News from the Apple WWDC 2007
I have been following this afternoon Steve Jobs' Keynote at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on MacRumors and Engadget. They did a pretty good job reporting almost immediately with both text and images of the keynote.
Steve informed us about several new Leopard features, none of which is the inclusion of ZFS as the default filesystem. Yes, i know... damn!
One of the first features is an enhanced Dock, with something called Stacks, which will hold whatever files you want, enabling easy access to them. Nice. There's a screencast at the Leopard site.
The Finder has been upgraded too, and it sports an iTunes-like interface, even with CoverFlow. Even more, you can press space on almost any file and it will automatically preview, without opening any application.
Using iChat, we will be able to bring up a Keynote presentation, as well as those PhotoBooth-esque effects we had already seen. Phil Schiller said "I love my Mac!" with Steve Ballmer's head. He, he.
Steve also announced the official price of Leopard: "We've got a basic version that will cost $129, we've got a Premium Version which will cost $129. We've got a business version! $129. Ultimate version! We're throwing everything into it, it's $129. We think everyone's going to buy the ultimate version."
One of the big announcements of the Keynote, Safari 3 for Mac AND Windows. And it's already available. Grab your copy now for free in the Safari site.
I have already tested it, and has a couple of nice features I have discovered so far. For starters, if you have several opened tabs, and you accidentally close Safari, it will ask you whether you really want to close it.
Search no longer opens a new window where you type the text. Instead, a nice search bar scrolls down the tab bar, and the search text is highlighted on the page.
You can now also organise tabs, just clicking and dropping the tab where you want it. You can also open a new window dragging a tab outside Safari.
iPhone news: applications for iPhone will be web-based Ajax apps, so anyone able to develop web applications will be able to develop for the iPhone. They showed a LDAP-based directory application as an example.
Steve informed us about several new Leopard features, none of which is the inclusion of ZFS as the default filesystem. Yes, i know... damn!
One of the first features is an enhanced Dock, with something called Stacks, which will hold whatever files you want, enabling easy access to them. Nice. There's a screencast at the Leopard site.
The Finder has been upgraded too, and it sports an iTunes-like interface, even with CoverFlow. Even more, you can press space on almost any file and it will automatically preview, without opening any application.
Using iChat, we will be able to bring up a Keynote presentation, as well as those PhotoBooth-esque effects we had already seen. Phil Schiller said "I love my Mac!" with Steve Ballmer's head. He, he.
Steve also announced the official price of Leopard: "We've got a basic version that will cost $129, we've got a Premium Version which will cost $129. We've got a business version! $129. Ultimate version! We're throwing everything into it, it's $129. We think everyone's going to buy the ultimate version."
One of the big announcements of the Keynote, Safari 3 for Mac AND Windows. And it's already available. Grab your copy now for free in the Safari site.
I have already tested it, and has a couple of nice features I have discovered so far. For starters, if you have several opened tabs, and you accidentally close Safari, it will ask you whether you really want to close it.
Search no longer opens a new window where you type the text. Instead, a nice search bar scrolls down the tab bar, and the search text is highlighted on the page.
You can now also organise tabs, just clicking and dropping the tab where you want it. You can also open a new window dragging a tab outside Safari.
iPhone news: applications for iPhone will be web-based Ajax apps, so anyone able to develop web applications will be able to develop for the iPhone. They showed a LDAP-based directory application as an example.
