Macenstein

Scrabble keyboard is triple-letter word score awesome!

“Doc” (nice name, by the way) , over at Datamancer took on a custom Mac Keyboard request from some of his Scrabble-loving friends, and the results are pretty darn cool. Comprised almost entirely of genuine, hand beveled Scrabble tiles, the Scrabble Keyboard is a wonderful blend of art, engineering, and nerddom. “Most of the keys are made from real Scrabble... Read More

50 iPhone Apps with Icons That Don’t Suck

They say “you can’t judge a book by its cover”, but they also say “you never get a second chance to make a first impression”. I’m not a big fan of cliched sayings, but for applications trying desperately to gain attention on the bloated, unorganized mess that IS the iTunes app store, having a well designed icon could help make the difference... Read More

So…?

Notice anything different? That’s right! Macenstein is finally emerging from its crusty brown chrysalis, and turning into a beautiful butterfly, albeit one that at the moment is missing a couple legs and only one has one wing, but over the next week or two, we hope to have the site up and running at full steam with some cool new features to make it even more awesometastic... Read More

“The 12 Days AFTER Christmas” Giveaway: Day 11

Thank you, we have a winner – this Contest is closed. Congrats to faithful Macenstein reader John! On the Eleventh Day After Christmas, Macenstein gave to you (or, more accurately, gave you a chance to win…) A Realmac Software bundle featuring your very own copies of RapidWeaver and LittleSnapper ! RapidWeaver is so full of awesomeness, you should really check out... Read More

I just threw up in my mouth a little

Not to keep harping on what does and does not warrant an age appropriate rating in the iTunes app store, but for the love of God, this man’s ASSHOLE IS CLEARLY VISIBLE! My favorite line in the description of Fart Machine: “With lots of realistic sounding farts and nice animations, this machine is state of the fart.” NICE animations? How “nice”... Read More

iPhone Engrish of the day: MewMew Tower

Description: The “MewMew Tower” is the game that is accumulating a lot of cats highly the sky in a line. You will stack a cat straightly so that balance may not worsen. If iPhone is leaned, a cat will collapse easily. Oppositely, let’s incline iPhone and balance when becoming ill-balanced. It is a fun game to be able to enjoy from a child to an adult. Thanks... Read More

Is that a wine glass icon or Lindsay Lohan getting out of a limo?

I suppose what you see here depends totally on how depraved an individual you are, but apparently both faithful Macenstein reader Cub and I see the same thing. “Hey, Long time reader, love the site! Thought you might appreciate this image, surely has to be the dodgiest iPhone app icon ever! There’s a few things this looks like and a glass of wine isn’t the first... Read More

Another “inspired” app hits the app store

Remember when the app store first launched, all those level apps that hit the store? It was quickly revealed that Apple shipped the source code to make a level app as part of the sample applications that come in the iPhone developer kit. All these people did in some cases was change the skin slightly (and in 1 notable case, not at ALL) and then they started selling it on iTunes. Well,... Read More

Who knows WordPress?

OK, we’re once again looking into giving Macenstein a facelift. We’ve got a nice purty Photoshop doc of what we think Macenstein v 3.0 should look like (hint: 90% less brown!), now all we need is someone smart enough to bring it to life. If you are a WordPress wiz and think you can bang out a theme from what we have (which isn’t all that different from what we... Read More

hmmmm….

Good thing no one at Apple works for Pixar, right? Above: The new iPhone game iBot.  Read More