Macenstein

This will probably make those birds even ANGRIER…

From China, the land of all things awesome and plagiarized , comes this pretty sweet looking Angry Birds arcade booth, complete with real life catapult! . The object is to knock down all the small plush Pigs with the giant Angry Birds plush, all the while looking over your shoulder for the strong arm of China’s copyright enforcement police. Of course, I kid, there is no such thing as “intellectual property rights” in China. But still, this is a pretty clever... Read More

How many “banned” apps do you own?

I think I’m up to 5 now that Apple has pulled Quick Snap. The first banned app I ever snagged was the legendary Netshare, the first app on the US app store to allow tethering on the iPhone, and the first to be pulled. This was followed by MiTube (the YouTube video downloader), then HandyLight (the sneaky Tethering app which masqueraded as a lame flashlight app – do not be fooled by the similarly named app on the store now), iDos, the DOS emulator for iPhone, and now... Read More

Genius

Oh, admit it, we’ve all done it. It’s 17 degrees out and you just want to check a text message or see if an e-mail came in, but to take off your gloves would be sheer lunacy. So, what do you do? You use your nose to “Slide to Unlock” of course. The only problem is as “handy” as your nose is, there are some accuracy issues to contend with when doing anything more complicated than unlocking the iPhone with your schnoz. Well, some inventive (if... Read More

Wake up call: Here’s 44 free promo codes for Mighty Clock

Alarm clock apps for the iPhone might be a dime a dozen, but thanks to our good friends at Electric French Fries, you won’t even need a dime – that is, if you act fast. Below are 44 brand new, piping hot promo codes for Mighty Clock, their very cool alarm clock app. What makes it so cool? Well, take a look at this list and tell me something it DOESN’T do: • Music alarm: Wake up to your tunes • Soundscapes: Fall asleep to white noise (or your music) • Day... Read More

Word Lens – Another amazing iPhone app I will never use except to impress people

Every once in awhile an iPhone app comes along that is so game-changing, so utterly genius, and so utter useless to me personally that I still feel compelled to get it anyway, just to impress people who don’t already own an iPhone. Word Lens is just such an app. Two things should be immediately apparent from the screenshot above. The first, is that Word Lens uses “augmented reality” to automatically translate and replace any Spanish text into English (or Englsh... Read More

Games that don’t suck: Helsing’ Fire

GAMES THAT DON’T SUCK is a feature dedicated to games that I think are well worth your hard earned money, but not worth me sitting down and spending 3 hours crafting an in-depth review (these things are 99¢ after all). However, you can rest assured that any game bearing Macenstein’s GTDS rating is worth buying, sight unseen, based solely on my expert opinion. Helsing’s Fire [iPhone 99¢, iPad $1.99, Lite (free)] is a game I meant to review a few months ago,... Read More

North Point Community Church’s iBand puts on iOS Christmas Concert

I don’t know what’s more impressive about this video – the skill, musicianship, and hours upon hours of practice that must have gone into this, or the fact that this church owns so many iPads, iPhones, HD cameras and high end editing equipment. Seriously, my church growing up had a candle. That was it. Maybe I would have stayed in the fold if my church had a bunch of Apple nerds in it… of course, back then they’d have to have been playing Jingle Bells... Read More

Review: QYG-Power with Click Stand for iPhone 4G

I have no idea why, but I am a sucker for external iPhone batteries. Given my agoraphobic, anti-social ways (and my tendency to rarely leave my cave house) you’d think I’d never need one, but perhaps it is my shut-in mentality that causes me to fear being away from a power source for too long. Whatever the reason, my heart or my shoes (Grinch reference anyone?), I love these damn things. And while Mophie’s JuicePack has been the media darling for external batteries,... Read More

Apparently “Rated 4+” = full frontal nudity

I think it should be obvious at this point that I’m probably the furthest things from a prude, but I must say, slipping full frontal nudity into an app rated 4+ just seems a little odd to me. That’s right, everyone’s favorite Look and Find (including my kids) Time Geeks has a couple fairly adult finds for you (or your 4+ kid) to find, including, but not limited to Adam and Eve (and Adams’ fairly impressive penis) and men urinating in public. Again,... Read More

A profanity-laden tirade against the new iOS 4.2 text alert sounds

HOLY FUCK! Having just downloaded the iOS 4.2 GM, I am only now discovering what all you developers have known for some time – that the new text alert tones Apple has added with this build are so fucking bad, they don’t even rate as shit. I have long complained about Apple’s pathetic assortment of Text Alerts, citing it as one of the increasingly hard to find excuses for jailbreaking my iPhone. With each new iPhone software update came the hope of a new set of text... Read More