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Apple flooding the App store with more useless Apps

To date, Apple’s iPhone apps have been fairly solid efforts, although the same cannot be said for the majority of 3rd party iPhone apps out there. However, it looks like Apple has decided to jump on the “bloatware” bandwagon. Check out this invite for the WWDC. Not only is Apple apparently using a jalbroken iPhone to hide the app names, but it looks like they... Read More

Not a good sign?

The new iPod shuffle has been one of the most polarizing products Apple has ever released. And whether you hate it, or are just pretending to love it because of an over developed sense of brand loyalty, one thing is for sure, it was a risky move on Apple’s part to simplify its most simplified iPod to the point of making it complicated. Well, it looks like even Apple may not... Read More

Chinese company releases Apple’s netbook for them

We Apple fanboys are used to pointing accusing fingers towards PC offerings that bear a striking similarity to Apple’s own. And as blatant as many of these “homages” to Apple’s design may be, for the most part these companies have been content to leave the theft at design cues and materials. However, in the wild west that IS Shenzhen, China, all bets are... Read More

What the hell is Best Buy selling?

What is this monstrosity? Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Bryon for the tip!  Read More

Did Jobs fake a health illness to avoid announcing the new Shuffle?

Wow. Today’s announcement of the new iPod shuffle was really something, wasn’t it? Just push a button 10 times, and your iPod will speak a list of playlists. Press 11 times, hold once, then press again, and you can turn it off. It sounds a little too much like this parody of the Mactini by Peter Serafinowicz. I remember more than once I had a report to give in school... Read More

Irrefutable proof that the Mac Pro is overdue for a makeover

The Mac Pro’s design has remained virtually unchanged since its PowerMac G5 days, and while Apple has thus far been able to successfully ignore my daily pleas for a redesign, I think even they may now have to admit the design is a bit long in the tooth. After all, once Dell copies you, it pretty much sucks the cool out of the room. Kind of like when even the nerdiest kid... Read More

Hmmm… Might be time to knock €24,016.13 off that thing

Remember last year when that “beautiful” €26,000, gold and crystal-covered MacBook Air by Bling My Thing made its ultra-classy debut? Well, guess what still hasn’t sold… Faithful Macenstein reader Fabrizio writes: “Hi Doc, I live in Berlin (Germany) and last week as i went to buy something in a Ka.de.We (the biggest Store in europe like Harods... Read More

OMFG! Quicken is releasing new iMacs and Apple TVs!

If there’s one thing we Mac users love to see, it’s the “We’ll be Back Soon” Post-it note on the Apple store. Far more exciting than Christmas morning, the Post-it conjures up visions of futuristic, fusion-powered, levitating iMacs and Apple TVs that are useful without installing Boxee. Well, looks like Apple is taking so long with the new iMac and... Read More

Take THAT, Jonathan Ive!

Photographer Steve Lee got fed up with Apple’s “two-color” color scheme on all its devices (black and silver, white and silver) so he decided to “fix” Apple’s design mistakes. “Combine my pedantic taste for minimalism with nerdy touchtyping abilities and a cheap can of white spraypaint, and you end up with my keyboard – possibly the... Read More

Latest iPhone clone boasts unique feature

Currently one of the most watched items on eBay the $108.88 I68+ TOUCH SCREEN UNLOCKED I9 for T-MOBILE AT&T PHONE is one of the best iPhone clones we’ve seen, even if it IS a 1st gen clone. Above: Well, at least they took the Apple logo off, which is more than some clone makers did… Aside from the upside-down back and odd camera placement, you might think it... Read More