Holiday 'Get a Mac' ad

In brief: Apple has released a new holiday TV ad with actors Justin Long and John Hodgman, depicting the Mac and PC guys wearing Santa hats as they put aside their differences in the spirit of the holidays.... Yet another spoof of Apple's 'Get a Mac' ad campaign has surfaced on YouTube, introducing the company's 'black' MacBook with a bigger hard drive that runs faster.... Apple's vice president of education and the director of the original Lisa project John Couch is scheduled to hold TechEd's opening keynote on March 26th.... Speck Products is holding a 40 percent off sale on select items such as the Nano Canvas Sport, Moto q Executive & Lady, 15-inch MacBook Canvas Sport, and more until December 21st.... The developers of TypeIt4Me -- an application that automatically fills in text edit fields with pre-defined shorcuts -- are offering any single user license for $20 or academic license for $10, alongside two free email coupons to register for a free entry at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco.... Advenio today issued a plea to users and other interested parties to vote with their dollars and save the long-standing crossword client MacXword, which has failed to run on Intel-based Macs since early 2006 due to a bug on behalf of Apple.

by MacNN Staff