At the WWDC ‘07 (Apple WorldWide Developer Conference, 11-15.6.2007) Steve Jobs held a keynote to the developers. Steve revealed 10 new features about the upcoming Mac OS X operating system ‘Leopard‘.
- New Desktop: 3D-look, stacks, transparent and finally no more brushed metal, but a consistent new look instead.
- New Finder: New look, new sidebar, search [...]
Check out the whole thing here.
Highlights:
Prologue:
Youtube on AppleTV. Nice…! My favorite thing about the video was the last part about iTunes on Windows.
Walt: “How many copies of iTunes are out there?”
Jobs: “Lots. Several times more than the number of iPods.”
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Walt: “That makes Apple one of the biggest developers of Windows software around”
Jobs: “That’s right. … It’s like offering a glass [...]
Today’s big news in the web was Apple’s announcement that they have to delay Leopard due to iPhone. They had to move some engineers from Leopard team to the iPhone team to keep up with the important iPhone release date. Leopard release date has been delayed until October 2007.
I can understand this, iPhone is an [...]
Apple released the 8-core (octo) option in Mac Pro configuration and also updated the line of Cinema Displays by decreasing the price. Cheapest 8-core Mac Pro configuration is $3,997 when the cheapest 4-core system is $2,200. New display prices are 20" $599, 23" $899 and 30" $1,799. Still totally out of my price range, but [...]
Surprisingly nice news from Apple. EMI is going to start offering its music DRM-free and Apple iTunes is going to be the first store. Songs are also going to be higher quality than before. The quality is 256 kbps AAC files. (The quality should be high enough that the human hearing system shouldn’t notice any [...]
BBC made a story about Kris Tate, the founder of Zooomr. Kris was only 17 year old when he created Zooomr. Now he’s 18 years and still the only programmer of Zooomr. Thomas Hawk, a great photographer and blogger, is Zooomr’s CEO nowadays.
My favorite part of the story:"A lot of lines (of code) are created [...]
It’s still just a rumor, but it sounds interesting. Leopard, the soon to be released mac operating system, is going to have a new overall 3D-feature. Much like Exposé, but available for the whole operating system and the applications. It will probably be based on OpenGL, like Core Animation and other OS X 3D-features. This [...]
Funny story by hipFOX.
“A teen who wanted an apple Macintosh computer (mac) for Christmas after seeing one of the ubiquitous apple ads on the apple website, but instead got to inherit his father’s older Windows PC, finally got mad early Saturday morning and threw out the inherited Dell PC out of the window in a [...]
Warning! This video contains some explicit language,
but there is a happy ending…
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