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Microsoft’s Super Suite Deal(PDF) is almost over. This deal let’s you get a substantial discount on the new version of office when you buy the old version today, like…just the cost of shipping and handling.

If you are a Student or Teacher - You can pickup the 2004 version of Mac Office on Amazon for a mere $149,

“Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Student and Teacher” (Microsoft)

THIS OFFER ENDS JANUARY 14TH!

Julius Eckert has released a quicksilver interface(plug-in) which leverages the CoreAnimation libraries in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Using this interface with quicksilver you will immediately notice the eye-candy which may be a turn off for some users, but ultimately proves to be a decent Quicksilver interface. Check out the video above to get a feel for it.

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PhotoBook
PhotoBook is a Facebook photo browser for Mac. It makes it easy and fun to manage, share, and view your friends’ Facebook photos in one intuitive interface. This app has a very iPhoto feel to it, and makes browsing photos from Facebook a joy, you can also easily add selected photos to your iPhoto library! It runs super fast in Leopard and has some pretty slick GUI tricks. Did I mention it was completely free?

Check out PhotoBook and more at our Socially Networked Mac Page !

Multimedia designer, Phil Lu, has created some mockups of an iPhone application that he calls “QuickOrder”. The series of images show how such a system might work.

This kind of virtual store tied to a brick and mortar would could be easily applied to any cafe/coffee shop once the SDK is released. The billing could even be charged directly to your iTunes account!

You can see the full screen mockups at Gizmodo.

Guardian.co.uk is reporting the results from a survey of former top Apple Employees and industry speculators who all put in their two cents on Rumors and predictions for Macworld 2008. The group even included Will Shipley founder of delicious monster software, creator of Delicious Library.

The general consensus amongst the members of the panel seems to indicate the following annoucements would be made at MacWorld 2008.

• Mac Leopard 10.5.2
• iTunes movie rentals
• Revamped AppleTV
• Ultra Protable Laptop
• 16Gb iPhone possible price drop on 8Gb
• Tablet/Newton-esque device

To get the whole scoop check out the Full Article.

Many have complained about the lack of VoiceDialing feature at the phone level. It is quite evident that this feature is lacking in the iPhone featureset, however, it can be used to access to AT&T’s VoiceDial feature called VoiceConnect. You can do this directly on the iPhone by going to “Settings” => “Phone” => “AT&T Services” => “Voice Connect.” In order to use this service you will need to have a remotely hosted phonebook which can be setup at AT&T’s website. While this make take a little longer to setup, once it has been setup it is very seamless allowing you to easily speak the name of someone you wish to call, prompting the iPhone to dial accordingly.

This service is $5/month as it takes the burden of the voice recognition away from the phone and places it with AT&T’s servers.