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Undoubtedly live previews of documents, presentations, video and music direct from the Finder pane are impressive, but I can understand some people doubting its real usefulness. Personally I think it’s just a further example of how integrated search can be into a system, and of how Apple are attempting to cater for more than the traditional style of browsing; more choice is seldom a bad thing.

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[flv]http://www.slashgear.com/media/wwdc-2007-ichat-demo.flv[/flv]

The Star Wars holograph effect is particularly impressive – I love that occasional shimmer!

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The Safari 3 beta is available to download from www.apple.com/safari

You can read more about Safari 3′s performance here, and make sure to check out the rest of SlashGear’s WWDC 2007 coverage.

[flv]http://www.slashgear.com/media/apple-wwdc-2007-core-animation.flv[/flv]

Make sure to check out the rest of SlashGear’s WWDC 2007 coverage

[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 versus pc commercial with voice of steve jobs but it’s the pc dude

[10:02 AM] steve said it’s big news, he quit

[10:02 AM] he’s shutting down all of Apple, everyone laugh

[10:03 AM] he shows an ipod killer, called the “zune” in crap color, apple waving white flag over dudes in redmond

[10:03 AM] steve says hi to mac dude

[10:03 AM] steve walks on stage

[10:03 AM] wearing the same black shirt and jeans, welcoming the crowd

[10:04 AM] Welcome to WWDC07, reporting over 5,000 attendees, largest ever in history of Apple

[10:04 AM] 950,000 apple developer connection members

[10:05 AM] 1:4 apple engineer ratio

[10:05 AM] going back a year

[10:05 AM] intel, transition to intel was ambitious, big success, everyone did a great job

[10:06 AM] one group worked extremely hard, recognized today — intel themselves

[10:06 AM] Intel CEO Paul Otellini coming onto the stage

[10:07 AM] steve gives paul an award made out of stainless steel

[10:08 AM] Paul – working with Apple was one of his best experience ever!

[10:08 AM] steve says we’re working on some great stuff – coming up “can’t wait”

[10:08 AM] next up, great news about games

[10:08 AM] Electronic Arts coming to MAC in a big way

[10:08 AM] FYI: The Apple Store is down!

[10:09 AM] Bing Gordon co-founder and chief creative office on stage

[10:09 AM] command and conquer 3

[10:10 AM] coming back to MAC

[10:10 AM] 2142 battlefield

[10:10 AM] need for speed carbon

[10:10 AM] harry potter and the order of the phoenix

[10:11 AM] demonstration of harry potter the game

[10:12 AM] madden 08 and tiger woods 08

[10:12 AM] create youtube like video of your best scores

[10:13 AM] showing something awesome

[10:13 AM] id John Carmack owner and CTO

[10:14 AM] demonstration of some graphics – entire world covered in 20GB of texture

[10:16 AM] wrapping up EA and id

[10:16 AM] mac os x tiger most successful release in apple

[10:17 AM] 23% running panther

[10:17 AM] 10 % running older release than that

[10:17 AM] 2/3 running tiger

[10:17 AM] final look at leopard!!!

[10:18 AM] we get to see 10 new features

[10:18 AM] out of 300

[10:18 AM] leopard has a new desktop

[10:18 AM] feature 1

[10:20 AM] smooths out

[10:20 AM] New menu bar, new doc and something new to clean up desktop Stacks!

[10:20 AM] Consistent window look

[10:20 AM] prominent active window

[10:21 AM] stacks are folders in the dock

[10:21 AM] new dog

[10:21 AM] view as a fan or grid

[10:21 AM] throw it into any folders

[10:21 AM] one folder is called Downloads

[10:21 AM] steve is walking through the demo of stack

[10:22 AM] stack is great for easy access to your stuff

[10:24 AM] wrapping up the new desktop

[10:24 AM] 2- New Finder!

[10:25 AM] a-new sidebar

[10:25 AM] b-search other macs and servers

[10:25 AM] c-shared computers

[10:25 AM] d-bud

[10:25 AM] back to my mac

[10:25 AM] e-cover flow

[10:27 AM] leopard comes with smart searches but you can add your own

[10:28 AM] .mac always know all your ips on your network, encrypted

[10:28 AM] demo

[10:29 AM] cover flow on leopard rock! scrolling through docs is never easier and niftier, including cycling through docs

[10:30 AM] can even use cover flow to cycle through utils

[10:30 AM] steve is going through the demo of shared now

[10:32 AM] using cover flow, you can simply drag files from another computer

[10:32 AM] to your desktop

[10:33 AM] wrapping up the new finder

[10:33 AM] 3- Quick Look

[10:34 AM] a-live preview fiiles

[10:34 AM] b-text, images, movies, pdf, word

[10:36 AM] 4- leopard is 64-bit top to bottom

[10:37 AM] 64-bit goes mainstream

[10:37 AM] One version of leopard runs 32-bit and 64-bit apps sidebyside!

[10:37 AM] 64-bit cocoa

[10:37 AM] demo

[10:39 AM] demo comparing image processing of a 32-bit app versus 64-bit

[10:39 AM] done in 28.48 secs while 32-bit is still running

[10:40 AM] 32-bit done in 81 sec

[10:40 AM] 5-core animation

[10:41 AM] a-automatic animation

[10:41 AM] b-text, images, video open gl

[10:41 AM] c-high production value

[10:41 AM] etc…

[10:42 AM] cor animation demo is something you gottta see for yourself

[10:42 AM] words simply cannot describe

[10:42 AM] we’ll have video up after the show

[10:43 AM] 6-Boot Camp

[10:43 AM] 2.5M downloads since release

[10:44 AM] it’s built in now

[10:44 AM] Runs Windows XP and Vista

[10:44 AM] completely compatible

[10:44 AM] 3 ways to run windows

[10:44 AM] 1-boot camp

[10:44 AM] 2-parallels

[10:44 AM] 3-vmware

[10:45 AM] all three solutions for you to occassionaly run windows

[10:45 AM] 7-Spaces

[10:45 AM] group applications into separate spaces

[10:45 AM] instantly switch between spaces

[10:45 AM] easily move between apps

[10:46 AM] demo of Spaces

[10:46 AM] can hold down arrow keys and move around

[10:46 AM] rearranging space is easy too

[10:46 AM] select, drag and rop

[10:47 AM] rearrange the applications within the space

[10:47 AM] moving the app from one space to another

[10:47 AM] so that’s spaces…

[10:48 AM] 8-dashboard

[10:48 AM] 3,000 widgets out there

[10:48 AM] apple is adding one more widget – allow you to search for movies and theatres

[10:48 AM] even buy tickets on fandango

[10:48 AM] ships with leopards

[10:49 AM] new technology called WebClip

[10:49 AM] allows users to make widgets out of anything on the Internet

[10:52 AM] making widgets is extremely easy!

[10:53 AM] all widgets update automatically

[10:54 AM] Dashcode ships in every copy of leopard

[10:54 AM] 9-iChat!

[10:54 AM] better audio – acc-ld

[10:55 AM] tabbed chats

[10:55 AM] photo booth affects

[10:55 AM] iChat Theater

[10:55 AM] back drops

[10:55 AM] those are the new features of iChat

[10:55 AM] ichat theaters let you share fotos

[10:55 AM] docs

[10:55 AM] with others

[10:56 AM] steve demo ichat with phil

[10:56 AM] phil sounds like a robot lol

[10:56 AM] demo, photos are displayed right in the chat

[10:56 AM] from iPhoto

[10:57 AM] wow! videos play directly in ichat window!

[10:57 AM] it uses quicklook technology

[10:58 AM] everyone clap…pretty impressive!

[10:58 AM] ok, backdrops now

[10:58 AM] you step out of the frame, once it’s done you can step back

[10:59 AM] phil looks like he’s inside and aquarium or infront of a waterfall

[10:59 AM] dude, phil is blue – thermal

[10:59 AM] or upside down

[10:59 AM] now he’s transparent!

[11:00 AM] he’s got a pic of washington, and his lips

[11:00 AM] now he’s got steve ballmer!

[11:00 AM] dude, how rad is that “I love my mac” and sticks his tongue out

[11:01 AM] wrapping up ichat and ichat theater

[11:01 AM] 10-Time Machine

[11:02 AM] automatically back up everything

[11:03 AM] back up to local or network drive

[11:03 AM] back up one base station to back up all the macs in your house or office

[11:03 AM] search back in time for last files

[11:03 AM] using spotlight search

[11:03 AM] preview them with quick look

[11:03 AM] restore them with one click

[11:03 AM] or restore your entire mac

[11:06 AM] wrapping up Time Machine

[11:06 AM] so, is there that “one last thing”?!

[11:06 AM] these are just 10 of over 300 features

[11:07 AM] developers are getting a copy today

[11:07 AM] surprise surprise!

[11:07 AM] Basic version – $129

[11:07 AM] Premium – $129

[11:07 AM] LMAO!

[11:07 AM] Business version $129

[11:07 AM] Ultimate Version $129

[11:07 AM] Ultimat Version with everything is still ONLY $129!

[11:08 AM] but…

[11:08 AM] there is ONE other thing!!!!

[11:08 AM] damn, it’s only Safari – sorry guys

[11:09 AM] IE market share is 78%k firefox 15%

[11:09 AM] Jobs want Safari to grow in market share

[11:09 AM] create a version of Safari on Windows!!

[11:10 AM] Safari 3 rus on XP and Vista

[11:10 AM] they exist today

[11:10 AM] how does safari’s speed measure on Windows?

[11:11 AM] safari runs twices as fast as IE

[11:12 AM] fastest browser on Windows

[11:12 AM] 1.6 times faster than firefox 2

[11:12 AM] google and search

[11:12 AM] built in

[11:13 AM] steve thinks it’s odd, he’s having to run XP

[11:13 AM] to demo Safari

[11:13 AM] poor guy!

[11:13 AM] new tab feature, you an drag tabs around

[11:13 AM] or drag them off and they go into their own window

[11:13 AM] ibench test shoot out

[11:13 AM] im capturing video for those who want to see it later

[11:13 AM] ibench simply loads a bunch of web sites

[11:13 AM] 6.64 sec for safarie

[11:13 AM] 13.56 sec for ie

[11:13 AM] holy cow!

[11:13 AM] Distribution?

[11:14 AM] 500,000 firefox downloads a day

[11:20 AM] one last thing

[11:21 AM] the iPhone

[11:21 AM] it’s only 18 days from now

[11:21 AM] for developers

[11:21 AM] no sdk

[11:21 AM] shipping on june 29th, at 6pm

[11:21 AM] web 2.0 and ajax

[11:21 AM] integrate into iphone services

[11:22 AM] instant distribtion

[11:22 AM] secure

[11:22 AM] yep

[11:22 AM] and sandboxed on iphone

[11:24 AM] scott forstall vp iphone software just completed the demo

[11:24 AM] apps built can be ran on safari browser the mac

[11:26 AM] wrapping up

[11:28 AM] That’s all folks, we are done :)

Both Google and Yahoo! search are built in, and there’s an upgrade to tabbed browsing which not only allows you to drag tabs around but also to pull them out of the browser and into a new window. As a bit of a kick in the teeth to the popular Firefox 2 browser, Safari was also shown to be 1.6 times faster.

If you want to try this new beta then you can download it at www.apple.com/safari

Being html and AJAX based means instant distribution is possible; all you need are web standards. Testing can be done in Safari on your desktop, then simply transferred to the iPhone.  As an example, Jobs demonstrated several applications running in Safari on an iPhone: a custom corporate address book database which used ldap and took less than one person-month of coding time (and in fact just 600 lines of code), contacts from which could be dialled direct as if from the iPhone contacts. Both the Apple and the custom applications looked identical, and each were able to access other iPhone functionality such as Google Maps.

Expect to see big names such as Salesforce and Google using this system to provide iPhone software shortly after launch!

First off, Jobs showed the new Leopard desktop with a narrower dock and it and the menu bar being transparent. Desktop stacks are newly tidied, either fanning out from the dock or popping up in a grid; there’s a default stack called “downloads” which sticks in place. Each new document defaults to the front of the stack, and you can put applications there too and use stacks as an app-launcher.

Next, there’s a new Finder and sidebar with the ability to search and browse other networked computers and, if you’re a .Mac subscriber, share stuff online with other machines. A new CoverFlow view can not only show album covers and artwork but scroll through PDFs, preview movies and more, viewing all shared folders available to you as if they were on the local machine.

Preset “smart searches” are built-in, and they can be customised as you develop your filing structure. All ip addresses you use are saved and encrypted allowing for seamless connections; you can even drag and drop media between computers while in CoverFlow.

Leopard will be the first mainstream 64-bit OS, and there’ll even be a version that can run 32-bit and 64-bit applications side-by-side. System intensive applications like image processing will see huge improvements; in the WWDC demo (see our video coming soon) a 32-bit system took 81 seconds to apply several filters to a 4GB photo, while the 64-bit system (even with a 32-bit app running concurrently) took just 28 seconds.

Bootcamp, Apple’s software to allow dual-booting into both OS X and Windows, is also being improved; now it comes built-in, and can run XP and Vista at native speed. Apple are calling it complementary to Parallels and VMWare, rather than an all-out assault on those third-party apps.

Next up is Spaces, effectively a CoverFlow-style array of multiple desktops. You can drag and drop running applications between different Spaces, and there’s sensible management of things like audio, which only plays for the Space which is currently active. Holding down the arrow-keys fans through the Spaces like a roladex.

The Dashboard is getting a new widget, especially to cater to Apple’s friends in the movie industry. Searching show times, watching streaming previews and even buying tickets via Fandango will all be possible, and the Movie Times widget will be preloaded on each Leopard system. So far there are over 3,000 third-party widgets out there, and that number should shoot up with the introduction of the WebClip tool, which easily takes a webpage and turns it into a widget via Safari. Considering the iPhone is also set to support Widgets this should see some of the third-party app concerns people have had satisfied.

In his demo, Jobs used a scissors tool to snip out the “main story” area of Yahoo!’s homepage, instantly turning it into a new widget that will automatically update; it’s a similar process to grab things like Dilbert’s comic-of-the-day or the National Geographic photo-of-the-day, and then you can pretty them up with customisable shading and borders. Is it just me or is anyone reminded of Microsoft’s Active Desktop?

iChat is getting an update too, with ACC-Low Delay audio for higher quality sound, tabbed chat windows, photobooth effects and different backgrounds. You can also share photos, videos and documents from within the chat window, using iChat Theater linked up with iPhoto, and apply real-time voice processing for instance making your mom sound like a robot. It all uses Quick Look, meaning you can simply drag a video clip to the conversation and it’ll automatically begin streaming. Backgrounds require you to step out of frame for a moment, and then when you move back in iChat automatically maps you into the picture with the image behind you. You can also apply real-time video effects, flipping and twisting the image, changing colours or making yourself transparent.

Finally, Time Machine should hopefully put an end to user-guilt over not backing up. It automatically backs up everything to either a local or network drive, with a one-click interface that should mean anyone can get using it, and then lets you search back in time using Spotlight or simply scrolling back through the days. A single hard-drive plugged into an Airport Base Station can keep saved copies from all of your networked Macs, lets you preview them, and then you can restore individual files or a full system with a single click. As Steve says, “our goal was to make it so simple that people would actually use it.”

Leopard will cost $129 at launch.

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Jobs and EA co-founder Bing Gordon demonstrated the 3D gaming in Harry Potter, with fully immersive environments. Tiger Woods 2008 and Madden 2008 will also launch soon, and you’ll be able to create YouTube-style videos of your high-scores.

Check back later for screenshots!

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The keynote will starts at 10 a.m PST or 12 p.m CST on Monday June 11th and all transcripts output will display PST timestamp.

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That’s right, our own Vincent will be traveling to the show, and just in time for the event we have readied our new Live Webcast system to give you live reports of WWDC keynote. The keynote will starts on Monday, June 11th 2007 at 12:00PM Central time (10:00AM PST).

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