MacRumors.com MWSF 05 Coverage

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[nichos]

Why is the channel +m (moderated) :(

[pounce]

looking forward to the coverage !

[bigandy]

live updates. not a live broadcast but oh well, at least we'll know whats happening ! thanks!

[loneAzdgari]

Why is the channel +m (moderated) :(

It was temporarily. But will obviously be moderated for the actual event.

[wdlove]

Thank you for the information, it's appreciated. Now at almost the thirty minute mark till Stevenote.

[russed]

does it start at 5? well my time?

where can i get an irc client?

[the_mole1314]

hurray! :D

[yossele]

Do you guys remember, how Steve used to start his keynote?
We have now over 60.000 people watching us, thru our webcast!!!
He won't be saying it today, because if he has more than 5000 he just lucky.

[stoid]

show starts in half an hour

[Bakey]

does it start at 5? well my time?

where can i get an irc client?

I've a feeling it's 6 GMT...

[iPegboy]

woo hoo. Sweet, i was worried it would not be broadcasted out. no live feed, but this is a good anyway. with tabbed browsing, no one at work will know (unless something crazy happens and i yell something).

[noggsy]

its 5pm GMT

[puuukeey]

ipod-shuffle.com

[swissmann]

Thanks for doing this since there is no live Quicktime.

[bpd115]

ipod-shuffle.com!!

Well, better than iPod micro.

[bcsmith]

I'm just glad that there will be coverage...

[keysersoze]

ipod-shuffle.com

Well lookee-lookee... it's legit!

[jsw]

ipod-shuffle.com
Whois results:

Registrant:
dandi-design

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: IPOD-SHUFFLE.COM

Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.D3NS.COM
NS4.D3NS.COM

For complete domain details go to:
http://whois.godaddy.com

Oh well...

[rogozhin]

where can i get an irc client?

Try x-chat

http://www.xchat.org/about/

[ipacmm]

cool...looking forward to it.

[jcook793]

ipod-shuffle.com
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[neoelectronaut]

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[yoak]

I have same problem, what do we do?

[swissmann]

You guys did an awesome job. Up to date, fast, well noted, and no crashes or overloads! Thanks.

[Doctor Q]

For those who got tired of standing on your head, here is the keynote coverage report in forwards chronological order:

MacRumors coverage of MWSF Keynote, Jan 11 2005

9:00 people still coming into the room

music playing - vertigo by U2

please turn off your cell phones and pagers

let's get it started in here - Black Eyed Peas

lights coming down

people clapping

hard to hear

1 million visitors a week

100+ retail stores

Steve on stage

finest personal computer you can get

next - OS X

14 million active users

most successful OS release

on target for 1st half of 2005

Tiger - 5th major release of X

automator

OS X 10.4 demo

200 new features

talking about Spotlight

finds instantly

searching demo - searching through 4 million files

cross-program data searching very easy to use

searching metadata

bug on stage - Steve gets error message - crowd laughs

searching for sunset now

System Preferences now

album art searching as well

completely change the way we work

search accross all mailboxes instantly

saveable searching - save previous searches to call up later

Mail to receive lots of new features

have everything right where you want it

major upgrade to Quicktime in Tiger

complete MPG4 compliance

new codec support for h.264

no matter the beginning format - can support compressions

QuickTime demo

demo over

cell phone up to HD - everyone climbing on board

covering Dashboard

translation, calculator, etc.

dashboard icon in dock allows to either add new widget or to show widgets

iChat demo

uses h.264 compression

videoconference demo

talking with a girl in paris - invites Phil to join in

sends Phil away quickly as usual

amazing quality - 3 way video chat

end of Tiger demo

Next - HD

2005 year of HD video

talking about Final Cut Pro HD

Next - iLife

completely new version of every app

bring all the apps together - iLife 05

major upgrade to all

organize more efficiently - more formats supported

demo of apps - iPhoto

add calendar links to photos - new way to organize & search

iPhoto to support mpg movies from camera as well as RAW camera support

all works the same as on jpg & RAW formats

Ken Burns still included

demo

25,000 photos in iPhoto

sorting by calendar dates

example of new supported format - MPG4 video

playing with exposure controls

better rotation controls

slideshow demo

book controls much better - much easier to make a book - more options

open edit controls from book creator

iPhoto demo over

button on panel to buy books directly from iPhoto

adding softcover option for books

20 page minimum - $29.99 for 28 pages

available throughout the world from today on

smaller size available too - 6x9 $9.99

iMovie

more transitions & effects

magic iMovie - select transitions on import from camcorder

biggest feature - now supports HD video

720p

demo

"simplest video editor in the world now edits HD video"

year of HD

sony now offering prosumer HD camera

cooperated with Sony - since the 3.5" floppy

Pres. of Sony on stage to talk about cooperation

Apple Store offline

Steve playing with HD camcorder while Sony president talking

this is the year of HD @ Home

"great to work with apple on great applications"

Next - iDVD

one step dvd creation

demo of iDVD

-R, +R, -RW and +RW supported (for burning)

another demo

iDVD demo over

next - Garageband

new Jampacks available today

recorded tracks now as flexible as loops

multitrack simultaneous recording added

debuted 1 year ago - great response - lots of requests

John Mayer comes on stage to demo

crowd impressed with the demo

realtime notation

now possible to make your own loops

another Mayer demo

demo concluded

there are unknown icons in Steve's dock

apps all work together, so iLife 05 like getting more than 5 apps

free on all new macs

Next - iWork

AppleWorks long in the tooth - time for replacement

new from ground up - 2 apps in it

Keynote 2

new presentation styles - new transitions, animated text

easy to use

animation built in - fully automated

watercolor effect

easy to use

animation built in - fully automated

scrapbook

flash output

Pages - word processing

can do almost anything

pretty easy to work in Pages

all featured you expect in a good word processor

40 apple design templates included

awesome starting points for documents

invites Phil on stage

demoing pages

Phil covers Pages features

integrated Pages and iPhoto browser?

table support

automatic page layout controls - keep document pretty

$79

next - talking about headless stripped down mac

Macs

Mac Mini

very tiny

quiet, firewire, usb2, video out, ethernet - very very tiny

pizza box style

analog, digital video out

comes with Panther & iLife 05

half as high as an iPod mini, surface of a little dish

coming 1st half of 05

1.25 Ghz G4

another at 1.4 Ghz

most important new mac 'ever'

available Jan 22

prices for mac mini: $499 and $599

iTunes - more than 230 million songs sold

averaging half a billion songs per year

70% market share, even with all the competition

15 countries, 70% global market

constantly retooling for new contents

iPod & iPod mini

crossed 10 million iPods sold

Amazon's top buy consumer electronics product

now over 400 accessories available

new ways to use iPod in the car

Mercedes offering iPod jacks

brought cars to preview - on floor at Macworld show

cell phones - iTunes client on cell phone - showing sample to the crowd

cell phones -

did phenominally

Going back to Jan 2004 - marketshare was decent - introduced mini to go after high-end of flash market

marketshare of players has DOUBLED since last year

next?

forget batteries - no need to make music hard to find on player

want to make something really great

flash player based around shuffle

something happened in the ipod market - became most popular way to listen - shuffle

new device

iPod Shuffle

weighs under 1 ounce

simple to use controls

cap covering inputs - USB

12 hours on battery

shuffle or playlist

autoplay

integration between the device and the jukebox

manaul sync or automatic

can charge in the car

shipping today

dock available

http://pictures.hentges.lu/tmp/shuf.jpg

dock & case available - $29 each

iPod shuffle ad playing

makes iPod available to a LOT more people

thanks developers and engineers for working so hard

keynote winding down - store still closed

welcomes Mayer back on stage to play song

John Mayer - up for 2 Grammys - for 'Fathers'

http://www.apple.com/home/
http://www.apple.com/iwork/
http://www.apple.com/macmini/
http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/
http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/

Mayer still playing

store back up - but under HEAVY load

Mayer finished playing

that's it - all done

lights come up to Black Eyed Peas

[wdlove]

I was able to follow coverage of MWSF via MacRumors.com - Jan, 2005 - MacWorld SF Expo Keynote Coverage. No problems incurred except that at times it was slow, so slight frustration. Thank you arn and staff for a job well done.