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Kindle Fire outselling iPads at Best Buy – Amazon is a big baby

With the news today that Amazon’s Kindle Fire is outselling the iPad 2 at Best Buy, I thought it wise to revisit this little Kindle Fire mention by Seth Meyers on SNL a few months back (about 40 seconds in). Giving we are now well into the holiday shopping season, I think Seth’s warning to parents bares repeating. Now, this news should not be cause for we fanboys to panic – after all, the iPad is still ranked #2 at Best Buy, and remember that the Fire is less... Read More

iSkin iPhone 4/4S case roundup – Claro, Solo, Aura

Continuing my iPhone 4/ 4S case review series, here’s a quick roundup of my impressions of three of iSkin’s latest offerings. iSkin Solo ($29.99) – Available in four translucent colors (pink, aqua, purple, and black) the Solo is your basic “rubber case”. Of course, iSkin says the Solo is made from a a special “new generation theromoplastic”, but for all intents it looks and feels like rubber. iSkin also hopes to separate it from the run... Read More

Review: XtremeMac Tuffwrap Shift color-changing case for iPhone 4/4S

Usually I’m not a huge fan of reviewing silicone iPhone cases, not because I don’t love them (after all, who doesn’t love changing the look of their phone every once in awhile), but usually there’s not all that much to say about them aside from “It’s pretty much what you would expect”. However, XtremeMac got my attention with their new Tuffwrap Shift cases for the iPhone 4 and 4S ($29.99). The gimmick here (and let’s be honest,... Read More

This is why the terrorists hate us

Awww… look at the cute little kitty playing with the World’s most expensive cat toy! That’s right, this is a real app. It’s called Game for Cats (iTunes), and it’s free if you have a (preferably declawed) cat you’d like to mess with. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Marksman for the tip!  Read More

Macenstein’s Mac Chick of the Month November 2011: Katelynn Denis

Welcome to Macenstein‘s “Mac Chick of the Month”. Each month we feature a different die-hard, Mac-loving girl who is (almost) as well designed as the Apple products they love. This month we present you with the lovely Katelynn Denis! Katelynn Denis is a New England girl with the independent attitude and personality to match. She is a girly-girl, but she’s also not shy to admit that she used to be a tom boy and still has a love for video games and everything... Read More

Enter to win a TankBot!

Thank you, we have out winner. This contest is closed I’d like you to close your eyes for a moment, and imagine the coolest thing in the world. Got it? Ok, it’s a cute tank that you can control with your iPhone, right? (Oh, you can open your eyes now, by the way… although you probably can’t see this… crap I should have thought this out better). Yes, thanks to our good friends over at DeskPets we are giving one lucky reader their very own TankBot.... Read More

Games That Don’t Suck: Temple Run

Today’s game that doesn’t suck is Temple Run (iTunes: free – Universal) , from Imangi Studios. This is a quick-finger, endless running game sort of like former “GTDS” Gravity Guy, or The Impossible Game, but with a great 3D twist and Indiana Jones adventurer theme to it that makes it even more enjoyable. During a quick tutorial you will learn the basic controls which consist of 1 finger swipes (left, right, up (jump), and down (slide)) which you use... Read More

NSFW: Siri as marriage counselor

With more and more of us becoming more comfortable talking to our phones than each other, I actually don’t think this is too far off. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Mike for the tip! Via CollegeHumor  Read More

iPhone 4 scalping still big business in China despite imminent 4S launch

I ALSO waited in line for an iPhone 4, but that was back in 2010... Faithful Macenstein reader and Shanghai correspondent Min has returned with some interesting shots of folks still lining up outside the Shanghai Apple Store to gobble up the iPhone 4, despite the fact that the 4S is already available in Hong Kong and should be making its way to the rest of China in December. What’s even stranger is that according to Min, the majority of these people in line are iPhone scalpers,... Read More

Do a wireless software update on your iPhone (Because you CAN, that’s why!)

This morning Apple released the first update to iOS 5, giving most of us (who were not in the developer program) our first chance to test out Apple’s “computerless Over The Air software updates” – one of the cool new features in iOS 5 that have been around on Android for over a year. If you haven’t done it yet, you should, if for no other reason than because you CAN. And don’t worry, unlike the old fashioned software updates, this one only took... Read More