WWDC 2009 Keynote Recap
Three thumbs up for Apple!
BOOO for AT&T!
Today was the highly anticipated WWDC (apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference) keynote. Rumors have been focusing on the iPhone, but in just the first half of the keynote speech, they WOW’d us in true apple form with some interesting announcements.
Wow, I just got finished watching TWiT’s feed and commentary on the WWDC Keynote speech. WOW. A lot of very exciting things coming down the apple pipeline. I took some notes while watching/listening to the cast.
The most anticipated announcement is that the new iPhone will be available on June 19th. It is known as the 3GS. With the S for SPEED 
. Some of the new features are 3 megapixel with video and autofocus, faster speed 7.2 megabit, and a compass. WOW 32GB for $299 and 16GB for $199 and the old 3G at 8GB will be available for $99.
The following is a bullet list of what was announced.
MacBook Pro’s
- all MacBook Pro’s have been refreshed
- battery life extended
- non-replaceable battery
- 13″ Unibody MacBook now a Pro
- – Firewire added to the 13″ unibody
Quicktime New
- iMovie like editing
OSX Snow Leopard
- Available in September
- 64 Bit
- 16 Billion Gigabyte Memory ceiling
- Multi core support more efficient
- $29 upgrade $49 family pack upgrade (not confirmed, but that would rock)
- $129 Standard buy (not the upgrade)
- Exchange support in ical, mail, address book, etc (great for business users)
- Snow Leopard will be available for all intel mac
iPhone
- 50,000 apps in the app store
- 40,000,000 iPhones and iPod touches sold
- in 9 months of the app store, 1 billion apps downloaded
iPhone OS 3.0
- more than 100 new features
- cut, copy and paste
- landscape keyboard in all applications
- mms added
- AT&T will support mms later this summer LOL
- message search
- spotlight – search across the phone
- iTunes rent and purchase movies and audiobooks from iPhone
- Parental control on apps and movies etc
- Tethering USB AND Bluetooth
- – AT&T not supported yet BOOO
- support for streaming video and audio HTTP
- autofill
- HTML 5
- robust language support (over 30 languages)
- Find my iphone (??) available to mobile me…
- – it will show you on a web browser where your iphone is NICE
- – if completely lost you can erase all data on the phone
- support for peer to peer gaming over bluetooth
- hardware protocol support for external devices
- push notifications
- turn by turn using core location
- free for iPhone – $9.95 for iPod touch
- Available June 17 (devs get it today)
iPhone Hardware
- iPhone 3GS (S for Speed for the most powerful, fastest one ever)
- same design as 3G
- OpenGL|ES 2.0 support
- 7.2 megabit HSPDA
- 3 megapixel autofocus camera
- – tap to focus
- – low light sensitivity
- VIDEO
- – 30fps 640×480
- – autofocus
- voice control
- – control things like ipod (“play more songs like this”)
- digital compass
- hardware encryption
- improved battery
- Pricing: $199 16 GB and $299 32 GB plus $99 for the 8GB 3G (non-S)
- Availability: June 19th, 2009
Wow, kudos APPLE! The boo for AT&T is that the MMS and Tethering “is coming” LOL
Does It Play On a Mac? – The Neverhood
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In contrast to all the dark, bloody games I’ve covered previously, this installment attempts a bright, quirky, all-clay animated point-and-click adventure game from 1996. Can the Mac handle the over three tons of clay it took to create The Neverhood?
Does It Play On a Mac? – Nightmare Creatures
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In this episode I look at the 3rd person action-horror game “Nightmare Creatures”, set in gothic London in the 1800’s. Can the MacBook Pro and Crossover Games handle the horror?
Does It Play On a Mac? – Blood
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For this installment, I am attempting the 1997 horror-FPS from Monolith, “Blood”.
Picked up MSI Wind More to come
I picked up an MSI Wind today. I needed a more portable solution than my Macbook Pro 17″. (I still plan to get the unibody one when it comes out) I still plan to get a Vaio P-Series at some point, you just can’t beat the screen res and size of that thing.
I started playing around with it, am working on putting OSX on it. I was going to go the MSIWindOSX86.iso method but I like clean installs. So, I am working on methodology that allows me to do full vanilla updates etc.
If it doesn’t frustrate the hell out of me, I’ll do a write up and video on what I did
If it doesn’t work well enough, linux baby!
Macbook Pro 17″ (2008) Unboxing
We just got a MacBook Pro from the Apple Store and decided to share the unboxing with you.