Why Steve jobs will never go to jail…EVER

December 31st | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by iGor
Yesterday, Apple’s PR machine announced they believe that none of their top execs (including Steve Jobs) will be implicated in the backdating stock scandal making headlines and taking Apple’s stock on a financial roller coaster ride this week.
While this is certainly good news for Apple fans across the globe, the threat of […]

Kick it old school with AppleIIGo Apple II emulator widget

December 30th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Dr. Macenstein
Programmer Marc S. Ressl has developed an Apple II emulator called AppleIIGo, available as a Mac OS X widget, a webpage Java applet, and a mobile phone midlet. Using the widget, you can play such Apple II classics as “Lemonade Stand ” (One of Apple’s first games), Arkanoid, Tetris 2, and […]

Apple expected to post record profits on sales of “Pages 2″

December 28th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by iGor
Apple is expected to report record profits during its January 17th Earnings Conference Call, and this time it is not its ubiquitous iPod music player that will get the credit. Instead, at least one analyst expects Apple to announce over $900 million in profit from sales of Apple’s “Pages 2” software, nearly […]

Amazon credits MacBook/iPods for its best holiday season ever

December 26th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Helper Monkey
Amazon today announced its best holiday season in the company’s history, and among the chief reasons cited were healthy sales of Apple’s iPods (various models) as well as its MacBook line of laptops.
Amazon failed to give specific totals at this time, but said “Top sellers in Consumer Electronics include Apple iPods […]

EyeTV gets 2.3.3 update; more iPod/iTunes integration

December 24th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Helper Monkey
In our opinion, there wasn’t much room for improvement with Elgato’s EyeTV software, but today the company managed to prove us wrong by releasing version 2.3.3. Despite being a “x.x.x” release, there are actually a couple major improvements packed into this update. Chief among them are improved iPod export […]

Macenstein’s “Mac Chick of the Month” (December 2006): Kandice

December 22nd | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

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Why can’t iTunes play the games it sells?

December 21st | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Above: The controller schemes in Sudoku (left) and Tetris (right) aren’t exactly PS3-complicated.
Yesterday I purchased my first 2 games for my iPod via the iTunes store, Sudoku, and Tetris. (They’re both great, incidentally. I recommend them highly.) However, upon clicking on the downloaded games in my iTunes library, it […]

More Fun with the “Shift” Key

December 19th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Helper Monkey
Many of you have no doubt seen the “tip” about holding down the shift key when minimizing/maximizing a Finder or Application’s window to see the scaling/genie effect in slow motion. (If you haven’t, well, there you go). But something I never realized is this slow motion goodness can be applied elsewhere […]

The iMac named TIME Magazine’s person of the year

December 16th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by iGor

OK, not really. But a quick glance at the cover may lead you to think otherwise.
Apparently this year TIME Magazine decided the only sure way to get people to buy this year’s “Person of the Year” issue was to make EVERY person on the planet the Person of the Year. After all, […]