Briefly: Apple Switch site, SPSS 10 on OSX, podcasts

In brief: Apple's newly redesigned switch campaign website describes how easy Macs really are, "Simply take a Mac out of its box, plug it in and start surfing, working or rocking. Too good to be true? No, the Mac is exactly that good".... DVDpedia, Bookpedia and CDpedia now have iSight support for scanning UPC's.... Animation Bureau released Animated Desktop Backgrounds.... MaxYourMacs announced the availability of Essentials Learning Series, a set of Mac OS X instructional disks.... XpertMart Retail Point of Sale software will be shown at the Apple Store SoHO in New York City on Thursday, Aug-11 at 7:00 p.m..... Weborial MacStats has posted instructions on running SPSS 10 under OS X, and unveiled the Mac version of Gauss, a crucial econometrics/statistics package with UNIX and Windows versions.... On his last day in orbit, Mission Specialist Steve Robinson sent a podcast from space before the seven-member Discovery crew returns to Earth Monday.

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