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My GOD those are huge coffee mugs!

Here we have a clip of CNN’s Kiran Chetry being given the old “what for” by The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart. Stewart points out the hypocrisy of Chetry doing a report on the dangers of texting while driving, when just the day before she touted all the real-time traffic features of CNN’s new mobile iPhone app, saying it was great to have that available in the car, where you need it. While this video is enjoyable to watch for Chetry’s valiant attempts... Read More

The iPhone can handle its liquor

We’ve all been there… you’re at an Oktoberfest party, taped to a wall with three of your friends while a hot chick throws beer at you. It’s more or less a tradition come October. Well, German TV personality Harald Schmidt (think if Conan O’Brien looked like Wolf Blitzer) decided to take that age-old drinking game and apply it to Smartphones. In honor of Oktoberfest, the iPhone went up against a Blackberry 8310, a Nokia E90, and a Samsung Galaxy in... Read More

Prepare to freak out! iPhone developers are using apps to pass your phone number to telemarketers

Our good friends over at the French Mac site Mac4Ever have alerted us to a somewhat alarming development. Apparently a few days after purchasing the Swiss app MogoRoad, a free radar tracking application, users are reporting receiving telephone calls asking them if they’d like to purchase the FULL version of the application. When asked how the caller had obtained their number, the responses vary, but generally the person tells you that Apple sent them their number at the... Read More

Apple’s new iPod touch web ads almost makes you think the touch is a real gaming machine

It’s no secret Apple is pushing the iPod touch as a gaming machine – Steve Jobs said as much when lamely trying to explain why the new iPod touches didn’t have a camera (as if game makers couldn’t find a creative way to make use of one). But if there was any lingering doubt that Apple was trying to push the iPhone/touch platform further into the mindset of hard core gamers, this new web ad on super gaming site IGN ought to clear up any misconceptions. Unfortunately,... Read More

Let’s all send a MMS video at 5PM Friday and see what happens

DSL REPORTS is claiming AT&T is more than a little bit nervous about Friday’s US MMS rollout for the iPhone. According to the site: “AT&T and its MMS partners are already seeing “record traffic during peak hours of the night” with just the users selected for testing. That early testing has been a little rocky, with AT&T seeing a fairly significant test outage yesterday that has them rushing to beef up their MMSC messaging servers. Estimates... Read More

AT&T sends out confirmation text messages – MMS really IS coming September 25th

Of course they didn’t send one to ME… I assume mine will come NEXT September. But for the rest of you, it looks like AT&T really WILL be delivering MMS September 25th, even if it IS a couple days after their summer deadline. Faithful Macenstein reader Phil from Pittsburgh, PA got this text message earlier this evening. I’m not sure if it has anything to do with Phil having jailbroken his iPhone or not, so let me know if any of you receive similar messages.... Read More

“It’s a trick, get an axe”

You might think you’re the biggest Army of Darkness fan out there, but you’re not. I am. Not only have I memorized every frame of the movie, including the credits (I want to give a shout out to Bundy Chanock, the on set medic), I even sat front row center in the “Splatter Zone” for the “Evil Dead: The Musical” off-Broadway play with a special appearance by Bruce Campbell. It was probably the best day of my life, followed distantly by the birth... Read More

Apple’s most ironically named event, ever

Well, Apple’s “It’s only Rock ‘n Roll, but I like it” event has come to a close, and it had virtually nothing to do with Rock ‘n Roll, or even music in general. Sure, just about every announcement made today had something to do with the iPod, iPhone, or iTunes, yet it was all about apps, video cameras, price drops, and pedometers. So, what did Apple announce? Well, new iPod touches with more capacity, faster processors (presumably matching... Read More

iPhone 3G S – now with 17% fewer salivary tumors!

The Environmental Working Group has put out its list of the best and worst cell phones in terms of radiation, and while the iPhone fell somewhere in the middle of the pack, it is interesting to note that the new iPhone 3G S has bounced back a bit from the giant leap forward in radiation it took when it made the move from Edge-only to 3G. Of course those of us who have long touted the benefits of wearing tinfoil hats can continue to have a good laugh at the rest of you while... Read More

There’s nothing funny about stalking… except this

I debated about putting this one up, figuring I had missed the boat last week and everyone had seen it already, but enough of you have sent it in that I don’t want to risk anyone missing it. [via AdamThinks]  Read More