Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Apple’s refined upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will be available this Friday, August 28th. Pre-orders can now be made through the online store with a price of $29 to upgrade from Leopard.

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Mike Giepert started a wonderful series featuring Mac Dock Icon Spelling.

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Here are the major announcements Apple made at this morning’s WWDC 2009 keynote:

- Snow Leopard, the refined version of the Mac OS Leopard, is scheduled to be released in September for $29 ($49 for a family license). Here what’s new in Snow Leopard.

- iPhone 3G S, the 3rd generation iPhone, is faster than ever and includes support for shooting video. It will be available June 19th for $199 (16GB) or $299 (32GB). They also dropped the price of the original iPhone 3G to $99.

- iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update, which introduces many new features and includes the long awaited cut-and-paste, will be released on June 17th.

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Plants vs. Zombies is a super fun Tower Defense style game made by PopCap.

A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they can reach your front door.

Each zombie has its own special skills, so you’ll need to think fast and plant faster to combat them all. But be careful how you use your limited supply of greens and seeds… as you battle the fun-dead, obstacles like a setting sun, creeping fog and a swimming pool add to the challenge. And with five game modes to dig into, the fun never dies!

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ExpanDrive 2.0 for the Mac has just been released. One of the best FTP/SFTP programs just got better. It’s super easy to setup, remote servers are mounted as a local drives and it’s excellent at keeping an active connection. There is also an ExpanDrive for Windows.

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Loren Brichter has just released Tweetie For Mac, the highly anticipated desktop version of the popular Twitter iPhone app Tweetie.

I’ve been using it since the pre-release alpha and it simply rocks!

More Coverage: TechCrunch, Macworld MacUser & Louis Gray.

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Last month at Macworld 2009 I stopped by the FastMac booth and while there Abbi Vakil showed me some of their wonderful Obama themed t-shirts. I’m particularity fond of their “OS X Software We Can Believe In” t-shirt.

illustration by FastMac

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“Mac vs PC” by Dan Chianelli and Nick Greenlee

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I met up with Violet Blue today to geek out and tour the Macworld Expo. It was a very mellow scene, with a much smaller crowd than previous years. We caught up with friends, visited some of our favorite Mac companies and saw Woz giving a demo, but overall it was fairly uneventful. Here are a few photos I shot while there.

Steve Jobs made a “small” appearance at Macworld after all in the form of G.I. Jobs.

If there were any questions that Macworld would go on without Apple, they were answered by the big sign at the top of the escalator that read “Macworld 2010, The start of a new era.”

Photo Gallery: Macworld 2009

For more photos, check out the Macworld Expo 2009 Flickr group.

photos by Scott Beale

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“MacHEADS The Movie”, a feature length documentary about loyal Apple fanatics and their obsession, premiers tomorrow night, Wednesday, January 7th at Macworld 2009, screening at 6:15pm in room 134 of the North Hall of Moscone Center. The film was make by brothers Kobi Shely and Ron Shely of Chimp 65 Productions out of Tel Aviv.

MacHEADS is an in-depth examination of just what makes the Mac, the iPhone, and Apple’s other products a cultural phenomenon, rather than just run-of-the-mill consumer electronics. The film explores the loyalty of Apple followers and their obsession. MacHEADS captures events from Steve Jobs’s historic Keynote addresses, the iPhone’s first release in NYC, and other historic moments. This unique film also combines visual evidence from archives of early Macworld Expos.

While roaming the Macworld Expo Hall today, Violet Blue and I ran into MacHEADS filmmakers Ron and Kobi, who traveled from Israel for the premier. Violet is featured in the documentary, in soon to be infamous scene where she candidly admits that “she’s never, ever slept with a Windows user”.

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I’ve been using 1Password by Agile Web Solutions for a while now and it is by far the best Mac program I have used to manage website passwords. It integrates with all major browsers using a great autofill feature, eliminating the need for cut-and-paste.

I also use it to securely sync passwords between Macs using Dropbox as well as manage website passwords on my iPhone using their new iPhone App. It also includes features for credit card management, anti-phishing and password generation.

See Previously: 1Password iPhone App, Making Password Synching Easy

UPDATE: It turns out that 1Password is having a 50% off Halloween sale today.

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1Password by Agile Web Solutions is one of my all-time favorite Mac apps. It makes it super easy to manage website passwords between browsers as well as syncing between multiple Macs. Today 1Password became even better with the release of their amazing new iPhone app. Here’s more information on how it works.

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