July 31st | Posted by

19-year-old Xiao Yun from China’s Sichuan province has come up with a novel way to raise money for victims of the catastrophic earthquake which struck China 2 months ago - she is posting scantily clad pictures of herself on the web, with promises of more to come as more money is donated. Her site has […]

July 30th | Posted by

Apple released iTunes 7.7.1 this evening (via Software Update). According to Apple, the update:
iTunes 7.7.1 includes fixes to improve stability and performance.
I consider myself a big fan of both stability and performance in general, so I’m all for this update. Unfortunately, the improved performance doesn’t seem to include cutting down on my insane backups times […]

July 30th | Posted by

If there’s 2 things I don’t understand in life, they are 1) Why Apple made a white iPhone, and 2) Why anyone would buy it. At least any guy. I have previously called the white iPhone “The Girliest thing since breasts“, and I stand behind that.

However, while a black iPhone may simply be […]

July 29th | Posted by

Hypothetical question for you… If you were going to make an iPhone clone, and you had gobs of money to hire ANY musical group in the world to appear in your commercial, would you think it would be a good idea to choose a group with the name of your main competitor in the title?
Well, […]

July 29th | Posted by

Faithful Macenstein reader Jordan sent us some pretty cool shots he took at the Charleston South Carolina Apple store grand opening this weekend.

Among the usual shots of the lined up mob and the pristine, soon-to-be-fouled store, is this rather interesting shot of a mysterious creature we would swear was the NJ Devil, if […]

July 29th | Posted by

Sure, it’s an inefficient method for actually finding your applications, but it looks cool when scrolling through, exspecially when you hit “blue”.