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Why Steve jobs will never go to jail…EVER

Posted by iGor Yesterday, Apple’s PR machine announced they believe that none of their top execs (including Steve Jobs) will be implicated in the backdating stock scandal making headlines and taking Apple’s stock on a financial roller coaster ride this week. While this is certainly good news for Apple fans across the globe, the threat of any jail time for Jobs was laughable. Steve Jobs is no sooner going to jail than buying a Zune. While I certainly understand shareholders’... Read More

Kick it old school with AppleIIGo Apple II emulator widget

Posted by Dr. Macenstein Programmer Marc S. Ressl has developed an Apple II emulator called AppleIIGo, available as a Mac OS X widget, a webpage Java applet, and a mobile phone midlet. Using the widget, you can play such Apple II classics as “Lemonade Stand ” (One of Apple’s first games), Arkanoid, Tetris 2, and of course, Oregon Trail. However, there is one caveat to using AppleIIGo, as the site explains: “To fully use AppleIIGo you need an Apple ][,... Read More

Apple expected to post record profits on sales of “Pages 2″

Posted by iGor Apple is expected to report record profits during its January 17th Earnings Conference Call, and this time it is not its ubiquitous iPod music player that will get the credit. Instead, at least one analyst expects Apple to announce over $900 million in profit from sales of Apple’s “Pages 2” software, nearly doubling last quarter’s $546 million profit. “Everyone is talking about Pages 2, you really can’t escape the media hype,”... Read More

Amazon credits MacBook/iPods for its best holiday season ever

Posted by Helper Monkey Amazon today announced its best holiday season in the company’s history, and among the chief reasons cited were healthy sales of Apple’s iPods (various models) as well as its MacBook line of laptops. Amazon failed to give specific totals at this time, but said “Top sellers in Consumer Electronics include Apple iPods (various), Canon Powershot Digital Elph Cameras and Garmin GPS Systems.” As for Computers, “the top sellers... Read More

EyeTV gets 2.3.3 update; more iPod/iTunes integration

Posted by Helper Monkey In our opinion, there wasn’t much room for improvement with Elgato’s EyeTV software, but today the company managed to prove us wrong by releasing version 2.3.3. Despite being a “x.x.x” release, there are actually a couple major improvements packed into this update. Chief among them are improved iPod export compression options, and the ability for EyeTV to include the Metadata received fromt he online program guide into the iPod... Read More

Macenstein’s “Mac Chick of the Month” (December 2006): Kandice

Posted by Dr. Macenstein Welcome to Macenstein’s“Mac Chick of the Month”. Each month we feature a different die-hard, Mac-loving girl who is (almost) as well designed as the Apple products they love. This month we present you with the lovely Kandice Melonakos, a California based singer/songwriter who is a true Mac Geek. “Kandice Melonakos began writing and singing her own songs in elementary school. A born entertainer,... Read More

Why can’t iTunes play the games it sells?

Posted by Dr. Macenstein Above: The controller schemes in Sudoku (left) and Tetris (right) aren’t exactly PS3-complicated. Yesterday I purchased my first 2 games for my iPod via the iTunes store, Sudoku, and Tetris. (They’re both great, incidentally. I recommend them highly.) However, upon clicking on the downloaded games in my iTunes library, it suddenly occurred to me that the iPod games sold via the iTunes store are the only media type that iTunes sells that... Read More

More Fun with the “Shift” Key

Posted by Helper Monkey Many of you have no doubt seen the “tip” about holding down the shift key when minimizing/maximizing a Finder or Application’s window to see the scaling/genie effect in slow motion. (If you haven’t, well, there you go). But something I never realized is this slow motion goodness can be applied elsewhere in the OS as well, for an equally unproductive but entertaining time. For some reason I had the shift key pressed when I hit the... Read More

The iMac named TIME Magazine’s person of the year

Posted by iGor OK, not really. But a quick glance at the cover may lead you to think otherwise. Apparently this year TIME Magazine decided the only sure way to get people to buy this year’s “Person of the Year” issue was to make EVERY person on the planet the Person of the Year. After all, who wouldn’t buy an issue of TIME Magazine with them on the cover? Actually, the idea here is that via the power of YouTube, MySpace, etc., every internet savvy person... Read More

Macenstein hits the big time: featured on CNN.com

Posted by Dr. Macenstein From the “Hooray for US!” category. Wow. Recently we went from being the 585,000th most popular site on the internet to the 65,000th. Not bad when you consider how narrow our focus is and how lame our articles are. Of course, now we’re back up to 77,500th or so but we aren’t letting that little slip bring us down. Why? Well, we recently got one of our articles referenced on “real” news site, CNN! Check it out http://money.cnn.com/blogs/browser/index.html You’ll... Read More