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This is why I never jailbreak my pumpkins

Sure I love all the cool things I can do with a jailbroken pumpkin, but when things go wrong, they go horribly wrong. I resolved last year to stop jailbreaking my pumpkins, and this picture reminds me of exactly why I decided to suck it up and just make do with the firmware that ships natively with the fruit. It takes roughly 2 hours to restore a 12 pound pumpkin via iTunes,... Read More

Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrenting Party

Like many British skits, this parody of Microsoft’s “Host a Windows 7 launch party” video is pretty damn funny, right up until the very end where they obviously didn’t know how to end it. I almost would have preferred to see Monty Python’s giant Foot squash them, but still the concept is awesome, as is the first minute forty, so enjoy. Thanks to... Read More

Best iPhone costumes to date – hopefully it comes with a Chiropractic app

I made an iPhone costume last year which I thought was pretty sweet (basically a sandwich board type thing with giant glossy icons printed out), but apparently it sucked and I looked like a dork, because these guys went all out and really made a kick-ass iPhone costume to die for… and yet they too look like dorks. The video is rather short, presumably either because both... Read More

iPhone Engrish of the day: TimerMusicStop

Faithful Macenstein reader James writes: “Hey Doc, I remember that you had a couple articles awhile back that highlighted some bad App Store Engrish. Thought this may qualify…my brother and I still have no idea what it does. Something with time? :)” TimerMusicStop‘s description: iPod you want to stop in time but want to listen to music for? Interest in... Read More

Luxo blows a fuse

I know that Pixar news isn’t exactly Apple news, but it’s my damn site and I thought this was funny. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Jonro for the tip! [via CollegeHumor]  Read More

The iPod from the 50’s still beats today’s iPod

Faithful Macenstein reader Alfie P sent in this “What if the iPod came out in the 50’s?” parody ad, and I must say in many ways, it beats today’s model. First, it’s sexy as hell. Let’s just get that out of the way right up front. But take a look at some of the other killer features it boasts that today’s does not: 1 – Built in speaker... Read More

This thing would out sell the Bible

Forget taping an iPod nano to your shoe for upskirt videos, something tells me this app would be bigger than Godzilla in Japan. (And at my house). Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Joern for the link! [via BenM.at]  Read More

Mac vs PC – Snuff Box style

I’m somewhat of a fan of Berry & Fulcher’s Snuff Box, at least what I’ve seen (their “She has a Boyfriend” video still makes me laugh), so I was very pleased to see they did a take on the whole “Mac vs. PC’s debate. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader TheWarpedOne for the tip!  Read More

My GOD those are huge coffee mugs!

Here we have a clip of CNN’s Kiran Chetry being given the old “what for” by The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart. Stewart points out the hypocrisy of Chetry doing a report on the dangers of texting while driving, when just the day before she touted all the real-time traffic features of CNN’s new mobile iPhone app, saying it was great to have that available... Read More

The iPhone can handle its liquor

We’ve all been there… you’re at an Oktoberfest party, taped to a wall with three of your friends while a hot chick throws beer at you. It’s more or less a tradition come October. Well, German TV personality Harald Schmidt (think if Conan O’Brien looked like Wolf Blitzer) decided to take that age-old drinking game and apply it to Smartphones. In honor... Read More