The only thing nerdier than comic books is…
…Comic books about computer inventors! Being a nerd who is into both comic books and computer inventors, I don’t know how I missed out on this 1984 Japanese comic book about how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed Apple Computers. My only excuse is that I was about 4-years-old when it came out and roughly 8,900 miles away. Apparently, Jobs and Wozniak met when a fateful... Read More
How many Polish People does it take to stand in line for an iPhone?
Ok, stop me if you’ve heard this one… Apparently the iPhone launch is going a little differently in Poland than it has in the rest of the world. While traditionally in countries like Australia, the UK, and of course the United States, demand for the iPhone on launch day often causes people to pay money in order to move up a couple spots in a long lines, in Poland, apparently... Read More
Another update, another glitch. Why does iTunes now constantly think ALL my apps have updates?
Just when I was beginning to think Apple had run out of buggy behavior it could shoehorn into the iPhone/iTunes dynamic duo, they have managed to come through yet again. First, beginning with last week’s iTunes 7.7.1 update, if I select “Applications”, then hit “Check for updates”, I am given a list of ALL my apps that have ever had an update, even... Read More
Way to sell the rollercoaster illusion, kid
If you are a fan of horrible video, as am I, you will love this. I guess this has something to do with Chris “Leave Britney Alone” Crocker, but I fail to see it. And speaking of failing, this video fails on every level, including apparently trying to run Photobooth on a 1995 Radius clone, thus the 3 frames per second video. Read More
Wow, Samsung has some pretty big balls
Hypothetical question for you… If you were going to make an iPhone clone, and you had gobs of money to hire ANY musical group in the world to appear in your commercial, would you think it would be a good idea to choose a group with the name of your main competitor in the title? Well, Samsung apparently did for their new Instinct ad (below) featuring “The Apples in Stereo”‘s... Read More
365 pictures and not a girl in a one of ’em
Here’s an idea that sounds better on paper than on YouTube… First, buy a new iPhone. Next, use its camera to take a different picture of your ridiculously bad bed head each morning. Finally, string it all together in iMovie with an original blue’s riff, and viola! Instant classic! Or not. I caught a little flack when I posted my breath-taking iPhone video documenting... Read More
Where the #$%@ is the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware?!
In the first 13 months of owning an iPhone I restored my iPhone ONE time, and it was a voluntary act I performed to see if it would get rid of a little sluggish behavior (which it did). Since upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 firmware, however, I have had to restore my iPhone six times, in just 8 days. And this 6th iPhone restore really hurt. Yesterday I went on a trip into NYC with... Read More
The iPhone “stowaway” playlist glitch
Hey kids, here’s something fun to try! Connect your iPhone to iTunes, and then hit the little arrow that shows you what your iPhone thinks you have synced. On mine, despite only having 4 playlists set to sync in iTunes, the iPhone thinks I have 17 playlists on it. Above: I only have 4 playlists checked to sync, yet the iPhone is showing me 17 in iTunes. When I actually... Read More
Nice tagline. Now let’s see them try to trademark it
Well, either iHome’s website got hacked, or they have just decided to adopt one of the most ballsy taglines for an electronics company we’ve ever seen. Forget “Sync with Style”, FTW just flows off the tongue better. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Rowlings for the tip! Read More
iPhone users: If you can’t join ’em, beat em
It looks like Apple may finally be catching a break on all that bad publicity surrounding the rash of “iPod muggings” in recent years. Unfortunately, the break may come at the expense of news of some new iPhone muggings. According to MacBlogz, Ohio police are looking for the “person” (and I use the term loosely) who is shown in the below video brutally attacking... Read More
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