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iPhone Engrish of the day: MewMew Tower

Description: The “MewMew Tower” is the game that is accumulating a lot of cats highly the sky in a line. You will stack a cat straightly so that balance may not worsen. If iPhone is leaned, a cat will collapse easily. Oppositely, let’s incline iPhone and balance when becoming ill-balanced. It is a fun game to be able to enjoy from a child to an adult. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Dustin for the tip!  Read More

So… what constitutes “Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence”?

As any regular reader of Macenstein knows, I’m about he furthest thing you’ll find from a prude, but I just came across this new iPhone game called “Animals of Mass Destruction” and was a little surprised to see it has only a 9+ rating, citing “Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence“. Take a quick look at these 5 shots from the game (below). All of them, aside from the first one, have fairly obscene amounts of blood, guns, and torture – ... Read More

“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 3

[We Have a winner, this contest is now closed. Thanks for entering, and congrats to faithful Macenstein reader Richard!] On the Third Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) A set of 5 Incase Slider Cases for the iPhone 3G! Above: Yeah, that’s a picture of 3, but imagine there’s 5 of ‘em. Did you get an iPhone 3G for Christmas? No? Well, um, did 5 of your friends? Great! Because we’ve got a set... Read More

Snow Leopard pics leaked

German site Sevenmac has posted a slew of alleged leaked pics of Snow Leopard, if you care. For some reason I can never get excited about pics like this that basically show the “Get info” screen of various apps with a slightly updated version number from what I am currently running, especially for a largely “performance update” vs. a “feature update”, as Snow Leopard is said to be, but I figured I’d let you know where to find them... Read More

“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 2

[Thank you - we have our winner, this contest is now closed. Congrats to faithful Macenstein reader Adam!] On the Second Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) A pair of Creative EP-830 Earphones! Do you hear what I hear? Well, you might, once you pop these bad boys into your ears! Ergonomically designed with 3 differently-sized earbuds to accommodate any ear (assuming you’ve never worked in a circus sideshow),... Read More

Is that a wine glass icon or Lindsay Lohan getting out of a limo?

I suppose what you see here depends totally on how depraved an individual you are, but apparently both faithful Macenstein reader Cub and I see the same thing. “Hey, Long time reader, love the site! Thought you might appreciate this image, surely has to be the dodgiest iPhone app icon ever! There’s a few things this looks like and a glass of wine isn’t the first thing that came to my mind “  Read More

“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 1

[Thank you, we have our winner, this contest is closed. Congratulations to macsimilian] On the First Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) A MIMOBOT of you choice! Yes, everyone loves MIMOBOTS, those super cool USB2 thumb drives that not only make moving data fun, but also let the world know you can’t let go of your childhood (I’ve personally got a Domo and a StormTrooper model). The lucky winner can choose... Read More

A Mac that will attract bugs: The GingerMac

Apple has a long history of making computers that look so good you might want to eat them. Well, here’s a Mac that may fall a little short in the looks department, but you actually could eat it (assuming you can choke down Gingerbread, that is). This work of edible art stands about 8 inches tall, and has chocolate icons and a chocolate cursor. I think I would have written “hello” in script icing on the screen, but that’s some arm chair quarterbacking... Read More

Another “inspired” app hits the app store

Remember when the app store first launched, all those level apps that hit the store? It was quickly revealed that Apple shipped the source code to make a level app as part of the sample applications that come in the iPhone developer kit. All these people did in some cases was change the skin slightly (and in 1 notable case, not at ALL) and then they started selling it on iTunes. Well, faithful Macenstein reader anonymous developer alerts us that yet another lazy “developer”... Read More

Macenstein’s first annual “The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway!

Well, the holidays have once again come and gone, and odds are you didn’t get anything you wanted. Well, cheer up! While your family and friends may hate you, we here at Macenstein appreciate your loyal readership, and have come up with our biggest giveaway yet to help spread some of that missing holiday cheer. Announcing Macenstein‘s first annual “The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway! That’s right, for the next 12 Days (and perhaps even longer)... Read More