Steve Jobs buys Marvel : Adamantium MacBook imminent
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Slow News Day, Steve Jobs
Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
Looks like we’ll be seeing unibody adamantium MacBook in a matter months, as Disney (aka, Steve Jobs) has just bought Marvel Comics (home of the X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man…. all sort of big, beefy men, basically) for $4 Billion.
If I had $4 Billion I probably would have done the same thing, if for no other reason than to stop the upcoming Thor movie from being made. But given that Apple has more or less run out of sexy cat names for its OS versions, odds are the opportunities for cross-promotional synergy is what caught Steve’s eye.
I’d buy it.
[via Bam! Kapow!]
Melon Golf: Tim Burton meets Tiger Woods
Filed under: Games, Product Reviews, iPhone, iPod Touch
Just thought I’d throw out a recommendation to iPhone-physics lovers of a game I’ve been playing the past few days – Melon Golf
As you play each round you can unlock Stars which will in turn unlock bonus rounds in the Nightmare Course.
I think the reason I like Melon Golf so much is that it really has very little to do with Golf – it’s actually much more similar to games like Cannon Challenge and Castle Smasher than golf. The object of the game is to launch your “melon” towards the “hole” in the recommended number of shots or less (like Golf) but the launching/aiming mechanism is more akin to launching type games with a “power” and “angle” setting for each shot. The video below will give a better idea of the overall game mechanics, as well as the eerily wonderful visuals, as the game really needs to be seen in motion to be appreciated.
The first level (easy) is fairly straight forward and just introduces you to the way the game is played, but as you go you unlock harder levels, and the obstacles between you and the hole become more creative (as do your solutions to overcoming them). Read more
Oh, that poor Acura!
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Humor, Microsoft Bashing, Not Cool
You know those annoying people who like to dress their little rat-like dogs in dorky sweaters and such, and you just know that the dog wishes to hell it was a real dog and could maul its owner to death? That’s sort of how I feel about this poor Acura who its owner has dressed as a clown.
Yes, this shot was sent in by Faithful Macenstein reader (and iPhone developer) Kevin who spotted the abused vehicle in Seattle, about 7 miles outside of Redmond. Unfortunately the only way the Acura can get that crap off would be to suffer both a front AND rear-end collision, and I’m not sure it has the guts to go through with it.
So if you live in the Seattle/Redmond area and see this poor creature wrapped around a telephone pole with a semi-truck up it’s arse, don’t feel bad. It is in a far better place.
[UPDATE:] Faithful Macenstein reader Charles writes:
“Lexus drivers are clearly more intelligent than Acura Drivers.”
Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Snow Leopard TODAY
I’ve seen more than a few interweb critics panning Apple’s Snow Leopard as merely a service pack update, but since installing Snow Leopard yesterday morning, I’ve decided they couldn’t be more wrong. Sure, the only REAL change is the 64-bit stuff that likely won’t matter until sometime around when OS 10.7 comes out, but I’ve noticed more than a few “must-have” goodies that each on their own would more than justify the upgrade cost. Here’s 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Snow Leopard today.
1: State of the Art: The version number (10.6) is now 20% higher than version 10.5.
2: Performance: The “Jelly” visualizer in iTunes feels like it might run slightly faster
3: Another word for “awesome”. Snow Leopard includes an all-new thesaurus – the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus second edition. That’s right.
4: Time-saver: CyberDuck no longer launches, thus saving you tons of wasted ftp-ing time.
5: All-new look: There are now a couple new Snow Leopard-themed wallpapers
6: Rack ‘em and Stack ‘em: “Stacks”, the Dock view nobody ever used, has been updated (although you still won’t use it)
7: Faster shut down: Because…. um who has an extra 8 seconds to spare in this crazy world of ours?!
8: Big Time Graphics: Finder icons can now be as large as 512 by 512 pixels, four times as big as Leopard was able to dish out!
9: Automatic time zone setup: Apple says “If you’re traveling around the world, the last thing you want to worry about is whether your computer is set to the correct time zone. ” I think they meant to say was “the last thing you’ve probably ever worried about is whether your computer is set to the correct time zone”. But hey, it’s there.
10: It only costs $30: And if you have more than 1 Mac, you can rationalize the cost by bringing it down to $15, $10 (or even lower!) with multiple installs. (Oh, don’t act so high and mighty – we all know you never buy the family pack).
Celebrity Mac chick Sighting: Melissa Joan Hart
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Celebrity Mac Chick
Melissa Joan “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” Hart and her iPhone.
[via UseMyComputer]
Make your MacBook as cool as Obama’s with “Obama Pacman”
Odds are you’ve tried pointing at people from behind your MacBook, but you just can’t seem to look as smooth as Obama looked when HE did it. Well, cheer up! The only difference between you and Obama is that your MacBook doesn’t have a weird Pac-Man-looking sticker on it – and now you can buy one!
Obama Pacman is now selling the key to coolness in $3, reposition-able, no-residue, chunks. I recommend you get yours now before Obama ends up being photographed with something less cool, like a Dell with a Frogger sticker on it or something.
The most powerful MockBook ever. It’s Killer.
It’s long been known that Michael Myers was a Mac fan, but now we have proof. Check out this new promo for the upcoming movie Halloween 2.
No, there’s no sound, but I think it’s safe to assume the blood curdling screams of PC are still echoing in that barren, white world that the Apple ads take place in.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Jimmy Schapira for the tip!
What Apple’s MacBook Air ads SHOULD have looked like
This is so much more impressive than that “fits in an envelope” thing.
[via geekstir and everywhere]
Celebrity Mac chick Sighting: Maggie Grace
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Celebrity Mac Chick
What do you know! The 2nd best thing about the first two seasons of LOST owns an iPhone! (the first best thing obviously being the first time we saw Locke with hair in a flashback).
[via UseMyComputer]
iPhone + 100 mph + pavement = ?
Apple’s iPhone “Tech Specs” page posts tons of useful information about the iPhone designed to keep users from inadvertently damaging their devices – such as optimal operating temperatures, optimal altitude, humidity, etc. But two glaring omissions on the page are the “optimal velocity” and “optimal amount of tonnage” the iPhone can handle.
“Hey there Doc,
I’m a long time Macenstein reader and instantly thought of sending this to you when it all happened. My friend Dane and I (Phil) work UPS night shift and also live a couple blocks from one another. So after leaving work, he flies ahead on his CBR600. At some point on my venture home, i drove through a flurry of what appeared to be small papers. As i entered my home town, i see my friend on the side of the road yelling at me to turn around. I asked him what was up and he said that he lost his wallet and iphone 3g. It then hit me that the flurry of papers was the massive receipt collection in his wallet. Off we go back to the scene of the crime. We ended up finding his wallet, pieces of what used to be whole debit and credit cards, and …………. the iphone.
It did have an Incase Hard Case on it, but when i found it, it was face down with out its case. I found the case about 10 feet from the iphone also in pieces. The back of the iphone clearly shows it had been run over at least once, i assume the case went to pieces as it fell out of his pocket. So just spent the last couple hours of my morning scouring route 119 in pa, literally picking up the pieces of my friends life.
– Phil”
I think Dane has a case here. Apple clearly was negligent in not outlining the harmful effects of high-impact collisions on the iPhone, and there was really no way Dane could have known. I suspect Apple PR will be sending Dane a new iPhone any day now in hope of making this whole thing “disappear”.
