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Forget the WWDC! WE’RE broadcasting live from the TMBG!

Sure, pretty much ANY Mac site can give you live streams from the World Wide Developers Conference, but how many can give you live updates from… The They Might Be Giants Concert at the Appel Farm Arts and Music Center in beautiful Elmer NJ!?! That’s right, (barring any technical difficulties) we’ll be broadcasting live updates from the concert as it happens.... Read More

Studying the effects of centrifugal force on the MacBook Air

I’m a big fan of people with useless talents, mainly because they make me feel better about myself. After all, I may have no talent, but then I didn’t waste all my free time practicing something that is ultimately pointless. One such useless but admittedly entertaining talent (when put into a compilation reel, at least) is Peter’s ability to spin almost any flat... Read More

WTF is up with those Mac Pros?

Is it just me, or is there something odd about the way Apple’s Mac Pro 1 and 2 are showing up at the Cambridge Apple Store network? Looks like Apple accidentally leaked their new 8-core MacBook Pros! 🙂 j/k Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader iPhelim for the pic!  Read More

I think my Software Update is a little confused…

That’s either one hell of a secure Camera Raw update, or the most photo-centric Security Update I have ever seen. (A restart set things straight).  Read More

Scary-ass eBay find – Fans of “Engrish” rejoice!

Faithful Macenstein reader Richard Neville writes: Hi Doc, Just sitting here at the ‘ol office at 11pm waiting for memory scans to finish so I thought I’d start eBay’ing. In my quest for all things Apple, I found this gem: As beautiful as the visual is, as with all items originating in Hong Kong, the item description is better. Description: – 100% Brand... Read More

Steve Ballmer gets egged in Budapest

Well, contrary to what you might think, I actually don’t find much funny about this video. I think losers like this egg-throwing whack-o and the guy who threw a pie at Bill Gates pretty much define the word “tool”. No, instead I post this video so we can all see that while the guy sitting NEXT to the egg-throwing tool appears to be a MacBook user, it also appears... Read More

WTF? Is Sony bringing iChat to their phones before Apple?

Faithful (and eagle-eyed) Macenstein reader minimum found a video clip of a Sony prototype handset that has apparently has iChat running on it. And when you are 55 second into the video, I think you will be able to see iChat. I think. Kinda looks like iChat… and in 1:03 even better. Yup it’s iChat. Yep, sure looks like it to us too. Of course, we have no idea what the... Read More

When product placement goes horribly wrong [NSFW]

I first heard Riskay‘s timeless classic “Smell Yo Dick” a few months back on the Howard Stern Show, but I never thought to look and see if there was a video for this lyrical masterpiece. Sure enough, faithful Macenstein reader Greg has uncovered said video, and Apple’s iPhone has almost as much screen time as Riskay. This is probably the worst product placement... Read More

iPhone vs. Mac OS X – Who has the correct forecast?

I noticed something odd when checking the weather today on my iPhone and my laptop… Above: My iPhone says I am in for a sucky week. Above: Leopard says I have a sunnier future. Does anyone else find it odd that Apple uses 2 different services for Weather? The iPhone uses Yahoo (which uses the Weather Channel) and Leopard apparently uses AccuWeather. (For the record, at... Read More

Is Apple in bed with the mob on the 3G iPhone?

Mobile carriers have long used strong-arm tactics to charge more for 3G data plans, but we never thought the mob was behind it. Until now… Faithful Macenstein reader Art Vandalay has uncovered a conspiracy of Jimmy Hoffa-like proportions. Above: Yes, anyone can edit it. Apparently, if one Googles the term 3G, they are presented with the shocking truth that no one at AT&T... Read More