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Celebrity Mac Chick sighting: Lindsay Lohan

Hmm… well, they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity… let’s find out! Here we see the lovely and talented… um, well, lovely, anyway… Lindsay Lohan, proudly displaying her iPhone as she scampers away from the paparazzi and on to her next rehab facility. I suppose given the fact that Read More  Read More

Show your iPhone a good time with iNdependence v1.4

Our good friend Will over at IntoMobile has alerted us that iNdependence v1.4 beta 5 has been released. So what is iNdependence? Well, according to the above picture, it will either Jailbreak your iPhone, or have sex with it. Actually, iNdependence bills itself as a Mac-only “easy-to-use interface for jailbreak, activation, SSH installation, and ringtone/wallpaper/application installation on your iPhone.” This is the first 1.1.4 firmware hack we’ve seen,... Read More

The real reason to upgrade to Leopard

I’m totally giving Leopard’s iChat the big “Thumbs Up“. Why? Just cause I can. Thank god they kept the always useful “money mouth“.  Read More

Hints that the Beatles iTunes launch getting closer? 1 to 2 weeks?

The whole “Beatles on iTunes speculation” thing has pretty much burned me out. I am perhaps one of the few people who doesn’t really care one way or the other about whether or not the Beatles come to iTunes. Sure, it would be a little exciting if the Beatles were an iTunes exclusive artist, but odds are that isn’t going to happen. I own all the Beatles albums on CD already, and while I realize Beatles fanatics rival only the KISS Army in loyalty and... Read More

IntelliSchool Free is released – Free open source school database system

Macenstein has a huge FileMaker following (well, one reader, I know of anyway), so I thought it only fitting to pass this bit of news along. Faithful UK Macenstein reader Simon Elliott writes: “I wrote a school pupil data system in FileMaker Pro three years ago and it has been used in a school ever since. When I wrote the system, the most frustrating thing was being unable to find a good, open FileMaker template for a school data system. Everyone who wrote a good system,... Read More

Stuff White People Like #40: Apple Computers

I wish I could argue with this, but I can’t. It’s quite brilliant. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader TheWarpedOne for the link. “Plain and simple, white people don’t just like Apple, they love and need Apple to operate… Apple products tell the world you are creative and unique. They are an exclusive product line only used by every white college student, designer, writer, English teacher, and hipster on the planet. It is also important that... Read More

Apple says new OS X security exploit not a big deal: discoverers decide to make it a big deal

In, Security glitch exposes OS X account passwords, News.com reports on a newly discovered vulnerability in the way OS X stores username and password info during the login process. The exploit was discovered by the appropriately named Jacob Appelbaum, a San Francisco-area programmer who dropped this “bomb” on Apple February 5th: “This is a real problem and it needs to be fixed,” said … Appelbaum. He said he disagreed with the company’s [Apple's]... Read More

Publicity stunt, gimmick, or ploy? You Decide!

Abilene Christian University first university in nation to provide iPhone or iPod touch to all incoming freshmen. And there’s probably a reason for that. I’m sorry… I am all for schools adopting the latest and greatest technology (especially Apple’s) but this has the words “publicity stunt” written all over it. I’m not sure giving away a $400 gadget these days is enough to boost enrollment numbers, and odds are you either want to go to... Read More

Apple announces it might announce the iPhone SDK soon… or not

For those of you waiting to get your hands on the iPhone SDK, the wait is almost over. Or maybe not. Apple has sent the following invite out to select members of the press (ours should be arriving any second now….) “Please join us to learn about the iPhone software roadmap, including the iPhone SDK and some exciting new enterprise features.” Hey, that sounds great, and only a week late! However, if you re-read that, Apple doesn’t actually say you’ll... Read More

The reason you should never buy anything

Just a day after the new MacBook Pro/Macbooks were announced, MacRumors is reporting that new versions of both portables will be released this June. The updates are expected to incorporate Intel’s Montevina Centrino 2 chips, as the company begins to phase out the current Santa Rosa chips that were the bee’s knees just a few months ago. Predicting new Apple product releases has gotten a whole lot easier since Apple switched to Intel processors, as Intel makes its product... Read More