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Review: PowerSkin battery for iPhone 4

As anyone who’s ever read my Wikipedia page knows, I’m an iPhone battery whore. I suppose ultimately it is a compliment to Apple that I use my iPhone so much during the day that the built-in battery alone is usually not sufficient to make through on one charge (although I suppose the case could be made that Apple could have made the thing slightly thicker and thrown in a bigger battery… but I digress). Of course, I don’t use my iPhone for anything productive... Read More

Everything you ever wanted to know about Mac Rumors’ Arnold Kim

Arnold Kim‘s story is a truly fascinating one. A few years back Kim took a leap of faith and left his impressive sounding, chick-magnet job as a Nephrologist to become a full time blogger, and now his super-popular Mac Rumors site reigns supreme as the premiere repository of intel on all things Apple. Kim has since expanded his empire to include the iPhone gaming site Touch Arcade and the iOS AppStore monitoring App Shopper, and now he sits atop a pile of gold, drinking... Read More

Avid goes there

That’s all well and good, but will it open FCP 7 projects? (Answer: Yes, actually (with Automatic Duck).)  Read More

Al Gore is going to fix FCP X

Don’t worry everyone, Al Gore is on the case. At least assuming this post by John Davidson on the Creative Cow Forums is legit. “I’m at Promax in NYC and got to meet and greet with keynote speaker Al Gore just a few minutes ago. Working up all my courage, I decided to sandbag him with complaints about Final Cut Pro X. Here’s how it went down. Don’t worry everyone, Al Gore is on the case. At least assuming this post by John Davidson on the Creative... Read More

What are the odds it would land “camera up”?

I guess 50/50, actually… Check out this video of an iPhone surviving an 800 foot drop during a Airborne Parachute jump (Starts about 30 seconds in). Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Mike for the link!  Read More

Edited with Premiere 5.5

A lot has been made of the clusterfuck that is Final Cut Pro X, with 70% of the negative publicity coming from my Twitter. I recently posted a video from the Conan O’Brien show which bashed FCP X’s lack of professional features, and at the time I thought it was ballsy of Conan to dedicate time to lampooning a product very few, if any, or his audience members had ever heard of, much less used. Well, in the interest of beating a dead horse, and getting further into the... Read More

A Guy, a Girl, and 3 iPhones

It seems like just yesterday bands were trying to make headlines by shooting their music videos on iPhones. Now, they’re actually trying to make waves showing their videos ON iPhones. “Hey Doc! I made this amazing music video with the talented Director Behn Fannin using 3 iphones. Its got 4500 hits in about 3 days. check it out! And please post it to your site after you pick your jaw off the floor. -Steve Shane” Thanks Steve, and nice work. Although I have... Read More

Conan posts an awesome video only 100 people understood

As a testament to how unpopular the new Final Cut Pro X is with professional editors, Conan O’Brien dedicated a full 2 minutes of his show to ripping the new piece of software, despite the fact that 99.999% of his audience had probably never even heard of Final Cut Pro. This video is also a testament to how once your late night show moves to basic cable, you can pretty much do whatever you want and not have to worry about entertaining your core audience. (Still, for those... Read More

Chinese teen is attempting to sell her virginity for an iPhone 4

I wonder why we don’t hear stories like this about Windows 7 and Droid phones? Horny American artist's conception In yet another story of people in China selling parts of their bodies for Apple gear, the Korea Herald is reporting that a Chinese teen is attempting to sell her virginity in order to get an iPhone 4. No word yet on what model of iPhone, or if the girl is attractive, but we’ll keep you posted as more information surfaces. Far be it for me to stop virgins... Read More

Angry Birds, domino style

When it comes the the YouTube Domino video world, Flippycat is a legend (yes, there IS a YouTube Domino world). In fact, his amazing clips inspired my son to make his own awesome domino videos when he was 3 (and by awesome, I mean adorably horrible), and I invite you to check them out here and here). But I’m not here simply to bore you with home movies, rather, to point out Flippycat’s awesomeness. Check out his clever domino homage to Angry Birds below.  Read More