Podcast #63: Netflix on Mac Goes Live and Apple Comments on New Mac Rumors

Roberto Baldwin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:02:38 -0600

Netflix opens their Watch Instantly beta to anyone with an Intel Mac willing to opt-in. Apple breaks their usual media silence concerning rumors and shares its holiday hardware release plan in one sentence and we share the greatest iPhone pedestal ever.

A Canadian band is chosen for our weekly, "Keep or Delete." Each week we download and review the free iTunes song of the week and decide whether we're going to keep or delete the file. This week's artist:

Beast - Mr. Hurricane

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iPhone Inspires a Whittle Nondigital Genius

Leslie Ayers — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:57:21 -0500

There seems to be no limit to the lengths iPhone fans will go for their precious Apple smart phones. Witness the amazing hand-whittled pedestal created by design student Kyle Buckner for a class assignment at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

The Jesus phone gets its own Apple tree. (Click to Embiggen)

The assignment was "to create a pedestal to hold our 'precious object,'" Buckner tells Mac|Life. "As everyone around me would have guessed, I chose my iPhone. Our pedestal had to be mostly made out of wood, and relate to our precious object."

Given the amazing detail Buckner carved into each app icon on his pedestal, which is made entirely of wood except for bits of plexiglass to support each app icon "leaf," his devotion to his iPhone goes beyond mere affection.
Buckner says his iPhone holder doesn't just sit there, unmoving. "The icons all connect to one main rod, which spins inside the main arm."

Feast your eyes on the lovingly crafted Home screen icons. All of a sudden, I have an urge to send an SMS! (Click to embiggen)

Bravo, Kyle. If these are the lengths you'll go to carve a wooden stand for your iPhone, we can only imagine what your jack-o-lantern will look like tonight.

Steve Jobs really needs this on his desk!!! (Click to embiggen)

Awwww..It's the Prefs icon, complete with the dotty background! (Click to embiggen)

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Podcast #63: Netflix on Mac Goes Live and Apple Comments on New Mac Rumors

iPhone Inspires a Whittle Nondigital Genius