Show's over...notes on Macworld 2009

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 11:28 — Seth Weintraub

Frankly we like to see a little more hardware at events but the 17 inch MacBook was pretty close to our description last week.  The $50 matte version should make people both happy and sad - as wil lthe internal long life battery.  We'd be lying if we said we didn't want one...with 8Gb (will we be able to up our smaller MacBooks to 8Gb)?   No Mini or iMac however was rough.  We have a feeling they are coming.

iLife and iWork are both looking pretty exciting.   iWork.com is pretty close to what we envisaged.  There were lots of gray areas where we missed some stuff but we think we got the major gist of it across.  GarageBand learn-to-play is exactly what we had heard.  And the Magic hint?  Cool transitions in iWork.  They are Fun!

iTunes.  The end of the DRM era.  Now we don't have to visit Amazon (but probably will continue for the dealz).  Amazon still beats Apple on price but iTunes is more convenient.

Apple Stock isn't really reacting (update - whoops - it is tanking).

Overall however, we were left....wanting...although the Macrumorslive (best feed out there)  getting hacked was entertaining.  And obviously we have an Apple Mac hardware event coming up.

We'll put up Apple's videos as they become available.  What did you think?

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iPhoto and iMovie guided Tours

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 11:27 — Quincy Pince-Nez

These applications look pretty exciting.  Check out the guided tours on Apple's homepage.  iPhoto '09 and iMovie '09

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iWork.com beta page is up

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 11:14 — Chauncey Dupree

From Apple:

A new public beta, web-based service from Apple that lets you share your iWork ’09 documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in a way that’s both simple and smart.  Experience iWork.com. To get started, buy iWork ’09

Slingplayer for iPhone/iPod Touch announced!

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:37 — Seth Weintraub

So far so good. Don't go home yet!

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Macworld 2009 Live Panel - Watch 4 feeds at once!

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 09:04 — admin

We are firin' up the livepanel again this year with Engadget, Macrumors, Gizmodo and Computerworld sites all set to be included.  If any go south, we'll hook up a few backups.  As a bonus, we are hoping to get some Qik live camera feeds but are wary of the bandwidth in the hall during the event.  The show starts at noon eastern time, 9am pacific but stop in early to see the pregame show.

Remember, this page refreshes automatically so your trigger finger won't be bloodied refreshing pages.  It is also big and works best on a 24 inch screen or bigger.

Get there!

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A few last things...

Tue, 01/06/2009 - 07:09 — Cleve Nettles

In case you needed a reason to be excited, Andy Ihnatko seems to be a fan of something...or preparing for a epic buzzkill.

Oh and the "Magic" we mentioned before is in the iWork templates...sorry to not have closed that loop..Oh, and Apple's Downloads page lists iWork '09 as the number 5 Top downloads.  We didn't download iWork '09, did you?

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iWork.com set to go live tomorrow

Mon, 01/05/2009 - 20:28 — Seth Weintraub

iWork.com, a domain that Apple has owned for a long time is set to go live this week with a public beta of the new iWork collaboration package.  We went over this briefly before but need to clarify our previous statements a bit.

iWork.com will be a online site where you can share and view (but not yet edit) iWork documents online.  Workgroups will be alowed to share documents, comment on documents and view them to a certain extent in the browser window.  We haven't recieved clarification of how well this will work and how many capabilities this will have. Somewhere between reading a Pages document and viewing a full multimedia Keynote presentation we'd guess.

We expect it to go live tomorrow.

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Something that may not be happening tomorrow

Mon, 01/05/2009 - 20:14 — Chauncey Dupree


Onion Story, via Gizmodo

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iTunes DRM Music era ends tomorrow

Mon, 01/05/2009 - 19:57 — Cleve Nettles

As we've been saying over and over (and over) again, Apple is set to end the era of DRM music.  We've been hearing it will be at Macworld but we're now getting confirmation both from our sources and from CNet that it is going to happen.  This is turning out to be one heckuva Macworld keynote.  Even without Stevo, it looks like Apple wants to go out with a bang.

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Time Capsule update coming...Software Updates

Mon, 01/05/2009 - 11:46 — Cleve Nettles

We've had two sources corroborate that Apple isn't putting together a home server just yet but instead is going to update Time Capsule at some point in the very near future (Macworld?).  The update is relatively minor and the biggest feature is that it will allow the Time Capsule to cache software updates for all Macs on the network.  This functionality exists in Leopard Server and would be nice to have in a home device - especially as updates get bigger and bigger. 

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