Category: 666: WWDC 2009 Announcements: New Notebooks, iPhone 3.0, Snow Leopard and More

Higher Ground and Small Dog Electronics are teaming up to bring you ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro to the HG Showcase Lounge on Sunday, June 21. “Read about Jake here.”:http://highergroundmusic.com/calendar/show/3198/ So… here’s where you need to pay attention: one lucky person will win a pair of tickets to the show, a 1GB iPod shuffle, and a…

Whenever I travel, I make a point of staying at hotels that offer internet access. Most of them offer both wired and wireless connectivity, but very often the wireless is very slow. I tried to email Ed a photo of the Moscone Center here in San Francisco yesterday, but my connection was so bad that…

*Safari 4* has been in beta for several weeks, and now is officially released. *FEATURES* * HTML 5 support for offline technologies and support for advanced CSS Effects * First browser to pass the “Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test”:http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid3 (it examines CSS, JavaScript and XML standards designed for dynamic web apps) * Top Sites (I…

At WWDC yesterday, Phil introduced “Bertrand Serlet”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Serlet to talk about the Mac OS. He announced that *Snow Leopard* will be available in late September for Intel Macs with either OS 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard. *FEATURES* Apple highlighted many of the features, including speed, refinements and support for other software. * Faster installation process: 45%…

*SOFTWARE* Apple gave us a preview of the 3.0 software a little while back, so essentially, we had an idea of what was coming. “Scott Forstall”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall gave us a rundown of the features we’ll see in iPhone OS 3.0 on June 17 (both expected and unexpected): * *Cut, Copy and Paste:* It will appear as…

With machine gun delivery, Phil Schiller unveiled a whole new paradigm for Apple’s notebooks yesterday at WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference). All unibody aluminum Apple notebooks have been substantially upgraded AND are being offered at lower prices–up to $300 less than before. *13″ MacBook Pro* (formerly MacBook) The biggest news is that the 13″ unibody…

Happy Apple Christmas! This is always one of the most exciting weeks of the year for us Apple-fanatics, but it’s particularly exciting that so many products were released during yesterday’s WWDC keynote. Speedy new iPhones, a full upgrade of Apple’s portable line, __and__ the release of a jam-packed exciting new operating system!! I couldn’t be…