Apple Sends Invitations for March 2nd Media Event to Introduce Next-Generation iPad

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Apple has officially issued invitations to a media event scheduled for next Wednesday, March 2nd, with the graphics suggesting that Apple will indeed introduce the next-generation iPad at the event. The invitation comes with the tagline “Come see what 2011 will be the year of.”

According to the invitation, the event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 10:00 am. This is the same venue Apple has used to introduce a number of products in recent years.

 

Apple Event and the New Lion!

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The Lion Roars!!!!

Welcome all. Here is a summery of what went down in today’s Apple Event. Mr. Jobs started out talking about the state of the Mac, how much income and the usual stats but that is not important. What is important is what he introduced:

Apple iLife 11

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You get the usual suite with some new improvements like:
-iPhoto:

  • New Full-Screen Modes
  • Facebook Enchancements
  • Emailing Photos
  • New Slideshows

-iMovies:

  • Movie Trailers
  • Audio Editing
  • One-Step Effects
  • People Finder: Find faces so can choose you perfect cast.
  • Sports and News Themes
  • Your World Premiere: screen your movies to your iPad, iPhonem and iPod plus Apple TV, Facebook and YouTube.

-GerageBand:

  • Flex Time: Quick timing fix to keep your songs in rhythm.
  • Groove Matching: Match the rhythm of your band to a single track
  • Guitar Amps and Effects
  • How Did I Play?: jamming lessons
  • New Basic Lessons: Learn how to play piano and guitar better

Lion!!! OS X Lion:

Refined interface with the following abilities:

  • iOS like interface
  • iTunes store for Applications
  • Full Screen Mode for Applications

New Macbook Air

macbook air

New Macbook Air

  • Upto 7 hours battery
  • 30 Days Standby
  • Solid State Drive
  • 13.3 or 11.6 inch display
  • 1.4 to 2.13 intel Core 2 Duo with 3MB shared L2 cache
  • up to 250GB Storage
  • 2GB RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce 320M Graphics with 256MB DDR3
  • 1366 by 768 Resolution screen
  • Glass Track Pad
  • Full Size Keyboard
  • 2.9 pounds for the 13.3″ model
  • 2.3 pounds for the 11.6″ model
  • Facetime Camera
  • Click here to watch the video

And All of these gorgeous notebooks are available today!

We will have more when we get more info!

Click here to watch the event

WWDC10 Keynote Video Now available

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Apple just released the entire video of last night’s WWDC Keynote event, Watch it now on Apple’s Site

WWDC10 Live Coverage

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Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2010 is going to kick-start tomorrow June 7th 2010 with the usual Steve Jobs Keynote, and as usual, we are going to be covering it Live with an exclusive live Podcast to keep up to the minute with all the exciting announces from the keynote floor, our visitors can participate in the live show with their (thoughts, comments or questions) on our live iChat Room (Q8mug) ,via twitter (@q8mug) or email (admin@q8mug.com) .

Our live coverage should kick start @8:00PM (Local Kuwait Time) 9:00AM CST , 12:00PM EST, and 6:00PM GMT.

See you then ;-)

Apple Announces WWDC 2010 June 7-11/iPhone 4 announcement?

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Apple today announced that this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will take place from June 7th through 11th at San Francisco’s Moscone West convention center.

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the premier technical conference for developers innovating with Apple technologies. Over 1,000 Apple engineers will be at Moscone West to present advanced coding and development techniques that will show you how to enhance the capabilities of your applications with the revolutionary technologies in iPhone OS and Mac OS X.

Rumors also surrounds the event of announcing the next generation iPhone and talks that Apple may be planning for the next-generation iPhone to go on sale immediately after an introduction at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) scheduled to begin on June 7th.

Apple iPhone OS 4 Event Posted!

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Apple’s iPhone OS 4 video event has been posted on their site. Jump ahead and take a look at the video to learn more about the iPhone OS 4.

Apple Video Event

Apple Announces iPhone OS 4

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Apple Just announced and demoed features of their next release of its iPhone OS (iPhone OS 4), Steve Jobs and company stepped on the Cupertino stage and wowed us with all of the good stuff!! , here’s a brief summery of all the exciting new features :


  • Multitasking

    It’s here, finally. It’s handled with a simple task switcher: double click your home button, and you get a list of running apps. Select, switch, done. Multitasking is limited to audio (Pandora!), VoIP (Skype!) and GPS (Navigation!).


  • Folders

    Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity. Get faster access to your favorites and browse and manage up to 2160 apps at once — many more than the current limit of 180 apps.


  • Even Better Mail

    See messages from all your email accounts displayed together in a unified inbox, switch between inboxes more quickly, organize messages by threads, and even open attachments in third-party apps.


  • iBooks

    The best way to browse, buy, and read books on a mobile device. Easily flip through the pages of a book you’ve downloaded from the iBookstore while listening to your music collection. Browse tens of thousands of books — many of them free — by title, author, or genre. You can even check out reviews and read sample pages before you buy.

    iAd

    iAd is a breakthrough mobile advertising platform from Apple. With it, apps can feature rich media ads that combine the emotion of TV with the interactivity of the web. For developers, it means a new, easy-to-implement source of revenue. For advertisers, it creates a new media outlet that offers consumers highly targeted information.

    For more in-depth details on all these exciting features, you can read on these sites : Gizmodo , Engadget , MacRumors

iPhone OS 4.0 Preview Event Scheduled for This Thursday

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Apple has sent out media invitations for a preview event scheduled for this Thursday, April 8th, to show off iPhone OS 4.0. The event is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM Pacific Time in the Town Hall on Apple’s Cupertino, California campus.

What could the future hold you would ask ? we’ll have to wait and see! for now , through in your predictions in the comments

iPad Launch Event!

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Our member alaaesmaiel was at the event of the iPad launch at the Apple store in San Francisco late last night, and he captured some videos and photos of the event, since we was #2 in line he got to be interviewed by the media and he also got an opportunity to get some inside scoop of how is it like to be among the first to get apple products … Allow us to share some of the videos he broadcasted live via Ustream :

More videos are available on his Ustream Channel

(Special Thanks to Ala for allowing us to share these moments with all of you )

Apple Special Event Keynote Video

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Apple uploaded the video of last nights special event on their site, to stream it, follow the >>Link<<