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If you’re in San Francisco next Wednesday evening — June 25, 7:00–8:00 pm — join us at the Apple Retail Store, San Francisco, and meet actors Masi Oka (star of the hot TV series Heroes) and Nate Torrence. The two play CONTROL agents Bruce and Lloyd in Get Smart (which opens tomorrow). At the event, they’ll screen movie clips, discuss their roles, and answer audience questions.

“When Mac OS X was released with VoiceOver, it was a lifesaver,” says Elliot Aronson. Though he’s lost 90% of his vision to macular degeneration, the social psychologist used VoiceOver, which he calls “the single most important technical invention for me,” to write his latest book on his Mac mini. “The Mac with VoiceOver is indispensable. Without them, I wouldn’t be able to write or edit my work.”

If you’re a business customer anxious to get off to a great start with your new Mac, you’ll want to sign up for a free, online seminar. It’s called “New to the Mac for Business Users.” Watch it, and you’ll find out how you can run Windows applications on a Mac, download your email from a corporate Exchange server, give presentations to clients using iChat theater, exchange files over a network, and much more.

Classical mechanics, fluid dynamics, kinetic energy — if you thought you were just playing a good game of baseball, wait till you watch “The Physics of Baseball.”Oone of the highly enjoyable programs brought to us as part of KQED’s QUEST: Science and Nature series on iTunes U, “The Physics of Baseball” explains the role physics plays in throwing a curve ball and hitting a solid shot to left field.

When Maximum PC pit the MacBook Pro against the Dell XPS M1530, Apple’s pro notebook walked away the clear winner. Awarding MacBook Pro an impressive score of 9 (out of 10), editors praised its thinness (calling it “impressive next to other notebooks in its class”), its fast GeForce 8600M GT graphic processor, its “top-notch” Intel processor, and its battery life. It also found Mac OS X “really, really slick.”

Music fans have now purchased and downloaded more than five billion songs from the iTunes Store. The number one music retailer in the U.S., iTunes features the largest music catalog with over eight million songs. And iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies every day, making it the world’s most popular online movie store, as well.

On Thursday, June 19, the Apple Retail Store, Sydney — the first Apple store in Australia — opens its doors for the first time. With two floors dedicated to the Mac and iPod and a third to training and the world’s largest Genius Bar, “this breathtaking new store will be the ultimate place for the people of Sydney to shop, learn and be inspired,” says Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail.

Then you’ll want to download the free Making of Bruce & Lloyd Out of Control. The short, now available on iTunes, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the hilarious new film that parallels the Get Smart movie. It features Bruce (Masi Oka of Heroes) and Lloyd (Nate Torrence of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) as they conjure up inventions for use by unsuspecting CONTROL agents.

American Photo has named Aperture 2.1 its Editor’s Choice 2008 award winner in the Imaging Software category. “Faster overall,” report editors Jonathan Barkey and Russell Hart, ”Aperture 2.1’s revamped RAW engine significantly reduces noise, improves detail, and fine-tunes color.” “Yet its biggest advance may be the ability to host third-party plug-ins” for selective adjustments, simulated filters, fisheye straightening, and numerous other imaging tasks.

It only takes a few minutes to create a new event in iCal — and just one or two more to share that event with friends or colleagues. In fact, iCal does most of the work for you, as you’ll discover by reading the latest Pro Tip of the Week.