Tag Archive for 'wwdc-2007'
The visual glitz factor in Leopard is definitely high, with traditional tools like search being augmented with alternative views such as CoverFlow. There’s already been some discussion about whether this is merely eye-candy or has some real value to the power-user, but you can decide for yourself with SlashGear’s video from the WWDC Keynote.
http://www.slashgear.com/media/wwdc-2007-new-desktop-new-finder-demo.flv
Undoubtedly [...]
Continuing our video footage from WWDC07, here’s Apple’s Phil Schiller demonstrating the new features of Leopard’s iChat instant-messaging software. The focus here is definitely on better communication and streamlining the way information is exchanged; in the first half of the demo we see the photo, video and document sharing - as easy as dragging [...]
In a Keynote heavily dominated by Apple’s next incarnation of OS X, one of the things that we can take away and play with today is the beta of Safari 3 which is now also available for Windows. Check out SlashGear’s video of Jobs’ demo, pitting Safari against IE7 and proving that their new [...]
One of the more visually interesting parts of Apple’s Leopard demo was the new Core Animation functionality, which joins existing Core Audio, Image and Video features and makes animating text, images, video and OpenGL simple. Take a look at SlashGear’s video from the Keynote, and get ready to gasp and spontaneously applaud along with [...]
[09:06 AM] We are here! Keynote is less than an hour away
[09:46 AM] 15 minutes to WWDC kick off - the crowd is packing in!
[09:57 AM] Announcement - presentation begins in two minutes!!!!
[10:01 AM] lights dim…silence..total darkness now
[10:02 AM] mac [...]
With 18 million users of Safari to date, Apple is looking to bring some of its browser sunshine to dreary Windows boxes. At the WWDC today Jobs announced that Safari will run on both Windows XP and Vista, and not only run but storm along. In on-stage demos version 3 of the browser [...]
Confirming that the iPhone will launch at 6pm on June 29th, Apple have given opportunity-hungry developers some news about how they’ll be able to code for the covetable handset. Based on the full Safari engine in iPhone you’ll be able to write Web 2.0 applications that work just like hard-coded apps on the phone, integrating [...]
Apple took the opportunity at today’s WWDC keynote to demonstrate ten new Leopard features. The highly-anticipated OS upgrade comes after the runaway success of OS X Tiger, with two-thirds of machines running that system. Apparently Leopard will introduce more than 300 new features.
First off, Jobs showed the new Leopard desktop with a narrower [...]
Not only have Electronic Arts signed up to bring a brace of titles to the Mac, but id Games are also bringing their titles to the Apple stable. The key here is incredibly real textures and graphics - 20gb texture maps and and unlimited ability to manipulate those textures on an object with little [...]
It looks like Apple are putting to bed any of those “but you can’t play games on a Mac” criticisms - thanks to a partnership with Electronic Arts big titles such as Command and Conquer 3, Battlefield 2142, Need For Speed Carbon and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be released for [...]
