WWDC 2008

It's over. Well, not quite, but the keynote is. The WWDC ( World Wide Developers Conference) will continue for the rest of the week.

All announcements have been made. I have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed. I was hoping they would revamp the MacBooks. There were rumors of making them aluminum. I had such hopes for a small aluminum laptop of reasonable price and power (The MacBook Air doesn't count. I'm still rather attached to my built-in DVD drive). I have a strange attachment to the old 12" Powerbooks. I want one of those, with more power. Alas, I will have to wait for that dream to come true. Perhaps they will do a release at the end of the summer. I may have to wait until MacWorld in January '09, or longer.

The news of the 3G iPhone is exciting. According the their now updated website, Canadians can get the iPhone at the nearest Rogers or Fido store as of July 11th, 2008. There doesn't seem to be a way to purchase them off the Apple site. As far as I know, we, as an Authorized Apple Reseller, will not be able to sell them, though I will post here if there is a change. You will be able to get cases and other accessories for the iPhone here once the cases for the 3G start coming out.

The iPhone 2.0 software is also exciting. I think the iWork integration will the largest perk for me, however I am of the opinion that it is unfair that iPod touch owners have to pay for it when iPhone owners do not.

New Cat in Town

Mac OSX 10.5 a.k.a Leopard is to be released Friday October 26th (after 6:00 pm).



There will be some exciting new changes in Leopard including major changes to "finder" and Apple Mail. Check out this site for an overview of the changes.

Leopard will retail for $129.00 +tax.

Pre-order to get your copy of this highly anticipated new operating system now!

'08

After months of speculation and waiting with baited breath, the new iLife and iWork have been released. Apple decide to skip the '07 version and has released '08 versions of both. Many changes have been made.


iLife '08 has seen some major updates to iPhoto. My favorite change is the "events". You know when you used to import photos and it would give you the opportunity to name the roll, but after you named it you rarely ever saw the name again? Well now events and rolls have been made into one and the same thing. WHen you import into iphoto '08 you name the "event" and your photos will remain organized as such. You have the opportunity to view your photos organized as events or in the old fashioned way with all of the photos laid out.
There have also been major changes to imovie. THe program looks totally different. Apple made the changes to make it more friendly for the every day user. I have yet to see if this is true.
iDVD, iWeb also have a few changes. Check out the full review of the changes here.


iWork '08 also has some great new changes. The biggest is a whole new program; Numbers. Yes, Apple has finally released a spreadsheet application for their iWork suite. Pages also has a new more professional look. Keynote has benefited from some new templates and changes as well. For a full overview check here.

For the most part I have heard only good things about the changes. I too am happy with most of them though some learning will have to be done.

Apple also released their new line of iMacs. They have new brushed metal and glass finishes and all of the specs have been upgraded. We will be getting a demo model here at the as soon as possible but they are slow to ship just yet.