Celebrity Mac Chick sighting: Lindsay Lohan
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Celebrity Mac Chick, iPhone
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 Read more
Curved iMac concept - would you like some WTF with that?
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, Hardware, WTF, design, iMacs
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 of wind to knock it over and destroy your banana’d Apple product.
As the second image shows, you can see a second screen with another iSight camera. The advantages of this I do not know, perhaps your wall gets a little lonely sometimes?
Let us know what you think of the concept, or specifically, the uses of a second screen and iSight (because we all want to see that lovely 80’s retro-wallpaper you’ve still got going..).
[via Yanko Design]
Show your iPhone a good time with iNdependence v1.4
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 ringtone/wallpaper/application installation on your iPhone.” This is the first 1.1.4 firmware hack we’ve seen, and initial reports indicate it seems to work well (for most people).
Will has published a 9 step guide to using iNdependence, but really it is a 3 step guide of 1) download 2) open 3) hit “Jailbreak”. Seems pretty simple. Will tested it on his original v1 iPhone, running the old bootloader with no problem, so if you are brave and into voiding warranties, check out iNdependece, and let us know how it goes.
The real reason to upgrade to Leopard
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?
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, but odds are that isn’t going to happen. I own all the Beatles albums on CD already, and while I realize Beatles fanatics rival only the KISS Army in loyalty and their need to re-buy every re-issued track, I think most of them will want a hard copy of the next money-sucking re-mix Yoko and McCartney sanction – a digital download won’t cut it (unless they make it sound like vinyl… some people might actually pay more to get their “hiss” back into Beatles recordings).
But enough opining. That only seems to get me in trouble recently. 
Faithful Macenstein reader Art Vandelay has provided a ray of hope that all the Beatles on iTunes discussion may be finally nearing an end:
“This is on the speculation side, but it has supporting details. I was watching American Idol tonight, and Ryan Seacrest made an announcement that drew a ton of cheers from the audience…
“We are proud to announce that the rights to all of the Lennon/McCartney Tracks have been given to us this year. We have been trying to get them to let us use their songs for years, and starting next week, it will be added to our catalogue.”
Sound familiar? They’ve been trying to get the Beatles for years, and this year we’ve finally gotten the rights? As the editor of an Apple blog, you know what I’m referring to. If that’s not enough, when asked in an interview when to expect the Beatles on iTunes, Steve said the following…
A: We’d love to have the Beatles. It will happen — I hope by the first half of next year. As soon as they’re ready, we’re ready.This interview was in 2007 by USA Today. For the whole interview, read here. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-09-05-jobs-qanda_N.htm
Therefore, I am making the guess that Apple will announce that the Beatles are on iTunes at the Media Event, or one of the Tuesdays around that time to coincide with their weekly Tuesday announcements this year.
- Art Vandelay”
Sounds eerily plausible. If Sony/ATV Music Publishing (which owns the rights to the Beatles’ songs in question) is willing to sell out to American Idol, which is one step above (or below) allowing songs to be used in a tampon commercial, then odds are they are getting ready to cash in on the digital downloads scene. And who loves digital downloads? THE KIDS! That’s right. And who watched American Idol? THE KIDS!
And Art Vandelay. It’s all falling into place…
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