June 9th, 2009
From WWDC:
40 million iPhones + iPod Touches have already been sold, 1 Billion apps downloaded in 9 months.
iPhone 3GS – S=Speed, some 2-3x faster, looks like it has the same form factor.
- Supports OpenGL|ES 2.0 and 7.2Mbps HSPDA
- 3 megapixel autofocus camera, tap to tell it where to focus, Macro mode to 10cm, better low light sensitivity
- Also captures video! 30fps, VGA with audio, auto-focus/white-balance/exposure
- Edit video and send it to YouTube, MobileMe, MMS or e-mail
- Voice control – “Play songs like this”, “Call Scott”
- Digital compass
- Accessibility – VoiceOver, color inversion, zooming
- Nike+ support
- Data encryption
- Instant remote wipe, encrypted iTunes backups
- Improved battery life, 9 hours of net, 10 hours of video, 30 hours of audio, 12 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk
- Eco-friendly construction, arsenic free glass, BFR free, mercury free LCD
- US$199 for 16Gb, US$299 for 32Gb, US$99 for 8Gb iPhone!
- Available June 19th in US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, UK
- Progressive roll out to another 6 countries a week later, no Australian dates yet
iPhone 3.0
- cut/copy/paste/undo
- MMS support (later this year for AT&T customers)
- Search, Spotlight
- iTunes U now on iPhone iTMS
- Rent and purchase movies from phone
- Finer grained parental controls
- Bluetooth tethering to share connection “Requires carrier support” (ie presumably they just need to allow it!)
- Safari Javascript 3x faster
- Support for HTTP streaming audio and video, automatically determine best quality (what codecs I wonder?)
- HTML5 support
- Software based keyboard in portrait and landscape
- Find my iPhone, for MobileMe users shows last known location of the phone, lets you play a sound and send a message, and remote wipe the phone if necessary (to be restored from backup if you find it later).
iPhone Demos
- Asphalt 5 – car racing game
- Airstrip
- Critical Care – Monitor patient vitals via Push
- ScrollMotion – create digital books for the App Store, download them from inside the app
- TomTom – turn by turn direction app, and car accessory kit via the Accessory framework
- Star Defense
- Plus Network
- Pasco – sensors for iPhone
- Zipcar – lets you find a zipcar and remotely honk the horn and unlock the car so you know which one is yours!
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Posted at: 3:22 am
June 9th, 2009
- New 15″ MacBook Pro has built in battery lasts up to 7 hours, 1000 charges, approx. 5 years. 60% better colour gamut, 3.06 Dual Core CPU, 8Gb RAM max, 500Gbx7200RPM drive, or 256Gb SSD. Starts at US$1699 through US$2229
- SD card slots added to models except 17″
- 13″ Macbook is now a MacBook Pro
- MacBook Air updated to up to 2.13GHz CPU
Snow Leopard 10.6:
- Mail, iCal and Address book now support Exchange, with auto-discovery of Exchange Servers
- QuickLook can preview Microsoft Office documents in Mail without MS Office being installed
- Preview 2x faster, better PDF text selection
- Exposé integration with Dock (“Dock Exposé”) for displaying an App’s windows
- Chinese character input on trackpad
- Mail up to 2.3x faster
- Final version of Safari 4 released for Leopard, Tiger and Windows
- Safari now sandboxes plugins to prevent them crashing the browser (IMHO this means you, Google
- Stacks now have scrolling
- Page through, magnify PDF thumbnails and movies
- QuickTime X focuses on the content, overlays controls, lets you select from a visual timeline more easily and share it on YouTube, MobileMe or iTunes.
- All Snow Leopard applications are 64-bit
- Grand Central Dispatch supports multicore across all of Snow Leopard
- Open CL (Computing Language) has been open sourced and allows for hardware abstraction of the video hardware for use in processing or display
- Upgrade cost US$29 or US$49 for upgrading the Leopard family pack
There were some 16593 viewers watching the ustream live stream.
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Posted at: 3:08 am
June 8th, 2009
MacRumors are providing MacRumorsLive, @macrumors on twitter, and a spoiler free keynote stream to notify you when the keynote video coverage is up (ie not live).
John C. Welch will be twittering the keynote for MacJournals magazines (MWJ, MDJ).
For Aussies, MacTalk are offering
- IRC – irc.foonetic.net #mactalk
- Live audio commentary – iPhone and iPod Touch users install the fstream app and go to http://mactalk.serverroom.us:7920/listen.pls
- Live text updates
Coverage starts at 2:30am Melbourne time (UTC/GMT+10) for all those up late with Swine Flu.
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May 26th, 2009
Has anyone else noticed that the Palm Pre is being released on June 6th (US$199.99 after rebate on Sprint)? Which should give them a whole 2 days of sales before Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) starts on June 8th and quite possibly a new iPhone revision is announced.
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Posted at: 10:11 pm
April 4th, 2008
Check out katidev for some good Mac development posts, and a link to the YouTube video of NSView country and western love song from WWDC.
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April 4th, 2008
If you want to apply for an Apple University Consortium WWDC scholarship, today is the last day.
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October 31st, 2007
The very cool Eye-Fi wireless memory card is now available (at least to those in the US). With 2Gb of RAM for photos, and a WiFi card built in you can upload photos directly to your Mac or PC (I believe it was demoed at WWDC uploading into iPhoto directly). Or you can upload to the Eye-Fi service and into your favourite photo site (Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, Facebook, etc.)
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October 1st, 2007
Now available is a 3D Beers of the World Screensaver.Somewhere I must dig out those photos from WWDC in 2000(?) of a G4 Guinness beer tap with the Hypercard stack that allowed you to opt for a fast or a slow pour.
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June 12th, 2007
via the MacRumors feed:Electronic Arts (EA) are returning to the Mac, coming in July are:Command and Conquer 3Battlefield 2142Need For Speed CarbonHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (an immersive 3D Hogwarts environment Madden 08 and Tiger Woods 08 are also coming.id games have a game with 20GB of textures (I’m guessing it ships on Blu-Ray 22 million active OS X users, 67% using Tiger 10.4 (23% Panther, 10% older than that)Now moving beyond Leopard (which ships in October 21 Months between Tiger and Leopard. 300 new features, of which 10 are:Narrower Dock with new transparent lookStacks! (as have been thought about since System 7 days?)Prominent active window (ooh, are we going back to a document based metaphor, ala Lisa OS or OpenDoc? No more brushed metal!Leopard will have a consistent look…Dock icons reflect on windows behind them Sidebar lets you search other macs and Server with spotlight, browse shared computers”Back to my Mac” share even when not on same LAN, via .Mac knowing your machines’ IP numbers.#2 Cover flow for
- the Finder (including browsing remote machines)
- PDFs (Woohoo!)
- Keynote
- Videos (whilst playing?
- Excel spreadsheets!
.Mac “Start” tab (borrowed from Windows?) lets you find your other Macs. Click the “Shared” button to search on other Macs.#3 Quick LookPDF viewing without a viewer.Full screen movie preview#4 64 bit#5 Core Animation#6 Boot Camp built-in#7 SpacesAudio is local to the currently viewed space#8 DashboardMovie Times widget for finding times, viewing previews and buying tickets via Fandango.Web clippings as seen at WWDC 2006.Borders and shading can be customisedWidgets are live, you can switch between tabs#9 iChatAs seen at WWDC 2006Photobooth featuresAAC-Low Delay codecTabbed chatsPhoto booth effectsiChat theatrebackdropsPhil!Share iPhoto slideshow in iChatShare video in iChat by dragging it inFlip through Excel spreadsheet!#10 Time MachineBack up automatically, even multiple computers to networked drives (ie attached to an Airport base station)Safari 3 for Windows!iPhone goes live June 29th at 6pm. Develop for it with Web 2.0 + AJAX.iPhone apps are running within SafariSteve demos corporate addressbook with LDAPLink to Google MapsThe End
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Posted at: 3:31 am
June 12th, 2007
Steve Jobs has announced during the WWDC 2007 keynote that Safari 3 will run on Leopard, and Windows XP/Vista. Faster than IE or Firefox (with iBench HTML test).Includes Google and Yahoo! search. Draggable tabs (including off into their own windows).500,000 downloads of Firefox a day. 1,000,000 downloads of iTunes a day. Over 500 million downloads of iTunes to Windows machines.Beta available from http://www.apple.com/safari
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