 color schemes. You can customize everything and ...

Running woman and madman
Two incidents mark my morning walk to work. i. On Second Avenue, a long-legged woman in a short black skirt dashes past, late to an unknown appointment, her movements fluid and beautiful. With every step, her skirt bounces, flashing legs at the avenue. Her left hand hangs at her hip, trying to ...

ALA 266: next generation sprites, metaphors
In Issue No. 266 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: CSS Sprites2 – It's JavaScript Time by DAVE SHEA In 2004, Dave Shea took the CSS rollover where it had never gone before. Now he takes it further still—with a little help from jQuery. Say hello to hover animations that ...

Photos from An Event Apart San Francisco
Take a dip in the Flickr photo pool from An Event Apart San Francisco 2008. Day Two is about to begin. [tags]aeasf08, aneventapart, webdesign, conference, sanfrancisco[/tags]

Jubilat!
Darden Studio has relaunched its website and released Jubilat, a fabulous slab serif. We've been beta-testing Jubilat all year; it's my principal typeface for An Event Apart in 2008. (Last year's principal An Event Apart typeface was Darden Studio's Freight Sans.) New to Joshua Darden's work? Try Birra Stout, a ...

In the bag
Early tomorrow, I leave for San Francisco. Headed into my laptop bag, along with my MacBook, are... An iPod Classic containing 8624 "songs" (I like music) and 46 "movies." Sample titles: A Mighty Wind, A Night at the Opera, Helvetica, Kiki's Delivery Service, Lost in Translation, North by Northwest, Rushmore, Spirited ...

Books-a-Million
Pssst. New Happy Cog Studios design. Books-A-Million Online Bookstore. It looks even better when you start using it. Details soon at happycog.com. Update: A Books-A-Million case study is now available for your reading pleasure at Happy Cog dot com. [tags]books-a-million, happycog, design, webdesign[/tags]

ALA No. 265: better experience
In Issue No. 265 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: The web is a conversation, but not always a productive one. In "Putting Our Hot Heads Together," Carolyn Wood shares ways to transform discussion forums and comment sections from shooting ranges into arenas of collaboration. Plus: ...

Pick a Panel
The SXSW panel picker launched today. SXSW Interactive is probably the world's biggest web shebang, and the panel picker is how the festival begins winnowing out which panels, out of the many submitted, will actually be presented to the public. A few potential panels feature Happy Cog personnel: From Freelance to Agency: ...