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Renewed Vision, like BusyMac, is another great example of finding a hidden gem on the Macworld South Hall booth floor. Renewed Vision is a company that at first had its vision on creating immersive environments for worship at today's churches. According to their website, their first product, ProPresenter was written specially for Passion Conferences in 1999. One of ProPresenter's features is ...

In one of the many booths of South Hall 1338, BusyMac was busily showing off brand new features to its prime product, BusySync. BusySync is a preference pane that allows you to synchronize iCal calendars across multiple computers without the need for a .Mac subscription. It utilizes many core Mac OS X technologies such as SyncServices, CoreData, and Bonjour, and the result is a pretty slick...

After talking to others about the MacBook Air yesterday, one common theme seems to be appearing... the lack of mobile broadband (3G) is a deal breaker for many. As I told many people yesterday... if the MacBook Air had included any sort of 3G internet connection, I would have bought one instantly. No questions asked. I probably would have loaded up on SSD Flash as well, knowing it would be...

Apple has released Front Row 2.1.2 in your Mac OS X Software Update. About Front Row 2.1.2 This Front Row update provides for bug fixes and improved iTunes...

Apple has released iMovie 7.1.1 in your Mac OS X Software Update: Whats New in this Version - This update addresses issues when publishing movies to a .Mac Web Gallery, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor...

Apple has released Quicktime 7.4 for Leopard, Tiger, Panther and Windows. QuickTime 7.4 addresses security issues and delivers: - Numerous bug fixes - Support for iTunes This release is recommended for all QuickTime 7...

Tuesday night, MacRumors hosted a small gathering for readers at Macworld Expo San Francisco 2008. Overall a fun time had by all. ...

An AppleInsider post earlier in the year had indicated that Apple would be showing something "super secret" at tomorrow's Final Cut Pro user group meeting. The most likely scenario at this point is that the secret technology is in fact the MacBook Air that was announced today. A product to replace Shake (code-named Phenomenon) has been rumored to arrive in 2008, but it is doubtful that that...

Present at today's Macworld festivities was actor, comedian, writer, and producer Sinbad. Sinbad has acted in, written, and produced various television and motion pictures throughout the 80's through today, including the upcoming motion picture Stompin'. I had a brief opportunity to catch up with him, and found that not only is Sinbad a long-time Mac user, but a frequent reader of MacRumors. ...

After the keynote speech, Steve Jobs came back out on stage to pose with the new MacBook Air. Matthew Yohe managed to snap these photos (released under Creative Commons Attribution license): ...

After the keynote today, we spent a good amount of time on the Moscone South expo floor. The hall is extremely large with around 200 vendors present, but Apple makes an impression with its dominant booth in the center of the hall. Other prime-location vendors include Adobe, HP, Canon, Epson, Microsoft, Dr. Bott, Griffin, and Filemaker. One thing I did notice, however, was that many attendees ...

iTunes 7.6 is available in Software Update or via direct download. The update adds support for Apple's new movie rental service. Rent and download your favorite movies with iTunes on your computer or directly to your living room on Apple TV. Enjoy rented movies in sizes up to 720p HD with surround sound on your Apple TV and sizes up to DVD-quality on your computer. Transfer your rented movies...

Matthew Yohe provides us with this photo from the front of the keynote line. As of 10pm, there are approximately 20 people in the line. Regular conference pass people are in a separate line from the Super/Platinum Pass folk. Sadly, without keynote media access, I'll be joining them soon. 4:20 am PST Update: The line now stretches down the entire south side of Moscone West. I estimate...

There was a flurry of discussion about the MacBookAir.com redirecting to: http://www.apple.com/?Will+We+see+a+MacBookAir+on+Tuesday This redirection is not an endorsement by Apple itself. Anyone can redirect any domain (they have control of) to any other domain and add a "query string" (?text). You can change it to whatever you want, and this query is passed to the web server. In this ...

MacTech benchmarks the new Mac Office 2008 and provides the following conclusion: In general, Office 2008 is faster than Office 2004 when run on Intel Macs. And, on the PowerPC (represented by our PowerBook G4), it certainly runs "well enough" albeit marginally slower. Microsoft hosted a day-long conference on the new Office 2008. Attendees will reportedly receive a free copy of...

MacRumors reader Matthew Yohe was in the Badge Pickup line at 8am. I guess everyone was eager to get into the Microsoft Office 2008 preview....

Appleinsider reports that the rumored Newton-successor is not ready for launch at Macworld San Francisco this week. Rumors of the return of the larger-than-iPhone tablet were revived back in September 2007 by Appleinsider. The new device is said to be powered by the same touch OS X which currently powers the iPhone, though with a more advanced implementation of multi-touch. The current...

Walking around San Francisco today, you could tell that Macworld was coming. And in case you forgot or didn't know about the conference, Apple has placed ads on every street-corner to remind you. Curiously, the ads are promoting the iPod, however currently we do not expect Apple to be introducing updates to the iPod during this Macworld. Meanwhile, fellow members of the press are...