The Daily Report

  • iMac dies after Safari update

    iMac dies after Safari update

    There is a new Safari update. After I installed it, my home iMac cannot reboot. For about an hour, the iMac was stuck in the grey Apple screen (sometimes with, and sometimes without, a progress…

  • The Great Salami Caper

    The Great Salami Caper

    In the late 1980s, while making efforts to move to New York City, I came up with the winning ad campaign for Hebrew National Kosher Salami. Only I didn’t win. Hebrew National held a contest…

  • Icon: For Love of Barbie

    Icon: For Love of Barbie

  • It’s a process

    It’s a process

    After finishing her late-night snack, she left the empty bowl beside her in the bed “for Emile’s spirit to nibble on.”

  • Web Standards Italian Style

    Web Standards Italian Style

    Sviluppare Siti Con Gli Standard Web: Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Edition, Italian translation. Shop for it. Prefer English? Order from Amazon.com Order from Barnes & Noble Order the Kindle Edition

  • Fink on Web Fonts

    Fink on Web Fonts

    In Issue 307 of A List Apart for people who make websites: Web Fonts at the Crossing by Richard Fink Everything you wanted to know about web fonts but were afraid to ask. Richard Fink…

  • Web Standards, 1452–2011

    Web Standards, 1452–2011

    And I’m off on a mini road trip to Penn State and its annual web conference, where I’ll be honored to deliver the opening keynote on standards-based web design, from 1452 to the present. The…

  • Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks

    Above, page one of “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the first story in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, as seen in Stanza, a free reader for iPad and iPhone. Stanza has a simple…

  • Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks

    Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks

    Thanks, Mr Sippey!

  • From Gmail with Love

    From Gmail with Love

    It shouldn’t be this much work, but hats off to Nick Cernis for showing us the trick to enabling multiple “from” addresses under a single Gmail account in Mail on the iPad and iPhone.

  • When Ads by Google Go Wrong

    When Ads by Google Go Wrong

    When Ads by Google Go Wrong

  • Episode 6: Mobile First

    Episode 6: Mobile First

    Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. This Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 1:00 PM EDT, join Dan Benjamin and me for the taping of The…

  • Rise Above

    Rise Above

    M.I.A. Takes to the Streets: a slide show at NYTimes.com. Photos: Ryan McGinley for The New York Times.

  • Choose Death

    Choose Death

    When I returned from Boston, my little white dog was much sicker. It’s the lungs. There’s a constant honking gasp, except when he’s sleeping. The doctors said this would happen, they just didn’t say when.…

  • Web Education on Big Web Show

    Web Education on Big Web Show

    Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Liz Danzico (@bobulate), author of Bobulate, and chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program at New York’s School…