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[homer_j]

The rosebolw is the #1 video now on iTunes

f: Today we're putting up some other great new content from Saturday Night Live
mwsf: *plays video*

 

[homer_j]

Samurai Delicatessen, Coneheads, Blues Brothers*

 

[homer_j]

All the great stuff here. The best of stuff, and the great skits you remember.
mwsf: You'll be able to buy starting today.


We're also introducing a new accessory for your iPod today.
mwsf: It's a remote control that's also an FM tuner.

t's a little thing that clips on your clothing anywhere you like.

You can plug this into your nano, your 5th generation iPod, a radio menu item will show up.

 

[homer_j]

It's going to be priced at $49, and it goes on sale today. (ipod)


I'd like to give you an update on Chrysler
mwsf: Chrysler is the first of the Big Three american auto companies to announce major ipod integration support

 

[homer_j]

in 2006, over 40% of the cars sold in the US will offer iPod intergration

So that's an update on what we're doing in Music.
mwsf: And the last thing I've got is a new iPod ad I'd like to show you.

 

[thoughtCoat]

FM tuner for ipods

NEW IPOD AD. HOORAY

 

[homer_j]

So, that's what we're up to in Music

14 million iPods.

But, it's MacWorld, so we're going to spend the rest of the day talking about the Mac!

 

[homer_j]

: I'm going to start off with a very important application we introduced called Aperture.
mwsf: We see Aperture as being the tool for digital photographers in the same way final cut pro is for filmmakers.

*video*

 

[homer_j]

*apparently long video*

 

[homer_j]

Another thing I now want to talk about is widgets.

 

[homer_j]

When we introduced Mac OS X tiger this last spring, we introduced the idea of widgets. There are now tons of widgets.

There are now over 1500 widgets availabel for OS X tiger.

We decided we better do our own to contribute.

 

[homer_j]

A new google widget, a new frontend to address book, a new widget in time for the ski season for snow conditions, a new calendar widget, white pages, ESPN sports widgets and news.

How do you get these?
mwsf: We've got a new update, 10.4.4
mwsf: You can download it today.

 

[homer_j]

Now, I'd like to talk about iLife.

Apple pioneered writing applications specifically for our emergicing digital lifestyles.

We were talking before anybody else about how all your pictures, your movies, your music was going to be on your computer.

 

[homer_j]

We brought that together into a suite called iLife and it was miles ahead of anything on the PC.

And we're now introducing iLife 06, and it's a giant release.

So, iLife 06.

iLife is comprised of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, garageband and iTunes.
mwsf: Let's start with iPhoto.

 

[homer_j]

In this release it's incredibly fast.

Prior release of iPhoto, was limited to 25,000 photos. The new limit, 250,000 photos

It scrolls like butter.

Full-screen editing

 

[homer_j]

You can get controls at the bottom, slide view at the top.

You can use the fullscreen for doing compares, up to 8 photos at once

One-click effects.

There's an effects panels now with 8 of the most popular effects

 

[homer_j]

All new cards, calendars, and dramatically better books.

We have all new printing, much higher quality

Still have hardcover books, softcover books, the quality is dramatically better.

We've added calendars

 

[homer_j]

And, we've added cards. Lost of requests for this.
We have postcards as well.
And, photocasting.
This is podcasting for photos.
Now, what is this?
We want to all share our photos.
And increasingly we'd like to share them over the internet.
Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to do that where everytime I update an album full of photos, people who could scubscribe to that would automatically get theirs updated as well?

 

[homer_j]

You pick an album you want to photocast, and you push a button. The photos are uploaded to .Mac

You can even say I want a password on these things.

 

[homer_j]

And someone can subscribe to this photocast, and when they do, they get a special album in their sourcelist.

What happens is if I've got some photos and I drop them into an album into photocast, they are automatically uploaded to .Mac, and anyone subscribed to those will get the changes downloaded to their subscription album.

They can use those photos for anything they want, cards, desktop