While the 3G iPhone may have stolen the show at Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC 2008, Apple did sneak in a little bit of information on the next major release of Mac OS X 10.6 - dubbed”Snow Leopard”. While the past few releases of the Mac OS have been feature filled with tons of end-user goodies, this next release is expected to focus on improving the quality and performance of the OS. While not many details have been released, a few key features coming include “Grand Central” which will allow devevlopers to take advantage of multi-core systems, the entire operating system’s footprint will also be dramatically reduced - most likely to port over to the iPhone and AppleTV. The operating system would also be entirely 64-bit, theoretically able to support 16TB of RAM - which is right now unearthly possible on our macs.
Almost a year ago Apple released the iPhone, I was one of the guys they filmed standing in line to get one of the new shiny Apple goodies. Steve Jobs said it would be the coolest phone ever, and he didn’t lie. The iPhone 1.0 is the best phone I have ever had. Now at WWDC, Steve has demonstrated, iPhone 2.0 software which looks AWESOME. In addition to that he showed iPhone 3G. The iPhone 3G looks so cool, It should be called the iPhone speed, because that is what it is all about. The blazing fast speed of the 3G network, or GPS, the iPhone v2 is very interesting. Not to mention the super price point of $199.00 for the 8 gig and $299 for the 16 gig.
Now here is my dilemma, and I am hoping that the readers of iBam can help me out. Even though I already have an iPhone, how do I justify to my wife the need for me to get a new iPhone? What about you? Do you have an iPhone v1? Are you going to get a v2 iPhone.
If you plan to pass on the iPhone, what is stopping you?
Today was the day that many people have been talking about, and that was the keynote at this years WorldWide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Speculation has been growing for months about a new version of the iPhone, and just in the last couple of weeks there has been many rumors about .Mac being updated and rebranded. Well it seems both of those were confirmed today in the keynote by Steve Jobs.
First up is the .Mac rebranding, which is now called MobileMe. Aside from the name change this seems to be a significant update to the service. One of the biggest surprises for me was the fact that this service will now sync with Windows, including Outlook. I still need to catch up with all the features, but basically it’s a huge way to sync all your mail, contacts, calendars, and more between your Mac, iPhone, and even the PC. A guided tour is available which gives a great overview of what’s new. It will be available in July and I for one can’t wait to get my hands on it. [Continued]
Adobe has really been pushing online services lately. We had the release of Photoshop Express and now the beta for Buzzword is now open for business. When you think of online documents you think of Google Documents, but Buzzword is aiming to make its own presence known in the online word processing game. Buzzword is also part of the Acrobat.com beta, which is a web-based suite of online services aimed at users who want to create and share documents on the web.
Buzzword is free to use, but you will have to signup for an Acrobat.com account, or you can use an existing Adobe account if you already have one. I have been using it with both Safari and Firefox, and the loading of the interface and documents just seemed slow compared to similar services. It has all the standard features you would expect to find in a word processor, and the interface is clean, although I personally didn’t find the dark background easy to work with. Creating and editing documents was a snap, and it seemed to handle images and text placement well. [Continued]
It’s official! The iBAM Book site is up and running and the project is in full swing. What is it, you ask? Well… the idea is to put together a cool coffee table “type” book featuring picture after creative picture of “you and your Mac”. We all love our juicy little bundles of joy so why don’t we show it off to the whole world in our true creative style? If you are a photographer, this is a great way to promote yourself by creating a collection for inside the book. If you’re an individual with a picture of you and your Mac, it’s a great way to promote yourself or whatever you want. Meet new people, be creative and all in all, just have some fun with some of the coolness that we can do with the Internet today. Photo submission deadline is October 1st, 2008 so stop by the site, take some pics and get your Mac on!
This is all for community and fun so if you don’t mind, help me spread the word. Blog it, tweet it, pownce it, digg it, scream it or do whatever you can to help make this little book idea into something great. it’s all about YOU!
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While the 3G iPhone may have stolen the show at Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC 2008, Apple did sneak in a little bit of information on the next major release of Mac OS X 10.6 - dubbed”Snow Leopard”. While the past few releases of the Mac OS have been feature filled with tons of end-user goodies, this next release is expected to focus on improving the quality and performance of the OS. While not many details have been released, a few key features coming include “Grand Central” which will allow devevlopers to take advantage of multi-core systems, the entire operating system’s footprint will also be dramatically reduced - most likely to port over to the iPhone and AppleTV. The operating system would also be entirely 64-bit, theoretically able to support 16TB of RAM - which is right now unearthly possible on our macs.
