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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.”

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.

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.

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.”