Apple Posted the Keynote to the WWDC 09 event, You can stream it from Apple’s site >>Here<<

Its been a few days after a crazy Macworld: a period of frantic running from one booth to another meeting hall to a late night tweetup. I’m fully relaxed now, so let me share with you the loot I came out with from the event. I’m only going to list the stuff I actually paid for, not the shwag which I eventually left the most of in my hotel room.

First, the Apple products. The only hardware item that was announce was the 17” Macbook Pro:

I admit that I’m a 15” Macbook / MB Air user so this product isn’t for me, but a member of my family would want to replace an earlier 17” with this monster. There was a lot of talk about Apples controversial decision to integrate the battery into this computer and I can’t wait to test Apple claim of 8 hours per charge.

The only Apple announcement that has been released is iWork. I just installed it this evening, and I’m warming up to it.

I’m truly excited about iLife, and especially iPhoto: as an environmental field worker, I find the geotagging feature by itself worthy of the upgrade..

And now for some other, non-Apple, products:

Since I mentioned Geotagging, the requirement of which is a GPS ready camera. Currently I use the Nikon Coolpix P6000, which happens to be the only major camera release with an integrated GPS. But what about other cameras, both Point-and-shoot or DSLRs?

For awhile I used software from Houdah software, which released version 2.0 of HoudaGeo, a free upgrade to current users of the software. What the package does is simply to chronologically splice GPS tracks to digital pictures.

Going a step further, adding GPS functionality to a DSLR to allow for the automatic geocoding requires some like the Nikon GP-1 unit. This device was announced sometime ago, and even at the Nikon booth at Macworld the attendants were not aware of its immediate availability or price. Luckily, Samy’s Camera offered it on a special sale price of $189.00 (down from $240) in their own booth. They sold out of the item quickly, so my own device will be shipped sometime later this week.

For years I’ve been considering getting an IntelliScanner for home organization, so this time I decided to get the Mini version with loads of bar code strips:

The lady who processed my order was the developers mother, and she commented that he started the company some 11 years ago at the tender age of 13, and now he want to retire!

And finally, this little beauty:

Yes, thats an HP next to a PC notebook. The HP MediaSmart Server works with both Macs and PCs, works with Time Machine and it allows for future hard drive expansions. The only caveat: it won’t be available for the international market until sometime later this year. There are rumors Apple is working on a Time Capsule-on-steroids-with-bells-and-whistles, and with this baby out they should bring it out sooner rather than later.

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Apple Just posted the video stream of the Keynote it held yesterday at Macworld 2009 SF.

You can watch the Video stream from apple site (Here)

UPDATE: 

You can also download the Keynote Via iTunes (Here) 

Our forum Member “aljawad” posted some insite pictures of that event on the forum that can be viewd (Here)

Okay.. Let’s put those rumors to sleep and see what apple has up its sleeves ! . We have a Live video channel update from the folks at tDL below where you can follow the announcements as they happen. In addition, we have a Live Chat Room with (webChattr) where you can chat with other Mac Fans all over the world to talk about the latest announcements . Not to mention that we will post up All Major announcements on the site as well.

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UPDATE :

Our Form member “aljawad” just posted his first set of pictures from the Keynote (HERE)

He also posted

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LIVE VIDEO From tDL : ( LIVE FEED ENDED )

(Photos Courtesy of our forum member “aljawad” )

Update!
New iLife 09 Coming out late January.
New iWork 09 available today.
Leopard + iLife + iWork Package also available for $169
New App for iPhone and iTouch to control your keynote presentation that works over Wifi.

iWork.com Beta To be released
New Macbook Pro 17″ with 8 hours battery life, Unibody design, Faster C2D Processor available late January for $2799
iTunes Music is DRM-Free starting today and you can download music over 3G on your iPhone.

Thats it! We will be providing an analysis of MacWorld 09 keynote Later and also stay tuned for more photos and tidbits from our forum member and great contributor aljawad!

Night! Power_boz, and G-Funk!

Few days separates us from the Final Apple appearance in Macworld SF 2009, speculators are expecting Apple to some BiG announcements from Steve’s company, though the Mac God is not presenting the Keynote, We are still can’t wait to see what apple has up it’s sleeves.

Rumors spread all over the web, (new Mac Mini’s, New iPhone Nano, New iMac’s, Enhancements to MobileMe .. Etc) , all of which awaiting to be true. Only time would tell, and only Apple Knows.

Be on the lookout for the usual coverage of the event as it happens Jan 6th 8PM Kuwait Time.

(Photo courtesy of our forum member aljawad)

aljawad Reporting!
Hopefully this will be the first of a series of reports from San Francisco and Macworld ’09. I’ve included a picture of the banners that are spreading all over the city, but the interesting observation of the day is what appears to be a banner being prepared at the Moscone (South) center. Now this could be nothing more than a banner for Macworld ’09, but last year the same spot had the “Something in the Air” teaser that heralded the introduction of the Macbook Air. Now some of those with access to the interior of the center have reported huge banners covered in black.

UPDATE:

More Live reports from our forum member “aljawad” (Here) , (Here), and (Here” Visiting the apple Campus” )