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January 11, 2005
Keynote notes
I was at the Macworld Keynote today, and it was all kinds of awesome and wonderful. Here are the notes I took in BBEdit as it happened. It may seem a little cryptic, but you can kinda get a gist of it. You could probably go watch the actual thing on Apple's site, but I figure you guys might like to see my boring on-the-spur notes of the whole thing.
Keynote notes:
- Retail stores around the world - showed London store.
- iMac - world's most beautiful computer - quotes from WSJ, DFP, PCM
- OS X Tiger - Safari RSS, Automater, etc. - 200 new features
- Spotlight - Search technology - "Sherlock"? QS?
- Top right corner
- MSN toolbar, Google toolbar, but better.
- integrated into application.
- DEMO.
- Searched inside documents, excel sheets, pictures, etc.
- Mail - Spotlight into Mail - multiple mailboxes
- Smart Mailboxes - "Smartlist" technology
- Slideshow of picture attachments - album view. Save into iPhoto button.
- Quicktime 7 - live resizing, full surround sound, etc.
- new codec - H264 - created by the Mpeg group.
- adopted by Blu-ray and HD DVDs
- Dashboard - Konfabulator "clone"?
- widgets - calculator, unit converter, language translation, yellow pages, dictionary, thesaurus, weather, Stickies, calendar, flight tracker, stock tracker, currency converter, world clock, eBay tracker
- Konfabulator on speed!
- iChat - audio conferencing - 10 simultaneous people
- video conferencing - multi party
- Release "long before Longhorn" - har de har har
- Final cut Express HD - powerful HD editing to DV
- add soundtrack for custom music - seamless into video files - seamless product integration
- priced at $299 - February
- $99 upgrade price for existing owners
- HD video editing
- iLife '05 - almost every app has major upgrade
- iPhoto - powerful editing, better organizing, more formats, slideshows, new books and book design
- keyword search
- folder organization
- calendar view
- support mpeg4 movies
- supports RAW throughout the application
- photo editing - black and white points, exposure, sharpening, straighten control, saturation, tint, levels - replace PS elements?
- Ken Burns effect on photos
- Buy books from iPhoto
- order prints from iPhoto - 19 cents a print
- Four different book sizes - double side print - $49.99 for HC large, $19.99 for SC large, $9.99 for small, $3.99 for pocketbook
- iMovie - MPEG4 video
- Magic iMovie
- HD video - HDV720P format
- ASIDE - Jobs showed the Sony prosumer HD camcorder - FX SX1 - $3499
- says Sony is a friendly competitor
- invited president of Sony up to stage, Kunitake Ando - He takes over the keynote for abit - talks about HD camcorder, DV format
- iDVD - DVD Menu screens updated
- Garage Band 2 - adds orchestral instruments
- Pitch and timing fixing
- recorded tracks are now as flexdible as software instruments and loops
- up to 8 track recording
- vocal transformer, real time music notation
- ASIDE - John Mayer shows up to demo Garage Band.
- $79 - iWork '05 - Successor to Appleworks
- Keynote 2 - new themes, animated texts, powerful animated builds, presenteer display, interactive slideshows, self playing slideshows
- Pages - word processor
- typography, columns, paragraphs, etc.
- 40 templates - newsletter, brochure, etc.
- templates are very intuitive - live resizing, live reformat
- Demo by Phil Schiller
- $79 - available January 27th
- 2.3 Gigahertz, Xserve
- Mac mini - Headless Mac!!!!
- combo optical drive
- it's a little rectangle cube
- modem, DVI n VGA output, ethernet, etc.
- the size of Jobs's hand!
- BYODKM - bring your own display, keyboard, and mouse
- hook it up to ANY industry display, kb, and mouse
- comes with OS X Panther, and iLife 05
- for PC switchers!
- $499 for base, $599 for faster speed and bigger HD.
- January 22nd
- iTunes - 230 million songs sold
- 1,250,000 songs per day
- over 1 million of iTunes prepaid cards sold
- iPod & iPod Mini - sold 733,000 iPods for 2003 holiday quarter
- sold 4,500,000 for 2004 holiday quarter
- over 400 iPod accessories sold by other companies
- Cars - BMW start offering an adapter for iPod
- Other cars this year - Mercedes, Nissan, Volvo, Scion, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari
- Mercedes - SLK, CLS
- Cellphones - iTunes client on Motorola phones - this Spring
- ONE MORE THING - Mainstream flash iPod!
- Flash based player around Shuffle
- iPod shuffle - smaller than a Trident gum pack - weighs less than an ounce
- no display, just bare bones controls, with a power LED
- Shuffle or Playlist option
- cap on the bottom, that covers a USB2.0 plug.
- supplied a lanyard with it
- added to iTunes - Autofill - automatically build a playlist that fits on the iPod shuffle
- 512MB 120 songs - $99
- 1Gig 240 songs - $149
- TODAY!
- 12 hours of battery life
- accessories - armband, dock, case, battery extender - $29 each - rolling out in the next month or so
Posted by Nicole at January 11, 2005 05:36 PM
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