Prepare to freak out! iPhone developers are using apps to pass your phone number to telemarketers
Our good friends over at the French Mac site Mac4Ever have alerted us to a somewhat alarming development. Apparently a few days after purchasing the Swiss app MogoRoad, a free radar tracking application, users are reporting receiving telephone calls asking them if they’d like to purchase the FULL version of the application. When asked how the caller had obtained their number,... Read More
Apple’s new iPod touch web ads almost makes you think the touch is a real gaming machine
It’s no secret Apple is pushing the iPod touch as a gaming machine – Steve Jobs said as much when lamely trying to explain why the new iPod touches didn’t have a camera (as if game makers couldn’t find a creative way to make use of one). But if there was any lingering doubt that Apple was trying to push the iPhone/touch platform further into the mindset of hard... Read More
The most optimistic/delusional press release ever
Now that Steve Jobs is back in command at Apple, it looks like the first order of business will be of the “monkey” variety – at least according to this somewhat optimistic press release by iPorn: iPorn’s last trip to visit Apple iPorn Girls to Visit Top Execs at Apple iPhone Headquarters In an attempt to lobby approval of the new iPorn iPhone App 5 open-minded... Read More
It’s like using a Blur song to announce the Oasis catalog
Anyone else think it’s ridiculous to use a Rolling Stones lyric to announce the Beatles coming to iTunes? I mean, the Beatles had a hit or two of their own… surely something they sang would have been applicable? Could we be in for a surprise? Perhaps Apple is going to re-announce that they’ve had the Rolling Stones on iTunes for years…? I actually have a... Read More
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t sell MacBooks
Here’s something you’ll never see at a Microsoft retail store – a well-orchestrated “smash and grab” of desirable merchandise. I was going to try to make some lame joke about about “Windows Crashes even at the Apple Store”, but I guess since it is technically a door, I can’t. I think the open-air mall locations just aren’t working... Read More
iPhone + 100 mph + pavement = ?
Apple’s iPhone “Tech Specs” page posts tons of useful information about the iPhone designed to keep users from inadvertently damaging their devices – such as optimal operating temperatures, optimal altitude, humidity, etc. But two glaring omissions on the page are the “optimal velocity” and “optimal amount of tonnage” the iPhone can handle.... Read More
PowerBook takes a “Major League” hit
I’m the furthest thing you’ll find from a baseball fan, so the idea of being a photographer sent to cover all the “action” of a Pittsburgh Pirates game is scary enough, but check out the carnage that befalls this poor man’s PowerBook during an 8th inning foul ball. (Be sure to check out the chick with the iPhone at the end – priceless). More pics... Read More
“iFlighter Control” totally revamps the Flight Control genre
If you look quickly at these shots of the new game iFlighter Control you might foolishly think the game is a total rip-off of the wildly successful game Flight Control which has dominated the iTunes charts for months. But if you look closely, you’ll notice that the developers cleverly moved the pause button to the top of the screen from the bottom, thus totally changing the... Read More
Rapper Ice-T smashes his non-working Mac with a hammer – impresses no one
Over the years we’ve seen a lot of idiots try to impress people buy destroying already broken Apple products on YouTube, but Ice-T is by far the most famous idiot we’ve seen to date. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Andy for the tip! Read More
Hmmm… more like 107
These readings from my iPhone were taken while standing in the ocean in about 8 inches of water. Assuming the iPhone uses “sea level” as the basis for altitude, I would say the accuracy is closer to 107 feet than 56. Although, in the iPhone’s defense, I AM just under 50 feet tall… Read More
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