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The movie is 45 seconds in length, with a total file size of 1.1 MB. The audio sounds like it was recorded with an on-board condensor-mic inside a hugely crowded Mall, but thatis only because it was. Inside The Mall of America Apple Store <embed src=”https://homepage.mac.com/tmo12/.Movies/RodneyInterview.mov” width=”260″ height=”200″ autoplay=”true” controller=”true” cache=”true”></p>

Uh oh! Whatis this? It turns out you are *still* in that line that stretches 3 times around the Mall of America! Or maybe you live in Oklahoma where there isnit much chance that you will get an Apple Store within a dayis drive. Maybe you just canit get to one of the locations that…

Whatis that? You werenit there? Or, if you were, you were the guy at the very end of the line who had to wait for 3 hours to get in, and you couldnit even hear the cheer when the gate went up? Never fear, because we bring you another great movie from Observer André Benassi…

The movie is 1 minute and 56 seconds in length, with a total file size of 6.3 MB. The Line at The Mall of America Apple Store <embed src=”https://homepage.mac.com/tmo10/.Movies/TheLine10AM.mov” width=”260″ height=”200″ autoplay=”true” controller=”true” cache=”true”></p>

Observer André Benassi (or Retro as we call him the TMO Forums), an engineer from Minneapolis, attended this weekendis opening of the Apple Store in The Mall of America with Rodney O. Lain and Randy Hanson and offers the following images from the store opening. This series includes the first three people in line, some…

Iid swallow my class envy and spend a few hours with the "cheese eaters," shocking my digestive system by imbibing "adult beverages" that didnit, for once, come from bottles with screw-off caps commonly sold in six packs for a buck-ninety-five. Couple this with suffering hours of listening to people with way too much disposable income…

For example, Observer “mambamac” alerted us to a link at The Register containing hilarious QuickTime footage of M$ CEO Steve Ballmer doing an ugly imitation of “Thade” from Tim Burtonis “Planet of the Apes.” After viewing this, you will agree that no Micro$oft devotee should ever again utter a single disparaging word against the Mac…

Intel is reportedly about to initiate a price war against AMD that sent shudders through the chip sector today. Dan Niles of Lehman Brothers issued a report this morning saying that Intel would be making a move to recapture lost market share from AMD this Fall. From a Reuters report: For those who thought the…

What: Adobe will present the latest information about their extensive line of products at the August meeting of the Houston Area Apple Users Group.When: Saturday, August 18, 2001, 9 AM – 4PM, the Main Presentation begins at 11:00AM.Where: Rice University Campus, Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium. See http://dacnet.rice.edu/maps/space/, then select “Duncan Hall” for directions. The primary…

The show started off with the MACWORLD Expo keynote by Steve Jobs, and included footage of Mr. Jobs, the new PowerMac G4s, OS X 10.1, iDVD2, and more. Interviews with people waiting for the keynote, and from attendees after the keynote, followed. From there, the showis hosts gave us a our of the QuickSilver PowerMac…

Kaidan Incorporated announced today panoramic tripod head support for Nikonis popular Coolpix 880 digital camera and Nikonis latest high-end prosumer digital camera, the Nikon Coolpix 995. With the introduction of the Kaidan KiWi 995, KiWi 880 and corresponding upgrade kits, content creation professionals, web developers and photographers can create immersive imaging content with a variety…

The world was created in 7 days, VistaPro can do it in 7 seconds. VistaPro is an ultra fast landscape generating program that uses DEMs (Digital Elevation Maps) to turn 2D topographical data, into beautiful 3D terrains. Create scenic fly-throughs, explore distant planets, or create your own landscapes all in a fractal of a minute.”Full…

Sure, the increased speed of the new 867MHz G4s could make a slight difference. But there goes Jobs again, saying something that is simply not true: 867 MHz G4s are not "available now" as he exhorted to the adoring crowd, resulting in considerable ooo-ing and ahhhh-ing. A quick phone call to the Apple Store reveals…

Appleis stock squeaked out a 2 cent gain or 0.10% to close at 19.98 on volume of 7.8 million shares. All totaled AAPL delivered its worst MWNY week performance in memory, falling over 22% since Tuesday. In the Mac media, pundits are bitterly arguing whether the Mac faithful expect too much from Mac World Expositions…

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Mac game industry-heavyweight Macsoft is enjoying the release of its country-building simulation Tropico as well as the announcement that the company will publish Duke Nukem Forever. Tropico, which shipped last Wednesday, puts you in control of a small “remote Carribean island. (No, we did not say Cuba, thank you very much.) Playing the role of…

Chaotic Software just released MP3 Rage 3.6 to add support for ID3v2.4 tags, improve renaming for cross-platform use, and improve usage on Mac OS X.MP3 Rage 3.6 change history:Added support for ID3v2.4 tags.Add support stripping diacritics and removing non-standard characters when renaming files.Added support for live window resizing on Mac OS X.MP3 Rage is the…

Mr. Jobs followed that up by asking the reporter "Do you know who the biggest supporter of the Mac is at Microsoft? Itis Bill Gates." Observer Call: We missed part of the CNNfn article. If you saw more of it and can add details about the interview, please post it in the comments.

Imat ion today announced several products to help people manage parts of their increasingly digital lifestyle. While Apple has positioned products such as the iBook as a ?digital hub? to manage their digital devices and data, the iBook is only a start. Although capable, sometimes the iBook needs a little help. This is where the…

In celebration of the MacWorld Expo this week, Fidelity Media announced a special bundle of their MegaSeg Pro DJ software with the Griffin iMic USB audio adapter. The combo allows DJis to cue and preview songs in their headphones while simultaneously playing music for a party by adding a second stereo output to their Mac.…

Martin Hairer today announces the release of Amadeus II v3.2.3, his premiere disk-based, Mp3 supporting, visual waveform audio file editing and analyzing application for the Mac OS and MaxOS X.Amadeus II lets you use your Mac OS computer for many sound-related applications, such as live audio recording, digitizing tapes and records, sampling from any external…

Todayis main attraction is Michael Dellis keynote speech. In his fat-Elvis-like white suit he personally delivers all the most exciting news from Dell. Michael steps forward in a drum roll and does a little dance with the microphone stand. He says to the audience: "Well let me hear ya say YEAH!!" "YEAH!!!!" Roars the audience.…

Today Optima System released Final Candidate 1 of PageSpinner 3.1, the HTML Editor for Macintosh. The new PageSpinner 3.1 features: improved Mac OS X Classic compatibility previews of local Server Side Include files translucent dragging proxy icon support automatic line feed detection improved support for CSS and HTML 4.01 better handling of XML files enhanced…

Apple® today announced that it will suspend production of the Power Mac™ G4 Cube indefinitely. The company said there is a small chance it will reintroduce an upgraded model of the unique computer in the future, but that there are no plans to do so at this time. "Cube owners love their Cubes, but most…