Want to hang your son’s D+ test on the fridge? Fear not (you poor bastard), thanks to App Magnets from Jailbreak Toys, there’s now an app for that. A magnetic app. Booya! These delightful little epoxy magnets come in a set of 18, and are available to cling to all your metallic surfaces right now.

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By now we’ve all seen the hardwood/bamboo iPhone cases from Vers, which offer stellar protection and an exceedingly-unique design. Coming soon is the above pictured iPad iteration of the steel-reinforced wood case, which also offers an optional wood prop for table-top use. I also notice the case shields the Home button area on the iPad; can you guys implement that feature on your iPhone cases, too? Word up.

To “welcome the Spring/Summer 2010 season”, Hong Kong retailer JOYCE commissioned iPhone case designs from 6 high-end brands. Apparently the gist is that these designs carry over themes from each brand’s current collection… including the giant freakin’ oblong rock-like case. Who said opulence and practicality don’t mix?

Via a series of brilliant teasers sent out to various Mac news sites, Valve Software has been slowly intimating at their forthcoming release of Steam for Mac OS X. From Valve’s distributed imagery, games like Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, and Portal would all be on tap. The Game Developers Conference next week could be the venue for an iron-clad confirmation.

Yes, that is what it looks like. iMaxi – The Apple iPad Case with Protective Wings takes the obvious moniker joke to the extreme. Etsy seller Hip Handmaids says the case “shields [the iPad] from all those unsightly and embarrassing data leaks that would make any motherboard worry!” See what they did there? The case also comes in a… red-threaded interior version. True story, bro.

On the same day Steve turned 55, iTunes recorded its 10 billionth song download. What are the odds of that?! I’m no mathematician, so bear with me… let’s see… divide by 12… carry the 55… the answer is… purple. What? In any event, Happy Birthday Steve!

Despite being a viral marketing draw, IE6 Funeral is a concept very near and dear to my heart. Aten Design Group in Denver is throwing a party …funeral …to bid a final farewell to the browser moronic web denizens still use in droves nearly 9 years after its release. If a portion of those users end up attending, I’ll be on hand solely to slap them.

The Code Organ site lets you input a url, and then via its self-described “complex algorithm”, turns the site’s source code into synth music. On 3 tries, GUIGalaxy.net first sounded like a trance porno soundtrack… then a 70’s-era dish soap commercial… then like a monkey was banging on a Casio keyboard with its forehead. Just as I had envisioned, when pondering this site’s possible conversion into music, so many, many times.

Daddy like! IGN reports that next month Capcom will be releasing Street Fighter IV for the iPhone, complete with Bluetooth two-player fighting. Art assets were taken directly from its console big brother’s code, so they’ve promised a complete faithful recreation of the experience. Since how the controls handle is a large concern, Capcom will offer a number of control configurations so players can find their favorite position, button transparency, and set-up.

I had previously written about Radtech’s OmniStand, a portable laptop stand constructed from 6013 Aluminum alloy (aiding in heat-dissipation). It sounded like exactly what I needed, since (as I also noted in that original post) my current iLevel Laptop Stand from Rain Design wasn’t the best at cooling. As such, I decided to pick up an OmniStand for myself.

The box/package the OmniStand ships in is so light and thin, I wasn’t even sure what it was when it arrived (short term memory loss probably doesn’t help). After unboxing, you can truly see why the portability factor is touted so much. When fully collapsed, it could fit in an appropriately-sized envelope.

After I placed the stand on my desk and found its best-suited inclination for my usage, it essentially vanished behind the MacBook Pro (The iLevel, by comparison, clearly makes its presence known on your desk as a girthy laptop stand —although it can also freely rotate). The sheet of metal your laptop physically sits on has pads to lift the computer off it, facilitating airflow and keeping the bottom from being scratched.

So, the OmniStand is trim, adjustable, and looks like a cool piece of industrial design. How about that cooling? I decided to put that to the test right off the bat, and booted into XP via Boot Camp to do some gaming. Dragon Age: Origins is a noted processor hog, and always revved my cooling fans up as soon as gameplay began. No sooner than 20 seconds in, the fans revved up as loud as they did when using the iLevel. Odd. The longer I played, the more I noticed no difference whatsoever in terms of audible fan noise than before the OmniStand was used.

Perhaps Dragon Age was too intense for an average test. I booted back into OS X, and did some average internet surfing of my favorite geek sites. iStat Pro revealed a CPU temperature of 145°F at certain points, and then in excess of 170°F when I hopped over to YouTube. Again, no better than the iLevel. Very disappointing. The OmniStand looks like it should be an effective cooling mechanism; the previously mentioned pads to lift your laptop, the holes punched into the aluminum to facilitate airflow…but that was not the case, in my usage.