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Review: Contour Design’s Messenger Bag for MacBook and MacBook Pro

In part 45 of our ongoing search for the perfect laptop bag, we find ourselves holding Contour Design’s leather messenger bag – and we are pleased. Contour’s Messenger bag is one of the more stylish attempts at a laptop bag we’ve seen, and this can be either a good or bad thing, depending on your tastes. Personally I view it as a good thing, although I had a couple guys (ironically, some of the least manly guys I know) say “Nice purse”. However,... Read More

iPhone Engrish of the Day: Vampire Game 1.1

“Jamp”? Description: New price!! It is appearance of a fantastic post recording application! Schoolchildren in Japan jumped up and down and it turned in the 1980′s. That again now in 2009!! Jump again with iPhone/iPod touch!!! - Be a Chinese Vampire! pushing four kinds of buttons - •That jump sound heard by the movie and TV. •The yell of power. •There are two kinds of attack sounds in which the both arms is brandished. - Attention - •Please note surrounding... Read More

Apple’s girliest computer just got girlier

Awww…. This is just adorable. At least as long as you don’t realize that there’s a bite out of that Apple, so she’s about 3 seconds from collapsing unconscious on the floor in a house with 7 guys. This clever mod is the work of flickr user LübeckerJung‘ s girlfriend who made the design herself: I found the artwork via google image search. She was part of the DVD-cover of Disneys Snow White. A little Illustrator here and a little Photoshop there... Read More

Scooter users heart their Macs

Faithful Macenstein reader Eric from the Chicago Scooter Club (yes, it exists) ran a poll on their site about their member’s computer preference, and it looks like scooter owners prefer Macs over PCs by a factor of nearly 2 to 1! I’m not sure whether to be proud about that or not, but since scooters and geeks go hand in hand, I think we’ll take this as a win. Mac users made up 60% of the results, versus 31% for PC users, 6% using Linux, and 3% claiming they... Read More

I have tiny balls! (Thanks to Magnifique!)

Fans of custom OS themes rejoice! Magnifique is here! OK, so maybe shrinking those jolly, candy-like buttons wasn’t my FIRST gripe with the Leopard interface, but it’s nice to have a choice, isn’t it? Magnifique is a free app that lets you view and install a range of themes in their library, or make your own. Have you always wanted black windows (preferably with hard to read text?) Well, now you can! As you can see, it also changes theme colors across... Read More

Woz caught “Segway Flirting”

Faithful Macenstein reader Chris Griffith spotted Woz out and about in the Grove in Los Angeles yesterday filming something or other along with 20 of his fellow Segway buddies. Looks like Woz might be cashing in on some of that Dancing With The Stars fame. I mean, check out the arse on that gal he’s shmoozing! Easily the best I’ve seen on any Segway rider. Go Woz, GO!  Read More

Woz signs a hackintosh Dell netbook – doesn’t like red

Matthew Smith ran into Steve “Three Left Feet” Wozniak the other day, and just happened to have his hacked Dell mini 9 running Leopard and sharpie with him. The results are magical. Got to briefly meet Steve Wozniak as he was doing some press for Dancing with the Stars. I showed him my Dell Mini 9 with OS X Leopard installed on it (and an Apple sticker sloppily applied over the Dell logo. He said, “Oh my god, that is so COOL!” And: “Is that really... Read More

Contest: WWDC invite Wurdle

THANK YOU< WE HAVE A WINNER, and it is DAVE with the word "HAYMAKER"! Congrats Dave! Attention Wurdle fans! We took at look at the new WWDC invitation Apple just put out, and the SECOND thing that popped into our head was, “Wow, that looks kinda like Wurdle!” So to that end, we thought it would be interesting to put out a challenge… What is the longest “Wurdle-style” word you can make from the WWDC invite? If you are not familiar with Wurdle, the... Read More

Apple flooding the App store with more useless Apps

To date, Apple’s iPhone apps have been fairly solid efforts, although the same cannot be said for the majority of 3rd party iPhone apps out there. However, it looks like Apple has decided to jump on the “bloatware” bandwagon. Check out this invite for the WWDC. Not only is Apple apparently using a jalbroken iPhone to hide the app names, but it looks like they plan on releasing no fewer than THREE new applications for the letters “E” and “R”.... Read More

MacHeist 3 Bundle rears its beautiful, cheap head

MacHeist 3 has arrived, and for the first time the 12 app bundle promises a $627 value for the low low price of $39. Whether you’re interested in cooking a meal, or playing the best puzzle game of last year, or selling off an old item on Ebay, the MacHeist bundle has you covered. I find these mega software bundles are often hit or miss, but MacHeist 3 has something going for it that for me makes it extra sweet – the awesome World of Goo ($20). I reviewed WOG last year,... Read More