Riddle: How do you make a Timbaland song better?
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Humor, Microsoft Bashing, video
Answer 1: Turn it off
Answer 2: Use it to bash Windows 7.
Thanks to sherv and ObamaPacman and everyone who sent this in.
Profanity: When a 4 letter word just doesn’t cut it
Filed under: Humor, It's a joke, News, Slow News Day, iPhone
Ever wanted to curse someone out, but wanted something really creative, or just so flat out bizarre that the person will think twice about your mental state before crossing you again? Well check out Profanity (99ยข app store), the iPhone app that helps you piece together some fairly original, if not effective, curses.
Just give your iPhone a shake and out will pop some of the oddest assortment of would-be curses imaginable. While most of these 32 character epithets are a bit verbose and lack the punch of their 4-letter friends, they will certainly not go unnoticed.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader ubershinysheep for the tip!
This is why I never jailbreak my pumpkins
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Humor, iTunes
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 reader Glen for the link!
[via imgur]
Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Humor, Microsoft Bashing
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]
Best iPhone costumes to date - hopefully it comes with a Chiropractic app
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Awesomeness, Humor, design, iPhone
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 of 40-inch LCD displays) or because whatever giant portable battery unit they have strapped to their backs only lasts 30 seconds to power the things, or it burned them so severely that the costumes fused to their bodies, in a kind of Doctor Octopus kind of way (but hopefully with better acting). Still, very impressive.
This all started two years ago Reko Rivera and Bobby Hartman created a wearable large iPhone costume with a real 37″ lcd tv. An iPod was attached with a looping video of a real iPhones screen in normal use. This time with the help of John Savio and John Matthews the team created yet another amazing rendition of the new iPhone 3GS. Savio loved the original idea but wanted to take it to the next level and make it thinner and actually work with user input! With some heavy researching and some solid determination Savio finally found a solution. He managed to modify the software on the iPhone to allow a live dual image output to the large 42″ lcd tv while maintaining the image in landscape mode. Reko originally came up with the idea and really pushed to see his vision come to life two years ago. This year John and Reko plan to compete in most of the local and online contest to win back all the money they invested in the costumes. The team has about $2000 into the two costumes and has no regrets! Please go to www.votesavio.com for a list of online contests you can help the guys with votes!
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