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Crap! If anyone buys this thing, we’ll all have to give back our $100 iPhone credits!

Remember last year when all us “early iPhone adopters” got together and cried poverty, shaking down Apple for a cool $100 rebate? Well, Austrian jeweler Peter Aloisson is about to blow the whole deal! If his $176,400, 17.75 carat iPhone sells, Apple has every right to come knocking on our doors demanding back that credit with interest! Actually, word on the street is that Peter actually has already sold at least one of these to a nut job in Russia who pre-ordered... Read More

Will Karl Rove’s iPhone kill us all?

President Bush’s former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was recently interviewed by NewsBusters on a number of topics. Two interesting revelations made during the course of the interview (at least as far as Macenstein‘s readers are concerned) are that not only does Rove own an iPhone, but he also has a MacBook Air, which his wife covets. While we’re all for any influential politician touting Apple gear, Rove’s iPhone quote is a bit ominous… “... Read More

QuickTime VR (sort of ) finally comes to the iPhone

I’ve lamented about the iPhone’s lack of QTVR support for some time now, and it looks like at least one other person, Marco Giorgini, also thought the omission was odd. Luckily for the rest of us, while all I could do was bitch and moan, Marco was actually smart enough to fix the problem. Marco’s CubeWorld is an app that brings most of the missing QTVR functionality to the iPhone (and the iPod touch… I gotta keep remembering that thing). Basically CubeWorld... Read More

Starplayr 1.7.7 brings Sirius Radio to your Mac with style

Above: While I am ashamed to admit I already own this Bulletboys album, it’s nice to be able to know I could record an MP3 of it off Hair Nation if I had to. Don’t let those fugly, horribly designed control buttons fool you, Starplayr by NiceMac is the best-designed Sirius player you will find for the Mac, and yes, it’s free (well, free assuming you have a Sirius subscription of course). What makes Starplayr so cool? Well, first off, not only can Starplayr play... Read More

Charlie Rose eats asphalt to protect his MacBook Air

Above: Charlie Rose on last Monday’s show showing off his Apple Fanboy battle scars TechCrunch has a great story that pretty much any Apple Fanboy has to respect. Apparently last Monday, Charlie Rose, host of the creatively named Charlie Rose Show, tripped in a pothole on the way to his studio while carrying his MacBook Air. Knowing that faces heal, but computers don’t (at least not yet) Rose did what any red-blooded Apple fanatic would, he protected the MB Air,... Read More

Apple’s marketing department should hire this guy

If sales of the iPod touch should ever slow down, I may have just found a replacement for Justin Long that Apple’s marketing department may want to pursue. Check out LIFE IS AN ENIGMA!!!‘s review of the the new iPod touch they just got, and just try to tell me YOU don’t want to rush right out and get one! Hi friends, I am with stuff which is sure to excite all.This is about the latest ipod touch.The sleek as it always was apple has come out with its latest invention.This... Read More

Is Apple inspiring fashion?

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Is_Apple_inspiring_fashion'; Apple’s designs often serve as a source of inspiration/blatant theft for other companies in the tech industry, but can it be that Apple’s influence is spilling over into the fashion industry as well? Not many things go with that blouse that Julie Benz was wearing at the 2008 Jenny Han Fall 2008 Fashion Show held earlier this month (Fall fashion shows in March..?), but her purse (which to me looks... Read More

iPods and iPhones that can heal themselves… We’re one step closer to the robot uprising

We’ve all seen it in movies a thousand times… A snail-loving scientist wonders if there is a way to bond protein to various elements in the periodic table and grow new materials, one thing leads to another, and then BAM! Skynet becomes self aware on August 29th 1997 2:14 am Eastern Time. Well, if the trade-off for our eventual enslavement by robots is an iPod that can heal itself of scratches, then I for one would like to welcome our new robot overlords. According... Read More

How can there be a Flying Spaghetti Monster if it allows THIS to happen?

This story is tragic enough to make even the most resolute disciple question their faith in the almighty, be it God, Jeebus, or The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Above: Well, at least the thieves won’t be able to listen to it. iHate PCs reports that an autistic teen’s iPod was stolen after he showed it to friends at school. The teen in question, Cody Scetto, had saved for months for the iPod, doing odd jobs and shoveling snow to amass the $400. Unfortunately, it would... Read More

Steve Jobs leads Apple to 31% of the education market? Big deal! John Sculley had 60%!

Tim Cook announced earlier this month that Apple had surpassed Dell as the number one supplier of portables to US higher education for 2007. That’s all well and good, but even at number 1, estimates suggest Apple has only a 31% share of the education market. Compare that with the 60% the Apple II enjoyed, and the choice becomes clear. Apple should dump all these ultra thin portables, and bring back the Apple II… and perhaps even the extremely shiny John Sculley while... Read More