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iPhone 4 scalping still big business in China despite imminent 4S launch

I ALSO waited in line for an iPhone 4, but that was back in 2010... Faithful Macenstein reader and Shanghai correspondent Min has returned with some interesting shots of folks still lining up outside the Shanghai Apple Store to gobble up the iPhone 4, despite the fact that the 4S is already available in Hong Kong and should be making its way to the rest of China in December. What’s... Read More

Do a wireless software update on your iPhone (Because you CAN, that’s why!)

This morning Apple released the first update to iOS 5, giving most of us (who were not in the developer program) our first chance to test out Apple’s “computerless Over The Air software updates” – one of the cool new features in iOS 5 that have been around on Android for over a year. If you haven’t done it yet, you should, if for no other reason than... Read More

Death can’t stop Steve from being right

Well, the big news today was that Adobe has finally announced that it will no longer be supporting the Flash Mobile platform, instead opting to focus its attention on creating HTML 5 development tools. This news will come as a huge blow to fans of non-iOS devices who have been blindly throwing “lack of Flash support” around as a legitimate excuse for not buying an iPhone/iPad. There’s... Read More

Furby and Siri: A match made in Gzerblens

Watching this video it’s easy to see why Furby was so popular. Just look at the life-like expressions and witty banter he comes up with. It was really like owning your own personal ALF. And seeing this 1980’s technology coming face to beak with with the latest in voice recognition takes me back to the days when the only way to fuck with Furby was to break out a Speak... Read More

Sweet desktop wallpaper of the Pudong Apple Store, Shanghai

Macenstein‘s senior Shaghai correspondent, Min Wei snapped this sweet nighttime panorama of the iconic Pudong Apple Store in Shanghai, and was nice enough to share it with us. Click the image to download the full sized 2560 x 1600 wallpaper. Thanks Min!  Read More

We’re giving away a Vuzix Wrap 310XL!!

THANK YOU WE HAVE A WINNER – THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED. CONGRATULATIONS TO FAITHFUL MACENSTEIN READER JEN. If you’re anything like me, you’ve been searching for a way to look as cool as the guy in the above photograph for YEARS. Well, now you can, thanks to our good friends at Vuzix who have provided us with a Vuzix Wrap 310XL to give away to ONE lucky reader! That’s... Read More

Steve Jobs portrait made out of 3,500 Apples

That’s right. Apples. Not Oranges, like you might expect. When he learned of the passing of Steve Jobs, artist Olivier Lefebvre made a last-minute change to his entry in the Quebec Land Art contest and decided to create this tribute to our beloved leader, made entirely out of Apples. The project took him about 50 hours in total to complete, but as you can see, the results... Read More

Watch out “Slide to Unlock Panties makers” – You’re about to get some competition

If there’s one thing Apple is known for, it’s its ability to analyze the problems in an existing product segment and dramatically improve that product via simplification and attention to design. That is why I am so excited to see what improvements Apple makes to the “Slide to Unlock” panties that people have been selling for the past four years now that... Read More

Trouble-shoot your WiFi network with NetSpot

Here’s a sweet little (AND FREE) tool that’s a must-have for anyone looking to trouble shoot their wireless network’s signal strength in either the home or office – it’s called NetSpot. Step 1: import a floor plan image NetSpot makes it super easy to diagnose areas of poor reception in your WiFi network, as well as diagnose troublesome areas of noise-generating... Read More

Microsoft knows the “keys” to getting an Apple-sized line at its store opening

And they’re BLACK! See what I did there? No? Well, watch this hilarious video of Microsoft’s latest store opening at University Village, Seattle. Yes, unlike every single Apple Store grand opening – where folks will often camp out overnight simply to be one of the first to cross the glass threshold of the new store and lay out their cold hard cash – it appears... Read More