Watch a drunken Jeff Goldblum pitch the iMac
Move over “Cheeseburger-eating Hasselhoff“, there’s a new drunk in town!
What happens when you take the classic 1999 Jeff Goldblum iMac commercial and slow it down about 30 percent? You get a hilarious piece of footage capable of taking Goldblum’s kids away in any future custody battle!
This works particularly well because of Goldblum’s somewhat slurry speech pattern to begin with. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Jonathan for the link!
When product placement attacks!
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iBook, iPhone
There’s an Apple in the House! Or two, or three… hard to tell.
I’ve heard nothing but good things about FOX’s House, yet for some reason I’ve never felt compelled to put forth the effort of adding it to my DVR’s schedule. However, according to faithful Macenstein reader Phil, apparently I should, as it is pretty much a commercial for Apple’s computers and gear, with episode 10 of season 4 being particularly Apple-whoreish.
WHATS UP Macenstein,
A buddy of mine recently got me hooked on House, so naturally I’ve been going through it season by season. Having now reached season 4 and its 2 in the morning, I have come to this assumption, the House crew are huge Apple guys. In a previous episode I saw an iPhone, but in the last 2 minutes of this episode there has been an oldschool iBook (which house sucks at hacking, i was screaming at the screen to restart with apple+s) and what looked like a Powerbook g4 or maybe a macbook pro. Anyway, I took a few screenshots of House with his new iPhone, thought of you guys immediately. You rock!
Phil
Above: Hugh Laurie auditioning for Justin Long’s job.
No, Phil, YOU rock! And apparently so does House. Thanks!
New York City Transit Authority using Keynote to run its kiosks
Filed under: Apple, Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Software
Faithful Macenstein reader Mike Solomon from over at The Cleverist sent us this video he made providing pretty convincing evidence that the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority is using Apple’s Keynote software to run its kiosks, as illustrated by those trademark transitions Snap! Crackle! and Pop!… err, Cube, Dissolve, and Pop.
While we think it’s great to see Apple software (and presumably hardware (?)) being used by such a large city agency, we have a feeling the MTA may be an equal opportunity OS customer. Having ridden the NYC subways numerous times, I am quite certain the MTA is also using Windows Vista to create that convincing virtual urine smell.
Thanks Mike!
Use JavaScript to unlock high-res YouTube videos
Above: You can see that especially on fast motion videos, the quality is noticeably better on the high-res video video (right) than the standard YouTube offering (left).
Faithful Macenstein reader brethil clued me into a cool YouTube trick that probably everyone besides me already knew about. Apparently if you open a YouTube url in your browser, then add “&fmt=18” (without the quotes) to the end, you will see a higher res version of whatever video you were watching.
Of course, with YouTube “high res” is a relative term, but the quality is noticeably better.
Try it yourself. Load this video:
and then load
You’ll notice the quality of the second clip is markedly less compressed looking, and you’ll also see a new link which says “Watch this video in lower quality for faster playback”, letting you know you indeed re watching the high-res version.
This tip is all well and good, but the boys over at macosxhints.com managed to come up with a couple easy ways to automate the process. First they created some AppleScripts to do the job, but then a reader came up with an even easier solution – just make a JavaScript bookmarklet!
To do this, just go into Safari (or Firefox) and make a blank bookmark, name it something like “High-Res” or something, and add the following to the “address” field:
javascript:window.location+=”&fmt=18″;
Now, all you have to do to watch a higher res version of any YouTube video is hit that button in your bookmarks bar. Sweet!
Microsoft enters the chip business - “potato”, not “micro”
Wow, this recession must have Microsoft worried. Check out their latest efforts to diversify their product line!
From Egypt, the land where copyright law is apparently as prevalent as snow pants, comes Windows brand ketchup-flavored potato chips. And of course, what better way to wash those delicious chips down than with a can of delicious Windows soda?
Well, at least it’s natural…
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Stian for the tipi!
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