Apple is now accepting iPad apps for a “grand opening” of the iPad App Store, according to an email just sent to registered developers.
“iPad will begin shipping soon and your opportunity to be part of the grand opening of the iPad App Store starts today,” the email says.
There’s no details about when the store’s grand [...]
Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week.
He says OS X is full of security holes. There are lots more than in Windows, he claims.
And yet: OS X is a safer system to use. Why? Because, in the words [...]
If ever you needed a sign that Apple was a different kind of technology company, this is it.
What other computer manufacturer would remove its top-selling, hype-inducing, industry-altering new product from the prime spot on its website home page, and replace it with an obituary to an investor?
This is one of those “Here’s to the [...]
Fake Steve creator Dan Lyons just signed a deal to bring Steve Jobs to another small screen near you.
The half-hour series called “iCon” is billed by the presser as “a savage satire centering on a fictional Silicon Valley CEO whose ego is a study in power and greed.”
Making sure the barbs prick will be the [...]
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12:43 pm, March 17th, 2010, Pete Mortensen
Ken from Cooks’ Den has whipped up this snazzy iPad Thai dish in honor of the holy tablet’s launch. Who’s hungry?
Cooks’ Den via BoingBoing
Posted by Pete Mortensen in Humor, News, Steve Jobs | 3 Comments »
8:41 am, March 15th, 2010, Giles Turnbull
You’re all going crazy with your iPad ordering. Meanwhile, over on Vimeo, BrewBeau has some craziness of his own going on.
BrewBeau writes: “I’m a recent PC convert who waited patiently while Apple worked out the kinks with their latest iMac release of the 27″ Intel powered 2.8GHz quad core i7 iMac. It’s a thing of beauty and I wanted to relay my experience of getting my new machine.”
His video is one of the following:
Whatever. You watch it and make up your own mind:
(Note: This is a lie.)
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Humor, News, Top stories, video | 14 Comments »
5:03 pm, March 12th, 2010, Giles Turnbull
If – like me – your fridge is black, then these shiny iPhone app fridge magnets from Jailbreak Collective will look very smart indeed displayed on the door.
Just 13 bucks gets you a set of these icon almost-replicas. I say almost because if you look carefully, you’ll see they’re not identical to the Apple originals. But they’re close enough.
Only problem is, they look so smart on a decent black background that it’ll be a shame to spoil the effect by using them to hold shopping lists, receipts, and all that other fridge/paper junk you use fridge magnets for.
Might be worth getting an extra fridge just for these then.
(Via geek.com.)
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Humor, News, Top stories, iPhone | 6 Comments »
4:52 pm, March 12th, 2010, Giles Turnbull
Soft Sailor is a tech blog I’ve not encountered before, but today I stumbled across a very odd post indeed. Published just yesterday, it recommends downloading something a little bit unusual: Internet Explorer 5.2.3.
Which is only, let’s see now… about seven years old.
The author Dragos Pirvu writes:
“Although it’s not that popular on Mac computers, Internet Explorer is also available on Apple’s Mac OS X platform and it’s doing a fairly good job.”
And what’s more:
“Although it does have some security leaks, some Mac OS X developers are still using Internet Explorer to create CSS files and others.”
So that’s it. While the rest of us have needlessly upgraded to all this new-fangled stuff like Safari and Firefox, it’s the CSS devs who have faithfully – yet secretively – kept IE5 alive as a CSS editor. Who knew?
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Humor, News, Software | 12 Comments »
9:06 am, March 9th, 2010, Giles Turnbull
Here’s Homer Simpson’s iPhone. Pretty dull, actually. Only one page of apps, and most of them look like the defaults. No iFart? No iBeer? No iDoh?
Wait – what’s that app there? Third row down, third from left?
Ah! Couch Gag! Yeah, one of my favorite apps.
Funny, it never does that when I use it.
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Humor, Quickies, Top stories, iPhone, video | 3 Comments »
9:55 am, March 8th, 2010, John Brownlee
On Friday, we mused about what would happen if Old Spice’s “I’m On A Horse” campaign was applied to Apple’s products… which seemed ridiculous enough a suggestion at the time, but if the recent Oscar Night iPad spot is anything to go by, maybe Apple decided to go just that route.
After all, slowed down by 15% and annotated by Neil Curtis, the iPad spot is just as surreal as the Old Spice ad. In fact, it is rife with goofs, most notably multitouch interactions that have little to no bearing to what the model is doing on screen. As for that iPad model, s/he is practically the Orlando of Apple spots, transmutating from female to male to female again over the course of the ad… all the while magically warping in and out of different pairs of pants.
It’s a bit strange to see a company as detail-obsessed as Apple make so many careless little mistakes… but you’d be hard pressed to catch any of these gaffes at regular speed. It just goes to show that as nitpicky as Jobs can be, the collected Internet will always one-up him.
[via Crunchgear]
Posted by John Brownlee in Humor, News, iPad | 29 Comments »
9:23 am, March 5th, 2010, John Brownlee
It was perhaps inevitable that Old Spice’s surrealist Manmercial campaign would eventually yield an Apple-specific parody. It’s a simple formula: just take the shirtless, dripping beefcake of the Old Spice ad, replace it with a doughy nerd in a turtleneck and change the can of Old Spice into an Apple product.
Predictable or not, though, neo-fight.tv’s adaptation is worth an early Friday morning chuckle, especially on a day when we’re all celebrating the iPad’s officially announced release date.
Rest assured: it all ends on a horse. Natch.
The original Old Spice Manmercial after the jump.
Posted by John Brownlee in Humor, News | 3 Comments »
7:36 am, March 5th, 2010, Giles Turnbull
Ahh, bless ‘em. The hacks at The Sun aren’t famous for hard-hitting investigative journalism, but at least you’d expect them to know an iPhone app when they see one.
A couple of weeks ago a builder fooled them (and the Daily Mail) into believing that he’d taken a photo of a ghostly boy on a building site in Hull.
But as the internet pointed out shortly afterwards, anyone can make the exact same ghostly figure appear pretty much anywhere they like, thanks to the Ghost Capture app for iPhone.
Even funnier are some of the comments posted under the stories. On the Daily Mail’s version, for example, Mel from Stroud says:
“i am mildly psychic and i snese this boy was evacualted from the war,his father died,his mother died of old age,he lives with an old couple and this used to be his school,hopes this helps everyone”
(To be honest, I don’t think for a minute that the journalists at either paper actually believed that the photo was real, and they probably did instantly work out where it came from. But The Sun’s purpose is to entertain as much as it is to inform – so they wrote it up in all innocent seriousness, knowing that readers with a clue would be in on the joke. And that some readers would fall for it.)
(Via Macenstein, Know Your Mobile, Tabloid Watch, and half the rest of the internet.)
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Humor, News, iPhone, iPhone Apps | 2 Comments »
6:14 am, March 5th, 2010, Giles Turnbull
Oh. My. God.
Forget the iPad, kids, just forget it forever. You don’t need one anymore. Because the guys at E4 have created… ePad. It’s more than amazing. It’s amazinger.
Don’t just take my word for it. Watch this video for the full details.
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Humor, News, Top stories, Vintage Tech | 6 Comments »
11:04 pm, March 3rd, 2010, Leander Kahney
One person’s lost iPod touch is another person’s opportunity to pick it up cheap.
It’s clearly a joke. A real scammer would replace the sign altogether with a new phone number — their own.
What would you do?
Via The High Definite.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, Cult of Mac, Humor, News, iPod Touch | 3 Comments »
11:25 am, March 1st, 2010, Nicole Martinelli
Saturday Night Live spoofed cubicle-based reality show Undercover Boss — where the corner office guy or gal climbs back down the career ladder to go incognito as a menial employee — with Undercover Celebrity Boss.
Steve Jobs sticks a “mainentance” badge on his signature black turtleneck and tries to sell an unimpressed secretary on the iTrash and the iTrash Shuffle.
Jobs, likable if clueless in a Michael Scott sorta way, gets a much kinder send up — some say too kind — than the other celebs, most of whom (Sir Richard Branson, the Olsen twins) are barely undercover before they say stuff like: “Because I’m Martha f*ing Stewart. ”
(It’s a Hulu video, which means if you’re outside the U.S. to you’ll need to install something like Hotspot shield to view it. It’s a drag. We know.)
Via Geekosystem
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Humor, News, Steve Jobs | 4 Comments »
1:16 am, February 25th, 2010, John Brownlee
A joke so obvious that the humor-bereft Mad TV joke-writing bullpen thought it up two years ago? Sure. Moreover, there’s better reasons to think Apple’s choice of the iPad moniker is a terrible branding mistake.
Even so, you might consider dropping $40 on this iMaxi Apple iPad Case being sold by the Atwoodian Etsy outfit Hip Handmaids… if only because, as a device touched by God, it may very well suffer from the occasional stigmata.
Posted by John Brownlee in Humor, News, iPad | 7 Comments »
2:00 pm, February 12th, 2010, Lonnie Lazar
Modern day hippies and endless jamming may not be among the first images that spring to mind when you think about Apple’s products and customer base, but check this promotional video for the premier Jam Band confab in the United States, the High Sierra Music Festival, and see how well the two play together.
High Sierra impressario David Margulies does a quite credible job of mimicking the classic Steve Jobs Keynote presentation method introducing the 2010 festival, to be held 4th of July weekend in Quincy, CA — he even incorporates images of the highly anticipated iPad to excellent effect and coins a new catch-phrase especially suited to his product: there’s an act for that!
The High Sierra clip is obviously a spoof, but it actually works to engage the viewer in the content, suggesting the elements of Job’s presentation style — if not, perhaps, the mock turtleneck and jeans — lie at the root of any successful product pitch.
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Advertising, Apple, Humor, News, Steve Jobs | 1 Comment »
10:52 am, February 12th, 2010, Nicole Martinelli
Tech writer Leo Laporte didn’t quite buy the story that South Korean iPhone owners adopt snack-sausage stylus sticks to use their devices with gloves on in winter.
In the time-honored tradition of investigative journalism, he decided to check it out for himself. He didn’t happen to have a meat stick handy, so he tried an appropriately stylus-shaped cheese stick instead. (For the record, it was “chilly” and string cheese).
Read the rest of this post »
Posted by Nicole Martinelli in Humor, Quickies, Top stories, iPhone | 3 Comments »
1:02 pm, February 1st, 2010, Leander Kahney
Here is Steve Jobs’ iPad keynote in less than 180 seconds. It’s wonderful! Amazing! Incredible!
The video sums up “all the important words,” says its creator, Neil Curtis.
“I assure you that no scene is repeated and everything was said on this keynote!” he adds. “Oh, and please don’t take it personal: it’s meant to be humor!”
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple, Apple Tablet, Humor, News, iPad | 5 Comments »
11:47 am, February 1st, 2010, John Brownlee
As inevitable as the dawn follows the night, a LEGO simulacrum will follow the announcement of the latest Apple product announcement. Here, then, in dimpled, rainbow colored blocks, the necessary LEGO iPad, courtesy of Flickr user Brickjournal and his plastic brick ingenuity.
Posted by John Brownlee in Humor, iPad | 6 Comments »
4:59 pm, January 31st, 2010, Erfon Elijah
If you’re an Apple fanboy (or girl) and your tee shirt repertoire doesn’t include as many Apple inspired tees as it should—you’re in luck—Coty over at cotygonzales.com has come to your rescue. With much sweat and toil, he’s put together a huge list of 101 T-Shirts for Apple Fanboys and the Mac Faithful that is sure to help you get you get back on the right track.
Fanboy protocol calls for 5-6 different Apple shirts to be worn publicly per week—better stock up.
Posted by Erfon Elijah in Apple, Clothing, Humor, News | 3 Comments »
6:05 pm, January 28th, 2010, Leander Kahney
There’s some pretty good jokes is this Barely Political mash-up of President Obama’s State of the Union address and Steve Jobs’ iPad presentation.
Posted by Leander Kahney in Apple Tablet, Humor, iPad | 3 Comments »
10:59 am, January 28th, 2010, Giles Turnbull
“Hi, can I speak to Steve please?”
Steve speaking.
“Steve, hi. Listen, we’ve just found out that someone else already has a product called iPad.”
Uh-huh.
“Yeah. Fujitsu. Looks like they’ve had it for quite some time. Since about 2002.”
Really.
“Um, yeah. What do want us to do? Call Legal?”
Posted by Giles Turnbull in Humor, News, iPad | 8 Comments »
2:28 am, January 28th, 2010, Lonnie Lazar
Who knew Hitler was such a geek?
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Apple, Humor | 20 Comments »
It’s time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
This time, we review 4×4 Jam, A Doodle Fly, Business Card Reader, Gorillacam, Magnetic Joe, Magnetic Joe 2, Neocell Fighters Evolution, Noise.io LE, Rasta Monkey, Samurai: Way of the Warrior, and Ultimate Video [...]
Last year I signed up for a landline phone for my office. I wish I hadn’t for two reasons:
1. No one calls me.
2. Toktumi’s Line2 iPhone app, which adds a second, distinct number to my iPhone.
With a service like Line2, there’s no need for a physical phone at my place of work. I give my [...]
About a hundred years ago, while I was still a Windows user and thought that a Mac was what you covered in a cheese and slurped down for lunch, I whiled away way too much time playing a DOS-based artillery duel game called Scorched Earth. Dot Matrix Interactive Designs have created their own version in [...]
It’s time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
This time, we review Air Assault, Bad Apples, Fire Drop Free, Ghost Capture – Free, Heli Rescue, Internet Radio Box, Sunday Lawn, synthPond Lite, Tiki Totems, and Titanic Rescue.
A couple of weeks ago I canceled my MobileMe account. Why? Because it didn’t do the one thing I wanted it to do: share my calendar with my wife so we could coordinate our busy lives. That’s all.
I love MobileMe’s email, calendar, contact syncing (especially on the iPhone) and even iDisk. I gave Apple a [...]
On Windows, when you’ve finished using a particular piece of software, you close it with the X symbol in the top right corner of the application window.
Many switchers assume that the window close control in the top left of an OS X application window does the same job: but that’s not quite true.
In the Hackintosh community, the MSI Wind is somewhat legendary for being the first netbook out there that could essentially run OS X out of the box, with all features working and no hardware hacking required.
Now it looks like the venerable Wind has another Apple bragging point: with its keyboard ripped out and its [...]
The Menu Bar sits at the top of your screen at all times. Let’s take a moment to get to know it. It’s worth doing, because the Menu Bar is going to be one of your best friends.
When you used Windows, you were used to see menus inside each document window. File, Edit, all [...]
