Celebrity Mac Chick sighting: Lindsay Lohan

February 29th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Hmm… well, they say there’s no such thing as bad publicity… let’s find out!

Here we see the lovely and talented… um, well, lovely, anyway… Lindsay Lohan, proudly displaying her iPhone as she scampers away from the paparazzi and on to her next rehab facility. I suppose given the fact that

Curved iMac concept - would you like some WTF with that?

February 29th | Posted by Evan Lugh

A ‘new’ concept iMac has given birth: The iMac iView. A designer named Nuno Teixeira is getting a lot of attention from avid Mac fans. As the title says, it’s curved but as the images below will show, it has no stand. This makes me wonder how easy it would be for a little burst […]

Show your iPhone a good time with iNdependence v1.4

February 29th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Our good friend Will over at IntoMobile has alerted us that iNdependence v1.4 beta 5 has been released.

So what is iNdependence? Well, according to the above picture, it will either Jailbreak your iPhone, or have sex with it.
Actually, iNdependence bills itself as a Mac-only “easy-to-use interface for jailbreak, activation, SSH installation, and […]

The real reason to upgrade to Leopard

February 29th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

I’m totally giving Leopard’s iChat the big “Thumbs Up“. Why? Just cause I can. Thank god they kept the always useful “money mouth“.

Hints that the Beatles iTunes launch getting closer? 1 to 2 weeks?

February 29th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

The whole “Beatles on iTunes speculation” thing has pretty much burned me out. I am perhaps one of the few people who doesn’t really care one way or the other about whether or not the Beatles come to iTunes. Sure, it would be a little exciting if the Beatles were an iTunes exclusive artist, […]

IntelliSchool Free is released - Free open source school database system

February 28th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Macenstein has a huge FileMaker following (well, one reader, I know of anyway), so I thought it only fitting to pass this bit of news along. Faithful UK Macenstein reader Simon Elliott writes:
“I wrote a school pupil data system in FileMaker Pro three years ago and it has been used in a school ever […]

Stuff White People Like #40: Apple Computers

February 28th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

I wish I could argue with this, but I can’t. It’s quite brilliant. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader TheWarpedOne for the link.

“Plain and simple, white people don’t just like Apple, they love and need Apple to operate… Apple products tell the world you are creative and unique. They are an exclusive product line only […]

O2 to Launch iPhone in Ireland

February 28th | Posted by Evan Lugh

It seems the iPhone is ready to move itself further around the world. The English iPhone carrier, O2 has announced that they will be introducing the iPhone in Ireland.
As with England, the Ireland-Phone will sell exclusively through the O2 Online store and retail stores, as well as The Carphone Warehouse.
Prices and Tariffs
The 8GB model […]

Apple says new OS X security exploit not a big deal: discoverers decide to make it a big deal

February 28th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

In, Security glitch exposes OS X account passwords, News.com reports on a newly discovered vulnerability in the way OS X stores username and password info during the login process. The exploit was discovered by the appropriately named Jacob Appelbaum, a San Francisco-area programmer who dropped this “bomb” on Apple February 5th:

“This is a real problem […]