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OK, now this is just getting embarrassing

Remember a couple weeks ago when I accidentally washed and dried my iPhone headphones? Miraculously, despite being somewhat crinkly, they appeared to work just fine. Well, for about a week anyway. After a week or so the left earbud began emitting a horrible static sound about 80% of the time, so it was off to the Apple store for another $20 pair of earbuds. Well, wouldn’t... Read More

Nicotine-plated eMac

Can’t afford one of those fancy gold-plated MacBook Pros? Well, you can apparently achieve a remarkably similar-looking effect yourself for far less money, and look cool while you’re doing it! (Smoking’s still cool, right?) Behold the “Nicotine-plated eMac”. Flickr user rebelace writes: “This Mac recently came in for service at the store I work... Read More

Yikes.

Above: (Top) Steve delivering the Macworld Keynote in January. (Bottom) Steve delivering the WWDC Keynote in June. Wow. That’s a tough 5 months. Given Steve’s past bouts with the big “C”, is anyone else worried?  Read More

The most realistic (but still probably fake) 3G iPhone pics we’ve seen so far

So, what do we make of these shots from web-mobile.net? Read More  Read More

Review: iPhone Dummy Display Phone – Oddly awesome

Guess what showed up in the mail today? WRONG! It’s the iPhone Dummy Display Phone from USB Fever. Above: The dummy iPhone (right) looks more real than my ColorWare painted iPhone (left). Costing 1/10th the price of an actual working iPhone, and providing 1/50th the functionality, the iPhone Dummy Display Phone is oddly awesome. Above: OMG it even has a serial number!... Read More

Celebrity Mac chick sighting: Emily Scott

I’ll admit I am not overly familiar with Australian model Emily Scott, although I must say, she is making an excellent first impression on me in these MacBook iBook (whoops!) photos. Emily was apparently named as “Sexiest Aussie Babe” by FHM Australia, and I don’t doubt it (although I may have to book a trip to Australia to verify this). Above: How do... Read More

Jimmy Olsen’s iPhone to the rescue!

Any old show can stick an iPhone in a character’s hand, but it takes some REAL fanboy writers to work a Jailbroken iPhone and some imaginary 3rd party apps into the plot to really prove their level of Apple worship. Faithful Macenstein reader Kensei writes: Heya Doc, On a recent episode of Smallville, Jimmy Olsen had to go all “secret agent man” to spy on Chloe... Read More

Apple’s “Mac vs PC” ads a hit with the kids

Parents often worry that the images their children see on television may influence them to do horrible things – from imitating Jackass stunts to jumping off the roof pretending to be Superman. But television can also teach children GOOD behavior, as seen in the picture below. [Photo by jwlphotography]  Read More

Oh the humanity! NeXTCube set on fire.

Behold the terrible beauty of what happens when a NeXTCube’s magnesium case is set afire. Back in the Spring of ’93, Simson L. Garfinkel, then Senior Editor at NeXTWORLD Magazine, had the bright idea to test whether the NeXTCube’s legendary magnesium casing would burn with a white hot flame – leaving nothing but a pile of white powder, the way he remembered... Read More

Awww crap… He’ll never get home using that!

ET mistakes iPod Touch for iPhone. Sorry E.T. No “phoning home” until the Skype client is released. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader abooth for the link!  Read More