Free Mimobot of the Week: Darth Maul!
[Thank you, we have our winner! Congrats to faithful Macenstein reader Quintin!]
We’ve once again teamed up with our good friends over at Mimoco to bring you a feature we know everyone loves - The Free MIMOBOT of the week contest! In celebration of the release of Mimoco’s Series 4 Star Wars Mimobots, each week we’ll be offering you a chance to win a different 2 GB MIMOBOT from the series.
Remember how excited you were when you saw Darth Maul in the trailer?
This week we are giving away a super cool Darth Maul Mimobot. Yes, Darth Maul, pretty much the only redeemable thing we can take away from Episode One: The Phantom Menace. Remember how you almost crapped your pants when you saw Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber? Well, you’re friends will definitely need a change of underwear when they see the Darth Maul mimobot’s butt light up red as you transfer files!
To Enter: OK, there’s no denying The Phantom Menace didn’t exactly live up to MY expectations (but then as a child of the 80’s, how could it?). So this week to enter, simply tell us what is the one movie in your life you have MOST looked forward to? It may or may not have lived up to your expectations, but thanks to clever trailer editing, everyone’s gotten excited about seeing a movie at some point or another. Winner will be picked randomly. Contest ends seven days from now and is open to all readers world-wide. Good luck!
Free Mimobot of the Week: Vader Unmasked!
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Free Stuff, contests
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE OUR WINNER! CONGRATS TO FAITHFUL MACENSTEIN READER Johnny C!]
We’ve once again teamed up with our good friends over at Mimoco to bring you a feature we know everyone loves - The Free MIMOBOT of the week contest! In celebration of the release of Mimoco’s Series 4 Star Wars Mimobots, each week we’ll be offering you a chance to win a different 2 GB MIMOBOT from the series.
Which will it be? Pasty Gray Darth or young, tan Darth?
This week we are giving away a super cool Darth Vader Unmasked Mimobot. Featuring a removable helmet, the Vader Unmasked Mimobot comes in 2 flavors, and we have no idea which you’ll get. Will it be the newly scared, young Anakin, or the rarer pasty, old Return of the Jedi Vader? (Odds of pasty gray Darth are 1 in 6). Isn’t that exciting?
To Enter: Remember that big deal everyone made when Samuel L. Jackson (aka Mace Windu) requested a purple Lightsaber from George Lucas in order to appear in the films? No? Well, then you’re cooler than me. Anyway, to enter, simply tell us what color lightsaber YOU would want if you had your choice. Winner will be picked randomly. Contest ends seven days from now and is open to all readers world-wide. Good luck!
The Creeps! updated - win a free code
Filed under: Awesomeness, Free Stuff, Games, Slow News Day, Updates, contests, iPhone, iPod Touch
Above: One of The Creeps! new under water levels.
The Creeps!, a kick-ass Tower Defense game (and one of the few iPhone games that has stayed on my iPhone after 6 months) has just been updated, and to celebrate, Super Squawk Software was nice enough to give us a free game code to give away. Yes, it’s only a 99¢ game, and yes, Super Squawk is using this as a cheap way to get a $300 ad on Macenstein for 99¢, but hey, the game really DOES rock, the update is a substantial one, and there is pretty much nothing newsworthy going on right now. It is kind of a perfect storm for The Creeps!
Above: Ahhh, the low battery warning. Always a sign that you like a game.
Anyway, as I mentioned, this is no mere bug fix update – Super Squawk has added a total of 8 new maps, 5 new Creeps, and a cool new Paper Shuriken weapon to help you defend your sleeping child from the things which go bump in the night.
To Enter: Simply leave us a comment telling who you think the creepiest celebrity is (and no, you can’t say me). The Free code will only work in the US iTunes store, so you need a US iTunes account to claim the prize. You have until Saturday the 16th at midnight EST (the witching hour) to enter. Winner will be selected randomly. Thanks, and good luck!
Write a caption, win a prize
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Free Stuff, Humor, Photos, contests
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE A WINNER - KEVIN T WITH " We should move along... these aren't the ports we're looking for..." YES, IT WAS SLIGHTLY OUT OF ORDER, BUT HE WAS THE FIRST WITH THE IDEA.]
Mr. Jobs is most displeased with your apparent lack of progress. …
Think you’re funny enough to be the next Margaret Cho? Well, now’s your chance to prove it to the world. Write your best caption for the above photo. 
If we think it’s the most clever, we’ll send you off a $20 iTunes gift certificate.
This picture was taken from what I think may be the best flickr photostream of all time, and if you have even a shred of geek in you, you need to check it out.
The contest is open to everyone in the US (sorry, iTunes won’t let us buy gift certificates to non-US accounts), and runs until Friday (May 15th) at 11:59PM EST. You can enter more than once if you are feeling “Carrot Top“-prolific. Good luck.
(Oh, and be sure to put in your e-mail, or else we won’t be able to contact you).
[Original image via 713 Avenue on flickr]
I hate 13-year olds
Filed under: Cynicism, Free Stuff, Humor, Opinion, You Bet I'm Pissed
God, I am so pissed at 13 year old Connor Muicahey of Weston, Connecticut who basically stole my Billion iPhone app prize. That’s right, a 13-year old won my $10,000 iTunes card, my Time Capsule, my 32 GB iPod touch, AND my 17″ MacBook Pro. Wouldn’t YOU be pissed if someone did that to you? I mean, it’s almost like the kid broke into my house. Why didn’t he take my TV while he was at it?
Man. And what’s even worse is that the Mac media seems to love it. “Oh, how cute! A 13- year old boy won all that stuff! That’s great!” Yeah, well, you know what would have been greater? If I had won it.
That’s right, a 13-year old with an iPhone. That hard-wroking kid must have some paper route! I can just picture this so-called “Connor”, hair of gold, sitting in his Connecticut mansion, sweater tied around his shoulders, tennis racket in hand, downloading “Bump” for his iPhone (obviously using the non-tennis racket holding hand).
Even the app he downloaded pisses me off. “Bump”. So, not only does Connor have an iPhone, but SO many of his friends have iPhones, that he needs a faster way to wirelessly transfer his friend’s contact info from their iPhones to HIS iPhone. That’s right, Connor comes from a whole town of 13-year old Connors with iPhones, and right now they are playing a game of Polo using the 32 GB iPod touch as the ball, having long since grown tired of their usual jewel encrusted Faberge Eggs.
Oh, and I am sure Connor will put my 17′ MacBook Pro to good use. I bet right now he is checking his Facebook profile on it, which is really straining those 2.9GHz Core Duos. I only hope he has the Energy Saver settings tagged at “Higher Performance” to really get the most out of all 512 MB of RAM in that NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT. Good thing he has my Time Capsule too - wouldn’t want to lose any of that important work he’s doing on it.
Damn. This is really just a crime, and I wish to put out a call to all my fellow Mac bloggers out there to stop treating this as a light hearted human interest story and instead see it as the horrible tragedy that it is.
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