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Happy Halloween from Macenstein!

Well, here’s a real treat! Mac chick of the Month June 2009 Irina Voronina and her Mac-loving friends Brooke Taylor and Raynecat were nice enough to show us that Apple gear is the perfect accessory to any costume. Oddly I was going to wear the same Devil costume. Enjoy! More pics, click here. Read More  Read More

The best Apple-themed Halloween costume… EVER

And on the 8th day, God created Steve Jobs, who subsequently invented Woz, who then begot Apple, which hired Tony Fadell, and so on and so forth until Dr.Macenstein founded Macenstein.com, which produced the Mac Chick of the Month. OK, I’ll admit it’s been a little while since I’ve been to church, but that’s more or less how I remember it going down. Anyway, there can be no denying that the Mac Chick of the Month is a gift from above, and this month... Read More

This is why I never jailbreak my pumpkins

Sure I love all the cool things I can do with a jailbroken pumpkin, but when things go wrong, they go horribly wrong. I resolved last year to stop jailbreaking my pumpkins, and this picture reminds me of exactly why I decided to suck it up and just make do with the firmware that ships natively with the fruit. It takes roughly 2 hours to restore a 12 pound pumpkin via iTunes, and the 20 pound model takes up to 3 hours. It just isn’t worth it. Thanks to faithful Macenstein... Read More

Random thoughts: Apple’s 100,000 iPhone apps and the Google GPS app

Two things happened today that filled me with a resounding feeling of… “meh”. Well, actually lots of underwhelming things happened today (I’m rather hard to overwhelm thanks to various mood evening drugs)) but two Apple-related things happened. Apple to hit 100,000 iPhone Apps The first announcement did not officially come from Apple itself, rather it came via the blog-o-sphere. Apparently Apple has now passed (or will reach in the next day or so) the... Read More

Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party

Like many British skits, this parody of Microsoft’s “Host a Windows 7 launch party” video is pretty damn funny, right up until the very end where they obviously didn’t know how to end it. I almost would have preferred to see Monty Python’s giant Foot squash them, but still the concept is awesome, as is the first minute forty, so enjoy. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Phelim for the tip! [via Funny or Die]  Read More

Best iPhone costumes to date – hopefully it comes with a Chiropractic app

I made an iPhone costume last year which I thought was pretty sweet (basically a sandwich board type thing with giant glossy icons printed out), but apparently it sucked and I looked like a dork, because these guys went all out and really made a kick-ass iPhone costume to die for… and yet they too look like dorks. The video is rather short, presumably either because both fellows suffered crippling back injuries 30 seconds after putting on their costumes (which consist... Read More

iPhone Engrish of the day: TimerMusicStop

Faithful Macenstein reader James writes: “Hey Doc, I remember that you had a couple articles awhile back that highlighted some bad App Store Engrish. Thought this may qualify…my brother and I still have no idea what it does. Something with time? ” TimerMusicStop‘s description: iPod you want to stop in time but want to listen to music for? Interest in a case like! ! Usage is simple. Time to stop the roll set time, please switch to ON. Then the music stops... Read More

Fake excitement reaches new levels as Microsoft Store opens

Faithful Macenstein reader Justin sent us this link of a video from the grand opening of the new Microsoft retail store in Scottsdale, AZ. I won’t go into the whole “completely copying the look of the Apple Stores”, the color coded shirts of employees, and the “high fives” of the first customers that we’ve seen in hundreds of Apple Store openings over the years. But what I would like to draw your attention to is just how sad and confused the... Read More

Luxo blows a fuse

I know that Pixar news isn’t exactly Apple news, but it’s my damn site and I thought this was funny. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Jonro for the tip! [via CollegeHumor]  Read More

If K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider were a Windows-hating Ford Focus with a Mac mini for a brain

I’m not sure if they will solve as many ridiculously unimportant, driving-related crimes as Michael Knight and K.I.T.T. did on the original 1980′s Knight Rider series (I mean, how many corrupt racing competitions can you bust up?), but faithful Swedish Macenstein reader Sascha and his Mac mini-powered Ford Focus, or F.O.X. (Focus ’0 siX) will certainly be able to launch iTunes while trying. F.O.X doesn’t do windows. That’s right. Thanks to the power... Read More