Attention Alien Hunters: Join Team Macenstein
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Hollywood, it’s that aliens are always friendly. And as someone who has been unable to make HUMAN friends, I’ve recently cast my lonely gaze skyward, in hopes of finding someone who shares my love of tech, my obsession with cheeseballs, and who can help me build my own light saber. So I decided to join the SETI@home program, which, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is a scientific experiment run by the University... Read More
Profanity: When a 4 letter word just doesn’t cut it
Ever wanted to curse someone out, but wanted something really creative, or just so flat out bizarre that the person will think twice about your mental state before crossing you again? Well check out Profanity (99ยข app store), the iPhone app that helps you piece together some fairly original, if not effective, curses. Just give your iPhone a shake and out will pop some of the oddest assortment of would-be curses imaginable. While most of these 32 character epithets are a bit... Read More
Luxo blows a fuse
I know that Pixar news isn’t exactly Apple news, but it’s my damn site and I thought this was funny. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Jonro for the tip! [via CollegeHumor] Read More
God, I wish I cared about this event…
Faithful Macenstein reader The Boston Spangler writes: Hi Doc, A friend of mine works at EMI music, and he just posted this pic up on facebook… Thought it might help fuel the Apple/ Beatles debate until we hear a real announcement today… So, whaddya think? Thanks! The Boston Spangler Read More
Steve Jobs buys Marvel : Adamantium MacBook imminent
Hey, I can dream, can’t I? Looks like we’ll be seeing unibody adamantium MacBook in a matter months, as Disney (aka, Steve Jobs) has just bought Marvel Comics (home of the X-Men, Spider-Man, Iron Man…. all sort of big, beefy men, basically) for $4 Billion. If I had $4 Billion I probably would have done the same thing, if for no other reason than to stop the upcoming Thor movie from being made. But given that Apple has more or less run out of sexy cat names... Read More
Apple rips us off once again
In response to Apple’s 1 year app store celebration graphic, faithful Macenstein reader meggert writes: “didn’t you do something awhile back where you arranged a bunch of apps by color?” Quite right, meggert. The day was July 29th, 2008, and I was so bored I arranged all my iPhone’s icons by color (see below). Of course, I think now I pretty much have all 56,000 apps on the app store, so I could likely make an even more impressive rainbow, but... Read More
Ummm… It’s not like they’re going to bury his albums with him guys
I have time and again admitted to not having a soul, but seriously, I don’t get this at all. That right. How are the Black Eyed Peas on the charts? No, seriously, why the big rush to buy Michael Jackson’s songs now that he’s dead? Are people planning to have massively depressing listening parties? Or was his death simply a reminder that he used to make music about 15-20 years ago? Read More
Help Build the Ultimate iPhone Feature Request List – Part Deux
It was about 2 years ago that Apple first released the iPhone – widley heralded as the most technologically advanced phone anyone had ever seen, save for the fact that it was missing almost every “must have” feature that phones 5 years older had had forever. At the time we decided to create a wish list of things we all wanted our iPhones to be able to do, and over the years Apple has filled in most of the more glaring holes, like a better camera, MMS (sort of),... Read More
13 Things you may not know about Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ alleged liver transplant came as a bit of a shock to Apple fans this week. Given that Jobs is one of the most high-profile and rumored-about CEO’s on the interweb, sometimes we may feel we know everything there is to know about the man. However, Steve is like an onion. He’ll make you cry if you cut him. AND he has layers. Many layers. Here are 13 little known facts that you may not be aware of about everyone’s favorite Apple CEO (not including... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked images show new iPhone to be available in “plaid”, “green with pink flowers”
Macenstein has received the above inventory screenshot from a Hungarian T-Mobile store showing what appears to be the full line of new iPhone colors and capacities. As you can see, the 32GB model will have some exciting new options, as apparently both “plaid” and “green with pink flowers” are options. There does not appear to be any mention of the rumored 4GB “iPhone nano” in T-Mobile’s records, at least according to this shot. You may... Read More
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