Amazon credits MacBook/iPods for its best holiday season ever
Posted by Helper Monkey Amazon today announced its best holiday season in the company’s history, and among the chief reasons cited were healthy sales of Apple’s iPods (various models) as well as its MacBook line of laptops. Amazon failed to give specific totals at this time, but said “Top sellers in Consumer Electronics include Apple iPods (various), Canon Powershot... Read More
EyeTV gets 2.3.3 update; more iPod/iTunes integration
Posted by Helper Monkey In our opinion, there wasn’t much room for improvement with Elgato’s EyeTV software, but today the company managed to prove us wrong by releasing version 2.3.3. Despite being a “x.x.x” release, there are actually a couple major improvements packed into this update. Chief among them are improved iPod export compression options, and... Read More
Why can’t iTunes play the games it sells?
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Above: The controller schemes in Sudoku (left) and Tetris (right) aren’t exactly PS3-complicated. Yesterday I purchased my first 2 games for my iPod via the iTunes store, Sudoku, and Tetris. (They’re both great, incidentally. I recommend them highly.) However, upon clicking on the downloaded games in my iTunes library, it suddenly occurred... Read More
More Fun with the “Shift” Key
Posted by Helper Monkey Many of you have no doubt seen the “tip” about holding down the shift key when minimizing/maximizing a Finder or Application’s window to see the scaling/genie effect in slow motion. (If you haven’t, well, there you go). But something I never realized is this slow motion goodness can be applied elsewhere in the OS as well, for an equally... Read More
The iMac named TIME Magazine’s person of the year
Posted by iGor OK, not really. But a quick glance at the cover may lead you to think otherwise. Apparently this year TIME Magazine decided the only sure way to get people to buy this year’s “Person of the Year” issue was to make EVERY person on the planet the Person of the Year. After all, who wouldn’t buy an issue of TIME Magazine with them on the cover?... Read More
Macenstein hits the big time: featured on CNN.com
Posted by Dr. Macenstein From the “Hooray for US!” category. Wow. Recently we went from being the 585,000th most popular site on the internet to the 65,000th. Not bad when you consider how narrow our focus is and how lame our articles are. Of course, now we’re back up to 77,500th or so but we aren’t letting that little slip bring us down. Why? Well, we recently... Read More
Watch the “Mac Guy” in Die Hard 4 trailer
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Hey, have you been waiting for the release of Die Hard 4 as much as me? If so, you haven’t been waiting at all. Still, it’s headed our way like a 60 year-old bald action star, and slated for a 2007 release. So, what does this have to do with Apple? Well, everyone’s favorite “Mac Guy”, Justin Long seems to be Bruce Willis’... Read More
Adobe releases Photoshop CS3 beta with MacIntel support
All those people who like to buy into the whole “Adobe secretly hates Apple and will drop Mac support one day” rumors may have just lost a little wind from their sails. Adobe has announced that this morning they will be releasing a beta version of their upcoming Photoshop update, which will bring native Intel-Mac support for the latest Apple hardware. In fact, in their... Read More
December 12th, 1980- Mass. says Apple’s stock too risky to sell
Posted by Dr. Macenstein Faithful Macenstein (and Wall Street Journal reader) Kevin sent this little blurb he found in today’s Wall Streeet Journal. Given Apple’s stock price today, we thought it was pretty funny. Here is a quote from the Wall Street Journal, December 12, 1980 that I thought you might find interesting. “Apple Computer Inc. is slated to go public... Read More
Free on iTunes: “Gnome” short film featuring Lauren Graham of Gilmore Girls
Posted by Helper Monkey Apple has made another of the Glamour Reel Moments short films available as a free download. This week, it is the Berlin Film Festival favorite “Gnome“, featuring Lauren Graham of Gilmore Girls fame. From iTunes: “In the course of one afternoon, Amanda rediscovers herself, with the help of a car full of drag queens.” Incidentally,... Read More
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