Newton’s Lore

For the iPhone a free upgrade gives:

• Maps with location (based on nearby WiFi base stations)
• Webclips (Up to 9 web bookmarks on your phone’s home screen)
• Customised home screens
• SMS multiple people
• Chapter and language options in iPod mode, plus Lyrics

For the iPod Touch, a $20 upgrade gives: Mail, Stocks, Notes, Weather and Maps 

I discovered that Google’s Mac download page offers:

• Google Notifier (for checking your GMail account)
• Google Desktop (for searching your hard drive)
• Google SketchUp (free 3D modeler)
• Picasa Web Albums Uploader (for uploading photos to Picasa)
• Google Earth (for your World Domination Toolkit)
• Google Toolbar (extra fruit for your browser)

• Penny Arcade had an amusing cartoon about the iPhone (note the title
• Steve Jobs appears on Saturday Night Live to reveal more about the iPhone (video now pulled by GooTube)
• PvP welcomes the Jesus Phone
• Daring Fireball points out that the iPhone runs OS X (not Mac OS X), and it will probably use an ARM processor, as seen in Apple’s Newton. Perhaps someone could port NewtOS to the iPhone and mod it for the colour multitouch display, phone and wireless. Still not sure if anything will be able to get at the GPS info the phone is meant to contain to support e911

Personally I think it’s interesting that Apple Developer Connection is plugging its Dashcode beta now. Perhaps Dashcode widgets will run on the iPhone?

It looks like at least one place you can go to for live MacWord 2007 keynote coverage is http://www.macrumorslive.com/.

Now only some 2 hours away (that’s 2am for me

Rumoured announcements include

• iLife 07, complete with spreadsheet
• Mac Pros with quad core Intel Xeon processors (conveniently announced by Intel earlier this week
• More details about Leopard (rumours currently include more geotagging support for integrating positional information into the OS, like AddressBook, etc. This would be very cool. Then perhaps Macs with inbuilt GPS support?)
• A release of Leopard (just to annoy Bill)
• iPhones
• More on the iTV
• Displays (32″? Projectors? e-ink?)

• The beta version of NeoOffice for the Mac, now with Aqua look and feel
• The Mac Mini take-apart guide. The PDF includes instructions on how to sharpen a spatula if you don’t have one of Apple’s provided shanks to take your Mac mini apart. Or you want to assassinate an industrial designer or something.
• Updated Keyspan USB drivers. Because I still need a Keyspan to talk to my GPS
• Opal because I’m still in search of good text tools
• Snakebite to see if I can make a Mac build from the debian package
• MT-Newswatcher 3.5.2 because I need to plug this blog in the .sig of my news posts to various Mac forums

Got a GPS and a digital camera? You can use GPSPhotoLinker to write the location information from the GPS into the EXIF data of the photo.

You can then drop the location-enabled photos onto MapThePhoto and it will open the location in your web browser using topozone, TerraServer, Google maps or something else.

You can also use the iViewMediaPro template to create a slideshow that also displays a map of where the photo was taken.