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Several rumors sites are reporting the Apple will refresh its current iMac line with new ones sometime this summer. As of yet, this is still a rumor but the iMac has not see a refresh for almost 268 days which is far too long then the average which is 168 days. If you are in the market for a new iMac we suggest you wait till September at least. For Macbook, Macbook Pro, Mac Mini, and the Mac Pro we recommend that you buy now since all, except the Mac Mini, have been updated lately.

Sources:

iMac Buyers Guide

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AppleInsider

In a press release by Apple today . Apple have improved the battery life and performance of the iPhone .

“iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback. In addition, iPhone will feature up to 250 hours—more than 10 days—of standby time.”

Apple also released a comparison chart that compares the new improvements they added to the iPhone with the industry leading smart phones

Source : Apple.com

We just completed our first guide to new Mac switchers and owners. This guide is a simple walk through of what to do when you get a new Mac. We have also setup a forum post where you, our dear reader, can tell us what you think and all so we can help with the improvement of the guide.

Link to Guide: New Mac How-To
Link to Forum: Forum-New Mac How-To

Amazon has begun offering Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) for pre-ordering on their website.

Amazon first offered Leopard for presale on June 12th, a day after Apple’s WWDC keynote announcing Leopard’s new features. Leopard is now ranked #2 amongst best selling software.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is scheduled to ship in October 2007.

Source : Amazon

Apple & AT&T started emailing it’s customers reminding them of the release date of the iPhone.

The e-mail states :

iPhone arrives on June 29. iPhone features an amazing mobile phone, is the best iPod we’ve ever created, and puts the Internet in your pocket with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching, and maps. And iPhone makes it all easy to use with its revolutionary multi-touch user interface. iPhone syncs with your PC or Mac just like an iPod, so organizing your content now will help you start calling, texting, emailing, surfing, listening, and watching even faster when you get your iPhone.

It Also has some suggestions on hot you get yourself ready for the iPhone

Source : Apple.com
: AT&T

Apple just uploaded the video from todays WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs . You can go and watch it NOW

Apple CEO Steve Jobs dedicated most of his keynote address to overviewing Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” and detailing some of its top-secret features, including a new desktop user interface and a new Finder.

Desktop
Leopard’s new desktop will feature a variety of enhancements, including:
- Enhanced, 3D Dock. Slimmer and more functional.
- Stacks (organization tool similar to a stack of paper). Can fan out or pop up in a grid.
- No more brushed metal. Consistent look.

Readers with keen memories may recall that Stacks .

Finder
Leopard’s revised Finder has a new sidebar and numerous improvements to searching, including the ability to search shared computers. Also added was a Finder feature called Back To My Mac for connecting to Macs not on the same LAN, using .Mac to identify the computer’s IP address automatically, so remote connections can be created more easily. Cover Flow has also been incorporated into the new Finder.

Other
While Mr. Jobs spent a considerable amount of time reviewing features previewed at last year’s conference, he did note that iChat would include AAC-LD (AAC low delay), which promises enhanced audio quality in iChat conversations.

Leopard will be available in October for $129 USD.

Also A new Safari Beta version for windows .

Now available for download >>HERE<< For both Mac & PC

Sorce :Apple.com

it’s 8:02AM and the First images out of WWDC shows people are getting into Macsone west building .

More updates soon!!!

Approximately 30 minute from start of Keynote

It’s 9:43AM and people are starting to get into the keynote hall.

People are taking their seats . 12 minutes to the Keynote start.

There are 2 identical iMacs set up on the stage. or computers with brushed metal displays

The Keynote starts in 2 Minutes!!!

Apple Online store is down!!!

KEYNOTE STARTED… Video Playing .. PC Guy and Mac.. PC guy dressed as Steve Jobs

Intel CEO Paul Ottelini on stage talks about the partnership with apple

Oh, he’s a happy one today. Look at that big grin on his face. “Welcome, thank you, thanks for coming, we have some great stuff to show you today. Welcome to WWDC07, I’m pleased to report we have over 5k attendees today, the biggest WWDC ever in the history of Apple.” Applause. “We have over 950,000 Apple dev connection members. Our developer community is very healthy and growing rapidly. We couldn’t be happier. This week we have some great stuff for you — 159 sessions, 94 labs, 1,200 Apple engineers on site…”

Bing Gordon = EA Chief Creative Officer On stage.. Demoing new games

Now switching to Leopard

New Feature - new Desktop Looks transpararent in menu bar & Dock - dock is narrower
Dock sporting new 3D look
Stacks - all of us have messy desktops

Stacks fan out from dock, or pop up in a grid
Default stack called “Downloads” which will stay in the Dock

New Finder on leopard.

coverflow look on the new finder

Browsing another Mac over network using Cover Flow

now showing demo of Quick Look

Steve finds a PDF, hits the space bar, and it pops up in a window without launching a viewer app

Quick look expands out from all finder views, window, list, column or Cover Flow

Feature #4 - Leopard is 64-bit from top to bottom

I can look at Word docs — anything I want to do. Full-screen previews. I can rapidly examine these things. That is Quick Look. A great companion to the Finder and other apps. Number four: Leopard is 64-bit top to bottom. Not only does it have 64-bit underpinnings in Unix, but we’ve taken it all the way up through Cocoa. This is the first time 64-bit will be mainstream in the PC world. One version of Leopard will run 32-bit and 64-bit apps side-by-side. We do NOT have two versions of Leopard. And that’s why this is going to be the first time 64-bit goes mainstream. It’s very very cool.” Demo time. “It’s a shootout between 32-bit and 64-bit… this app is going to load in a giant photo.”

Demo is showing a 4GB photo loading. 32-bit App can’t keep it all in memory, shows running several filters on both 32 and 64 bit versions at once.

64-bit version took 28 seconds, 32-bit version took 81 seconds to run filters on the 4GB photo.

Feature #5 - Core Animation

Core Animation: Very simple to use, easy to add to applications.

“Very high production values, very low effort to add it — it automatically brings in GPU acceleration. For the demo, if you’ve seen the Apple TV, we took the opening movie and made it live and interactive.” This is insane, he’s zooming over a grid of hundreds of live-playing videos. “I can search for this since it has tags… I’m gonna look for anything with water.” They all swing to the front. Unreal!

Feature #6 - Boot Camp

Boot Camp is built-in
You can run XP & Vista at native speed - use as a complement to Parallels & VMWare

With Leopard Boot Camp is built-in. The latest and greatest version is built in… no more CD-burning to install drivers. This is a really great complement to Parallels and VMware. There are three great ways to run Windows on the Mac — you run Parallels, and that’s a really great way.”

Feature #7 - Spaces

group applications in spaces, easily move applications between spaces, easily move between spaces

Demo - moves mouse between spaces…game in one space, safari and mail in another

with the game running in one space - audio only comes on when space is active

Feature #8 - Dashboard

Since you keep writing widgets, we should do our part.
New Widget - Movie Times

showing safari…browses to yahoo, likes yahoo “main story area”
Steve hits the “scissors” button… Webclip automatically finds section of page, then clicks to make widget

Feature #9 - iChat

Better audio quality with new AAC-Low Delay codec, tabbed chats, photo booth effects, iChat theatre, and backdrops

Now Phil puts his mouth on the face of Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) - sticks his tongue out, and the crowd loves it

Feature #10 - Time Machine

Time Machine has one click setup, automatically backs up everything, back up to local hard drive or server - even wirelessly

You click it on, it automatically backs up everything. It will back up to a local drive or network server, it will even back up wirelessly. You can hang a drive off your Mac, or you can get an Airport Express Base Station… so that handles the backup. What happens if something goes wrong? Time Machine lets you look back in Time for lost files in Spotlight search — and you can preview in Quick Look. You can restore with one-click, or even restore your entire Mac. So let me show that to you…” Demo.

ONE VERSION OF LEOPARD $129 Shipping this October

ONE MORE THING

SAFARI FOR WINDOWS

Another one more thing ….iPhone

Ships June 29th - 6pm

What about developers?

Have been trying to come up with a solution to letting developers write Apps for the iPhone and keep it secure.
We’ve come up with a very sweet solution

Innovative new way for developing for mobile applications.
based on iphone having full safari engine…gives us tremendous capability
web 2.0 + AJAX apps

demoing iphone onscreen…all apps run within safari . you can build custom apps tha have the look and feel of the iPhone

custom app…corporate address book database using ldap

KEYNOTE ENDED

(KEYNOTE ENDED …. A Wrapup will soon follow … Thanks for visiting ….)

Apple is in talks with Hollywood studios about launching an online movie rental service.

The iTunes movie rentals would reportedly be $2.99 for a 30 day rental, but would allow films to be moved to at least one other device — such as the iPod or iPhone.

The target for this service is believed to be autumn of this year.

 Source : Financial Times

WWDC 2007 is just right around the corner . Keynote kicks off monday June 11th At 10AM PDT or 1PM EST (5PM GMT) and live coverage of the event will be uploaded to the site as it happens. So Stay tuned this monday for the latest and greatest news and announcments from Apple.