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Gary Rosenzweig looks at basic speech recognition built into Leopard. You can speak simple commands to your Mac ad have it perform functions.

Gary Rosenzweig and Eve Park take a look at two programs for the Mac that allow you to draw. The first is Eazy Draw, a vector drawing program. The second is Doozla, a drawing program for kids.

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at the Leopard finder and discovers some handy functionality and shortcuts.

Eve Park takes a look at Piano Wizard, a program that teaches you how to play songs on the piano using a MIDI keyboard and game-like interface.

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at some games being shown at MacWorld Expo. He looks at Freeverse's Neon Tango and Hordes of Orcs. He also takes a look at the iNo, a game that uses your iPod.

Gary Rosenzweig looks at how to make png icons for your Web site that work with the new iPhone homepage Web clippings bookmarks.

Gary Rosenzweig at MacWorld Expo takes a look at Eye-Fi, a SD card for digital cameras that adds Wi-Fi capability to the camera.

Gary Rosenzweig interviews Matthew Covington from SmithMicro at MacWorld Expo about the compression program StuffIt.

Eve Park takes a look at the Modbook from Axiotron, a tablet Mac made from a MacBook with a pressure-sensitive tablet screen.

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Gary Rosenzweig reports from MacWorld Expo about Spore, the long-anticipated game from Will Wright and Electronic Arts. Spore will be released for both Mac and PC. Part of the Mac version was demoed at the Expo.

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Gary, Eve, Jay and Will talk about being at MacWorld, the Steve Jobs keynote announcements, and what they saw at the show that they liked.

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Gary Rosenzweig gives a brief overview of MacWorld Expo for casual Mac users.

Gary Rosenzweig gets his hands on the new MacBook Air ultra-thin lightweight notebook computer at the MacWorld Expo.

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Gary Rosenzweig reports from MacWorld. Steve Jobs announces the Time Capsule Back-up Appliance, iPhone and iPod Touch updates, Apple TV Take 2, Movie Rentals, and The MacBook Air, The thinnest laptop in the world.

8:25: We’ll be updating this post live while the keynote progresses. We’ll stick to the important information, like new products and services, as well as details like prices and launch dates.

9:20: Announce Time Capsule, an Airport Extreme base station with a hard drive that works with Time Machine. $300 for 500GB version, $500 for 1TB.

9:30: iPhone software update including maps that know your location, customizable home screen, the ability to add Web pages to the home screen, and the ability to SMS multiple people at the same time. Karaoke mode!

9:35: iPod Touch update adds many iPhone applications to the iPod touch. Mail, Stocks, Notes, Weather and Maps. Cost $20 for existing iPod Touch owners.

9:38: iTunes movie rentals from every major studio. Movies available 30 days after DVD release. You have 30 days to start watching, and then 24 hours to finish. $2.99 for older movies, $3.99 for new releases.

9:45: Apple TV 2. No computer needed to get podcasts, movie rentals, HD quality, photos from Flickr. HD rentals will cost $5 and 100 titles are available today. New price on Apple TV: $229. Software update for free for current owners in 2 weeks.

11:10: MacBook Air. World’s thinnest laptop. .76 inches thick, 13.3 widescreen LED-backlight. Multi-touch trackpad. 80GB standard drive, 64GB flash drive option. 1.6ghz-1.8ghz Core 2 Duo processor. 2GB memory standard. External optical drive for $99. 5 hours of battery life. $1799.

Just a crazy theory that I thought I’d post on. There has always been speculation about Apple buying Adobe. With the new banners above the Moscone Center reading “There’s Something in the Air,” and AIR being the desktop development environment that Adobe is currently pushing, could this be the surprise announcement at MacWorld?

Gary Rosenzweig takes a look at past MacWorld Expo keynotes and what important products were announced each year, including the iMac, iPod, the switch to Intel and the iPhone.