MWSF Keynote news, comments, photos, ...

Tiger: on track for delivery in first half of this year. "Long before Longhorn."
 
iChat: improved. Up to 10 simultaneous people for audio conference. Using H.264, multiparty video conferencing--up to four people. Jobs offers demo of video conference. Danika (from Paris), Phill Schiller, and Scott. Full screen view of all four parties. Realtime reflections around table [conference call simulation].
 
Dashboard: for quickly accessing . Calculator, Stickies, Address Book, iTunes Controller and some new ones: Unit Converter, Discitonary/Thesarus, Stock tracker [Laughter: shows AAPL up and MSFT down], weather, yellow pages. Jobs demo Dashboard. Quickly show various widgets [Shows AAPL stock quote] "We're down today. We still have a lot to go in the keynote." [demos Unit conversion: laugther from EURO/DOLLAR DOLLAR/YEN trade prices] Weather Widget. [cycles through various weather scenarious]. Open architecture for Widget creation.
 
QuickTime 7 to be included with Tiger--largest upgrade in last 7 years to be included with Tiger. 30 million downloaded copies of QuickTime 6. 98% have been to Windows users. Live resing, full-screen overlay. Complete MPEG-4 compliance. Best thing is the H.264 codec, which is expected to be used as basis of next-generation DVDs. Brief demo showed. Scalable from cell phones to HD.
 
Mail Overview: complete overhaul of Mail.app. Integrated Spotlight search. Instant serach in over 100,000 in different mailboxes. "Smart Mailbox" watches for keywords and automatically creates links to incoming emails with specific words. New On-screen for managing incoming photos (adding to iPhoto, viewing thumbnails, etc.)
 
Spotlight overview. Better than competition (Google, etc.) because it's built in the core OS. Better interface because its made by Apple. Instantly notified of changes. Can be integrated by developers into Mac OS X applications. Jobs offers in-depth demo of Spotlight technology using Mac OS X Tiger. [encounters bug: "that's why we have backup systems here"] Spotlight technology added to Finder with Smart Folders and System Preferences.
 
Panther: phenomenally successful. Over 14 million active users. Most successful Mac OS. Mac OS X Tiger on track to ship in first half of this year. 200 new features. Improved Windows connectivity, .Mac sync, Safari adds automatic RSS detection, Automator. "No time for all of them." Will discuss a few.
 
New iMovie. Now edits HD video. Also offers..Magic iMovie, MPEG-4 video, new transition & effects, and more.
 
MACOSX.NL notices an icon in the Dock that looks like an iWorks icon ! It looks like an iMac with some documents and an iSight on top of it.
 
"The year of High Definition video," or so Steve is proclaiming.

Sony-Chief Ando on stage.
 
Ando says "Great admiratio and respect for Apple products" software and hardware. Sony & Apple together will bring a revolution in how videos are made.
 
iDVD:
new version
15 amazing new themes
Animated Drop zones
1 setp DVD creation-capture right from Camera to DVD
All formats now + and - R and RW (not sure about Dual layer)
demo ensues
 
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