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Steve Jobs Spoofed On Undercover Celebrity Boss

Steve Jobs unveils the epic iTrash and smaller shuffle concept, as Apple's CEO is spoofed hard on the Undercover Celebrity Boss skit that aired on Saturday Night Live (SNL).

El Jobso leads off the spoof parade of celebrity bosses in this video including Richard Branson, Mini Moguls Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and the always charming Martha Stewart. The Jobsian legend continues to evolve into the ridonkulous. Love it!

Video: How Not To Replace Your iPhone Battery

The first clue that your iPhone battery replacement is doomed to end badly is when it includes duct tape, glue, rum, gin and a rubber mallet. I would advise everyone not to attempt this non-traditional, rum soaked method at home. What you're about to see here has been performed by two incredible lunatics who need to be medicated. 

As they like to say at the Chinese buffet... enjoy.

[App Creator Blog]

10 Survival Tips for the Newbie Apple iBlogger

If you plan to launch an iBlog of any kind, reporting on Apple news, iPad, iPhone or serving up a fresh pile of Mac obsessed fodder, there are some vital survival tips you'll need to know if you intend to emerge victoriously in the harrowing battle for eyeballs.

I invited a few of my esteemed colleagues from some wildly popular blogs like Cult of Mac, Brainstorm Tech (Fortune) and Krapps to chime in with their own road tested insights. While it's true that content is king, you will quickly learn it's great original content that rules. That's what all of the websites mentioned above have in common.

When I started iPhone Savior in 2007, I examined what the biggest Apple tech blogs did well and then looked at how I could offer something different. I decided to narrow my focus to iPhone news and satire.

I present to you "10 Survival Tips for the Newbie Apple iBlogger"

1. Commit to a narrow topical focus out of the gate and then remain religious to it. You can always broaden your topic down the road.

2. "Choose the right blogging platform. Choosing the wrong platform can be a huge headache to fix later on. I'd recommend Wordpress. Dead easy to use. Very flexible. Big developer community. The downside: security can be a headache." Leander Kahney - Cult of Mac

3. Earn your right to speak by evolving into an expert on your topic. If it's interesting to you, most likely others will agree and pass along a link to your work.

Megan Fox Is Definitely A Devoted iPhone Chick

Let's get one thing straight, miss hotness Megan Fox is a hopelessly devoted iPhone girl. Make no mistake about that fact. She only shot that shameless $3 million dollar Super Bowl advert for the Motorola Devour because she's young and needed the money.

Motorola even hired 24-year-old model Pamela Moses to stand in as Megan's thumb double for the close-up hand shots. It appears that Megan's love for the Devour wasn't the only thing those Motorola nerds totally faked.

Fox is dressed modestly (at top), gripping her white iPhone while tooling around in Los Angeles with boyfriend Brian Austin Green and his son Kassius on February 15th.

Meanwhile Wired magazine just called the Devour "hard to stomach" with its "atrocious touchscreen performance and weakling camera." Yep! That sums it up nicely.

[Photo via Celebslam]

Titanium iPhone Case Is A Custom-Made Marvel

STYLE GUIDE: Shortly after it was first unveiled to the masses, this titanium iPhone case mod was immediately dismissed as a Photoshop rendering. Well my friends, that's simply not the truth. This unique, custom-made marvel is CNC machined out of a solid block of titanium.

Martin Schrotz, the case designer, has provided Engadget with an exclusive video to convince skeptics that his masterpiece is the real deal. He even dials up a call in the video just to prove that his titanium wonder-case can easily pick up a signal with the greatest of ease.

Seeing Martin's iPhone case mod neatly wrapped in titanium delivered ginormous waves of instant joy to my geeky parts until I was soaked in happy juice. It's a thing of authentic beauty I tell you.

[Photos by Martin Schrotz]

iMaxi Case Will Keep Your iPad Clean and Dry

Apple's iPad is already inspiring designers to create one-of-a-kind geek chic that will help iPad live up to it's name when it launches in March. Say hello to iMaxi, the wildly risqué quilted-cotton sleeve created to make your device the talk of the town.

Designer Hiphandmaids, has imagined a uniquely embarrassing but functional accessory to keep your new iPad clean and dry. The Velcro-latched, advanced iMaxi wing design wraps snugly around your device, offering the kind of daily protection it deserves.

Each magical sheath is fitted with a durable vinyl outer layer for resisting the elements. Expect to pay $40 for this ultra-fashionable icon that comes in white or the option of white with red interior.

"It shields your iPad from all those unsightly data leaks that would make any motherboard worry!"

[Hiphandmaids via Etsy]

An iPhone App That Can "Turn Off Your Lights"

 

In this latest iPhone ad Family Travels, Apple is pimping an app that "can turn off the lights". The app is called Schlage Link, the same little utility that was featured in Apple's "12 Apps of Christmas" holiday spot as "an app that can light up the tree".

Schlage Link is a free download in the App Store. It can control several Schlage home devices including a module for lights, entry door locks, thermostats and in home video cameras. Both from near and from afar. (watch video after break)

The minor downside of this fantastical concept, is that your iPhone must be paired with a specific Z-Wave home automation module which requires a $12.99 monthly service plan and purchasing the Schlage LiNK Starter Kit for $299. That's just for starters.

If that speed bump doesn't slow you down, then you may be in for a seriously geeky treat. The idea of controlling key functions at home from your phone while on the road would even manage to get a young geek in training highly stimulated.

Want to turn off your lights from anywhere?  Yep, there's an app for that. [BUY]

Apple's Phil Schiller Defends Playboy and SI Swimsuit Apps

Roughly four days after an estimated 4,000 apps were abruptly blown out of the App Store for being what Apple calls "overtly sexual content", Phil Schiller, the company's SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing offered up his explanation in the form of some confusing contradictions.

So exactly why did Apple decide to hack off those sex fueled apps so suddenly?

“It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see” Schiller told the New York times.

What Schiller failed to properly account for was why applications like SI Swimsuit 2009 from Sports Illustrated, and other sexually titillating apps from Playboy and FHM still remain. Spending time reviewing these apps instantly reveals content far more racy than "My Boys", which was pulled for featuring muscular computer generated men wearing speedos. 

"When asked about the Sports Illustrated app, Mr. Schiller said Apple took the source and intent of an app into consideration.

“The difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format,” he said."

I Am Choking iPhone App Is A True Life Saver

Here's a fantastical free iPhone app focused on one ginormous purpose, to help save your life when choking. I Am Choking alerts friends and strangers to the fact that you are in very present danger.

Once you realize that piece of Filet Mignon is lodged in your throat, simply launch the I Am Choking app and hold it up for others to see. An obvious flashing message and annoying voice will instantly signal "HELP I Am Choking". Bystanders would have to be deaf, dumb or blind to miss your impressive cry for help.

The app will guide unwitting rescuers in the steps for delivering the proper Heimlich Maneuver, aimed at dislodging that hunk of dead animal flesh from your throat. This free life saving app is a must have for every iPhone user both young and old. Remember, death is a terrible thing. But death by ham sandwich is much worse.

Are you choking? Now there's an app for that! (video below)

iPhone Ad 'First Step' Pushes Family Connections

It's no shocker that one of Apple's two new iPhone commercials "First Step" focuses on making important family connections via iPhone. With Apple's recent purging of racy apps, we can all agree that it may be the company's first step towards returning the App Store to a slightly more family friendly environment.

The second commercial "On Hold" (below) continues to pimp the idea that iPhone is needed for just about everything. That reality is something I happen to agree with because I'm iPhone obsessed. Who isn't?

I'm expecting to see the first iPad commercial any time now.