New funny Apple Promos
 

I like the Zoom one. That's cool.

But why on the little iMac does it say the movie is a PDF file?

Cool stuff!

-rob.

I didn't notice the pdf thing. Nice eyes, tsugaru. I have a screenshot if anyone wants to see it... I noticed the pdf is in a Quicktime window. Even weirder...

And the dude in the address book entry is Jackie Chan...

Coincedence? I think not...

They're gone! :( It redirects you one directory up if you go there.

I'm really confused. The "Zoom" one? PDF on iMac? Huh??

I'm seeing a page with the first paragraph as
The page is full of animations on OS X, but it's nothing particularly interesting. "Store favorites in the Dock. Store the Dock in your favorite place." And so on.

Did I just check it out too late?

yep. you missed the bus.

there was a QT movie in Zoom that zoomed into a QT of itself on an iMac, a la mirror-mirror infinite reflections, but the QT movie title was something.pdf - clearly, they patched together some pdf files to make the thing.

Nah, you didn't miss the bus. You just missed the Apple bus. Luckily, the Google bus runs the same routes as a backup in case the Apple bus has any problems. It's called the Cache Bus, and it's designed just for people who missed the regular bus.

Put another way, Google's Cached option gives you the chance to see things which have become part of history. Unfortunately, a Google cache search URL is a complex beast, and vBulletin (the forum software) isn't parsing them properly, so you'll be on your own for the actual movies, but here's the method I used to grab all five of them (Junk Mail, Express Yourself, On the Loose, Find Yoruself, and Zoom).

Go to google and search on apple.com xmovies (just like that), and you'll find a few pointers to some of the movies. Click on the "Cached" link for one of the www.apple.com pages, then make sure that the QT Player is set to save the movies to cache. Hit the play button, let the movie run, then transfer it from your cache and rename it.

You should be able to get all five, although "On the loose" gave me the most trouble. My guess is that these were intended for a Macworld release, and they were inadvertently made available too early.

And, if anyone has been around the Mac for quite a while, the Zoom movie should look quite familiar. Remember one of the original Mac IIfx (or perhaps the Quadra700) movies? The camera is driving down a twisty backroad, then proceeds to fly off a curve, pulls back, and turns into a QT movie playing on a user's screen in a QT movie etc etc, just like the new Zoom conclusion! A nice touch...

-rob.

Or you could just get a frickin' car, Rob. ;D


-/-

Hey, it wasn't me that missed the bus! ;-)

-rob.

Ah yes the Quadra 700. One of the ugliest and worst designed Macs ever (I accidentally fudged one of the floppy drives in those things; I put the disc in backwards)

VPC 6 is nothing to write home about. It's still slow in OS X. Haven't tried it in 9 yet.

Should have thought of the cache, but this is what I get when I click the 'cached' link in Google:
*sigh*

This is one of the reasons I drive myself to work. I'd always be missing the bus...

Edit: Changed "Should thought of" to "Should have thought of". Darn non-psychic computers...

I just did this again myself, and it worked fine. What browser? I used IE and Mozilla; Mozilla sometimes wouldn't play the movies, but IE did every time...

-rob.

Mozilla. And it wasn't that the movies weren't playing, it was that Google acted like the cached page didn't exist.

Hmm, just worked again in Mozilla. I went to Google, searched on "apple.com xmovies", then clicked the cache link next to the item titled "Apple - Mac OS X - Theater - Express Yourself." I managed to get the URLs working; try these:

Express Yourself

Junk Mail

Zoom!

Find yourself

I can't seem to find "On the loose" now, sorry!

-rob.

Google didn't cache "On the Loose" for some reason. That was the best one after "Zoom." :(

VPC in 9 is bearable. Actually somewhat responsive. Some window redrawing problems. And the Quicktime Zoom movie played with few dropped frames in VPC (Win98SE with all updates [3 restarts to finally update it]). It was like using my old iMac A again.

Nope, those didn't work either. I'm thinking that your browser cached those pages locally, but that's just a guess.

Durn ... sorry about that. Just cleared the cache and you're correct.

Ah well; I suspect every one of them will be making a return on January 7th ;-).

-rob.