Kid pees on school MacBook cart – causes $36,000 in damages
Here’s a math problem for you: If you take the entire volume of urine found in the average 11-yar-old’s bladder and pour it over a school computer cart, how many MacBooks will it ruin? Answer? $36,000 worth, at least according to the Upper Allen Township Police department. “An 11-year-old boy urinated on several MacBook computers on a cart in the Upper Allen Elementary... Read More
Snow White finally gets a decent Apple
Faithful Macenstein readers Mathias Lonnstrom and his friend Diana set us some enchanting pics that prove a girl doesn’t need to find her prince so long as she finds the perfect (non-poisned) Apple. Diana without the Snow White garb To see more of Diana, check out Mathias’ photography site here. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item... Read More
Two new ways to “play” with Instagram
Check out these two very different, but equally adorable takes on bringing the Instagram logo to life. Actually, I suppose “life isn’t the best term for this first one, as it was created for a promotion for the upcoming stop-motion Zombie film “ParaNorman” by Laika Studios, and looks like something you might have dug up and then been forced to blow away... Read More
We’re giving away 500 free codes for MotionX Sleep!
Who loves ya baby?! Macenstein does! And quite frankly, we’re worried about you. You look tired, rundown, and just a little doughier than you did last summer. As anyone who’s ever watched The Princess Bride knows, if you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything, and we can’t afford to lose any readers! That’s why we teemed up with our... Read More
Nothing creepy about this
It’s hard to really think of something coming out of Japan as “weird”, as there apparently is no such thing as “normal” there, but somehow this iPhone Hand Case just seems a little extra disturbing. I’d like to think that something is getting lost in the translation, but somehow I doubt it. The case, which appears to simply be an iPhone holder... Read More
How To: Fix the “No iSight Camera Detected” error message on your MacBook
In my continuing quest to offer obscure tech tips that will probably only help one other person in the world, today I’d like to tell you how to fix the “No camera detected” or “Cannot find iSight Camera” message I suddenly got today. I say “today”, but really I use the video chat feature so rarely on my late 2008 MacBook Pro that for all... Read More
Stupid App of the Day: Motivational Poster
Hey, remember those Pseudo motivational posters that were all the rage on the interwebs about 8 years ago? Well, turns out I still think they’re funny. And when on a recent trip I ran into the Fiero-cycle (above), I knew I had to make my own. As you might expect, there is of course an app-for-that, and it’s called (cleverly enough) Motivational Poster (99ยข iTunes) .... Read More
Note to self: Do not buy iPhones while vacationing in Turkey
Usually when I travel (and even more so now that I have kids) I end up buying a bunch of cheap, random, crappy souvenirs that I almost immediately throw out or put in a box when I get home, never to be seen again (with the notable exception of these 2-headed wolf neck pillows embroidered with the Canadian flag that my kids just HAD to have when we went to Niagara Falls. Seriously,... Read More
Review: Booq Python courier DSLR and iPad case
Booq has a pretty stellar reputation when it comes to making laptop bags, but I never really took notice of their camera bags until I saw their Python Courier bag ($179.99). So what caught my eye? Why, that shiny iPad-looking thing popping out of it of course! Yes the Python courier bag seeks to set itself apart from the run-of-the-mill camera bags by adding a compartment for carrying... Read More
Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel pretend Siri actually works
Two new iPhone adds hit the interwebs this morning starring Zooey Deschanel and everybody’s favorite foul-mouthed Jedi, Samuel L. Jackson. The focus of both ads seems to be that Siri, Apple’s voice-activated assistant, is useful, something I never found to be the case. In fact, I deactivated her to stop from accidentally invoking her iconic beep while trying to do other... Read More
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