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WWDC 2006 Coverage
The 2006 WWDC Keynote is mere hours away, and as always DT will cover it (provided there are no technical difficulties; last time we tried this for WWDC, we brought the server down. Our server’s in a bit better shape this year, and we do have some safeguards in place to prevent overloading the server). We will have a live text feed of all Steve Jobs’ announcements at WWDC. If following automatically-refreshing web pages isn’t your thing, you can join us in our chat, where we will keep you abreast of the latest and you can commune with your fellow geeks: AIM chatroom ”dtgeeks” (sans quotes) or our IRC Channel. The chats are often more up-to-the-minute than the web feed, and much kinder on the server.
So please join us for what promises to be another fun, exciting event. We hope to see you here!
(Updates in reverse-chronological order)
11:26
- Keynote has finished, no One More Thing
11:25
- Xcode 3.0
- Giant leap in Xcode
- Rosyna: “It still sucks”
- Developer preview today
- Shipping in Spring
NOTE: We may lose our feed in 15 minutes while rosyna changes batteries
11:20
- iChat theater
- Shows the iPhoto slideshow in the window
- Transformations, effects, all over the internet
- Show movies over iChat via conferencing
- iChat dynamically removes the background from video chats, no blue or green screen needed
- Rosyna: “Schiller found nemo”
11:16
- Turn any webcam into a widget
- 10) iChat
- Multiple Logins, Invisibility, Animated Buddy Icons, Tabbed Chats, Video Recording
- Photo Booth effects on iChat conferences
- Can show iPhoto slideshows over iChat
11:12
- Demo of Dilbert Widget
- Just hit a butotn, select the rect on the page you care about and that’s it, it’s a widget
11:09
- 9) Dashboard
- 2500 widgets available for Tiger
- Dashcode finally being released
- Pre made templates
- Graphical tool for CSS and HTML
- Rich parts library
- Javascript debugger
- Web clip, can turn any part of any web page into a widget
11:06
- To Do: Make sure Leopard gets done on time, squash all leopard bugs, blow vista away
- Rosyna: “which manager thought this up..”
- System wide to do service
11:03
- Set priorities and alarms on to do’s
- Select anything in an email and make it at to do
- Any app can view or list to do’s
- Rosyna: “oh, no good drinks here either so far”
11:00
- Leopard still has pacing problems but sounds almost live
- Speed things up
- Rosyna: “Wow, it is listenable”
- 8) Mail
- Stationary to mail, notes to mail, to do’s to mail
- Same toolbar icons
- HTML stationary…
- You can make your own stationary
10:56
- Demo of Core Animation
- 7) Universal Access
- More VoiceOver advances - Braille support, closed aptioning support
- Faster and better ways to navigate
- Better text to speech
- Default Tiger voice, monotonal
- Vista, much better but skips syllables eg “OS sex”
- Leopard, much better
10:52
- 6) Core Animation
- Rosyna: “Drool”
- Cheetah gave Core Audio, Tiger CoreImage and Video
- Scene of layers, text, images, open gl, video
- Start, goal, key frames
- iTunes album artwork screensaver: 40k lines of code in Tiger, 400 lines of code in Leopard
10:50
- 5) Spotlight
- Can be used to search servers, other macs etc
- Advanced Syntax for searching
- Finder search features going into the Spotlight window
- Spotlight launches apps like Quicksilver
- Shows recent items
10:47
- 4) Spaces, virtual desktops
- Demo
- Clicking on an App switches desktop
- Switching is Exposé-like
- You can drag windows between desktops
10:44
- 3) Boot Camp will be in leopard
- New Front Row will be built into Leopard, as well as Photo Booth
- Photo Booth works with more camera’s
10:42
- Allows searching into the past
- Shows iPhoto with an entire roll of film missing
- iPhoto hung…
10:39
- Versioning, for if you make a really big mistake
- Demo
- Click on dock icon, like exposé for versioning
- You can go and look at how the Finder looked yesterday
- Rosyna: “holy crap in a crap shack covered in bloody”
10:35
- 2) Time Machine
- 36% surveyed said they back up
- 4% use automatic back up
- Time Machine is automatic back up
- Change something and it gets backed up, applications, software updates, the OS itself
- It can restore everything
- Back up to HD or Server, auto detects external HDs and configures them
10:32: Leopard
- They will show a preview, but not show everything
- 10 new leopard features been shown to day
- 1) 64 bit support
- Tiger had it at the UNIX layer
- 64 bit UI in cocoa and carbon apps, 32 bit compatible
10:29
- MS has made big UI innovations
- They put search in the bottom left instead of top right corner
- They split email, calendar and address book up
- iCal and Windows Calendar look the same
- But underneath it’s still windows, still has the registry, DLL hell, product activation
- Comparing Vista to a Fat Elvis imitation
10:27
- What has MS been doing the past 5 years?
- MS has tried to ship one OS that has had many names, now called Vista
- Rosyna: “heh, apple made the vista logo beautiful”
- 2 years ago Apple said “Redmond, start your photocopiers”, MS took it seriously
10:25: OS X
- What has Apple been doing the past 5 years? Making OS X releases
- 19 million active OS X users
- Tiger is the best selling software release for Apple ever
- Tiger on x86 is a 6th release (they don’t usually get credit for it)
- 8 million lines of source code ported to run
- 3,000+ Universal apps
10:22
- 80GB HD, 1GB ram, built in Graphics
- Similar Dell is $3293
- Shipping in October
10:20: Xserve
- Quad Xeon available in 2, 2.66 and 3GHz
- Spec 21 to 115 int, 29 to 76 floating point
- Redundant power
- Up to 2.25TBs
- Lights out management
- 1,036,800 build to order options
- $2,999
10:17
- Mac Pro shipping today
- Rosyna: “Do we get a free one downstairs?”
- Transition is complete, Jan 19th to Aug 7th, 210 days
10:15
- One standard config
- 2x 2.66GHz Xeons
- 1GB Ram
- 250GB HD
- 7300GT, 256MB VRAM
- 16x Super Drive
- $2499 was $3299 for a G5 Quad
10:13
- 1.8x faster with Xcode
- 1 Dual 1.33GHz FSB up to 16GB of Ram at 677GHz
- 4 Hard drive bays, Dual Optical Bays
- More IO ports on the front, including FW800
- 4 PCI Express slots
10:10: Today the PowerMac fades into history
- Mac Pro, looks same as PowerMac
- Intel Xeon Woodcrest Core 2 based
- Dual Core up to 3Ghz
- 4MB cache, 128-bit vector engine, 64-bit
- All Mac Pro’s Quad core
- Fastest Quad is twice as fast as the G5 Quad
10:07: Retail
- 157 stores, 17 million visitors last year
- 50% are new to the mac that buy a mac
- $500 million of third party software sold
- 1.3 million Macs sold, 75% ICBMs
- Market share rising, from 6% in January to 12% in the US note book market
10:05: Biggest WWDC ever,
- 4200+ registered people
- 48 countries
- 750,000 developers
- 140 sesssions
- 100 hands on labs
- 10000 apple engineers on site
- Phil Schiller,Bertrand Serlet, Scott Forstall all at keynote
10:00: It Begins.
- Personal message fromthe PC
- Steve and the PC agree they can stop making software and work on our tans
- Take a year off
- We can help on vista
- Widgets and gadgets are two different things
9:56: Lo-Fi mode: http://www.dtgeeks.com
9:35: Keynote to begin in 25 minutes
9:30 am PDT: Apple Store down.
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thinkback
But how about the ability to stick widgets on the desktop?
I never understood this desire. Your desktop is always covered up. What’s the difference between having to press F11 to get everything out of the way versus pressing your Dashboard key and having them fly over everything?
Having the Widgets over your applications allows you to refer to that information as you use Widgets more easily. It also lets you access your Widgets but without being forced to see them in the background as you use other applications.
Having the option is always welcome, though, I just need enlightenment. 
But would it have killed them to do a demo?
Probably Top Secret, I’m guessing. The screenshots of Leopard don’t show the Spotlight results with the group sorting options. This makes be believe there’s something new or different with all of those options, or you now have the option to turn off that right pane.
Since the keynote, a lot more new features are surfacing that are pretty nice.
Safari has a great feature with Find within a Web page. I often have a hard time locating the blue highlight in an entire Web page for the word I’ve searched for. Now they darken the screen and highlight all the results at once and then put a big box around each one as you do CMND G. Very sweet! This is the kind of stuff I love from Apple. They focus on something like that and then come up with a better way of implementing the feature.
Safari also lets you move tabs, which is long overdue in my book.
Safari lets you create a bookmark for multiple tabs. That is very cool. That sounds much easier than having to manually create a folder and then have it open the folder into tabs, which replaces all tabs already open.
Spotlight results include definitions in the Dictionary. That’s cool.
The Help system in Leopard brings OS X back to parity to OS 9 in this regard (previous Mac operating systems would walk you through a Help subject and bring up dialogs for you and circle with red the buttons and features the Help was referring to).
Time Machine—Photoshop History palette for your OS. OK. Got it. I don’t know if I’ll use it because I use very large files and I’ll need another hard drive just for that, but I haven’t used it yet so I’ll reserve final judgement…
Spaces—I don’t know yet. I never understood the concept of managing your “tasks” like that. It’s a lot of work that probably negates any benefit, maybe. I don’t have any experience, so I’ll reserve final judgement, but I don’t “get it”.
| Aug. 16, 2006 | ||
| 9:56 am |
Sheesh. I posted this in the wrong article. This was suppose to go in “Leopard: First Impressions”.
Damn work making me rush my goofing off time!
| Aug. 16, 2006 | ||
| 11:03 am |
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Is there nobody in the AIM chatoom or is it just Meebo?