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Found from Mac Megasite:

ooVoo, an innovator in the way people communicate online, today announced the launch of a Mac version of its high quality video chat solution. The ooVoo Mac release is one of the most advanced and feature rich video communication programs available to Mac users and allows people to connect with both Mac and PC users anywhere in the world for free. The ooVoo software can be downloaded from http://www.ooVoo.com today.

ooVoo, a recent winner of the CNET Webware 100 Award, is changing the way friends, family and co-workers communicate online in a more meaningful way. Mac users will now be able to connect face-to-face with up to six people at once regardless of whether they are Mac or PC users. ooVoo Mac’s easy-to-use features include the ability to send and receive video messages, exchange files and text chat messages as well as import contacts from other programs.

Is it really that clear? I’d love to find out.

Plus, according to its website, it offers free calls to any landline or mobile phone in the U.S.

Update: Mac users cannot avail of the free phone call feature, which is anyway only available until middle of May. I wonder why they are singling out Mac users?

Found in the London Science Museum as one of the technology milestones of the 80s.

This is funny!

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Here’s another shot, courtesy of Paint it Black:

So did the Microsoft CEO use a Macbook Pro for his presentation? Sorry, Mac fans, but he didn’t. According to one commenter, it was a leftover Mac from a non-Microsoft speaker.

Still, the guy should’ve checked first!

Well, it was still good for laughs.

I found this video from Yuga. Nice parody, but lame in humor.

The thought that crossed my mind as I watched the video was this: Is that Lenovo’s best selling point?

Right now I am traveling out of the country, lugging around my Macbook Pro. Inside is my USB cable to connect my digicam, a portable disk, my iPod and its USB cable. If I had a Macbook Air, I would still be carrying this stuff. And, guess what, if I had a Lenovo, I would still be carrying this stuff.

Probably the big difference between a Lenovo and the Macbook Air highlighted in the parody is the optical drive, which I rarely use except to rip DVDs.

And Gizmodo has the pictures plus a video.

And blogger Winn seems to confirm the statement that the clone comes pre-installed with Leopard and that you can’t reinstall it.

So you are on your own if your Mac clone crashes.

And since Software Upgrade doesn’t work, you will lose out on the patches and new features—unless of course, Psystar provides a hacked version of those updates as well.

I have ripped several region 1 DVDs and the time has come to rip a couple of local region 3 DVDs. And whatever I do, I can’t seem to bypass the region code checking.

Mac the Ripper pops the following messages:

VLC gives me the following error message:

Handbrake can’t open the file.

I’ve also been giving Fairmount a try, which claims that it will replace the original DVD on the desktop by a decrypted disc image of this DVD. It still doesn’t work.

There is also a program somewhere called Region X, but according to the Macworld forums, it is no longer supported and has some problems with Leopard.

Looks like if I truly want to rip Region 3 DVDs, I have to purchase a new DVD drive.

I am booked for a 5-day stay in London and now in the midst of preparing for a long 18-hour plane ride. I have several podcasts loaded, an audible book ready, and am now in the process of ripping a few DVDs to watch on the place and in the hotel. The question is: which DVDs should I rip?

As I write this, Mac The Ripper is ripping “The Shawshank Redepmtion” onto my external drive. I am also thinking of ripping “Apocalypse Now Redux,” a DVD that I bought a long time ago in Singapore but never got to watch (I did see the original though). Maybe I’ll also rip the entire “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

That’s the beauty of Mac The Ripper. Aside from backing up the DVDs, I can watch several movies while on a trip without adding to my luggage load.

Popular Mechanics puts both Vista and OSX to the test. The results?

Leopard OS trounced Vista in all-important tasks such as boot-up, shutdown and program-launch times. We even tested Vista on the Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did.

And in the end, I still smell a scam brewing . . .

Read the Forbes interview of Psystar President Rudy Pedaza. 

But where are the clones?  What I’d like to see is people actually receiving the machine and providing feedback about it.  One blogger has placed an order and already started chronicling the experience. 

The Wall Street Journal reports that Paypal will not block Safari:

We just spoke to PayPal. It seems we in the media are reading too much into this. It will block people using old browsers and old operating systems, but contrary to many reports it will not block Apple’s Safari browser.

The second statement is telling.  Any news item that bashes the notion that Macs are inherently more secure tends to be over-hyped by the media.