Here’s a Mac heartbreaker: a motorcycle enthusiast went for a ride carrying his MacBook Pro 13″ in a backpack, unfortunately the zipper holding the MacBook Pro in place failed going a reported 195mph (315km/h)!
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If you’re using a Windows 7 machine, why not make it look like Mac OS X? This task is made very easy with a theme/skin set called the Snow Transformation Pack, it turns your Windows 7 theme into a very convincing near complete Mac OS X interface including icons, wallpapers, the Dock, sounds, dialogue boxes, login screen, window skin, and more.

The Snow Transformation pack is freeware and available to download here

Of course if you’re this obsessed with Mac OS, you should probably just buy a Mac and save yourself from the burden of Windows 7 and trying to skin it to look like a Mac, right?
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Why does Steve Jobs always wear turtlenecks?

Because suits have too many buttons.

Corny, but so fitting since Steve Jobs does indeed enjoy the turtleneck and has an obvious dislike for unnecessary buttons. Thank you to Eric for sending this in.

12 years of Steve Jobs… always wearing the quintessential black long sleeved shirt, jeans, and some sneakers. I love how laid back this guy is, can you think of any other CEO of a comparably popular company dressing so casually? He’s definitely got a distinct wardrobe, even when he visits Apple Store openings.

Thanks to Chris for sending this in!

You know you’re an Apple addict when you start measuring time by the iPhone release cycles. I found this comic pretty funny, it looks like something out of a newspaper but I am unsure of it’s original source. Thanks to Daniel for sending this in!

President Obama uses a MacBook Pro 15″ with antiglare screen, and it looks like the entire White House staff uses Macs too.

The top picture is from a White House video and the other of White House staff is from Fortune. It’s not just Macs that the White House is crazy over, the iPad has also become very popular in the current administration, according to CBS News:

Practically everyone has an iPad — or will have one very soon.

Emanuel just got his, as did senior adviser David Axelrod and deputy press secretary Bill Burton. Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer and press wrangler Ben Finkenbinder each have one on order. Economic adviser Larry Summers takes his to staff meetings.

The device is the hot, new White House toy, a gizmo that is popping up around Washington but seems to be particularly in vogue at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The irony in all of this of course is that President Obama recently made the following comment about iPods and iPads being distracting:

“With iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.”

I’m sure members of the White House just uses their Macs and iPads for work though… no Facebook, Angry Birds, or StarCraft 2 in those long West Wing meetings… suuuuuuuure.

Here’s the corniest joke you’ll see all day: rename your iPhone or iPad to “The Titanic”, and every time you go to sync the device with iTunes it will say: “Syncing The Titanic” – oooh boy.

Thanks to Ian S. for sending this in!

Want to quickly end a phone call on iPhone 4? No problem, just press this self-installed End Call button decal! OK I doubt this would work, and in fact it would probably prevent the bars and calls from dropping, but it’s amusing nonetheless.

We just got this picture in our inbox, the sender didn’t provide a source but the picture is definitely funny. It looks like it’s supposed to be a parody of something available on the Apple site and I highly doubt it’s actually for sale (of course, knowing the internet it will probably become available for sale soon).

Personally I find the iPhone 4 antenna hooplah to be overblown media hype, but some of the jokes and iPhone 4 humor floating around is just hilarious.

Update: the decal is the work of talented designer Aaron Draczynski, thank you to those who tracked this down.

If you’ve been to Google.com today you can’t possibly have missed their logo honoring the late Josef Frank, a famous architect. The crazy looking Google logo is actually a take on Josef Frank’s wallpaper designs, which are intricately detailed and quite fancy.

After seeing these, I thought they’d look great on my iPad, so I decided to make a few Josef Frank wallpapers for the iPad. Here are four that I created fitting the iPad dimensions, but they’ll work on on your iPhone too. Enjoy!

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All the jokes and iPhone 4 humor have finally gone mainstream. David Letterman featured the iPhone 4 on his famous ‘Top 10 List’ segment. Video is hosted below for now, but don’t be surprised if it gets pulled for copyright. Here’s the list repeated below:

David Letterman’s Top 10 Signs You’ve Purchased a Bad iPhone 4

• 10. To make a call, you have to insert a quarter
• 9. Automatically answers every call with a computerized, “Yello!”
• 8. Operates on 20 “D” Batteries
• 7. Pre-loaded with naked photos of Steve Jobs
• 6. You keep getting anonymous texts reading, “iPhone kill you”
• 5. Apple Store looks suspiciously like some dudes trunk
• 4. It smells and tastes like a pop tart
• 3. There’s no lather when washing your cornea (oh I’m sorry, that’s a sign you’ve purchased a bad eye foam)
• 2. You check your email and it shocks your nuts
• 1. Only accepts calls from Mel Gibson

The entire list misses the whole antenna debacle completely, but it’s still interesting to see that Apple-bashing is now part of late night comedy routines. Read more »