The world’s thinnest notebook is now shipping, Apple announced today. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point. And at its maximum height of 0.76-inches, it’s less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks. Apple also announced that the free Apple TV software update enabling movie rentals is not quite finished and will now be available in another week or two.

Data detectors—a new feature in Leopard Mail—lets you quickly create a new contact in your Address Book, map an address, or create an iCal event. How does it work and how can you take advantage of the data detectors in Mail? Watch the latest Quick Tip of the Week to find out.

iPhone Sales Numbers Not Adding Up (news/iphone-hardware/iphone-sales-numbers-not-adding-up-20080128435) January 28, 2008 Last week, both Apple and AT&T reported their earnings. Apple has reported 3.7 million in iPhone sales worldwide, while AT T had a paltry 2 million iPhone activations leading many to wonder as to why the gap between the two.

A physicist by trade, Robert J. Lang also has a quite unique claim to fame as one of the world’s foremost origami artists. In fact, he has a Pteranodon with a 14-foot wing span at permanent display at the Redpath Museum of Natural History and a long list of commissions and commercial projects waiting in the wings. And he uses his MacBook Pro, two software programs he authored, and Wolfram’s Mathematica to help him conceptualize and map out each new creation.

Apple Working On Cut and Paste? (news/software/apple-working-on-cut-and-paste-20080124434) January 24, 2008 Despite MacWorld bringing a host of new features in iPhone software update 1.1.3, cut and paste continues to be among the most demanded improvements among our iPhone owners in our forums. According to SvenOnTech (http://svenontech.com/2008/01/24/the-skinny-on-why-the-iphone-update-lacked-cut-n-paste-and-exchange-support/), Apple is working on a solution.

Apple today made its 2008 proxy statements available online at www.apple.com/investor. The move, complying with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Notice and Access rule, allows Apple to significantly reduce the environmental impact of producing and delivering printed materials.

“It’s easy to ride, it’s exciting, and it’s dynamic.” That’s Frank Aguilar, waxing enthusiastic about Snowcycle, the snow-shredding board bike his company designed on a Mac. In fact, the Mac performs a pivotal role at the company. Slopecycle depends on virtually every phase of its business, including accounting, marketing, scheduling graphic design, and both audio and video production using Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro. “Most of us have never had any formal video training, but Final Cut Pro is so straightforward and powerful that we didn’t really need it,” says Aguilar.

With “Valentine’s Day around the corner” Marc Saltzman (usatoday.com) tells us that “it pulled on my heart strings enough to report that Apple has added a pink iPod nano to its line-up, just in time for you to buy it for your sweetie.” The new 8GB iPod nano “costs $199 and includes free engraving on the back and free shipping when purchased at Apple.com’s web store.”