Saturday Night Live weighed in on the ridiculous nature of some of the iPhone 5 complaints this past weekend with an amusing skit that spoofs whiny tech journalists and their complaints with the Chinese factory workers who build the iPhone itself. It’s pretty funny and puts the outrageous complaints into some proper perspective, ranging from … Read More
One of the many things that iOS and Mac switchers coming from the Windows world surely don’t miss is the infamous Blue Screen of Death. To celebrate your freedom from that dreaded BSOD, you can dress up your iPad or Mac with a hilarious blue screen wallpaper, which easily ranks up there with that awful … Read More
Bored? Launch Terminal and get ready for some completely stupid tricks to keep yourself entertained. You’ll be listening to Horse Ebooks blab away, watching Star Wars in ASCII, playing retro games, toasting your CPU cores with a repetitive phrase, and even talking to a virtual psychotherapist. The hidden joys of the command line are upon … Read More
We’re all very excited about the iPhone 5 around here, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have a good laugh at the expense of ourselves and the device itself. We already shared a pretty funny video of people who think an old iPhone 4S is an iPhone 5, but here’s a collection of iPhone 5 … Read More
What happens when you give someone the now old iPhone 4S and tell them it’s a brand new iPhone 5? Late-night talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel finds out, and the results are pretty funny. With people commenting on the supposedly bigger screen, being sturdier, and feeling lighter, perhaps Apple doesn’t need to redesign the iPhones often … Read More
One Apple fan didn’t take kindly to the office message of “PLEASE DO NOT PRINT LARGE JOBS” (all in caps of course!) and decided to take on the note quite literally, printing an enormous rasterbatored image of the classic Steve Jobs portrait. The original message was obviously aimed at preventing ginormous print jobs that hog … Read More
We’ve all been in an awkward situation where we wished we could get out of, whether it’s standing around the watercooler listening to Bob discuss too many details of his dermatologist appointment, sitting next to the crazy guy on the train, or you’re just on a horribly bad date that couldn’t end soon enough. Actually, … Read More
iOS 6 includes an impressive Apple-baked version of the Maps application, but the new Maps icon shows some less than impressive directions. Anyone familiar with Cupertino, California and 1 Infinite Loop should immediately identify the problem here: the Maps icon is directing traffic to fly right off the De Anza blvd overpass and into the … Read More
The next time you’re in desperate need to crack open a beer bottle, reach for your iPad power adapter. Say what? Well, apparently it can double as a bottle opener, not that we’d recommend that. This may be the ultimate Apple-geek party trick and I’m sure college students the world over are rejoicing in their … Read More
Beautiful. Alluring. Gorgeous. Perfection. Amazing. Exemplary. Smart. Revolutionary. Stunning. It’s everything you could dream of and more. This amazing iPad stand will be the envy of everyone who sees it, because who doesn’t want a toilet plunger resting on their desk? Featuring a handsome wooden handle and a ravishing lightly used black rubber cup (complete … Read More
If your iPad 3 is getting too hot to handle, the solution is to use the iPad outdoors in three feet of snow. Three feet of snow is required because there is a direct correlation between the iPad generation and the amount of snow required to cool the device, thus iPad 3 requires 3 feet … Read More
Apple’s iOS developer team appears to have gone on the offensive in an attempt to throw off the Apple rumor mill with a hilarious new approach; including references to fake product numbers in the latest developer build of iOS 5.2 beta 2. Examples include references to such far-flung and imaginative hardware as the iPhone 11, … Read More
Don’t like your desk setup? Wishing you had a better Mac, or maybe a more stylish desk to work at? Do you ever long for a more ergonomic workstation that aids in a productivity surge? Well folks, remember this picture, because your desk situation could be worse – a lot worse – you could be … Read More
It’s been a week where some humor is much needed, so the guys who put together the ridiculous and so-called ‘banned’ promo videos for various Apple products pulled through with a drunken rendition for the iPhone 4S. It’s got some inappropriate language so it may not be the best thing to blast on your work … Read More
We get a lot of silly submissions but this one from Reddit takes the weekly cake for it’s creative modification to the iPhone AC Adapter plugs. If you want to do this yourself, grab a couple of wiggly eyes and get sticking. Thanks for sending this in Daniel
Not to pour anymore fuel on the Windows vs Mac fire, but this wifi setup guide from McDonalds is an excellent illustration to show how the same task is handled on each operating system. On the left, you’ll see two lengthy Windows XP and Windows Vista walkthroughs with a multiple of clicking, configuring, properties, tabs, … Read More
Apparently, you can do just about anything in an Apple Store and the employees don’t seem to mind. To prove this point, a comedian set about pushing the limits of the Apple Stores unspoken “anything goes” policy, and goes about performing a variety of goofy endeavors within an Apple Store. Everything from hosting a date, … Read More
I love Mac OS X Lion like the rest of us, but I found this Joy of Tech comic strip hilarious, it touches on everything from natural scrolling, the lack of PPC support, new scrollbars, downloading from the App Store, and more. On a more serious note, if you plan on upgrading to Lion soon, … Read More
