Target begins selling Pink iPods

June 30th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Helper Monkey

Target today began selling pink iPods and iPod nanos through their online store. Target has contracted with ColorWare to produce the pink music players. The pink 1 and 2GB nanos list for $229.99 and $279.99 respectively ($80 above Apple’s stock black and white models), and the 30 and 60GB pink iPods […]

GET YOUR SCREEN NAMES HERE! Macenstein Beta Forums now open!

June 30th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Exciting news, everyone!
We are foolishly starting our own forum where you can discuss anything you want, Mac-related or otherwise. Let the abuse of the forum begin!
While we realize 90% of the posts will be about how crappy our site is, we hope the other 10% of you find this forum […]

Roxio Releases Universal Toast Titanium 7.1 Update

June 30th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Roxio has released Toast Titanium 7.1. In addition to numerous bug fixes (see below) the update adds support for Intel Macs, and is available as a universal binary.
Toast version 7.1 bug fixes
Duplicate items are no longer created when an open folder is dragged into the Toast window for data formats.
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Boy, they weren’t kidding about Civilization IV’s minimum system requirements!

June 29th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Lab Rat

A lot of people were surprised when they read Aspyr’s suggested minimum system requirements for their Mac port of Civilization IV. The Mac specs were actually more restrictive than the PC specs for the game, calling for at least a PowerPC G5 or Intel chipset running at 2GHz or higher, and […]

Free on iTunes: “Blade? and “Beyond the Break? pilot episodes

June 29th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Helper Monkey

In what is fast becoming a regular event, two new television series have made their premiere episodes available for free on iTunes. First up is Spike TV’s “Blade?, the small-screen adaptation of the (somewhat) popular Wesley Snipes vampire martial arts movies. Next up is “Beyond the Break?, The N’s bikini-laden young-surfer-chicks-in-Hawaii […]

Microsoft demos Windows Vista on a MacBook Pro?

June 29th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Helper Monkey
We know that NOTIHNG, and we do mean NOTHING legitimate has EVER come from a Flickr posting…BUT…
There are a couple interesting shots of what claim show a Microsoft Belgium rep demoing Windows Vista and Office 2007 on a MacBook Pro. The shots were allegedly taken this month at Microsoft HQ in […]

Apple prepares to unleash 300th unlistenable free song on iTunes

June 27th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by iGor

Almost since its inception, Apple’s iTunes music store has been nice enough to bless us with anywhere between 1 to 3 free downloads a week by largely unknown artists. With today’s latest free duo, Apple has now given us 298 free iTunes songs (not counting audio books), spanning the musical rainbow from […]

Apple releases OS X 10.4.7

June 27th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Dr. Macenstein
Apple today released yet another “dot? update to Mac OS X 10.4, taking us to 10.4.7. There are separate versions for both PPC and Intel Macs, but the features and addressed issues appear to be identical. Most notable among the new features are a slew of audio enhancements across Apple’s wide […]

Apple posts Spider-Man 3 trailer

June 27th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein

Posted by Helper Monkey
Apple has posted a trailer for Spider-Man 3 on its QuickTime site, and we are happy to say, it is more than just a lame teaser trailer. In it, we get to see Spider-Man as Venom, a brief Sandman cameo, and enough action to almost make us wish it was Spidey […]