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AppleSkinz are polycarbonate covers which let you add some pizzazz to your PowerMac G3 or PowerMac G4 computer. They caught our attention during our MacWorld Expo Photo Tour, where weill take a picture of anything that catches our eye. And with the variety of designs that these folks offer, weire sure youill agree that theyill…

Play Oni, the exciting anime-styled action adventure game, on Mac OS X! Today, The Omni Group released Oni for Mac OS X. If you currently own a copy of Oni for Mac OS 9, get this great game up and running on Mac OS X. Omni is dedicated to supporting the Mac OS X platform,…

The Featured Guest on The Mac Show this Wednesday will be the Product Manager for Office v. X, Eric Ryan of Microsoftis Macintosh Business Unit. If you have Office questions for Eric, send them to [email protected]. And the show has three copies of Office v. X to be given away! And, this week is the…

Last night on Comedy central the new season premiere episode of Absolutely Fabulous had Edina using an Apple Flat screen display in her kitchen and Bubbles had a Blue Dalmation iMac in the office. Bart Stagner Iim sure you guys already know about this, but Iill tell you about my Mac-sighting anyway. The new Absolutely…

Donit know if you saw this on WBis Smallville, but.. In the Smallville episode with the Coach that could start fires, Lex Luthor uses a Titanium PowerBook and the School newspaper uses iMacs for their publishing. I was surprised at how visible Apple was in that episode. Did Apple pay for Product Placement or was…

Adobe Systems Incorporated is now shipping Adobe® Illustrator® 10, its industry-standard vector graphics software. Adobe Illustrator 10 provides cross-media design professionals, Web designers and Web developers with the tools necessary to creatively and efficiently produce and publish their artwork. Now available on Mac OS X and ready for Windows XP, Adobe Illustrator 10 allows users…

MacPlay announced today that it has secured the rights to publish Fox Interactiveis The Operative*: No One Lives Forever*. One of the most critically acclaimed first person shooters, the title will ship in the second quarter of 2002, on the Mac OS X and classic Mac OS platforms. The award-winning game was named "Action Game…

Today Metrowerks began shipping CodeWarrior( for Palm OS(r) platform, Version 8.0, development tools, the industry-leading commercial applications toolset for Palm OS(r) platform and Springboard( module developers. CodeWarrior tools provide everything commercial developers need to get their Palm OS applications to market quickly, including: an editor, project manager, C/C++ compiler, linker, emulator and target device interface…

Mac OS X Install CD:Applications:Utilities When you first run Open Firmware Password, you are presented with a window that says "The Open Firmware password is used to prevent others from starting your computer with a different disk. This makes your computer more secure." WARNING!!!!! The Mac Observer urges caution in using this or any firmware…

Your friends at MonkeyByte.com have just released a DEMO version of VistaPro for the Macintosh. 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…

You start telling the truth to people, and people gonna look at you like you was askini to @#&* their momma or somethini. The truth is gonna be funny, but itis gonna scare the @#&* outta folks. Richard Pryor

The promo is a Flash presentation for Windows XP, and you can see it directly on Microsoftis Web site. In that promo is a PowerMac 8500, as well as a Titanium PowerBook. Perhaps Microsoft has ported Windows XP to Mac hardware after all? Please note that thatis a joke. You can watch the entire presentation…

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Not so much a sighting, but a mention. (I donit remember anyone else mentioning this one, so I hope itis new…) In "Americais Sweethearts", Billy Crystal is viewing a movie trailer with one of his assistants. Crystal asks the assistant if he had created the trailer and the assistant said no. Crystal explains to the…

Last month, TMOis Editor Bryan Chaffin spotlighted a young man known as "Atomm" at MACWORLD New York. It was interesting that there was an 11-year-old out there who is mentally agile enough to code computer programs with the "big boys" (he was an attendee at MacHack, a gathering of Mac programmers dedicated to a marathon…

PUBLICSPACE.NET is pleased to announce version 4.0 Preview 1 of its "A Better Finder Rename" Macintosh Finder enhancement. This release features a complete rewrite of the user interface and program internals to make them Carbon compliant and to provide a stable platform for concurrent MacOS 9 and MacOS X developments. This release coincides with the…

This link is to an AP photo on Yahoo showing the two researchers at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina who have reported a breakthrough in genetics that causes them to believe that humans are easier to clone than sheep. Whatever one may think of the ethics of human cloning, it is clearly an…

A bit later we found Mr. Hancock bending over to play a piano keyboard, and sitting below the instrumentis keyboard was an Apple USB keyboard. The imagery was certainly poignant, and though nothing much was said about it, we definitely noticed it. Even better, TechTV says that the piano fiend is an all-Mac kind of…

The Big Brother 2 House Tour Click on the image for a larger version. The House Tour "zoomed in" in via the Flash control.

Weive united the best of the past with the computer of the future to create the iPump, a vintage gas pump with a computer screen instead of the usual readout. The first of its kind, the iPump features Appleis iMac computer with its keyboard in a hidden drawer and a trackball mounted on the side.…