Macworld 2009 Live Coverage
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10:29 am: iTunes WiFi store now works over 3G on the iPhone (if you can find and maintain 3G service on AT&T). Tony Bennett sings as special guest.
10:28 am: New tier pricing: 69 cents, 99 cents, $1.29. iTunes Plus remains 99 cents for DRM free tracks. New negotiations give 8 million DRM-free iTunes Plus tracks, 2 million more by end of quarter (the entire iTunes library will be DRM free). Easy to update your collection to DRM-free.
10:25 am: iTunes report: 6 billion tracks sold. Largest with 10 million track library, 75 million accounts with registered credit cards.
10:21 am: Thinnest (.98 inches) and lightest (6.6lbs) 17" laptop. 3 USB ports, FW 800. Ships in late January
10:19 am: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and 9600MT graphics, 320GB HD or 256GB SDD (flash drive) option, up to 8GB of RAM
10:17 am: New "integrated battery" (non removable) rated for 8 hour charge. 1000 charge cycles, more enviromentally friendly battery technology
10:14 am: One more thing: 17" MacBook Pro unibody. Same ports as 15", antiglare matte coating option for $50
10:13 am: iWork.com lets you edit and add notes to docs, like Google Docs. Apple brought its Office suite online, and it looks like a SproutCore app, as we anticipated in early reports.
10:11 am: EXCLUSIVE: Macworld Expo banners are only about iWork, iLife!
10:08 am: In Pages, Numbers, Keynote, send a document to iWork.com from the toolbar, addressed to people from your Address Book. That will sent them an email with a link to a web page that can be used to download the document as an iWork file, or PDF or MS Office file
10:07 am: Lots of reporters seem bored about a new iLife and iWork, but if this was Microsoft, that's all there'd be, and we'd have to pretent to get excited about Office
10:05 am: New iWork 09 is still $79; $49 with a new Mac. A new "Mac Box Set" packages Leopard, iLife and iWork for $169.
10:04 am: New Numbers lets you update charts that update live in Pages or Keynote. Lots of new templates
10:00 am: Mailmerge with Numbers data. Support for MathType and EndNote. New templates for newsletters, flyers, certificates, business letters
09:59 am: Pages is more writing oriented, with interface hiding and dynamic outlines.
09:58 am: Now Pages 08 - some are upset that the new Mini and 17" MacBook Pros havn't been shown yet.
09:56 am: Keynote Remote: new iPhone app talks wirelessly to the Mac. Shows slide, next slide, notes... switch by flicking!
09:54 am: Object, Text transitions, Chart animations, new themes.
09:54 am: Keynote 09 does Magic Moves for setting up animated objects on slides.
09:51 am: iLife 09 the same $99, ships free on new Macs. New iWeb and iDVD but no details; Next up: a new iWork 09. Late January.
09:50 am: Slide bullet points: "Get stories behind the song, lyrics and notation, practice with original tracks, create your own mix, slow down any part"
09:48 am: Learn to Play provides some free lessons, and will offer pros at $4.99 per lesson: Sting, Norah Jones
09:45 am: New interface. Learn to play keyboard or guitar. Instructor video with display of the keys you are hitting below it.
09:43 am: Next up: GarageBand 09: new guitar effects and jam tools "but we're not going to tell you about those" Phil says
09:40 am: Themes with 3D animation, titles and image compositing. Travel maps plots locations on the map with travel arrows. Video effects give real time filters such as cartoon or xray or aged.
09:38 am: iMovie 09 Action popup for precison editing: like GarageBand for video
09:35 am: Advanced audio editing independent of video. Drag audio over a series of clips
09:33 am: Video stablization to help smooth out shakey camera movement.
09:32 am: Randy Ubillos (Apple's Final Cut Pro lead, chief architect of video apps) showing demo of precision editing, advanced drag and drop, dynamic themes, and animated travel maps
09:28 am: Next up: iMovie 09
09:19 am: Slideshows with themes can be saved to iTunes and synced to the iPod touch and iPhone
09:24 am: iPhoto Faces and Places demo - pretty slick stuff
09:19 am: Slideshows with themes can be saved to iTunes and synced to the iPod touch and iPhone
09:18 am: People tagged in Facebook photos are synced back to iPhoto, so Faces identies show on the desktop iPhoto app. Wow, smart.
09:15 am: Based on Google Maps of course. Also new support built in for Flickr and Facebook
09:14 am: Photos without GPS data can be assigned an event location. Tag 'Yosemite' and iPhoto gives your album photos GPS location tags.
09:12 am: Also new: Places: GPS geotagging. Takes lat/long from GPS cameras such as the iPhone and presents it as a map.
09:10 am: New in iPhoto 09: Faces: face detection tagging. iPhoto finds a face, you say who it is, and the app finds other photos it thinks has the same person in them.
09:08 am: First Product -- iLife '09. New iPhoto.
09:07 am: Today the focus will be on Macs. Last year, sold a record 9.7 million Macs.
09:07 am: Apple stores seeing 3.4 million visitors per week.
09:05 am: "It's an exciting time at Apple" especially the stores. Showing
09:04 am: Phil Schiller has taken the stage, says he's happy to be delivering the keynote today
09:01 am: Apple has asked that cell phones and pagers be turned off...
08:59 am: Everyone is taking their seats. The keynote is due to start in one minute.
08:00 am: Waiting for keynote to begin....
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