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Visual Aid: Why Jailbreaking is still cool

With the app store now offering 95% of the functionality of a Jailbroken iPhone, sometimes it’s easy to forget how cool Jailbreaking an iPhone is. In fact, I’d put it right up there with smoking. Faithful Macenstein reader Jeremy sent in a visual reminder for all of us who have forgotten that visual customization is as much a part of Jailbreaking an iPhone as adding unsanctioned apps. Check it out, Jeremy is apparently providing his own cell service! You can’t... Read More

Fembot application means the iPhone is now perfect

Whether you love it or hate it, the one thing everyone agrees on is that the iPhone was missing is a Fembot application. Without a small metal woman who can do the macarena, we all might as well be using a LG VX8300. Well, you’ll be happy to know that the Fembot app has finally arrived, and the iPhone is now perfect. “Your Fembot can do many moves, actions, gestures, and even dance for you! She will wave, slap, cough, fire a bow and arrow, do the macarena dance,... Read More

Behold iStik: The magnetic iPod nano bikini holder

Just as I still get nervous when my MacBook goes through the airport scanners, somehow the idea of putting powerful magnets next to my iPod still freaks me out, no matter how safe an electrical engineer assures me it is. Still, iStik’s magnetic cases for the nano appear to be the best thing to happen to bikini bottoms since the Coppertone dog. Currently the cases only support the nano, but cases are being rolled out soon for the iPhone and iPod touch. iStik claims they... Read More

Entourage “iPhone continuity” error

Faithful Macenstein reader Nicholas Penree noticed something little odd in last night’s Entourage episode. See if you can spot it. That’s right! Whoever is in charge of continuity on the set of Entourage should be fired. Clearly for artistic reasons known only to them, the writers wanted Perrey Reeves’ Mrs. Ari to be using her iPhone upside down, yet in the following shot it is right side up! Why not just slap a sombrero and a snorkel on her? Geez.  Read More

Dear Apple: Just admit there is no one actually looking at iTunes apps before approving them

I’m as big a fan of the Pillsbury Doughboy as you’re likely to find (I have gaudy bright blue Doughboy pajama pants AND a Doughboy oven mitt) but somehow the new iPhone app WhooHoo brings me more sadness than joy. From the app description: “Remember when you were a little child, watching TV, and the famous Pillsbury commercials would come on the screen? Here is your chance to be the lucky person, with just the touch of a finger, to make the dough boy squeal... Read More

Celebrity Mac Chick sighting: Kelly Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne had a daughter about 25 years ago, which apparently makes her a celebrity. Here we see Kelly Osbourne showing off her iPhone as she presumably rushes to her lawyer’s office to file suit against the person who cut her hair. [via CelebSlam]  Read More

Review: Incipio’s Feather Slim case for iPhone 3G

I basically like two types of cases for the iPhone – first there’s the the “everyday, go anywhere, feel free to drop me, shock-absorbing monster case (currently the Speck Toughskin), and then there’s the “let’s go out in public and look cool in case someone asks to hold me” kind of case. Incipio’s Feather Slim Case for the iPhone is definitely the latter, and handles the role of classy-yet-unobtrusive case beautifully. To be sure,... Read More

Review: GL Golf is slightly sub-par

One of the first computer video games I ever remember playing was a DOS-based golf game my dad brought home on a set of giant 5″ floppy disks to put on our IBM computer. I don’t remember the name, but I do remember it had about 8 colors with which to paint a pseudo 3D golf course, and it was pretty darn fugly. Of course I didn’t let that stop me from wasting countless hours of my young life playing the damn thing. It wasn’t that I was into golf, or probably... Read More

Review: Mister Bumblebee Racing Challenge is gorgeous (and a decent racer too)

I just picked up  Read More

iPump Pilates isn’t quite iPorn, but we’re getting closer

Attention female readers, if you do not yet have any idea how far men will go to ogle women, and do not want to know, you may want to just go ahead and skip this article. In the days before the internet, a little thing called the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue used to cause quite the stir at my school (and no, we weren’t excited by the tropical locations or curious about the prices of the suits). Porn was where you found it, be it the Sears Catalog women’s underwear... Read More