a whopping 3 apps out of over 1700 submissions have thus far been deemed support-worthy by the fund, with a possible 10 more being considered?. Were no mathemagicians, but that more or less means the iFund trustees only deem 0.17% of all apps being submitted as showing any promise, or, to the glass half-empty crowd, 99.83% of apps will suck.

And actually, from what I am seeing, I’m not sure the 3 apps the iFund has chosen to support are all that great either. Only 2 of the 3 have thus far been named. The first is Whrrl, which seems like a Twitter wannabe for people who think…

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3G is so last year…

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Insprired by the iPhone……If youre a woman who has tried EVERYTHING to get men to stare at, touch, and grope your breasts without success, we have just the thing. Check out ThinkGeeks Slide to Unlock? Ladies T-Shirt.

We know how hard it is for women to draw men’s attention to their chests, so we applaud ThinkGeek for addressing this sensitive women’s issue. By cleverly disguising your breasts as an iPhone (something men REALLY want to…

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A .Mac site is currently offering a computer they are calling the Open Mac Pro to French residents, and if you thought Psystars Open Mac operation looked shady, wait till you see this site.

First of all, this .Mac page (red flag #1) offers to take orders via e-mail and phone, but there is no company name anywhere to be found. So far, there have been a whopping 12 visitors to the site (sites with page counters are…

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The Greek technology site iPhone Hellas has been poking around in the iPhone 2 beta firmware and found all sorts of GPS-related goodies, as well as some more YouTube and Google integration, but the really interesting thing (to me anyway) is that they have also found the following string buried deep in the code: BRICKED_AND_SIM_LOCKED_STRING?.

OK, I understand Apple feeling the need to play the cat and mouse game with iPhone hackers in trying to keep the iPhone secure and such, but for Apple to openly put a string in their code that flaunts their “bricking” an iPhone…

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Move over Cheeseburger-eating Hasselhoff, theres a new drunk in town! What happens when you take the classic 1999 Jeff Goldblum iMac commercial and slow it down about 30 percent? You get a hilarious piece of footage capable of taking Goldblums kids away in any future custody battle!

What happens when you take the classic 1999 Jeff Goldblum iMac commercial and slow it down about 30 percent? You get a hilarious piece of footage capable of taking Goldblum’s kids away in any future custody battle!

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You can see that especially on fast motion videos, the quality is noticeably better on the high-res video video (right) than the standard YouTube offering (left).

Faithful Macenstein reader brethil clued me into a cool YouTube trick that probably everyone besides me already knew about. Apparently if you open a YouTube url in your browser, then add “&fmt=18” (without the…

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A Virtual Reality display device which uses the iPhone as the viewing plate so that it becomes a wearable virtual headset simply by clipping on a special attachment. The device can network with other uses for shared virtual experiences and uses the tilt sensor of the iPhone”

Even discounting the “beautiful” 3D rendering above, this is one of those ideas that doesn’t seem entirely thought out, as the iPhone’s touch screen will be pretty hard to use when stuck to your face, and…

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Tiny Code is working with the iPhone SDK on 1.1.4 Alpha 2…

But what’s really interesting is they mention on the far left of their site “Now targeting fw 1.1.4 Alpha2“. Looks like the apps made with the new iPhone SDK will require yet another firmware revision to run,…

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