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• 9:51 AM: John Biggs
• 9:51 AM: John Biggs
• 9:57 AM: John Biggs Out in the line. The Apple guy who just walked by was counting folks and passed us at 476 or so.
• 10:06 AM: John Biggs So we’ve got live video of the line. If you have anything you want to know specifically, other than the obvious WHERE IS MY IFONE! Tweet @johnbiggs and I’ll try to respond.
• 10:17 AM: John Biggs
• 10:18 AM: John Biggs
• 10:18 AM: John Biggs Waiting for press registration
• 10:20 AM: John Biggs @johnbiggs What device are you recording the live feed on? Answer: Ustream on an iPhone
• 10:34 AM: John Biggs Hopefully you’re watching greg ask people what they think of the pre
• 10:34 AM: MDM Looking forward to CrunchGear’s coverage. Can’t wait for iPhone 3.0 update.
• 10:34 AM: Giovanni It is possible to see the conference in streaming on my Iphone?
• 10:34 AM: Dan Should I have audio?
• 10:34 AM: Daddy-O The Ustream app on the iPhone is only a viewer. How do you get the app that sends video to Ustream?
• 10:35 AM: John Biggs Re video question. We can’t stream video. Verboten
• 10:36 AM: John Biggs Dasorryddyo it’s an unlocked iPhone.
• 10:52 AM: John Biggs Sorry. Testing email. Still sitting on the floor waiting.
• 10:52 AM: John Biggs How is the stream?
• 10:53 AM: DannyD Ustream is great, but it is just so choppy. I´m from Germany and the stream is interrupted about every other second… is it my Connection or the iPhone`s that is “crap”
• 10:53 AM: Kirill Just wanted to say thanks for doing this guys.
• 10:53 AM: Ross Will you be streaming live inside?
• 11:00 AM: John Biggs No, Ross
• 11:20 AM: John Biggs hopefully the stream is better
• 11:21 AM: Rick Woot! girls in bikinis rock
• 11:21 AM: Juan Snyman The keynote begins in about 2 hours and 40 minutes, right? Why are you guys there so early. :o
• 11:22 AM: John Biggs No idea re live stream and we are this early for you guys
• 11:36 AM: John Biggs
• 11:36 AM: John Biggs
• 11:36 AM: John Biggs There is the new QuickTime Logo.
• 11:37 AM: John Biggs
• 11:38 AM: John Biggs
• 11:38 AM: John Biggs the old logo
• 11:38 AM: John Biggs
• 11:38 AM: John Biggs new one
• 11:40 AM: mapplemike Can’t wait to see what they say at WWDC. Apple employees are the biggest junkies of them all.
• 11:40 AM: bgertzfield According to the weirdo walking the WWDC line, I am male number 776. The nice lady behind me is female number 43!
• 11:40 AM: John Biggs Hey guys – we’re outside the keynote room right now w/ folks from Phonescoop, Laptop, Engadget; everyone’s here. Sorry the live feed went down, not a whole lot we can do about that.
• 11:41 AM: John Biggs Vincent Nguyen just took a horrible picture of me, as I thought it was video. Thanks, Vincent.
• 11:42 AM: Monik (etiole.com) why has the video gone off air?
• 11:42 AM: John Biggs Limited WiFi, No 3G. Simply not enough bandwidth. Plus – they’ll eat our face if we stream inside.
• 11:48 AM: John Biggs We’ve got power! Power is rare here. It’s like soil in waterworld.
• 11:49 AM: John Biggs We’re about 90% sure there’s no power inside. There *does* seem to be WiFi – which is incredible. Great chance that the WiFi will die as soon as we get inside, be it by apple’s doing or the weight of a million geeks all trying their damnedest to liveblog
• 11:51 AM: John Biggs
• 11:51 AM: John Biggs I wish John Biggs would hold my laptop for me while I typed:-(
• 11:52 AM: John Biggs Apple store is down. Everybody panic!
• 11:54 AM: John Biggs We’re still in line. The mood is generally light, everyone’s drinkin’ the Odwallas and eatin’ the scones Apple provided. If you need something to do, go prep your bingo cards: www.crunchgear.com
• 11:56 AM: Greg Kumparak The past 10 liveblog snippets have all been a lie. I didnt realize I was logged in as Biggs.
• 11:59 AM: Greg Kumparak Surprisingly, the room doesn’t smell too bad yet. It is a big room, though.
• 12:00 PM: Greg Kumparak
• 12:00 PM: Greg Kumparak There are probably around 150 media folk waiting outside the keynote room. There’s no obvious line. There never is, really. It’s just a big pile of madness.
• 12:01 PM: Greg Kumparak If you missed it in the earlier live broadcast, the first line dwellers had been here since 3 am.
• 12:02 PM: @michaelowens The first person in line got there at 5:30p the night before, actually.
• 12:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Yeesh. Missed’em. Way to go, 5:30pm trooper. Hope you enjoy the show.
• 12:04 PM: @iAppTime So will you be recording the keynote live on the Ustream?
• 12:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Unfortunately not; Apple nixed that from the start, and reiterated that it was disallowed when we were getting our badges.
• 12:13 PM: Greg Kumparak Looks like broadcast guys get to go in first, then the rest of media, then general WWDC goers.
• 12:13 PM: Dip Greg are people out there betting on Steve Jobs making an appearance?
• 12:14 PM: Greg Kumparak Lots of debates about that, as is to be expected.
• 12:15 PM: Greg Kumparak It seems like at least 50% of the people here are sick. Awesome.
• 12:16 PM: Jim No video but live blog will continue right?
• 12:17 PM: Greg Kumparak Absolutely – as long as we can keep a connection up, we’ll keep updating the feed.
• 12:17 PM: Greg Kumparak Besides the new looking Quicktime logo, we’re not noticing anything too surprising on the banners.
• 12:18 PM: Greg Kumparak Mentions of 64 bit stuff alongside snow leopard, an OpenOCL logo
• 12:20 PM: Dip Wonder how many people out there in Moscone are carrying the “pre”? Do you see any among those who are near you?
• 12:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Its only media around us, so it’s a Pre/iPhone bananza.
• 12:24 PM: Greg Kumparak If you’re wondering, it’s starting to smell horrible.
• 12:25 PM: Greg Kumparak Everyone’s starting to get cranky.
• 12:27 PM: Greg Kumparak
• 12:27 PM: Greg Kumparak That logo to the lower left of “Mac” – we’re not familiar with it. Anyone ever seen it?
• 12:27 PM: Greg Kumparak It reads “GCD”, and looks like a stoplight.
• 12:28 PM: Ender is it the new OSX Grand Central?
• 12:28 PM: Tim “Getting Crap Done”… must be an Apple implementation of the GTD.
• 12:29 PM: Capt Crunch What happens when a bunch of Apple fanboys get cranky?
• 12:29 PM: Greg Kumparak They start using windows mobile
• 12:31 PM: JP Macrumors says the logo is for multithreading”Threading has left the station.
  Grand Central Dispatch”
• 12:32 PM: Greg Kumparak Seems like half the people here have iPhones; then blackberry, then pre/android handsets throughout.
• 12:33 PM: Greg Kumparak There are a good number of those special Google I/O HTC Magics
• 12:33 PM: Greg Kumparak Line is moving! We’re heading in!
• 12:36 PM: Greg Kumparak we’re in. still milling toward our seat
• 12:38 PM: Greg Kumparak We’ve been seated. We’re stage left. pics coming in now.
• 12:39 PM: Greg Kumparak
• 12:39 PM: Greg Kumparak
• 12:40 PM: Greg Kumparak Funky house music is blaring
• 12:40 PM: Matt Psst… that’s stage right :)
• 12:41 PM: Greg Kumparak Nonsense – this is an Apple event. Anything is possible. Its a wonderful land of imagination!
• 12:42 PM: Greg Kumparak Male to female ratio is about 50:1 at last count.
• 12:42 PM: Satish ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG!
• 12:43 PM: Greg Kumparak Man, you guys are missing out on the funkiest house music on the planet. I’m considering bailing on this whole live blogging nonsense and starting an impromptu rave in the back.
• 12:45 PM: Greg Kumparak
• 12:46 PM: Freiteez shazam the song so we can see what it is
• 12:46 PM: Greg Kumparak We tried; alas, the murmur is a bit too intense.
• 12:49 PM: MG Howdy
• 12:49 PM: Greg Kumparak MG Hammer, ladies and gentlemen.
• 12:51 PM: Greg Kumparak We’re just gettin’ ourselves prepped, folks – main show starts in 9 minutes.
• 12:52 PM: Greg Kumparak Shazam continues to fail to identify the lovely beats. That’s too bad, really – it’s decent stuff.
• 12:53 PM: Greg Kumparak No john mayer yet. It’s funky bass beats all the way down, folks.
• 12:53 PM: Greg Kumparak
• 12:53 PM: MG And no Coldplay yet
• 12:53 PM: Greg Kumparak Sideways journalists using their laptops.
• 12:54 PM: MG Nice Greg, crotch shot?
• 12:54 PM: Greg Kumparak @MG: That’s all Biggs’ doing.
• 12:56 PM: Greg Kumparak “Good morning ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to the WWDC 2009 conference!”
• 12:57 PM: Greg Kumparak “At this time, as a courtesy to speakers on stage and fellow attendees, please turn off all cell phones and paging devices”
• 12:57 PM: Greg Kumparak Turn off your paging devices, people. Also, stop carrying pagers.
• 12:57 PM: MG @greg that was one of the best parts of The Hangover
• 12:58 PM: TD765 are they playing Dave Matthews Band
• 12:58 PM: Satish Thanks for ruining the movie guys.
• 12:58 PM: Greg Kumparak Music update: The Submarines – You, Me & The Bourgeoisie
• 12:59 PM: Greg Kumparak Spoiler: The Hangover features guys drinking alcoholic beverages
• 1:00 PM: Greg Kumparak It’s now time for the show to begin. No sign of anyone on stage yet.
• 1:00 PM: Greg Kumparak Lights are down
• 1:00 PM: Greg Kumparak The audience goes bonkers.
• 1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak The music.. continues.
• 1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak Song’s over – it’s time!c
• 1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak New PC/Mac ad.
• 1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak Hodgeman: “Welcome to WWDC!”
• 1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak “I wanted to be the first to wish you a week.. with..some innovation, but not too much”
• 1:01 PM: Greg Kumparak Doing another take:
• 1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak “Okay, hear me out: You’ve sold millions of iPhone apps. isnt that enough? Slow it down”
• 1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Another take:
• 1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak “*raspberries sound*”
• 1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak “Hello, I’m a mac. What PC is trying to say: Have a great conference”
• 1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Audience, again, goes bonkers
• 1:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Phil Schiller is on stage
• 1:03 PM: Greg Kumparak “Welcome to the 2009 WWDC. We have an amazing week planned for you. It’s incredible, for all of you — i mean all of you”
• 1:03 PM: Greg Kumparak “Can’t you feel the love in this room?”
• 1:03 PM: Greg Kumparak In 2007, OS X users were at 25 million .
• 1:04 PM: Greg Kumparak In 2009, it’s at 75 million.
• 1:04 PM: Greg Kumparak It took 7 years to get to 25
• 1:04 PM: Greg Kumparak but only 2 to triple it.
• 1:04 PM: Greg Kumparak “We will continue to give you technologies so you can build the best applications”
• 1:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Talking about the unibody macbook line
• 1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak “It let us create a laptop thats sturdier, packed with features, and amazingly thin”
• 1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping the roll out of unibody to the MB/MBP lines.
• 1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak “Even though we have a huge lead over anybodyelse in the laptop business, we dont want to stop”
• 1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Brand new 15-inch MBP
• 1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Just introduced.
• 1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Built on Unibody
• 1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Built-in Battery
• 1:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 7 hours of battery life
• 1:07 PM: John Biggs
• 1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak (2 hours more than before)
• 1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak More environmentally friendly.
• 1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak Old batteries would get about 300 recharges before they started to wear down
• 1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak The new ones get 1,000 full recharge cycles
• 1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak Generally, that’s 5 years of life.
• 1:07 PM: John Biggs
• 1:07 PM: Greg Kumparak “Most customers will never need to change the battery in their laptop”, as it’ll last longer than their MBP’s specs will.
• 1:08 PM: John Biggs
• 1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak The new 15″ is just as thin and just as light as the old one.
• 1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak “Nicest display we’ve ever put in a notebook”
• 1:08 PM: John Biggs
• 1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak Something different: New port
• 1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak No express card slot
• 1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak SD Card slot!
• 1:08 PM: Greg Kumparak They’ve replaced the expresscard slot with SD.
• 1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak “Most of our customers use digital cameras – of course, you can plug it in. But customers like the convenience of popping in a card”, goes on to say SD is standard now.
• 1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak Fastest notebook Apple has ever made
• 1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 3.06 ghz dual core, 6 MB L2 Cache
• 1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 8 Gigs up 1066 Mhz DDR3
• 1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 500GB on a spinning disc
• 1:09 PM: Greg Kumparak or 256 GB on a Solid state drive
• 1:10 PM: Greg Kumparak $1699
• 1:10 PM: Greg Kumparak Starting price of the new 15″ MBP: $1699.
• 1:10 PM: John Biggs
• 1:10 PM: Greg Kumparak $1699 with 2.53 ghz, 4gb of ram, 250gb drive, 9400m, sd slot
• 1:10 PM: Greg Kumparak $1999 = 2.6 ghz 4gb DDR3 320gb hdd, 9400m + 9600m GT, SD slot
• 1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak $2299 – 2.8 Ghz, 4gb DDR3, 500gb HDD, 9400m + 9600m GT, SD card slot
• 1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re also updating the 17″
  Goes up to 2.8 ghz
• 1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak 4GB DDR
• 1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak 500Gb drive
• 1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak 9400m/9600M GT
• 1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak $2499 ($300 price drop)
• 1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak Shipping today.
• 1:11 PM: Greg Kumparak Both the 15″ and the revised 17″
• 1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re now talking about the 13″ macbook
• 1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak Revised model
• 1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak 7 hours of battery life (2 hours more than before)
• 1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak Built in battery
• 1:12 PM: John Biggs
• 1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak Same “Incredible, new, vivid color display”
• 1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak Same SD card slot
• 1:12 PM: Greg Kumparak The macbook didn’t have an expresscard slot before, so it was a bit of a squeeze
• 1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak “What other things could we add to just make it a Macbook Pro?”
• 1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak Up to 8GB of ram.
• 1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak Backlit keyboard!
• 1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak And a firewire 800 port!
• 1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak 13″ Macbook is now a Macbook Pro.
• 1:13 PM: Greg Kumparak $1199.
• 1:14 PM: Greg Kumparak The new 13″ Macbook (now a Pro model) will be $1199.
• 1:14 PM: Greg Kumparak Base model is $1199, 2.25 ghz 2GB DDR3, 9400m Graphics, 160GB hdd, Sd card slot
• 1:14 PM: Greg Kumparak $1499: 2.53 ghz, 4 gigs of ddr3, 9400m, sd card slot
• 1:14 PM: Greg Kumparak Available today.
• 1:15 PM: John Biggs
• 1:15 PM: John Biggs
• 1:15 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re also updating the Macbook Air
• 1:15 PM: Greg Kumparak 1.86 ghz for $1499
• 1:15 PM: Greg Kumparak $300 price drop
• 1:16 PM: Greg Kumparak Higher end MB Air: 2.13 ghz with a 128GB solid state drive, $1799
• 1:16 PM: Greg Kumparak (Thats a $700 price drop)
• 1:16 PM: Greg Kumparak Every Macbook, Macbook Pro, and Air meets energy star requirement V5 – which isn’t even standard till summer.
• 1:16 PM: Greg Kumparak “The world’s greenest lineup of notebooks”
• 1:17 PM: John Biggs
• 1:17 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re moving on to OS X
• 1:17 PM: John Biggs
• 1:17 PM: Greg Kumparak Someone else entered the stage; I missed the name, but I believe it was Bertrand Sertlet
  
• 1:17 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing OS X’s merits.
• 1:18 PM: Greg Kumparak How great it is, how great reviews have been.
• 1:18 PM: Greg Kumparak Says “What a contrast”, with Windows Vista logo on the screen.
• 1:18 PM: Greg Kumparak “Even with Windows 7, you have all the same technologies: DLLs, the registry, disk defragging. Users should never have to know about that.”
• 1:18 PM: Greg Kumparak Just made a jab at UAC hassles in Windows Vista/7
• 1:19 PM: Greg Kumparak “Our challenge was to build a better Leopard”
• 1:19 PM: John Biggs
• 1:20 PM: John Biggs
• 1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Brief mention of Exchange support in Snow Leopard.
• 1:20 PM: John Biggs
• 1:20 PM: John Biggs
• 1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak “We love the way the finder is in Leopard – so we didn’t change a thing. At least, not the user interface”
• 1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Finder has been rewritten in Cocoa:
• 1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Listing differences quickly
• 1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak Faster icon drawing
  Faster trash emptying
• 1:20 PM: Greg Kumparak New disc eject manager
• 1:21 PM: Greg Kumparak “My desktop now has a little too much clutter. We’ve had expose.. so we built expose into the dock”
• 1:21 PM: Greg Kumparak (Meh)
• 1:21 PM: Greg Kumparak The installation process has been sped up by 45%.
• 1:22 PM: Greg Kumparak Updating to Snow Leopard will actually save you 6GB of space, thanks to compression technologies
• 1:22 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re discussing text selection in PDFs; it’s now handled much more logically.
• 1:23 PM: Greg Kumparak People clap, because people are strange.
• 1:23 PM: Greg Kumparak Mail has been sped up across the board
• 1:23 PM: John Biggs
• 1:23 PM: Greg Kumparak Now on to discussing Safari
• 1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak Final version of Safari 4 will ship today for Leopard, Tiger, and Windows XP/Vista
• 1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak Benchmarking Safari’s javascript
• 1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak Safari 4 Javascript is around 8x faster than IE 8’s
• 1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak 100/100 on the Acid3 test
• 1:24 PM: Greg Kumparak Showing IE8’s score: 21/100
• 1:25 PM: Greg Kumparak “Crash resistance”
• 1:25 PM: Greg Kumparak “The #1 reason for crashes is actually plugins” If your plugin crashes in Safari 4, it’s no problem
• 1:25 PM: John Biggs
• 1:25 PM: Greg Kumparak they’ve seperated plugins into a seperate process
• 1:25 PM: John Biggs
• 1:26 PM: John Biggs
• 1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak If a plugin fails, it’ll just load the “Plugin not found” graphic and keep ticking.
• 1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak New version of Quicktime
• 1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak “Quicktime X”
• 1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak Modern Foundation
• 1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak Hardware acceleration
  Color Sync
• 1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak HTTP Streaming
• 1:26 PM: Greg Kumparak New UI for Quicktime
• 1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak Looks very similar to the preview window.
• 1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak If you pull the mouse away, the border and all play controls fade away
• 1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak so it’s purely video, floating along.
• 1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak Craig Federighi is on stage, VP of Mac OS Engineering.
• 1:27 PM: John Biggs
• 1:27 PM: John Biggs
• 1:27 PM: Greg Kumparak That’s the new, new quicktime Logo.
• 1:28 PM: Greg Kumparak Talking about stacks:
  Stacks have scrolling support, and you can jump into folders directly within stacks
• 1:28 PM: Greg Kumparak Thumbnail sizes can now be magnified on the fly in finder.
• 1:28 PM: Greg Kumparak You can page through PDFs right on the thumbnail
• 1:28 PM: Greg Kumparak You can preview videos right within the thumbnail
• 1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak Thumbnail view just became usable, hurray!
• 1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak Back on to discussing Dock Expose
• 1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak Wow, that’s actually really nifty
• 1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak If you click and hold any application icon on your dock
• 1:29 PM: Greg Kumparak it’ll expose just those windows
• 1:30 PM: Greg Kumparak For example, click and hold safari icon: BAM. All your safari windows, expose’d.
• 1:30 PM: John Biggs
• 1:30 PM: Greg Kumparak That includes drag and drop support; you can drag a movie file to the mail icon, and all of your mail windows will line up, allowing you to drag directly to the right one.
• 1:30 PM: Greg Kumparak Demonstrating Safari 4’s speed.
• 1:31 PM: Greg Kumparak It does indeed seem incredibly fast.
• 1:32 PM: Greg Kumparak Demonstrating coverflow view of History, with spotlight search.
• 1:32 PM: Greg Kumparak Demonstrating QuickTime X again.
• 1:33 PM: Greg Kumparak Once again showing that the border, titlebar, and controls fade away when the mouse is pulled away.
• 1:33 PM: Greg Kumparak You can now trim/share videos directly within QuickTime.
• 1:33 PM: Greg Kumparak You can scrub smoothly to find the begin/end point, hit the trim button , then share to iTunes/MobileMe/YouTube.
• 1:34 PM: Greg Kumparak Bertrand is back on stage.
• 1:34 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing the new technologies available to macs.
• 1:35 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping RAM enhancements, Intel CPU enhancements, the new GPUs
• 1:35 PM: Greg Kumparak “To take advantage of this, you need the right software”
• 1:35 PM: Greg Kumparak “First – 64 bit. Take advantage of lots and lots of memory. in 32 bit, it has an inherent limit of 4gb. in 64 bit, you’re limited to 16 billion gigabytes.”
• 1:36 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing how they’re moving more and more towards 64 bit; all major Apple applications are 64 bit in snow leopard.
• 1:36 PM: John Biggs I made the ScribbleLive window longer. Feel free to refresh.
• 1:37 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing how to take advantage of multi CPU cores and threading.
• 1:37 PM: Greg Kumparak “Grand Central Dispatch”
• 1:37 PM: John Biggs
• 1:37 PM: Greg Kumparak “Its built in support for multicore, across all of Snow Leopard”
• 1:37 PM: Greg Kumparak Language Extension, Multicore engine, object oriented frame work, new system-wide APIs, new Tools (to tune your program)
• 1:37 PM: John Biggs
• 1:38 PM: Greg Kumparak Every time he says “Threads”, I think he’s saying “Freds”
• 1:38 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing OpenCL support.
• 1:38 PM: John Biggs
• 1:39 PM: Greg Kumparak “We want to move beyond [OpenGL].”
• 1:39 PM: Greg Kumparak “For that, we’ve built OpenCL”
• 1:39 PM: Greg Kumparak Open CL Features: Hardware Abstraction, C-based language, Automatic optimization, Numerical Accuracy.
• 1:39 PM: Greg Kumparak (That last one meaning it can be used for scientific computing)
• 1:40 PM: Greg Kumparak Partners: Samsung, Nvidia, EA, Texas Instruments, Nokia, Qualcomm, Intel, QNX, Freescale, many more.
• 1:40 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping the 3 major technologies in Snow Leopard: 64-bit across the board, Grand Central Dispatch, OpenCL
• 1:40 PM: Greg Kumparak Moving on to business users – Exchange support coming up
• 1:41 PM: Greg Kumparak “We’ve decided to build exchange support in snow leopard into Mail, iCal, and address book”
• 1:41 PM: Greg Kumparak “You fill in your email address and password – and you’re set, across all 3 apps”
• 1:41 PM: Greg Kumparak They’re about to demo Exchange.
• 1:42 PM: John Biggs Autodiscovery of Exchange servers.
• 1:42 PM: John Biggs Exchange sync is seamless.
• 1:43 PM: John Biggs Spotlight searches Exchange data and you can QuickLook MS Office files right in emails – whether or not you have MS Office installed.
• 1:43 PM: John Biggs Good move towards business users. Invitations work in iCal and in Email. See everything in context.
• 1:44 PM: John Biggs Schedule meetings by dragging contacts into calendar
• 1:44 PM: John Biggs Room availability info now works.
• 1:44 PM: John Biggs Checks for available meeting times in certain rooms.
• 1:44 PM: John Biggs Automatic rescheduling if the meeting room is being used.
• 1:45 PM: John Biggs This is aimed straight at business users.
• 1:46 PM: John Biggs All intel Macs can run Snow Leopard.
• 1:46 PM: John Biggs Snow Leopard costs $29 for Leopard users.
• 1:47 PM: John Biggs Family pack for $49
• 1:47 PM: John Biggs Available this September
• 1:47 PM: John Biggs Today they have a near final Dev Preview
• 1:47 PM: John Biggs
• 1:47 PM: John Biggs
• 1:48 PM: John Biggs
• 1:48 PM: Greg Kumparak iPhone time!
• 1:48 PM: John Biggs iPhone time
• 1:48 PM: Greg Kumparak Over 1,000,000 downloads of the SDK
• 1:48 PM: Greg Kumparak There are now over 50,000 apps in the App Store.
• 1:49 PM: Greg Kumparak “We have already sold over 40 million iPhones and iPod Touches”
• 1:49 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing the April 23rd/1 billion downloads landmark.
• 1:49 PM: Greg Kumparak “Thank you to our customers – but especially, thank you to the developers”
• 1:50 PM: Greg Kumparak Showing an iPhone developer video
• 1:50 PM: Greg Kumparak Opens up to a major city; looks like Tokyo.
  Shibuya, I believe
• 1:50 PM: Greg Kumparak Panning through multiple developers, telling tales of their experiences with the iPhone.
• 1:51 PM: John Biggs Dizzy Bee guy travels and makes games
• 1:51 PM: John Biggs
• 1:52 PM: John Biggs
• 1:52 PM: Greg Kumparak Still more experiences; MLB.com guy telling of seeing a ton of people download their MLB.com app right as an Apple commercial featuring it airs
• 1:53 PM: Greg Kumparak (It’s still the video, by the way)
• 1:53 PM: John Biggs
• 1:55 PM: Greg Kumparak Video’s over.
• 1:55 PM: John Biggs Owe the amazing years to Developers
• 1:55 PM: John Biggs iPhone OS 3.0
• 1:55 PM: Greg Kumparak Over 100 new features in iPhone os 3.0
• 1:55 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping Cut/Copy/Paste
• 1:56 PM: Greg Kumparak Cut, copy, paste: Works across apps, undo support, developer APIs – still mostly a recap.
• 1:56 PM: Greg Kumparak Now recapping Landscape support in first-party apps
• 1:57 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping MMS
• 1:57 PM: John Biggs
• 1:57 PM: Greg Kumparak Support for sending Photos, contacts, audio files, etc over the cell network
• 1:57 PM: John Biggs
• 1:58 PM: Greg Kumparak 24 carriers will support iphone MMS at launch
• 1:58 PM: Greg Kumparak Recapping search now: Search throughout contacts, calendars, notes, email, etc
• 1:58 PM: Greg Kumparak “The great part about searching your email:” not just local messages, but messages that are back on your mail server.
• 1:58 PM: Greg Kumparak Spotlight page recap: One page, searches across the phone.
• 1:59 PM: Greg Kumparak Confirms movie rentals/purchases from the phone.
• 1:59 PM: Greg Kumparak You can also purchase tv shows/audio books/etc on the go.
• 1:59 PM: Greg Kumparak “And because we care deeply about education: Support for iTunes U, right on the phone”
• 2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak Parental Controls:
• 2:00 PM: John Biggs
• 2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak In addition to controls we already support, such as youtube/safari support, we’ve added other items:
• 2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak You can now filter by movie/tv-show content via parental controls.
• 2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak You can now limit app usage by age ratings.
• 2:00 PM: Greg Kumparak Tethering:
• 2:01 PM: Greg Kumparak Tethering works w/ Mac/PC, USB or Bluetooth
• 2:01 PM: Greg Kumparak “It is a seamless experience – once it’s on, there’s no need for tethering software on your computer”
• 2:01 PM: John Biggs
• 2:01 PM: Greg Kumparak “Like MMS, it requires carrier support. 22 carriers at launch. Telefonica, TIM, Rogers, more”
• 2:02 PM: John Biggs
• 2:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Aaaand no mention of AT&T.
• 2:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Audience groans.
• 2:02 PM: John Biggs
• 2:02 PM: John Biggs
• 2:02 PM: John Biggs
• 2:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Safari Mobile: Javascript is now 3x faster
• 2:02 PM: John Biggs
• 2:02 PM: Greg Kumparak Support for HTTP streaming audio/video
• 2:03 PM: Greg Kumparak It automatically picks the proper quality based off your connection
• 2:03 PM: Greg Kumparak And works through firewalls, as it’s HTTP>
• 2:03 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing password autofill
• 2:03 PM: Greg Kumparak Safari can now autofill forms for you based on what’s in your contacts.
• 2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak Safari 4 recap: Performance upgrades, HTTP streaming, Auto fill, hTML 5.
• 2:04 PM: John Biggs
• 2:04 PM: John Biggs
• 2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak New language support is OS 3.0:
• 2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak Hebrew, Arabic, Greek
• 2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak Korean, and Thai
• 2:04 PM: Greg Kumparak “We now support more than 30 languages”
• 2:05 PM: John Biggs
• 2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Discussing find my iPhone feature
• 2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak “If you’ve ever lost or misplaced your phone, it can be tramatic”
• 2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Hah!
• 2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak Rolling to a video
• 2:05 PM: Greg Kumparak It’s the 30 rock crew!
• 2:06 PM: Greg Kumparak Liz Lemon has lost a phone w/ her nudie pics
• 2:07 PM: John Biggs FindMyIphone: MobileMe Service
• 2:07 PM: John Biggs Lose your iphone, it’ll show you on a map where it is.
• 2:07 PM: John Biggs Send your phone a message via landline
• 2:07 PM: John Biggs Alert sound plays whether phone is on silent or not
• 2:08 PM: John Biggs Send remote wipe command if it’s lost or stolen
• 2:09 PM: John Biggs In app purchase. Financial transactions within the app.
• 2:09 PM: John Biggs Renew magazine subscriptions. Sell additional game packs in games.
• 2:09 PM: John Biggs Free apps remain free. No bait and switch.
• 2:09 PM: John Biggs
• 2:09 PM: John Biggs Peer-to-peer game connectivity.
• 2:10 PM: John Biggs
• 2:10 PM: John Biggs No pairing needed
• 2:10 PM: John Biggs Accessories – Opening up hardware accessory devs
• 2:11 PM: John Biggs Software apps that talk right to accessories. 1-touch-blood glucose monitor.
• 2:11 PM: John Biggs Maps
• 2:11 PM: John Biggs Embed google maps right into your applications
• 2:12 PM: John Biggs Custom map apps
• 2:12 PM: John Biggs Turn by turn direction applications
• 2:12 PM: John Biggs Push notifications
• 2:12 PM: John Biggs Generic push notification service.
• 2:13 PM: John Biggs push numeric badges, messages, and alert sounds
• 2:13 PM: John Biggs Some devs are coming up who have already used iPhone 3.0
• 2:13 PM: John Biggs GameLoft’s Mark Hickey is coming up
• 2:14 PM: John Biggs Asphalt 5
• 2:14 PM: John Biggs Gameloft
• 2:14 PM: John Biggs Buggati, BMW, Audi cars
• 2:14 PM: John Biggs Play iPod music inside games.
• 2:15 PM: John Biggs New controls and graphics. Console quality games.
• 2:16 PM: John Biggs In game voice chat. Content packs – racetracks and cars
• 2:16 PM: John Biggs
• 2:17 PM: John Biggs Medical community flocking to iPhone
• 2:17 PM: John Biggs
• 2:18 PM: John Biggs
• 2:18 PM: John Biggs
• 2:18 PM: John Biggs See patient’s vital signs on an app
• 2:18 PM: John Biggs Real-time data straight out of iPhone
• 2:18 PM: John Biggs
• 2:18 PM: John Biggs
• 2:19 PM: John Biggs
• 2:19 PM: John Biggs Airstrip critical care is getting FDA approval shortly.
• 2:20 PM: John Biggs
• 2:20 PM: John Biggs ScrollMotion is now on stage
• 2:21 PM: John Biggs They’ve partnered with a ton of magazine and book publishers
• 2:21 PM: John Biggs They’re now demonstrating the “In App Bookshelf” and the “Iceberg Store”
• 2:21 PM: John Biggs in which you can purchase books right within the App.
• 2:22 PM: John Biggs For Students: Copy/Paste right from a book, allowing you to email quotes directly
• 2:22 PM: John Biggs along w/ the bibliographic info.
• 2:22 PM: John Biggs Text books coming to the app store via Iceberg reader.
• 2:22 PM: John Biggs Now on stage: TomTom
• 2:24 PM: John Biggs Demonstrating TomTom turn-by-turn nav
• 2:25 PM: John Biggs Showing off a TomTom branded iPhone holder
• 2:25 PM: John Biggs “Thanks to the accessory framework, we can enhance your GPS signal”
• 2:25 PM: John Biggs Plus a built in speaker/mic for the sake of handsfree
• 2:25 PM: John Biggs “And yes, we’ll play your music over the car stereo”
• 2:27 PM: john
• 2:28 PM: John Biggs Demonstrating Star Defense
• 2:28 PM: John Biggs Next up: NGMoco
• 2:28 PM: John Biggs
• 2:29 PM: John Biggs PASCO teaching tools
• 2:31 PM: John Biggs spark application.
• 2:31 PM: John Biggs PASCO science experiments for kids – sensors that connect to iPhone
• 2:33 PM: John Biggs Do science anytime anywhere.
• 2:33 PM: John Biggs Demonstrated – but failed – on a pressure measurement.
• 2:33 PM: John Biggs ZipCar
• 2:34 PM: john
• 2:35 PM: John Biggs ZipCar icon instantly finds and reserves a zipcar
• 2:35 PM: John Biggs Sorry this is so boring, guys.
• 2:36 PM: John Biggs You reserve cars right on the iPhone, add cars to favorites. You can then press the horn icon on the iPhone and the zipcar will beep at you.
• 2:36 PM: John Biggs Once you come up to the car you tap unlock to unlock it.
• 2:37 PM: John Biggs Shows available zipcars nearby
• 2:37 PM: John Biggs YAY. Final demo. Line 6 and Planet Waves
• 2:37 PM: John Biggs Control your guitar and your amp from your iPhone
• 2:37 PM: John Biggs Bringing out a guitar
• 2:38 PM: John Biggs No mention of Flash
• 2:38 PM: John Biggs MIDI Mobilizer
• 2:38 PM: John Biggs Directly connect and iPhone to a Line 6 amp and guitar
• 2:39 PM: John Biggs Kind of like automatic pedals
• 2:39 PM: John Biggs Adjust parameters on the fly – gain, etc.
• 2:39 PM: John Biggs Acoustic twelve string
• 2:40 PM: John Biggs VariX guitar – move pick-ups and body style from the screen.
• 2:40 PM: John Biggs Change tuning virtually.
  
• 2:40 PM: John Biggs Rig Remote software. Veta amp has guitar models built-in. You tap a button to select the sound model.
• 2:40 PM: greg Wuhoh. This demo failed too. These folks aren’t having too much luck
• 2:41 PM: John Biggs Looks like we’re hitting the end of demos
• 2:42 PM: John Biggs End of iPhone OS 3.0
• 2:42 PM: John Biggs Free for iPhone customers – original and iPhone 3G
• 2:42 PM: John Biggs $9.95 for iPod touch customers
• 2:42 PM: John Biggs Available June 17 worldwide
• 2:43 PM: John Biggs Devs get GM seed for iPhone 3.0
• 2:43 PM: John Biggs Calls of action: go to iTunes Connect and assign a parental control age rating for your app. Download the 3.0 seed. Submit an update.
• 2:44 PM: John Biggs Phil Schiller back up on stage.
• 2:44 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3G is a hit
• 2:44 PM: John Biggs Phone that changed phones forever. Changes who people thing about phones.
• 2:46 PM: John Biggs Nokia Ovi store, Palm, all have no apps.
• 2:46 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3GS!!!!
• 2:46 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3Gs SPEED
• 2:46 PM: John Biggs s stands for Speed
• 2:46 PM: John Biggs Same great design
• 2:47 PM: John Biggs Really fast iPhone
• 2:47 PM: John Biggs 2.4 x faster to play games
• 2:47 PM: John Biggs 3.6x faster
• 2:48 PM: John Biggs 3x faster javascript
• 2:48 PM: John Biggs OPEN GL|ES 2.0
• 2:48 PM: John Biggs 7.2 Mbps HSDPA
• 2:48 PM: john
• 2:48 PM: greg Roughly 2x faster over all
• 2:48 PM: John Biggs Brand new camera
• 2:49 PM: John Biggs 3 megapixel autofocus camera
• 2:49 PM: john
• 2:50 PM: John Biggs Tap to focus. Tap on items to focus on stuff. Tap on house – focus on house. Tap on flower – focus on flower.
• 2:50 PM: John Biggs Images coming
• 2:50 PM: John Biggs Auto macro
• 2:50 PM: John Biggs Also captures video
• 2:51 PM: John Biggs Still or Movie
• 2:52 PM: John Biggs edit video with a tap of your finger. share from iPhone – send MMS, send email, send YouTube, MobileMe
• 2:53 PM: John Biggs Most popular video camera
• 2:53 PM: greg 30 FPS VGA, auto lighting, auto focus,
• 2:54 PM: John Biggs dial friends and family with voice
• 2:56 PM: John Biggs Hold down home button
• 2:57 PM: John Biggs “Play songs by the killers.”
• 2:57 PM: John Biggs Genius playlist control
• 2:57 PM: John Biggs Built in digital compass
• 2:57 PM: John Biggs some guy just screamed
• 2:57 PM: John Biggs compass app
• 2:57 PM: John Biggs Built in Nike+ support
• 2:57 PM: John Biggs Hardware encryption on the data
• 2:57 PM: greg The wwdc network just melted. Compass confirmed. map auto orients.
  Nike plus support.
• 2:57 PM: greg Hardware encryption: when you wipe, it’s instant.

  Sent from my iPhone

• 2:57 PM: john
• 2:58 PM: John Biggs Instant wipe with encryption
• 2:58 PM: John Biggs Improved battery life
• 2:58 PM: John Biggs 9 hours internet surfing 30 hours of music listening
• 2:58 PM: John Biggs Greenest iPhone yet
• 2:58 PM: greg

  Sent from my iPhone

• 2:58 PM: John Biggs No images for now, guys. Our network is getting saturated.
• 2:59 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3G – price
• 2:59 PM: John Biggs $199
• 2:59 PM: John Biggs 16GB version
• 2:59 PM: John Biggs $299 for 32GB version
• 2:59 PM: John Biggs AT&T prices – new and qualifying customers
• 3:00 PM: John Biggs Black and white
• 3:00 PM: John Biggs WE WANT TO REACH EVEN MORE CUSTOMERS
• 3:00 PM: John Biggs Keep iPhone 3G at $99
• 3:00 PM: John Biggs WHOMP
• 3:00 PM: John Biggs High end smartphone for $99
• 3:01 PM: John Biggs Starts today. New iPhone 3G on sale today for $99 (8GB)
• 3:01 PM: John Biggs iPhone 3GS available June 19
• 3:01 PM: John Biggs US canada france germany switzerland
• 3:01 PM: John Biggs July 09 roll out rest of world
• 3:01 PM: John Biggs 80 countries
• 3:02 PM: John Biggs showing new ad
• 3:03 PM: John Biggs WWDC BINGO WIN
• 3:04 PM: John Biggs 11 minutes of battery life
• 3:04 PM: John Biggs left on my MacBook Pro
• 3:04 PM: John Biggs Thanking all the teams
• 3:04 PM: John Biggs June 19 should be in UK, Dave
• 3:04 PM: Dave Bondy Why no 3GS in the UK on June 19! What game are Apple / O2 playing?
• 3:05 PM: John Biggs I just didn’t get to type it
• 3:05 PM: John Biggs NO ONE MORE THING
• 3:05 PM: John Biggs :(
• 3:05 PM: John Biggs ok, guys. thanks for tuning in.
• 3:05 PM: John Biggs No Jobs

The OS should now run faster thanks to a 50% bump in CPU speed; it now runs at 600MHz. The system memory has doubled to 256MB as well.

Apple didn’t forget about the camera – well, sortof. The iPhone 3G S did get an upgrade in that department too, but it’s only with a 3MP camera. It does finally support auto-focus, but it’s still not up to par with other flagship smartphones. Plus, this iPhone can now shoot video at 30 FPS with auto lighting and auto focus.

The new hardware will come in both 16GB and 32GB options with black and white models available in both sizes. These options will be available in July for $199/$299 respectively. Battery life has improved as well and Apple is claiming that the iPhone 3G S will go 15- to 20% longer on a charge. But no, the battery still isn’t usre replaceable.

The new hardware is welcomed, but the 3.0 software has also been updated with a new feature set. You can now tether – yes, tether – the iPhone via USB or Bluetooth to either a PC or Mac on 22 carriers worldwide; sorry, AT&T isn’t one of them. Speaking of AT&T, MMS will be available sometime this summer through an update. Or so they say.

But at least users can now rent and buy movies right from the iPhone. That’s a win, right.

Anyway, a new feature that most will love is the Find My iPhone. It’s a service for MobileMe subs that, well, finds your lost iPhone and displays its location on a map. It could be a great way to keep track of your spouse too. When activated, you can message your iPhone with a number to call and it will sound a tone even if the phone is on silent. Or you can remotely erase all of the data on the phone.

All these software updates also apply to older iPhones as long as they are loaded with the 3.0 software pack available worldwide on June 17, 2009.

Apple has kept the price point of the current options. So the 16GB will run $199 with the 32GB fetching $299; both are on-contract prices of course. Phil Schiller didn’t mention if current iPhone owners in an AT&T contract will be able to upgrade without penalty, so expect the official word from the carrier soon. AT&T did just that last year when the iPhone 3G was announced.

Expect the lines to start forming now ’cause the new iPhone 3G S will be available on June 19, 2009 in the States with the rest of the world getting on July 9, 2009. The iPhone 3G gets its $99 price starting today though.

Update: Remember how last year AT&T let current iPhone owners upgrade without penalty. Yeah, not going to happen this time around.

From the iPhone product page down in the fine print:

Requires new two-year AT&T wireless service contract, sold separately to qualified customers; credit check required; must be 18 or older. For non-qualified customers, including existing AT&T customers who want to upgrade from another phone or replace an iPhone 3G, the price with a new two-year agreement is $499 (8GB), $599 (16GB), or $699 (32GB).

MMS: Support for sending Photos, contacts, audio files, etc over the cell network. 24 carriers will support iphone MMS at launch.

Search: Search throughout contacts, calendars, notes, email, etc. “The great part about searching your email:” not just local messages, but messages that are back on your mail server. In other words: One-page searches across the phone.

iTunes: Movie rentals/purchases from the iPhone are confirmed. You can also purchase tv shows/audio books/etc on the go. “And because we care deeply about education: Support for iTunes U, right on the phone.”

Parental Controls: In addition to controls we already support, such as youtube/safari support, we’ve added other items: You can now filter by movie/tv-show content via parental controls. You can now limit app usage by age ratings.

Tethering: Tethering works w/ Mac/PC, USB or Bluetooth. “It is a seamless experience – once it’s on, there’s no need for tethering software on your computer.” “Like MMS, it requires carrier support. 22 carriers at launch. Telefonica, TIM, Rogers, more.” Doesn’t look like AT&T will support tethering.

Safari Mobile: Javascript is now 3x faster. Support for HTTP streaming audio/video. It automatically picks the proper quality based off your connection. And works through firewalls, as it’s HTTP>. Safari can now autofill forms for you based on what’s in your contacts. Safari 4 recap: Performance upgrades, HTTP streaming, Auto fill, HTML 5.

New language support in OS 3.0: Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Korean, and Thai. The iPhone now supports over 30 languages.

Find My iPhone: As MobileMe service if your iPhone is ever lost FMI will show you where it is on a map by sending your phone a message via landline. An alert sound plays whether phone is on silent or not. Send remote wipe command if it’s lost or stolen.

In App Purchases: Renew magazine subscriptions. Sell additional game packs in games. Free apps remain free. No bait and switch.

Accessories: Software apps that talk right to accessories, like the 1-touch-blood glucose monitor. Apple has really opened up to third-party accessory manufacturers.

Maps: Embed Google maps right into your applications. Custom map apps. Turn by turn direction applications.

Push notifications: Generic push notification service. Push numeric badges, messages, and alert sounds.

3.0 release date: Woohoo! I should probably take my borked iPhone 3G into the Apple store before June 17th so I can get my free upgrade to 3.0. The OS upgrade will be free for iPhone and iPhone 3G owners. As always, Touch owners will have to pony up $10.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple(R) today unveiled Mac OS(R) X Snow Leopard(TM), an even more powerful and refined version of the world’s most advanced operating system and the foundation for future Mac(R) innovation. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies, out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange and new accessibility features. Snow Leopard will ship as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users in September 2009 for $29.

“We’ve built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before.”

To create Snow Leopard, Apple engineers focused on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system, refining 90 percent of the more than 1,000 projects in Mac OS X. Users will notice a more responsive Finder(TM); Mail that loads messages 85 percent faster and conducts searches up to 90 percent faster;* Time Machine(R) with up to 50 percent faster initial backup;* a Dock with Expose integration; a 64-bit version of Safari(R) 4 that boosts the performance of the Nitro JavaScript engine by up to 50 percent** and is resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins. Snow Leopard also includes an all new QuickTime(R) X, with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video to YouTube, MobileMe(TM) or iTunes(R). Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 6GB of drive space once installed.

For the first time, system applications including Finder, Mail, iCal(R), iChat(R) and Safari are 64-bit and Snow Leopard’s support for 64-bit processors makes use of large amounts of RAM, increases performance, and improves security while remaining compatible with 32-bit applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) provides a revolutionary new way for software to take advantage of multicore processors. GCD is integrated throughout Snow Leopard, from new system-wide APIs to high-level frameworks and programming language extensions, improving responsiveness across the system. OpenCL, a C-based open standard, allows developers to tap the incredible power of the graphics processing unit for tasks that go beyond graphics.

Snow Leopard builds support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 right into Mac OS X Mail, Address Book and iCal so you can use these applications to send and receive email, create and respond to meeting invitations, and search and manage your contacts with global address lists. Exchange information works seamlessly within Snow Leopard so users can take advantage of OS X only features such as fast Spotlight(TM) searches and Quick Look previews. Snow Leopard is the only desktop operating system with out of the box support for Exchange 2007 and businesses of any size will find it easier to integrate Macs into their organization.

Every Mac includes innovative features and technologies for users with special needs, and Snow Leopard adds groundbreaking new features that make the Mac experience even more accessible to those with a vision impairment. Apple’s Multi-Touch(TM) trackpad is now integrated with the VoiceOver screen reader so users can hear and navigate different parts of a window or the desktop by moving a single finger around the trackpad as if it were the screen. Snow Leopard also introduces built-in support for wireless bluetooth braille displays and the connection of multiple braille displays simultaneously to one Mac.

Pricing & Availability

Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade to Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard in September 2009 through the Apple Store(R) (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. The Snow Leopard single user license will be available for a suggested retail price of $29 (US) and the Snow Leopard Family Pack, a single household, five-user license, will be available for a suggested price of $49 (US). For Tiger(R) users with an Intel-based Mac, the Mac Box Set includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife(R) ‘09 and iWork(R) ‘09 and will be available for a suggested price of $169 (US) and a Family Pack is available for a suggested price of $229 (US).

The Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller between June 8, 2009 and the end of the program on December 26, 2009, for a product plus shipping and handling fee of $9.95 (US). Users must request their Up-To-Date upgrade within 90 days of purchase or by December 26, 2009, whichever comes first. For more information please visit www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate. Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM and is designed to run on any Mac computer with an Intel processor. Full system requirements can be found at www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs.

*Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 comparing prerelease Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6 with shipping Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.7 using shipping MacBook(R) 2.0 GHz systems with 2GB of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (256MB) and shipping generation iMac(R) 2.66 GHz systems with 2GB of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (256MB).

**Testing conducted by Apple in May 2009 comparing 64-bit Safari 4 to 32-bit Safari 4 on prerelease Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6. Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. All testing conducted on an iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, with 2GB of RAM. JavaScript benchmark based on the SunSpider JavaScript Performance test.

What’s included?

General

* Includes latest security fixes.
* Includes additional RAW image support for several third-party cameras.
* Improves performance of video playback and cursor movements for recent Macs with NVIDIA graphics.
* Resolves an issue with Dvorak keyboard layout in Mac OS X 10.5.6.
* Improves the reliability and accuracy of Unit Converter, Stocks, Weather and Movies Dashboard widgets.
* Addresses a situation that may cause issues when logging into Gmail.
* Improves reliability when syncing contacts with Yahoo!.
* Expansion Slot Utility for Mac Pro now reports the correct PCIe slot configuration.
* Improves network performance when connected to certain Ethernet switches that have Flow Control enabled.
* Improves stability for network home directories hosted by Mac OS X Server v10.4.
* Improves Finder search results for network volumes that may not support Spotlight searching, such as Mac OS X Server v10.4, Time Capsule, and third-party AFP servers.
* Includes several improvements to Directory Service and Client Management.

iCal

* Improves overall reliability with CalDav.
* Improves reliability when automatically syncing with MobileMe.

Mail

* Addresses reliability and sync issues with Notes.
* Addresses an issue that may cause the BCC field to populate incorrectly when redirecting a message from the Sent mailbox.

Parental Controls

* Improves consistency with Parental Controls and application restrictions.
* Addresses an issue in which time limits may not work properly with full-screen games and Fast User Switching.

Printing

* Resolves an issue that may cause certain third-party printers to print to the incorrect paper tray.
* Non-admin user accounts can now be allowed to add and remove printers by enabling Parental Controls and selecting “Can administer printers”.
* Includes other printing reliability and stability improvements.

They’re also lopping 5 bucks off the device-independent license, if you’re the type to carry around a backpack full of handsets:

In addition to the BeejiveIM for BlackBerry device license being available at a $5.00 discount, the user license will also be available for only $24.95, down from $29.95. The user license is for use on one BlackBerry device at a time but can be transferred to other BlackBerrys for free, allowing users to bring their license with them as they change models.

BeejiveIM for BlackBerry supports AIM®/iChat®/MobileMe®, MSN®/Windows Live®, Yahoo!®, MySpace, GoogleTalk®, SameTime®, ICQ®, and Jabber instant messaging services. We’re hearing that a notable update to the BlackBerry client is on the horizon, and that it won’t cost current owners a penny – so if you were considering buying your way in with the next release, might as well get it at a discount.

My Phone should make syncing your contacts, favorites, and pictures easier by keeping them on a web page dedicated to your phone. Its full functionality is a matter of speculation right now, and will certainly expand with time, so I’m guessing there will be a lot of promises made on the 16th.

Will we see some Zune functionality at MWC? Lord, we can always hope. The Zune UI guys who went over to WinMo must have something good to show by now. We don’t need a Zune phone (although we’d like one), but give us something!

When we heard about iLife ‘09 last month, Apple touted the Faces and Places features of the iPhone and image stabilization and precise editing in iMovie. How much does all of this pleasure cost? $79 or nothing if you get it with a new Mac. But is it worth the upgrade?

First, an important point for those unfamiliar with iLife: iLife is basically Apple’s answer to the bundled software you get with your computer. Whereas windows offers Paint, photo managers, and Movie Maker, iLife has always been, in my mind, the superior offering. On the whole I’m a big fan. It offers music, video, and photo editing and organizing software and comes free with Macs. Instead of reviewing the package as a new product, I am only highlighting the changes. If you don’t use a Mac and have never tried it, have a friend show you. It’s great.

The most prominent additions are Faces and Places. Places uses embedded GPS data to place your photos on a map and you can use this information to make map-based video travelogues. Although this is great for iPhone shots – the iPhone embeds GPS coordinates in every photo it takes – it’s not so great for owners of non-GPS enabled cameras. While there are plenty of folks out there who use and need GPS information in their photos, those folks probably aren’t using iPhoto. It’s a nice to have but not a real draw.

Faces, on the other hand, is quite interesting. If there’s one thing iLife generally does, it gives you new ways of managing your media. iPhoto is primarily an organizational tool and Faces is a unique method for organizing lots of photos very quickly.

It took about an hour to scan my MacBook’s photo library of 2,195 and once it did it took another half hour to train the software to recognize the faces it couldn’t quite make out. Once it got going, however, it was able to find almost everyone automatically. When it can’t figure out who someone is it places it under the list of “identified” photos and asks you to accept or reject it by hand. The process is a bit time consuming but if you do it once you don’t have to do it again.

Even on my limited laptop library – I haven’t let this thing loose on my bigger desktop library – the service offers an interesting new method for image discovery. For example, we’re always trying to find pictures of the kids we might have missed to print out or email to the grandparents. By being able to search for Kasper or Milla, they’re basically right there. Faces isn’t a gimmick. It’s an organizational tool.

Facebook and Flickr uploading are essentially Apple’s way of saying “We know you don’t care about MobileMe. Sorry.” Enough about that.

On to iMovie. Image stabilization is the most important new improvement and if you asked Devin he’d tell you it’s horrible. However, if you have the DTs like me or you hand the camera over to your hyperactive cousin for a minute while you sneeze you’ll be glad you can slow down the shakes and quakes.

Sadly, the new version is still missing slow motion and audio editing is still sub par. They sadly dumbed the product down in 2008 and never really brought back any of the most important features.

Mea culpa. I found slow motion, PIP, and greenscreen features but you have to turn on “Advanced Features” in preferences. Pretty sneaky.

Garage Band, interestingly enough, has been improved by the dumbing down it received this release. For example, there is a Songwriting mode that gives you four tracks off the bat along with a basic drum track. Rather than offering a blank screen, Garage Band now understands that most music creation software is actually quite intimidating.

The new Lessons feature is cool as well. The product shows a video and then displays the chords played on a virtual guitar or piano. It even has a guitar tuner built in. I can only imagine how many budding musicians will be born thanks to this feature.

iDVD has a new travelogue feature. Big whoop.

In short, iLife 09 is a semi-solid upgrade but probably not worth $79 if you’re not overly excited about Faces or Lessons. Folks who buy new Macs from now on will be very pleased with the new features but for folks who are not impressed by some cosmetic changes and a few feature additions, you might be able to sit this one out.

Cloud mania strikes again! There are rumors that Apple is moving iMovie, among other applications, into an online format. Seems like a strange idea to me. An online application for dealing with content that is local sounds like a bit of a mismatch; after all, along with the rise of things like the Mino and Zi6 for shooting straight to YouTube, real HD video workflows are getting simpler and closer to home as well. And if your content is to large to be stored or distributed online, why would you want the tools for editing it to be web-based?

Video is going in two directions at once currently, and it’s hard to say what will be a winning solution. 720p and 1080p video is increasingly easy to create and edit, but storage is difficult and so is distribution. On the other hand, poorly encoded streaming video like most of YouTube’s content is easy to edit and easy to distribute. Somehow we need to combine the benefits of HD with the usability of streaming video, but putting the editor online doesn’t seem like a step in that direction at all. And since the latest iMovie and online developments by Apple haven’t been exactly well-received, I wouldn’t hold out too much hope for a truly amazing cloud app.

Say what you will about MobileMe, but there’s at least one iPhone owner out there glad that he plunked down $100 bucks for it. Not only did it lead to the return of his stolen iPhone, but it left him with a tale for the e-ages.

Here’s how it went down, according to TUAW: One day, a gent named Rob went to the dry cleaners, and somehow managed to walk away one whole iPhone lighter. Disappointed at his loss but sure it was gone for good, Rob cruised over to the Apple store to pick up a new one. He activated iPhone #2, plugged in his MobileMe account info, and went about his business.

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This is more like it! Apple events always spur rumors, but the build-up to Macworld ‘09 has been uncharacteristically quite – except for the iPhone Nano rumor from yesterday.  So here we go with some real Apple rumors.

First up is the tireless rumor about Apple producing a low cost netbook. This time around, the analyst isn’t claiming any insider information, just good ‘ol fashion speculation based on the current market and economic conditions. 

That’s why he believes Apple will introduce netbooks next year that, like the company’s iPhone, will exist in an Apple-controlled “closed system” where software is delivered via the App Store, device restore is done from iTunes, backup is available through an optional online service, most likely MobileMe, and peripheral and add-on choices will be limited.

If Apple produces another netbook – they already have the Air – the scenario described above seems most likely. Apple wouldn’t want to erode MacBook sales with a diluted notebook, and anyway to capitalize on the App Store’s success would be a plus, as well.

The second rumor involves an updated Mac Mini debuting at Macworld which, to me at least, seems more likely than an Apple netbook. There was a time when the Mac Mini was declared dead, but those rumors were brushed aside. Just like the netbook rumor above, Apple needs a more tasty, low price computer and the Mac Mini might be the direction Jobs’ will take. This rumor, however, comes via an Apple corporate employee who sent the tip to Wired.

Basically, expect the new Mini to be modeled after the latest Apple notebooks. The tipster claims it will have an enclosure constructed of aluminum, eco-friendly components, and DisplayPort connectivity. Plus, it will sport Core 2 Duo options and the same GPU found in the new MacBook. Sounds like a MacBook encased in a box, really.

Hanging onto any Apple rumor is a great way to set one up for a large disappointment, but the Mac Mini claims seem most likely. The truth isn’t that far away as Macworld starts right before CES on January 5, 2009. We can’t wait.

Why, however, describe all this right now? Well, the initial MobileMe launch was a disaster and the product is quite complex. It is, in short, a copy of OS Xs basic PIM tools like Mail.app and Address Book on a web-based platform, something Microsoft is aiming to do in the next few years/months and something Google is doing amazingly well as evidenced by GMail and their online office suite.

MobileMe is a strong product. I’ve used both iterations for years and if you’re willing to pay a premium it works will as a data and setting storage system. I know there are plenty of other sites out there that do the same thing, but convincing users to use a service tied to your OS and, in this case, hardware, is the Holy Grail of software sales. There’s a reason Microsoft is putting so much effort into improving the XBox Live experience: the users need to know paying $X per year is worth it an $X per year per X million users – simply because you’re running a server farm for them – is a formula for spinning gold.

Eye-Fi Inc., makers of the world’s first wireless memory card for digital cameras, today announced enhancements to its family of Eye-Fi cards that will make the upload of digital photos from camera to computer twice as fast. The faster wireless speeds will also be made available to existing Eye-Fi users at no extra cost.

Depending on the card you already have, you can also get upgrades like geotagging and direct-to-web uploading for various services like Adoramapix (?) and MobileMe (gah!). You can also purchase year-long access to a type of wireless hotspot I have never heard of before, despite there being 10,000 of them. All in all, fine additions to a fine product. Lovely.

General

* Includes recent Apple security updates.
* Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
* Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.
* Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.
* Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
* Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.
* Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
* Includes improvements to Active Directory (see this article for more information).
* Improves Speech Dictionary.
* Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
* Includes extensive graphics enhancements.

The rest can be found after the jump.

Thanks for the tip, Jameson!

Summary

The Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update is recommended for Mac OS X Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3 and 10.5.4. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.

For detailed information about security updates, please visit this website.
Important: Read before installing

* It is recommended that you back up your computer prior to installing any updates.
* Quit all open applications before starting the installation.
* The installation process should not be interrupted even if the progress bar remains unchanged for several minutes. If a power outage or other interruption occurs during installation, use the standalone installer (see below) from Apple Support Downloads to update.
* You may experience unexpected results if you have third-party system software modifications installed, or if you’ve modified the operating system through other means, or if you have moved Apple applications from their default locations. (This does not apply to normal application software installation.)
* If issues occur during installation–for example, if Software Update unexpectedly quits–please see this article.

Products Affected

Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.5.1, Mac OS X 10.5.2, Mac OS X 10.5.3, Mac OS X 10.5.4

Installing the update

To update to Mac OS X 10.5.5, use Software Update or the standalone installer. You only need to use one of these methods to update your computer.

Software Update

Choose Software Update from the Apple menu to automatically check for the latest Apple software via the Internet, including this update. (Software Update might have linked you to this article to learn more about the update.) If your computer is not up-to-date, other software updates available for your computer may appear which you should install. Note: An update’s size may vary from computer to computer when installed using Software Update. Also, some updates must be installed prior to others, so you should run Software Update more than once to make sure you have all available updates.

Standalone installer

Download the update installer and run it manually. This is a useful option when you need to update multiple computers but only want to download the update once. These versions of the standalone installers are available from Apple Downloads.

The Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update is recommended for all versions of Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.5.4.

The delta update lets you update from Mac OS X 10.5.4 to 10.5.5.

The combo update lets you update from Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3 or 10.5.4 to 10.5.5.

What’s included?

General

* Includes recent Apple security updates.
* Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, and remote disc sharing for MacBook Air.
* Addresses an issue in which some Macs could unexpectedly power on at the same time each day.
* Resolves a stability issue in TextEdit that could be found when accessing the color palette.
* Improves Spotlight indexing performance.
* Fixes an issue in which contacts might not sync properly with PalmOS-based devices.
* Improves iPhone sync reliability with iCal and Address Book.
* Includes improvements to Active Directory (see this article for more information).
* Improves Speech Dictionary.
* Fixes Kerberos authentication issues for Mac OS X 10.5 clients that connect to certain Samba servers, such as Mac OS X Server version 10.4.
* Includes extensive graphics enhancements.

Address Book

* Addresses stability issues that may occur when creating a Smart Group.
* Resolves a printing issue with address cards containing information that spans more than one page.

Disk Utility and Directory Utility

* Improves reliability when rebuilding a software mirror RAID volume in Disk Utility.
* Improves reliability of server status displayed in Directory Utility.

iCal

* Updates iCal to more accurately handle repeating events.
* Improves performance when choosing meeting attendees.
* Resolves an issue in which the “Refresh All” option may be dimmed (”grayed out”) in the contextual menu for certain calendars.
* Fixes issues with read-only calendars.
* Addresses an issue that prevents an invitee from moving an event to a different calendar.
* Resolves an issue with syncing published calendars.

Mail

* Addresses performance issues related to displaying IMAP messages.
* Resolves an issue with SMTP settings for AIM, Compuserve, Hanmail, Yahoo!, and Time Warner Road Runner email accounts.
* Addresses stability issues that may occur when dragging a file to the Mail icon in the Dock.
* Addresses an issue with the “Organized by Thread” view in which the date does not appear when the thread is collapsed.
* Resolves an issue in which RSS feeds could temporarily disappear from the sidebar.
* Improves Mail robustness when sending messages.
* Improves reliability when saving drafts that have attachments.

MobileMe

* Improves overall sync reliability.
* Improves Back to My Mac reliability.

Time Machine

* Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.
* Addresses performance issues that may affect initial and in-progress backups.
* Fixes an issue in which an incorrect alert message could appear stating that a backup volume does not have enough free space.
* Time Machine can now back up iPhone backups that are on your Mac, as well as other items in (~/Library/Application Support).

Additional Information

Important: Information about products not manufactured by Apple is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute Apple’s recommendation or endorsement. Please contact the vendor for additional information.

Nokia’s Ovi service was originally a simple photosharing system that took emailed, uploaded, and MMSed images from your phone or computer and put them online. Fair enough. Now, however, Nokia is adding some compelling features to the online suite to make it considerably more usable for personal and enterprise PIM and sharing purposes.

The first and most important update is their file sharing system. After installing the Nokia Ovi Suite on your PC or laptop – it doesn’t work with Mac although there is some talk this will be remedied – you can visit all of your files remotely via a browser on your phone or on another computer. You can preview and download any file – from documents to your CONFIG.SYS file – and upload files to your computer. Obviously you have to have your computer on to do this, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

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Ovi also as improved PIM functionality and can bring your calendars and contacts to the website where you can edit and sync with almost any Nokia phone. The service also has improved music and N-Gage game access.

These additions are clearly part of a move by Nokia to make casual users think of Symbian as a smartphone operating system rather than just something that Nokia happens to have on their phones. With casual smartphone use on the rise, sync has become the number one sticking point with most users and Nokia has long had a fairly anemic sync system.

Get ready for the latest Internet scandal: fake e-mails from Steve Jobs. Well, real e-mails that weren’t sent by Steve Jobs, if that makes any sense.

Wired looked at three e-mails purportedly sent by Steve Jobs in recent weeks: one posted by a MacRumors user, which addresses iPhone 3G connectivity issues; one sent to Gizmodo addressing possible iPhone tethering options; and one addressing the iPod touch.

In Wired’s estimation, these e-mails were not sent by Steve Jobs. We’ve all been had.

Working with the head of the UC Davis linguistics department, along with copy staff, Wired compared these e-mails to those known to have been sent by Jobs himself, including that “MobileMe stinks, we’re sorry” e-mail sent not too long ago. Noting irregularities in the examined e-mails’ grammar and syntax, Wired now believes that the three aforementioned are fake as can be. Incorrect usage of “which” versus “that,” unusual parting words (Jobs doesn’t say “best” or “sincerely” when he concludes e-mails), and the like all point to those e-mails being false. That, in turn, casts doubt on the veracity of the e-mails’ claims, obviously.

What should we call this scandal, JobsGate, EmailGate, LeaveSteveAloneGate?

MobileMe has stunk on ice, so to regain users’ trust Apple will give them two free months of service. Anyone with an account active as of August 19 at 00:00 PDT (note Apple’s correct use of timestamp, PDT) is eligible for the two free months.

Apple is giving away the free months “to express appreciation for [its] members’ patience as [it] continue to improve the service.”

It’s a shame MobileMe has been so buggy, since push for the everyman (because every man needs push) should well be a hit.

Below you’ll find the entire “MobileMe launch wasn’t very good” e-mail Steve Jobs sent to employees. He sent it on Monday, claims Ars.

Team,

The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour. There are several things we could have done better:

– MobileMe was simply not up to Apple’s standards – it clearly needed more time and testing.

– Rather than launch MobileMe as a monolithic service, we could have launched over-the-air syncing with iPhone to begin with, followed by the web applications one by one – Mail first, followed 30 days later (if things went well with Mail) by Calendar, then 30 days later by Contacts.

– It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.

We are taking many steps to learn from this experience so that we can grow MobileMe into a service that our customers will love. One step that I can share with you today is that the MobileMe team will now report to Eddy Cue, who will lead all of our internet services – iTunes, the App Store and, starting today, MobileMe. Eddy’s new title will be Vice President, Internet Services and he will now report directly to me.

The MobileMe launch clearly demonstrates that we have more to learn about Internet services. And learn we will. The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious, and we will press on to make it a service we are all proud of by the end of this year.

Steve

Now let’s all leave Steve alone.