OS X Code (r,s)

Posted on Tuesday 10 January 2006 - Popularity: 2%

Once again there will be no live feed of the Steve Jobs Macworld keynote later today in San Francisco, but of course there are sites with live updates. I will try to post updates as well, so check back in about four hours (from this post). Here are the exact times for your city in case it isn’t listed on the pic above.

In case I can’t post updates, here’s a list of other sites with live updates of the keynote: MacDailyNews, macteens, iPod Garage, SiteLink (dashboard widget), Mac Rumors, Ars Technica Infinite Loop (IRC), Uneasy Silence, AppleXnet, Engadget and macnews.de (German).

A replay of the keynote will be available at Apple’s QuickTime site, but I don’t know exactly when Apple will post the stream, most likely a few hours after the keynote has ended.

The Apple Store is back and Apple.com updated! Info sites for the new MacBook Pro, the new iMac and the new iLife 06 apps.

Here’s the new Intel TV ad and here is the keynote stream.

Live Updates:

• 45 minutes to go: Apple Store down!
• 10 minutes to go: Seating has begun!
• 1 minute to go: .Mac services has been withdrawn, maybe a big update together with iWeb? The next minutes will tell us more.
• 9:05: Blue curtains? Blu Ray maybe?
• 9:10: Steve Jobs on stage!
• 135 Retail-Stores, 26 millionen visitors in last quarter, some stores with over a billion sales volume!
• 2005 holiday, 14 million iPods sold! 42 million total! 32 million in 2005!
• 2005 holiday, total sales of $5,7 billions!
• iTunes: 850 million songs sold, 83% market share
• 8 million videos sold, new Saturday Nightlife content
• New iPod accessoire, a remote control with FM Tuner, can be controled from the iPod, $49
• Rest of keynote about Macs!
• Talk about Aperture … video demo
• Over 1500 Widgets, new Widgets (Google …), OS X 10.4.4 will be released today
• iLife 06! Music, Movies, Photos, Blogs. iPhoto performance update. New “one click” effects, bigger library … up to 350.000 photos!
• New “Photocasting” feature for .Mac members. Podcasting for iPhoto pictures, share them over the internet. People can subscribe.
• Demoing all the new .Mac and iPhoto features … of course you don’t need iPhoto to subscribe to a Photocast, it’s just an RSS feed after all.
• iMovie demo … new effects, new audio tools, animated themes, more than one project at a time, create video Podcasts, iPod export option …
• iDVD demo … better watch this later on the video stream
• Garageband demo … new Podcast Studio … speech enhancer, new effects … creating a Podcast demo, use iChat for interviews … Steve does “8 pound iPod with 10″ screen” joke on his podcast … 200 free jingles and effects for your Podcasts
• iWeb … themes, one click publishing to .Mac, RSS … iWeb demo … Ajax features! Every browser can view it, not just Safari … Ajax slideshow viewer … integrated with other iLife apps like iTunes, iPhoto … Steve publishes the Podcast he just created with iWeb … iWeb demo over
• 6 iLife apps, $79, available today … comes free with new Macs
• 1 million .Mac subscribers
• iWork 06 … some new features
• Intel Bunny suit guy walks out … Apple and Intel is ready … nights and weekends work … Steve thx Intel … today, first Intel Mac! … and it is … the iMac! … built in iSight … Front Row …
• Same design, same price … 2-3x times faster than old iMac G5 … Intel Core Duo … each core faster than G5
• 10.4.4 and all included apps are native Intel apps! … pro apps (Final Cut, Aperture …) will be universal in March … Quark unviversal beta released today
• All presentations of today done on new iMacs … Microsoft apps are currently using Rosetta, they work fine … Microsoft here to stay for at least another five years … Office demo (Rosetta) … they work hard on making their apps native
• Photoshop faster on the G5, but Adobe is preparing an universal binary version
• All Macs will make the transition this year
• One More Thing … 2 processors in every MacBook Pro … 4-5 times faster (Kevin Rose was spot on with everything!)
• 15.4 inch, built in iSight, thinner than the 17″ PowerBook … IR sensor, remote … screen bright as Cinema displays … new magnetical power adapter
• 5.6lbs. iSight, Front Row, Core Duo, 667 DDR bus, x1600 GPU
• 1.67GHz $1999, 1.83GHz $2499 … shipping next month

Fredi