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Review: MiLi Power Pack Battery for iPhone out-juices the Juice Pack

I think it is safe to say that the iTunes app store is the best thing to happen to 3rd-party battery pack makers since the mAh – particularly the addictive and battery-draining games available for the iPhone. For me, Fieldrunners was my power-sucking game of choice. I spent literally weeks of my life playing the game, many times with my iPhone tethered to my computer... Read More

Games you should be playing: geoDefense

THANK YOU, WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. CONGRATS TO FAITHFUL MACENSTEIN READERS JONRO AND HUGO. The “tower defense” genre just got a whole lot harder. Behold geoDefense, easily the hardest, yet one of the coolest, tower defense games on the iPhone/iPod touch I have played, and we have two FREE CODES to give away (details below). The super-cool explosions and “warps”... Read More

Games you should be playing: Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D

Tower Bloxx Deluxe 3D is a game made by Digital Chocolate (Chocolate Shop Frenzy and Crazy Penguin Catapult) somewhat reminiscent of Topple, although with more depth and replayability. The game has 4 game modes: Quick Game, Multi-player, Time Challenge, and City Building Mode. The basics of all 4 games are you want to build the tallest, straightest building possible, in hopes... Read More

Review: Booq’s Boa Slimcase M90 laptop bag

When I upgraded from my 13-inch MacBook to my new 15-inch MacBook Pro, I discovered one of the hidden costs buying a larger laptop – namely, the need to buy a larger laptop bag. I put out a call to our faithful readers on Twitter looking for suggestions on good laptop bag manufacturers, and the name Booq came back on quite a few of them, so I decided to give them a try.... Read More

How to: Triple the length of your Fieldrunners Maze

As many of you know, we here at Macenstein are obsessed with the game Fieldrunners the tower defense game we named our iPhone Game of the Year. There are likely as many ways to build a Fieldrunners maze as their are Fieldrunners players, but odds are, no matter how awesome your maze is, SOMETHING got through – be it a tank, a motorcycle, or one of those big orange robots.... Read More

Games you should be playing: The Creeps

Thank you we have our winners. This contest is over. Congrats to faithful Macenstein readers Brian and Dav! Man, we’re going contest crazy here these days! We’re launching a new feature here at Macenstein called “Games you should be playing”. It’s not quite a full review, just a heads up on games worth buying. We’re kicking the feature off with... Read More

Review: Speck’s See Thru Satin case for MacBook/MacBook Pro

Like most married men, I have been looking for an excuse to take off my wedding ring for years. When I bought my new MacBook Pro earlier this month, I was sure I had found the perfect excuse: “I don’t want to scratch my new laptop”, I told my wife. Needless to say that went over about as well as you’d expect. Well, despite my ulterior motive, I genuinely... Read More

Review: Waterfield’s Suede Jacket Sleeve for MacBook/MacBook Pro

One of the hidden costs of upgrading to a MacBook Pro from a MacBook is the need for a new laptop case. My laptop bag of choice for my 13-inch MacBook was a Racer-X bag by Waterfeild Designs, but the Racer’s form fitting design meant that, cram as I tried, the additional inch or so in width of my new 15-inch MacBook Pro wasn’t going to cut it. The thought of dropping... Read More

Review: Intego VirusBarrier X5 for Mac – OMFG I Have a Virus!

Reviewing Anti-Virus software for the Mac has always been a bit tricky. Macs have a well-deserved reputation for having pretty much 0 viruses under OS X (in the wild, anyway), so in general the thing most reviewers end up focusing on is whether or not the anti-virus software is annoyingly obtrusive to daily life (this is a huge problem on the PC-side of things with constant pop-ups,... Read More

comiXology for iPhone sneak peek

Well, it’s Wednesday, and you know what that means! NEW COMICS! Yeah! Well, if you’re anything like me, you buy so many comics that odds are you’ve gotten mixed up on more than one occasion as to what issue is dropping when, meaning you go to the comic store every Wednesday, just in case, and end up buying between 4 and 20 extra comics you don’t really... Read More