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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…

Essence Software is proud to announce the release of VideoPlug 1.2.VideoPlug is a plugin for REALbasic which allows developers to utilise QuickTime-compatible video capture hardware in their applications to capture audio & video sequences.VideoPlug 1.2 improves VideoPlug by adding:Support for MacOS X (Carbon)Programmatic control over grabber parameters (compression, brightness, contrast, audio gain, etc.)VideoPlug also fixes…

All you need to do is installing Kids GoGoGo in order to protect children from harmful web sites. Kids GoGoGo filters known or unknown web contents without slowing down your web browser. As Kids GoGoGo affects nothing to your network peripherals, you can try filtration ability safely by yourself. What kind of sites are blocked?…

Apple® today demonstrated its ongoing commitment to providing innovative technology solutions for education at the National Educational Computing Conference in Chicago. During the opening keynote, Steve Jobs, Appleis CEO, announced that three more school districts, Chicago Public Schools, the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Fremont Union High School District, will be implementing the PowerSchool® from…

Rhetoric has a number of overlapping meanings; the practice of oratory; the study of the strategies of effective oratory; the use of language, written or spoken, to inform or persuade; the study of the persuasive effects of language; the study of the relation between language and knowledge; and, of course, the use of empty promises…

The Apple I Owners Club, founded in 1977 by Joe Torzewski, is back, along with the most extensive reference to the Apple I in existence. This historic reference contains over 120 pages detailing the Apple I computer. Yes, there are still those interested in the old Apple I. You can find more information at the…

Q Another person who has a certain mythology about him is your friend Steve Jobs. Everybody seems to believe they know the book on Jobs: heis brilliant but hard-driving, overly sensitive. Do you and he ever talk about that? A We almost decided to wear T-shirts: "The Mercurial Steve Jobs" and "The Arrogant Larry Ellison."…

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Effective immediately, LaCie announced an end user price of only $299 — after $30 rebate — on the firmis high-performance 16x10x40x CD-RW drive that features”BURN-Proof” (Buffer Under RuN) technology. Equipped with LaCieis unique U&I interface, the new drives are the first true 16X CD-RW drives to offer both Universal Serial Bus (USB) and FireWire (IEEE…