The Winter Equinox for Apple Cultists
Blessed be! Rejoice and throw off thy garb, for the Blessed Jobs has bestowed new bounty on his people!
I refer, of course, to the MacWorld keynote address–the subject of much speculation and foofaraw among Applists. In truth, today’s show was pretty ordinary manna from nerd Heaven: Intel inside, faster PowerBook, new versions of iLife and iWork, blogging and podcasting tools and photos by RSS.
Engadget appears to have the best coverage. Follow the keynote minute-by-minute:
12:27 PM - “Scrolls like butter” (laughter) Full-screen editing mode with slide-in and overlaid controls.”
It’s like you’re there.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Probably better than being there, since you don’t have to put up with the hour-long discussion of iPod FM transmitters, widgets for OS X, and a few new iLife features before you get to the good stuff.
Nice podcasting support in GarageBand, iPhoto, iChat, and iWeb, though. I think John Gruber was right in mid-2005: this never would have happened so fast if the word just hadn’t lucked out to be “podcasting”:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/07/podcast_pocket
January 10th, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Photos in the play by play… nice!
I followed along at MacRumors.com — they had a nice refresh system (AJAX-based, I think): the whole page didn’t reload (only thing that changed was new text appeared), and a simple (but effective) countdown timer until the next refresh.
January 10th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
Incidentally the stream’s up (though I guess most people who care probably know this already):
http://macworld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/mw/index.html