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Macenstein’s Mac Chick of the Month January 2012: Ashley Caple

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 Ashley Caple, a model, actress, video game addict, and of course, a die-hard Mac Chick! Ashley Caple is a new face to the Hollywood industry... Read More

Macenstein’s Mac Chick of the Month December 2011: Tara Babcock

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 Tara Babcock, a model, video game reviewer, and of course, a die-hard Mac Chick! “My name is Tara Babcock and I am a 21 year old professional... 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... 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... Read More

Death can’t stop Steve from being right

Well, the big news today was that Adobe has finally announced that it will no longer be supporting the Flash Mobile platform, instead opting to focus its attention on creating HTML 5 development tools. This news will come as a huge blow to fans of non-iOS devices who have been blindly throwing “lack of Flash support” around as a legitimate excuse for not buying an iPhone/iPad. There’s... Read More

We’re giving away a Vuzix Wrap 310XL!!

THANK YOU WE HAVE A WINNER – THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO FAITHFUL MACENSTEIN READER JEN. If you’re anything like me, you’ve been searching for a way to look as cool as the guy in the above photograph for YEARS. Well, now you can, thanks to our good friends at Vuzix who have provided us with a Vuzix Wrap 310XL to give away to ONE lucky reader! That’s... Read More

Microsoft knows the “keys” to getting an Apple-sized line at its store opening

And they’re BLACK! See what I did there? No? Well, watch this hilarious video of Microsoft’s latest store opening at University Village, Seattle. Yes, unlike every single Apple Store grand opening – where folks will often camp out overnight simply to be one of the first to cross the glass threshold of the new store and lay out their cold hard cash – it appears... Read More

MOOF!

OK, so it’s not quite Clarus the DogCow, but check out this naturally Apple-branded iCow from Holten in the Netherlands (near Amsterdam) sent in by faithful Macenstein reader Erik Gigengack. “”From its birth in 2006 it was clear that she was special,” says farmer Wim Reijlink “We therefore call it the iCow, but her real name is Sina 609″. via... Read More

Awww! She thinks she’s PEOPLE!

Is there anything cuter than little babies playing with iPads? Yes there is. But it’s hard to get bunnies to ride to bicycles, so we’ll take babies with iPads for now. Of course eventually there will be nothing unusual or cute about this at all, as eventually ALL babies will have iPads and be baffled by the non-interactiveness of traditional magazines. Now, as quick... Read More

Flowers outside the Shanghai Apple Store

Faithful Macenstein reader Min Wei writes: “Hi Doc, I was on the bus this morning and read the news about Steve. It is so sad he is gone. I happened to pass the Apple Store at Pudong Shanghai. There are some flowers and his picture in front of the store. Many shoppers stopped and paid their respects before they entered the store. Here are the three photos I took. The last... Read More