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]
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