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Rate the Keynote
Okay TUAW readers. What did you think of the WWDC keynote with its coverage of Mac Gaming, Finder Features, Safari for Windows and iPhone development? Did it rock for you? Or was it a big fizzle? Or maybe it fell somewhere in between. Here's your chance to sound off. Let us know what excited you and what bored you abou this year's WWDC 2007 keynote. Rate the Keynote Beyond Fabulous. A solid 5! Good stuff. I rate it at 4. Mediocre. I give it a 3. Disappointing. Just a 2. What a loser keynote. It earns a 1. Complete failure. I give it a 0. pollcode.com free polls
Metaliveblogging the WWDC Keynote
This year, TUAW doesn't have a live feed into the WWDC keynote. Instead, we bring you this metaliveblog--a live blogging event of other live blogs. We hope you enjoy. Content sources include Engadget, and Mac Rumors Live as well as any last-second live feeds from TUAW readers on the spot.
Pictures from Moscone West
%Gallery-3852% TUAW Reader-on-the-spot Michael G. Strck has been using his MacBook Pro's built in iSight to give us some great peeks into what's going on over at Moscone West. Here is a gallery of some of his pictures for you to peruse and enjoy and feel as if you are virtually at Moscone, having been waiting on line since 6 in the morning--except without all that caffeine hangover stuff going on. Are you at Moscone too? Drop us a note using our Tip form and join in on the TUAW fun!
WWDC 2007 preview
As we count down the last couple of hours to the keynote (don't forget to check out Engadget's liveblogging of the actual keynote), we've put together a couple of galleries for you (video coming soon and we'll update this post). Last night sf/macindie was kind enough to host a swell dev get-together, and we have a couple of pics here. If you're looking for what the Moscone is doing, check out this gallery. Does anyone see anything new in that big post of applications?A couple of other items we hear swirling around: Word is that there are several thousand more attendees this year than last Something coming for .Mac? We've speculated, but there are murmurs... All shall be revealed soon...UPDATE: here's the blip.tv video-- just 3 mins long (special guest star at the end!)
WWDC '07 Liveblog List
Michael Yurechko has compiled a list of websites that will host live WWDC 07 updates. Sites include Engadget, LoopRumors, MacRumors Live and more. In addition, we at TUAW will be keeping an eye on the ongoing events and will publish a "metaliveblog" with the latest news as we hear it. It looks like the live audio feed we posted about earlier today has already crashed from too much interest.
Man on the Spot Interview: Michael G. Strck
TUAW is pleased to bring you this Man-on-the-Spot report live from Moscone West Hi Michael Hi Can you tell me what it looks like over there at Moscone West? What's the mood like? It's certainly the best-behaved and most MacBook Pro saturated crowd I've ever seen People have been lining up since 5.30 in the moring. I personally arrived at 6 am, and there already were a few hundred people waiting on the sidewalk. People are discussing the news that's coming, throwing crazy ideas around. Others are discussing their jobs and why they are here. Nobody seems bored. They keep the crowd moving through the building. I'm in the first 5 percent or so of the line, and we are now up the escalators. But there already were at least 200 people here when I arrived A nice touch: When you get up to the second level, they have free catering for the participants, and there were some funny scenes with people trying to grab a muffin, taking pictures and running along to keep at their place in the line at the same time. What rumors are flying through the air right now at Moscone? I've heard something about a new Finder. Appears to be called "Mighty Finder" this is from "a reliable source" but I think it's just a crazy rumor. I don't have any inside information!What are the other hot rumor topics/hot topics of speculation out there? Only the stuff that's out on the web anyway. As for the line, right now we're no longer moving. People are even sitting around on tables, typing away at least at the top of the line, where I'm right now.
Live Site-ing WWDC 2007
Are you unable to attend WWDC? Do you want to feel as if you're there? TUAW reader Jason points to this WWDC2007 LiveSiting page. It automatically updates every 15 seconds to give you the feel as if you were really there. As I write, attendees are in line, waiting to move upstairs to the main event. Thanks Jason.Update: TUAW readers report (quite humorously) that the site does not appear to be updating properly.
Apple Developer Connection is down...
Oh man. It's that time again. Can you feel the excitement in the air? Apple Developer Connection has just gone off the air and the website portal has been replaced with this message... It's just a short while left until today's keynote.Update: Site is back up. Unfortunately, nothing really interesting to report.
iPhoneAlley to stream Keynote
iPhone Alley has just announced that it will be streaming the WWWDC keynote audio. The keynote is due to start at 10AM Pacific and run until 11:30AM. The posting over at the site suggests that the streaming is both experimental (so there may be technical difficulties) and will have limited spots available (so get there early).
Not buying the keynote 'outline'
As Mike just posted, a German site claims to have The Steve's bullet points for tomorrow's WWDC keynote. Although this outline has a lot of things that appeal to me (especially the "One More Thing"), I'm just not buying into it. Wouldn't a WWDC keynote contain a lot more about Leopard? And about the new and fabulous Xcode improvements?Besides, iPhone@home just doesn't make sense. Why @home? A bigger screen, no keyboard? That would be something to use on the road, not at home. After all, AppleTV is in the living room. Where would iPhone@home live? In the kitchen? Maybe it comes with magnets pre-installed so it can live on my fridge. And 60GB of flash memory? That sounds like it would cost about $3000 for a keyboard-less tablet computer. I'm just not buying it. Much as I want the iNewton, I don't think this bullet point list is legit.
Have the Germans cracked the WWDC code?
It's not every day that my German-language skills get called into use, but when a news site posts a purported rundown of tomorrow's WWDC Stevenote, well, I'm scrambling for my Langenscheid. That is, I would be if it weren't for Google and DailyTechTalk translating the post already (danke schöen, team). Reading it over, it's most likely a rehash of the rumors and suppositions surrounding the keynote (ZFS, new UI, Google integration, new iMacs, "One More Thing"), or it might -- possibly -- be legit.If you want to stay surprised tomorrow, or if you consider the whole business of rumormongering the keynote beneath your dignity, then don't click this link to the German original, or this Google or DailyTechTalk translation. Possible spoilers, you've been warned.via DailyTechTalk/Digg -- Thanks Adam
Believing the hype on .Mac-Google
Forget about not paying attention to other people; sometimes I don't even pay attention to myself. Just four days ago, I went on record in the TUAW predictions post for WWDC with "the .Mac offering becomes an Apple-branded version of Google Apps Premier." Mayhap I should drink my own Kool-Aid, if I'm going to go to the trouble of mixing up a pitcherful.I'm not that far out on the edge with this prediction, as there have been plenty of hints; Wired's Fred Vogelstein quoted Apple board member & Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the strengths of the companies in collaboration, the D blog picked that up and ran with it based on El Steve's comments about .Mac's decrepitude, and ComputerWorld pushed the meme out to far left field by raising the possibility of integrating iWork with Google Documents and Spreadsheets for blogging (not unlike the existing gApps and Zoho plugins for Office on the Windows side) or virtualizing Leopard-Lite into the browser. Something, as they say in the coffee business, is brewing.Yet I found myself today -- today, Sunday, T-16 hours and counting from the Stevenote -- setting up SpanningSync for my mother's iCal/gCal integration and getting ready to whip out the credit card for a $25 one-year subscription . McFly, hello, anybody in there? For crying out loud, everybody including me and my kid sister thinks there's going to be some sort of Google integration with Mac OS X/.Mac announced tomorrow, so I smacked myself soundly in the forehead, put my wallet away, and left Mom with the 15-day demo until everything's sorted out. It's like the rule that you don't buy yourself anything right before birthdays or holidays... you just have to pay attention to what's going on around you. Or, failing that, the things you actually say.
An AppleScript for automatically opening WWDC '07 news sites
While we unfortunately won't have anyone liveblogging Steve Jobs' WWDC '07 keynote tomorrow morning, that doesn't mean we won't help you track down who will. Nik Fletcher has created an AppleScript that will automatically open nine - count 'em, nine - news sites and blogs that will be covering tomorrow's keynote and the rest of the WWDC 07 events in separate tabs of your default browser. He even includes a quick tip for those using Safari who haven't enabled tabbed browsing since - even still on 10.4 Tiger - Apple hasn't switched on this revolutionary feature by default.The nine sites Nik included in the AppleScript are as follows: Engadget MacRumors Live MacDailyNews (sigh, I know, but hey) AppleGazette Ars Technica Gizmodo Slashgear LoopRumors Apple Matters Of course, I link Nik's script with a bit of advice: be kind to these sites. The more we all furiously pound that refresh button on any site covering such a major event, the more likely the site is to buckle under insane traffic and stop being able to serve up the very news you're looking for. Be sure to read up on how each site is running the show and abide by their rules so we all can join in on the party, even if we have to watch from far away.
TUAW's Top X Things To Do if You Can't Attend WWDC '07
Developers and other Mac notables are descending once again on San Francisco for WWDC 2007. It is sure to be a week of exciting product announcements (not just from Apple, mind you), parties galore and elbow rubbing in a way only the Mac community can lay claim to.But what if you can't go?Fear not, oh devoted reader of ours, for we have a 10-step plan that is sure to shake the "can't get to WWDC" blues. Who cares if you can't join the keynote audience Monday morning in giving Steve Jobs a standing ovation just for walking on stage? And who needs to go to the Delicious Generation party! It's just going to be a bunch of drunk Mac notables standing on tables and singing Daisy Bell together. Besides, the t-shirts we're giving away at our TUAW meetup are gonna be way cooler, but if you can't attend that... why go to WWDC at all?If you're stuck at home and unable to acquire your wife's credit card number, our list of suggestions is for you. Besides, these are gonna be, like, way funner than anything happening in San Francisco this week anyway: Take chalk, umbrella, sleeping bag, get an early start on that camp-out for June 29th Furiously refresh Engadget and MacRumors for live coverage of Jobs' keynote Seek out every developer's blog you've ever bought software from and ask them if you can share their room or just sleep on the floor if you buy a second license Ignore the live coverage and don't check your RSS feeds so you can have all the excitement of playing Keynote Bingo Monday afternoon with what will likely be a pixelated and barely-working QuickTime stream Collect apple cores, attach to puppeteering rigs, put on a show to convince family that this is what Steve meant by 'Core Animation' Get VMware running Linux inside Parallels running Vista on your Mac Pro; leave your body and watch your own head explode Try to come up with slightly weird pronunciations of 'Leopard' to memorialize Steve's rendition of OS X 10.2 as "Jag-wire" Console yourself with the knowledge that this year the Apple party is in San Francisco, so there's no chance you'd get to go to the Company Store anyway Buy an iPiggy Bank and start saving for Macworld '08, because #3 isn't a very good plan to begin with Phone your local Apple Store on the hour, every hour to ask "did you get [it] in yet?" Have a friend make the calls once the store recognizes your voice and/or blocks your number And there you have it: 10 great ways to entertain yourself if - like many of us - you'll be watching the coming week's festivities from a distance.
WWDC 2007 Keynote bingo
It wouldn't be a Stevenote without a little bingo thrown in for fun, right? John Siracusa, of Ars Technica, has once again posted a PDF of his bingo card so you can play along on Monday. Just in case you aren't familiar with this whole Keynote bingo thing, here's a quick overview: Steve gets on stage, you ready your bingo card and cross off spots when something that matches the card happens (Steve says 'Boom,' new iMacs are introduced, and so forth). It makes a Stevenote even more fun (if such a thing is possible).If PDF isn't your thing, you can also download this WWDC Bingo application. The neat thing about this app is it'll create a random bingo card based on 100 options, so chances are your card won't be the same as the person's sitting next to you.
TUAW Predictions Roundup for WWDC '07
It's that time of season again, oh dear TUAW readers: the time just before a major Apple event when we TUAW bloggers look deep into our crystal balls to make both wild and sensible predictions as to what WWDC 07 might bring us next week. This time around we have a fairly rich selection of rumored products (like iMac updates) and updates we all thought we would see at Macworld 07 (iLife 07 anyone?). Without further ado, and without any of that silly 'insider knowledge' tainting the perspective of our crystal balls, here are the predictions of some of our TUAW bloggers (in no particular order) for what WWDC 07 might bring us next week.
WWDC early registration extended to May 11
Alright all you procrastinating Apple Devs, the Mothership has decided to look kindly upon your laziness and has extended the early registration for this year's WWDC until May 11th (it was supposed to close on April 27th). So you have another week and a half to save $300 on a ticket. Of course, it's still going to run you $1295, but considering you've waited this long, consider it more like they're paying you to go! I can't help but wonder whether this move was prompted by lower than expected early registrations. It's hard to imagine, though, that the full unveiling of Leopard won't be a banner event.
Steve Jobs to kick off WWDC
File this one under, 'We knew this, but it is nice to be sure.' Apple today announced that Steve Jobs, the CEO we all know and love, will be kicking off the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC to those in the know) this year. The Stevenote begins promptly at 10am (Pacific) on June 11th and will showcase a 'feature complete Leopard.' Developers will also get a beta copy of Leopard to take home with them.
WWDC Coding Headstarts
Over at Theocacao, Scott Stevenson points out that Apple has added a Coding Headstarts page to their WWDC site. Basically it's a way for WWDC attendees to hit the ground running by watching a introductory video and seeing a lesson guide with some sample code before they get to San Francisco. To download these Headstarts you must be a WWDC 2007 E-Ticket holder, however Apple has made the short (1-3 minute) Introductory Videos available to anyone with a Apple Developer Connection account though iTunes (iTunes link).
Ars: 'Leopard will be late'
Everyone seems to have that "reliable inside source" feeding them tasty morsels of information about possible release dates for Leopard. For most other rumors, these disparate (and in most cases non-existent) sources would all be saying wildly different things. It gives credence then to both the validity of the tipsters and their rumors these days that they all seem to be saying the same thing; Leopard will be late– at least relative to earlier estimates of when we'd see it. Infinite Loop over at ArsTechnica breaks down some of the logic behind these new predictions of a later (can you say WWDC?) release, including an analysis of the normal ramp-up to Gold Master production and where Apple seems to be in the process on this cycle. According to one Ars tipster, current builds are "Barely beta."
