Oh Nosferatu, when will you learn!?
If you like reading your vampires movies as much as I do, you’ll want to head on over to the Internet Archive and pick up your free copy of Nosferatu, the 1922 silent horror classic. It’s more or less exactly like renting I Am Legend, only it’s FREE! There’s a 207 MB iPod compatible MP4 version (see me stretch to hit that Apple angle?) ready for downloading,... Read More
Break out the Dramamine and download The Red Baron Screensaver
A friend of mine once took me up in his single propeller plane for a “joy ride”, and I have never felt so sick, or so little joy, in my entire life. After about 10 minutes I was curled up in a ball, eyes shut, wishing I was dead. I hadn’t thought about that awesome experience for years, until I installed Chris Kent‘s “Red Baron Screensaver”. ... Read More
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a free bagpipe ringtone for your iPhone!
Above: Bill puts the “Mac” in “McEvoy”. Yeah, we know St. Patrick’s Day isn’t until Monday, but we also know our readers are raging alcoholics, and will likely begin drinking at 5PM this afternoon (if they haven’t already), and not stop until sometime after Labor Day. So, in an effort to give you guys something stupid to do in between blackouts,... Read More
Write a caption, win a prize
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE A WINNER. THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED] Think you’re funny enough to be the next Margaret Cho? Well, now’s your chance to prove it to the world. Write your best caption for the above photo. If we think it’s the most clever, we’ll send you off a $20 iTunes gift certificate. The contest is open to everyone in the US (sorry, iTunes won’t... Read More
Brtiney dumps boyfriend, then dumps his iPhone in the pool
Above: Good Lord! Does anyone remember when this was Britney spears? According to the gossip rag The Sun, Britney Spears has shown signs of regaining her senses, and has allegedly dumped her goonish paparazzi boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. The lover’s spat occurred when Britney found incriminating text messages from a female friend of Ghalib’s on his iPhone, causing her to... Read More
IntelliSchool Free is released – Free open source school database system
Macenstein has a huge FileMaker following (well, one reader, I know of anyway), so I thought it only fitting to pass this bit of news along. Faithful UK Macenstein reader Simon Elliott writes: “I wrote a school pupil data system in FileMaker Pro three years ago and it has been used in a school ever since. When I wrote the system, the most frustrating thing was being unable... Read More
Write a caption, win a prize
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE A WINNER. THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED] “Hmm… how fast can I grow mullet?” Think you’re funny enough to be the next Margaret Cho? Well, now’s your chance to prove it to the world. Write your best caption for the above photo. If we think it’s the most clever, we’ll send you off a $20 iTunes gift certificate. The contest... Read More
HandBrake 0.9.2: Released
In their eternal quest to avoid a version 1.0 release, the folks over at HandBrake have just announced the release of HandBrake 0.9.2. There are a slew of enhancements, most notably Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) sound in MP4 files, and the addition of native iPhone sizes. Please note this update is LEOPARD ONLY, folks, so you manually have found your excuse to upgrade. Download version... Read More
Write a caption, win a prize
[THANK YOU, WE HAVE A WINNER. THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED] “OS 9 died doing what he loved.. sporadically freezing and crashing”. Think you’re funny enough to be the next Margaret Cho? Well, now’s your chance to prove it to the world. Write your best caption for the above photo taken at the Funeral for OS 9 held at the 2002 WWDC, and if we think it’s... Read More
YouSendIt Express for Mac debuts
YouSendIt has released a new desktop Mac client for its popular file transfer service for businesses and individuals. YouSendIt Express allows you to send files as large as 2 GB each from your desktop without having to open the YouSendIt web interface. These days many of us either have .Mac accounts or personal web servers we can use to send large files across the web. The problem... Read More
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