One thing I can never seem to find is a cool jQuery plugin for creating placeholders on input fields that persist after focus, and are totally style-able. Now, I know what you’re thinking… “Why not just use HTML5?” Well, because it’s super lame as-is. Nuff said. iCloud.com actually has an awesome working sample of what I’m talking about, and now, so do I.

I’ve whipped together my first jQuery plugin (it mimics the same functionality as iCloud), and with some time to kill during a flight back to the grand ol’ Salt Lake State, I made a cool working copy.

So check it out, use it, abuse it, share it.

The Apple Style jQuery Placeholder Plugin

I don’t like how much people love Steve Jobs and Apple. I don’t like how obsessed people are when they find out he’s taking a crap in their town, or when Apple releases a new product, and if you’re lucky you can buy it. It just doesn’t jive with me.

That being said, I love Apple; I can think of a few people reading this that would cringe at the statement, but they’re seriously awesome. Let me explain.

How is it even possible to rack up a single machine to be this expensive?