Want access to 3,900 classic audiobooks on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for free? Then you’ll want to get this cool free app called, appropriately, Audiobooks. The app allows you to download audiobooks for offline playback and listen to them whenever you want.
Mistakes happen, and there are few mistakes more devastating to a geek than one that damages or destroys your favorite gadgets and computer hardware. So, how would you feel if you set your iPad on top of your car, and drove off on the freeway forgetting it’s up there? Pretty awful right? This is the … Read More
Here’s your daily bad idea: shooting an iPad with a shotgun. Leave it to the internet for someone to shoot an iPad and record a video of the carnage. Interesting video in that ‘Myth Busters’ kind of way, but man, what a waste.
How’d you like to run Newton OS on your iPad, iPhone, or Mac? You can with an emulator, and it actually runs on your iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac OS X too. This is all done through an open source project called Open Einstein which now has a working iOS port. It’s not exactly an … Read More
This has to be the most repulsive gadget accessory I’ve ever seen. Straight out of Japan, it’s an iPhone charger made to resemble an umbilical cord that twitches, pulsates, and squeals as it charges your iPhone. I don’t know if it’s for sale (would anyone want to buy it?), but it’s the creation of a … Read More
This has to be the worst imaginable iPad car mount solution I have ever seen, which is exactly why it’s so funny. Mounting an iPad to your arm, seriously, can you come up with a worse idea?
OK Apple fans, by now you’ve surely heard of the Facebook movie, the commercial has been playing constantly all over. Of course, if you’ve seen the trailer you’ve heard the song which plays in the trailers background and is now getting popular (much like the Apple commercial effect – just about anything aired goes gangbusters … Read More
You know those Motorola Droid commercials where a robotic voice says “Droid”, or more accurately Drooooid? Oddly enough, your Mac may have been the originator of this sound, and without any additional software you have the ability to play and save the sound yourself right in OS X.
Feeling nostalgic for a horrible crash-prone user experience and ugly GUI? How about putting the Windows 95 boot screen as your iPad background? It won’t make your iPad run Windows 95 (thankfully), but it sure looks dreadful enough.
This right here is a tiny horse, alongside a customer, in an Apple Store. Yes, I did a double-take too.
People are doing all sorts of cool things with iPads, but this must be one of the more interesting projects I’ve seen. Using videos playing on an iPad and stop-frame photography, Dentsu London moved the device around in dark environments to create 3-dimensional words and animations. Instead of trying to explain it any further, you … Read More
Ready for some goofy FaceTime humor? Of course you are! Who doesn’t like to be silly sometimes? A reader sent in this hilarious picture which pokes fun at FaceTime, the video chat feature included with the iPhone and iPod touch (and soon the iPad). The tagline on the image is “FaceTime – phone calls like … Read More
This is another hilarious commercial for an iPad app, and points out why the iPad won’t be completely replacing a newspaper anytime soon, at least for some tasks. Dubbing itself as ‘better than a newspaper in all kinds of ways’ the commercial pokes fun at another traditional usage of rolled up trees: fly swatting. If … Read More
If you’re old enough to remember the “My Buddy” doll commercials from the 1980’s, you should be highly amused by this iPad game ad. It’s for an iPad app called Steve Young Football, the commercial doesn’t give you much of an idea of what the game is about but that’s sort of besides the point … Read More
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)!
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, … Read More
Are you ready for a Steve Jobs joke? Of course you are! Ok, so this joke is a little corny, but who cares, because sometimes corny is good for a laugh, right?! OK here we go: Why does Steve Jobs always wear turtlenecks? Because suits have too many buttons. Get it? Oooooh boy. Corny, but … Read More
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. By the … Read More
