Macworld 2009: LIVE.

[pante]

here i will post the newest info straight from macworld 09. be prepared.

UPDATE:

my special agent who is there says there are a lot of rumors, mostly about Snow Leopard and new iPod Touch (!). meanwhile store at apple.com is closed, but you can find new iwork 09 in Top Downloads. what next? we will see - 30 minutes to start.

[rootbeersoup]

Hey man

Try posting new posts instead of updating your first one :)

[Mr. Charley]

I love days like today...so exciting..who has time to work??? :)

As for a new Touch, I think that will remain as rumour...
I guess time will tell...I won't be able to lie about it as it's here, timestamped for everyone to see! :)

[pante]

they've opened big room! people are gathering inside...

5 more minutes!

[pante]

they played music from all apple commercials, and the main theme is coldplay's viva la vida. people are talking mainly about steve jobs...

[pante]

presentation is ready to lunch. :D

[Mr. Charley]

Come on FW 2.3!!!!! Give 'er!!!!

[pante]

http://live.myapple.pl/macworld2009 - here is a polish site, and they have some cool photos.

[pante]

someone screamed phil! - where is todays big man?

[pante]

they asked the crowd to turn off all cellphones and volume in theirs macbooks :D

[Mr. Charley]

@ pante

You're like a commentator at a big league sporting event, giving us the play by play! :)

[pante]

lights went down!!!

[pante]

lights went down!!!

trying to do my best :D

[pante]

i'm so excited to be delivering the keynot - Phill Schiller on stage!!

[pante]

now they show apple stores all around the world.

[pante]

paul said that appstore has got 3.4 million visitors per week. wow, that's a lot :)

[pante]

and today we are focusing on Mac he added.

common man, say more!

[pante]

free new things today.
first: iLife 09.

UPDATE: new iPhoto, new options called faces. you can organize your photos by faces, just iPhoto finds the face, and you tell who is on it. then it will find other photos that shows the same person. and you can edit faces on photos. + it adds GPS location to every new made photo. and old one? you put location by your own. pure and simple. they added some support to facebook.

and you can organize photos by places. events, faces places. yeeeeessss :D

[pante]

and some slideshow themes that you can easily sync with your iPhone and iPod touch. some extra 3d effects in slideshows.

[wastedyuthe]

Picasa has now come out for the Mac, with all its simple to use tools like gradients etc. Have they said anything about adding more tools like that to iPhoto?

[dannys95]

Ppl just use macrumors live!
arn and blake are typing their butts off. show appreciation. plus their coverage and speed is good

[pante]

Picasa has now come out for the Mac, with all its simple to use tools like gradients etc. Have they said anything about adding more tools like that to iPhoto?

as for now - only faces, places geotags and slideshows.

[pante]

there are voices that phill is boring and where is steve...

[pante]

Ppl just use macrumors live!
arn and blake are typing their butts off. show appreciation. plus their coverage and speed is good

yep, i know. but i'm not doing anything bad at all. maybe you will find here some cool stuff too. if not - you don't have to look. peace :)

[pante]

new iMovie, a new way of editing movie.

[pante]

phill admitted that a lot of people were not satisfied with last years imovie. it's hard to talk about all new functions so they started the presentation.

[moopf]

macrumorslive.com feed has just gone. It was hacked and some nut-job was posting that steve jobs had died, sex me and all sorts of stuff. I think arn just pulled it because of that.

[Mr. Charley]

Yeah, that was crazy....

Edit: I never understood the desire to do these sorts of things, I must admit. Why do it (it's rhetorical...)

[wastedyuthe]

There's always the TUAW live blog (http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/06/macworld-2009-keynote-liveblog/#continued).

[pante]

there is Randy Ubillos on stage a chief architect of video applications. there is new drag and drop function. plus the video is more stabilized. drag and drop works for sounds and music too.
UPDATE: new effects - slow motion (your honeymoon tape may look like matrix). and totally changed interface. a lot of new filters now, your movie can look like soderbergh's 'traffic'.

[rootbeersoup]

I like this: http://live.ilounge.com/

[dannys95]

i dont know whats going on! they hacked macrumorslive!

[pante]

phil jokes: i edited it by myself.

i don't believe him :D

[pante]

i dont know whats going on! they hacked macrumorslive!

my friend who is there says they are pissed off.

[pante]

and finally next one: garageband 09! you can easily learn how to play guitar or keybords - it's all in the video instruction. sting is the teacher. and sarah mclachlan or norah jones. they all say how to make a good song or write a great lyrics.

well people are very happy whit new garageband out there :)

[rootbeersoup]

Why the hell would 4chan hack that site? Seems strange, but they have hacked basically everything

Must suck for arn and blake since they have to take care of it in the middle of the keynote

[dannys95]

my friends who is there says they are pissed off.

i switched to ilounge. yes there are. they now posting semi-porn

[pante]

and other updates to iDVD and iWeb - for some users for free, for others 79$ and family pack is for only 99$. shipping late january.

[Mr. Charley]

my friend who is there says they are pissed off.

And rightfully so.
I'm mad and it's not even my site, yet I feel violated, so I can't imagine how they feel..

[dannys95]

And rightfully so.
I'm mad and it's not even my site, yet I feel violated, so I can't imagine how they feel..

i feel bad for them. the ilounge feed sucks btw

[pante]

http://live.ilounge.com/

now that's a live coverage. i will better shut up, huh?

[rootbeersoup]

ilounge usually has a better page up... this one is just sloppy and their updates are one continuouos paragraph

[dannys95]

ilounge usually has a better page up... this one is just sloppy and their updates are one continuouos paragraph

i know. i meant the feed sucks

[pante]

new iwork - keynots, numbers. a lot of nice effects out there. it looks like every single program gained some new powers.

[dannys95]

seems arn and blake are fixing it. the site does not do anything now. at first i thought it was them messing around. cause the first comment was

steve jobs died

two minutes after that they said that they had no idea how that got into their feed. and then the hackers started bombing the page.

[pante]

haha. they've turned word bush into obama. that's cool :) and you can put your keynote presentation on your iphone. that's if you buy special app - 0.99$.

[pante]

at first i thought it was them messing around. cause the first comment was

steve jobs died

that one made me very angry. stupid hackers.

[pante]

numbers 09 - 'we added everything that our customers wanted'.
UPDATE: iWork ships today.

[pante]

people are wondering what next - maybe there will not be anything new with hardware or even snow leopard?

[rootbeersoup]

iDimension announced. More advanced than Heaven. syncs with iPhone/iPod touch

[dannys95]

this is better

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/live-from-the-macworld-2009-keynote/

[pante]

if you want to buy iLife, iWorks and Leopard - special price 169$.

[dannys95]

iwork.com is BETA!!

"She sees the document in the browser -- it looks like Pages, but I'm on iWork.com." It does look exact, very nice.

And its mac and pc

[pante]

i need to drink something, i'm tired :)
danny help me out there!

[rootbeersoup]

iPhone MEGA announced... Bring back the goodness of the 80s with this brick style iPhone

Wow.

[dannys95]

i need to drink something, i'm tired :)
danny help me out there!

k. they now starting to talk about the 17 inch macbook pro

[dannys95]

iPhone MEGA announced... Bring back the goodness of the 80s with this brick style iPhone

Wow.

:rolleyes:

[dannys95]

"I'm proud to show you the new 17 inch MacBook Pro -- it's the world's lightest and thinnest 17 inch notebook."

"1920 x 1200 display, 700:1 contrast ratio, 60% greater color gamut."

matte display with a A $50 anti-glare option will be available for the laptop.

go here:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/live-from-the-macworld-2009-keynote/

u have to refresh manually but it good

[dannys95]

Same as the other Pros. Mini DisplayPort, USB, FireWire 800, MagSafe... and it's got the glass trackpad.

"Inside we have a new generation of C2D CPUs -- up to 8GB of RAM... new NVIDIA graphics options, discrete graphics onboard." "You can upgrade to a 256GB SDD."

[rootbeersoup]

I'm getting word from my sources that they are ready to announce the ii

It's the Apple version of the lowercase i

[pante]

well that looks impressive. :]

[dannys95]

hes now getting into the battery talk!! says its the longest battery life ever

[dannys95]

"We've designed a battery that will last 8 hours on a charge, and can be charged 1000 times..." "The key to building a longer battery is making it bigger... the challenge is where to find the space to put it... in a removable battery there's a lot of wasted space."

so no removable battery

[pante]

but i have to say that it's better to have iMac and smaller MacBook Pro (15 for example). isn't 17 just too big for a laptop?

[pante]

now they just show 17 from every possible angle.
is that it?!

[dannys95]

"We get up to 1000 recharges... we have a chip in the battery that talks to each cell, and the system adjusts the current accordingly. 3x the charges and lifespan of the industry standard."

60% increase in battery life

[dannys95]

starts shipping end of this month

[rootbeersoup]

Please let there be some new toy

[dannys95]

macrumors back; but not macrumorslive

[pante]

for almost 2800 bucks.

[dannys95]

One last thing...iTunes
You know whats coming

[pante]

yes, there will be no new toys now. new itunes came.

[dannys95]

It's great to see how many people want to buy music like this -- iTunes became the number one channel for music in the US. So what's new in 2009?"


I'd like to tell you about three things... first... price."


Over the last six years songs have been $0.99 -- music companies want more flexibility. New pricing, $0.69, and another tier at $1.29."

[rootbeersoup]

69 cent songs... obviously trying to compete with Amazon

[dannys95]

"Next, iTunes Plus -- it's DRM free, and much higher quality. We've worked with all the major companies... starting today, 8 million songs will be DRM free."


"By the end of this quarter, all 10 million songs will be DRM free." About time


All songs drm free

[dannys95]

The third new thing happening with iTunes has to do with the iPhone."

"The music store is no longer just on WiFi -- it's over 3G as well."

It's the same quality you get in the store, right on your phone, no matter where you are, and you can sync back to your computer. That starts today."

[rootbeersoup]

Well I guess that's it

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN

[pante]

plus you can buy new songs with 3g - not only wi-fi store from now.

[dannys95]

"Now we're ending on music -- we always try to remember why we do this. We love great music, that's the heart of it, so I think it's fitting that we end our last Macworld keynote with an amazing artist and legend..."

steve singing in the shower!

lol j/k

[rootbeersoup]

Music performer----show's over

[pante]

iLife, iWork looks great but... it's only an upgrade. nothing special this year. and the stuff about iTunes - it was obvious that it will happen.

[dannys95]

Mr. Tony Bennett.

[rootbeersoup]

The Best Is Yet To Come...... Interesting

[dannys95]

The Best Is Yet To Come...... Interesting

haha. theres the answer to ppl wanting new toys

[wastedyuthe]

Well it's about bloomin' time they went completely DRM free! I have been buying from Amazon and 7digital (UK online store) because they are already DRM free, and have been for some time.
Now if only iTunes would also have DRM free films and TV shows. I can understand rentals having DRM, but not the ones you buy to own.

[wastedyuthe]

Where the hell is Snow Leopard anyway?!!!

[dannys95]

Well that's it folks -- no Steve, no iPhone nano, no new Mini, no new iMac, no shockers, no surprises.


Anyway; me and ponte have been reporting for you; me kinda taking arns and blakes place since i took pity on them. they are working on the issue

[madsoul]

Where the hell is Snow Leopard anyway?!!!

The Best Is Yet To Come

lol

[Mr. Charley]

I love days like today...so exciting..who has time to work??? :)

As for a new Touch, I think that will remain as rumour...
I guess time will tell...I won't be able to lie about it as it's here, timestamped for everyone to see! :)

Well, on the bright side, I was at least right on the rumour that there wouldn't be a new Touch...at least not yet...

But no new FW? This was really a whole lotta nuthin' as far as I'm concerned....(other than DRM free, but even still).

[dannys95]

But no new FW? This was really a whole lotta nuthin' as far as I'm concerned....(other than DRM free, but even still).

new FW should be released to allow 3G downloads

[pante]

Anyway; me and ponte have been reporting for you;

at first you were angry at me :] see, told ya! it was a great idea. thanks for help.

[wastedyuthe]

Thanks for the updates. A bit disappointing though. I have been checking iTunes and found all the music I have checked so far to be iTunes Plus. Amazon is still cheaper though. Might bother with iLife, but nothing Earth shattering there either. Hmmm.

[pante]

and nobody will thank me? :D

[Mr. Charley]

and nobody will thank me? :D

Thank you. ;)

[dannys95]

at first you were angry at me :] see, told ya! it was a great idea. thanks for help.

i was not angry. i just said ppl should use arn's feed.
then i came and helped cause i felt bad for arn since his site was hijacked.

p.s: thanks :-p

[Herp]

Well, if the music is going to be DRM free, I hope they give you some sort of "file update" to remove the DRMs from what I already bought.

[Wegmans]

wow the shareholders of Apple didn't react very well.. i've been watching it at work and it's been down 0.5-1%... and Microsoft is way up about 2 and a quarter... innnteresting

[wastedyuthe]

Well, if the music is going to be DRM free, I hope they give you some sort of "file update" to remove the DRMs from what I already bought.

You can download DRM free versions via the iTunes Plus section of the store, but there is a small charge per track/album for doing so. Some people aren't too happy about that considering this is music you have already paid for, and I can see their point. But I can also see the point that you have only paid for 128kbps tracks, whereas iTunes Plus is 256kbps, so you are paying for double the quality as well as removing the DRM.

[wastedyuthe]

Apple have updated their iLife web pages (http://www.apple.com/ilife/).

[dannys95]

how do i sign up for the iwork.com public beta?!

[dannys95]

You can download DRM free versions via the iTunes Plus section of the store, but there is a small charge per track/album for doing so. Some people aren't too happy about that considering this is music you have already paid for, and I can see their point. But I can also see the point that you have only paid for 128kbps tracks, whereas iTunes Plus is 256kbps, so you are paying for double the quality as well as removing the DRM.

I don't mind paying 30 cents. Should be free though

[wastedyuthe]

how do i sign up for the iwork.com public beta?!

By the looks of this (http://www.apple.com/iwork/iwork-dot-com/), you need to buy iWork '09 first!

[dannys95]

By the looks of this (http://www.apple.com/iwork/iwork-dot-com/), you need to buy iWork '09 first!

Always read the small letters in the footer! It says the purchase of iWork 09 does the include the FREE public beta.

[BATTLE BORN]

I know of a cool site. don't know if the quality is the same as apple's, but you can't beat the prices...

[EDIT BY WASTEDYUTHE] Sorry BB. The site you refer to (which I have removed now) is illegal as far as UK law is concerned and therefore I can't condone giving a link for it here, as I am sure the legality is the same elsewhere.

[EDIT by BB] SORRY DUDE!

[wastedyuthe]

Always read the small letters in the footer! It says the purchase of iWork 09 does the (did you mean 'not'?) include the FREE public beta.

Yeah, but you still need to buy iWork 09-

"The iWork.com Public Beta is not included with the purchase of iWork ’09. Account setup and activation are required. Fees may apply. Internet access and iWork ’09 are required."

[dannys95]

Yeah, but you still need to buy iWork 09-

"The iWork.com Public Beta is not included with the purchase of iWork ’09. Account setup and activation are required. Fees may apply. Internet access and iWork ’09 are required."

Oh well. I am a PC. And u guys r a mac :-)

[Herp]

You can download DRM free versions via the iTunes Plus section of the store, but there is a small charge per track/album for doing so. Some people aren't too happy about that considering this is music you have already paid for, and I can see their point. But I can also see the point that you have only paid for 128kbps tracks, whereas iTunes Plus is 256kbps, so you are paying for double the quality as well as removing the DRM.

Well, I think I should get the option to pay the difference and get the DRM removed/quality updated. :)

Oh, and those Mac books sound so nice... Too bad I just bought a new laptop. :(

[wastedyuthe]

The good news is the music videos are also going DRM free. The only other place I can buy music videos from legally in the UK is 7digital, but their videos often use the WMV DRM'd codec, which can only be played in Windows Media Player. As I own a Macbook and don't have Windows installed (because you can install Windows on a Mac, for those not in the know), this is useless.
So iTunes will definitely be the place to get my music vids. I will start buying more music from it now too, although I will check with Amazon first as they are almost always cheaper.

BTW, you can now watch the keynote here (http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0901ouabdcaw/event/index.html).