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Mac OSX snow leopard has already been released but here is the info about it !
Daniel Eran Dilger Apple is marketing the idea of there being “no new features” for Snow Leopard and instead promising an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood, thanks to a diligent code optimization and refactoring cycle discussed in the previous article. At the same time, there are plenty of significant new features coming in Snow Leopard to look forward to. Here are ten big new features (plus a few minor ones) that you probably haven’t heard much about from anywhere else, including my previous articles on the subject that already described QuickTime X, Grand Central, and OpenCL.
WWDC 2008: New in Mac OS X Snow Leopard Snow Leopard Server Takes on Exchange, SharePoint
Pulling Invisible New Features into Snow Leopard. Apple’s increasing collaborations with the open source community have pulled back the veil of secrecy on several new but mostly invisible enhancements that will be showing up in Snow Leopard.
One relates to LLVM, the Low Level Virtual Machine compiler architecture project originally founded at the University of Illinois. Apple began contributing to LLVM development in 2005, and started using it Leopard to expand support for OpenGL hardware features. Lower-end Macs that lack the silicon to interpret that specialize graphics code can now do it in software.
LLVM is also working its way into Apple’s Xcode IDE, initially as a highly efficient optimizer and code generator that works as a bolt-on upgrade to components of GCC, but eventually as a complete compiler replacement. That project, known as Clang, was opened up last year. LLVM compiler technology not only makes developers more productive, but also results in code that runs significantly faster on the same hardware.
Apple’s other open secret: the LLVM Complier The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project
Another openly hidden secret in Mac OS X is CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System. Beginning with Jaguar in 2002, Apple adopted and licensed CUPS from its developer as Mac OS X’s printing engine. It then purchased the project outright. CUPS is also the de facto printing system for Linux distros and is available for BSD and other commercial Unix systems.
That means Apple owns the project that develops the printing architecture for Linux. That’s not an issue because Apple has established a reputation in open source as a strong contributor and open sharer. According to a review of bug fixes and improvements in CUPS software, 24% of the enhancements came from Apple while 76% came from free and open source software contributors working with Linux, OpenSolaris, and other projects. Of course, 100% of both sides benefited from that sharing.
CUPS collaboration has resulted in high quality code and the advancement of new features. CUPS 1.4, the version sources say Snow Leopard will use, adds performance enhancements and a variety of security improvements that use sandboxing to prevent malware attacks on the printing system from being able to read sensitive documents that may be in use by printers.
Common UNIX Printing System
A third significant new feature originating from an open source project in Snow Leopard is ZFS support, portions of which come from the OpenSolaris project (along with Sun’s DTrace technology, which Apple uses in its Instruments performance profiling tool). Leopard debuted read-only ZFS features, but Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server will provide both read and write support for Sun’s new 128-bit file system. ZFS was designed to provide “simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability.”
ZFS hype during the development of Leopard helped the new file system reach buzzword status as news of the three letter acronym swept through blogs and the tech media. It is frequently described as being the imminent replacement for the Mac’s native HFS+. However, the benefits of ZFS including as storage pooling, data redundancy, automatic error correction, dynamic volume expansion, and snapshots all apply primarily to servers and higher-end workstation users who deal with multiple disk drives.
ZFS isn’t going to replace HFS+ outright in Snow Leopard, and has limited relevance today to desktop and laptop users, particularly those who never move beyond the single disk drive installed in their system.
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Pushing Visible New Features in Snow Leopard. Apple’s extensive work in developing push support for Exchange Server on the iPhone will also be included in Snow Leopard’s Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Push support in those client side apps are also being used to power MobileMe’s push messaging subscription service and Snow Leopard Server’s push messaging services. Apple will be offering both in parallel as alternatives to Exchange, thanks to smart planning on the part of Apple’s engineers to develop an interoperable push architecture in Mac OS X and on the iPhone.
There is also a fourth application of push that has developed alongside push messaging: Apple’s new Push Notification Service. PNS allows iPhone and iPod touch users to set up server side notification alerts that don’t require mobile applications to stay running in the background just to update users of the external events they track. Along with Bonjour discovery, PNS will keep iPhones wirelessly connected in all sorts of sophisticated ways that third party developers can imagine in their applications.
Whether Apple will integrate a listener for the same PNS system into the desktop side of Mac OS X remains to be seen, but it would allow a single, unified interface for alerting client users of new events. I proposed a system wide, Growl-style notification system in the Leopard Wish List published back in 2005.
Snow Leopard Server Takes on Exchange, SharePoint Apple’s Mobile Me Takes On Exchange, Mobile Mesh
With the strong push into push messaging, Apple will make mobile devices even more tightly integrated with its desktop products. Leopard delivered Back To My Mac as a novel way to use Wide Area Bonjour’s dynamic service registration as a mechanism for sharing resources served from home to any location without configuring static naming services for address lookups. Because any software can register itself with .Mac/MobileMe, this opens the door to third party developers with the vision to exploit the potential of these enabling technologies.
A Global Upgrade for Bonjour: AirPort, iPhone, Leopard, .Mac Ten Big Predictions for Apple in 2008
Among the technologies profiled earlier in Myth 3 that have been trickling from the iPhone into Mac OS X, there’s at least one idea I proposed for the iPhone that will be in Snow Leopard’s Safari: self contained web apps. The new feature will allow users to run web applications as a local app in its own window, essentially making the web platform into a native-looking app that can run outside of Safari.
I proposed a similar feature as a possibility for the iPhone prior to the announcement of the Cocoa Touch SDK: web apps packaged up into a set of files that could be run on the device as a Dashboard widget-like standalone app, even when off the network. Why Apple hasn’t pursued such an obvious strategy is a little hard to figure out, but it seems they’ve got the ball rolling on the desktop.
That ball will be rolling even faster thanks to SquirrelFish, a new JavaScript interpreter that will make Safari and any other WebKit-based browsers, standalone self contained apps, and Dashboard widgets all a lot faster. Apple’s MobileMe, Yahoo’s Flickr, and Google various web apps will all gain new speed thanks to faster JavaScript execution. SquirrelFish will also raise the bar in performance and efficiency in the Rich Internet Applications sector in general, giving Flash, Silverlight, and Java a faster, simpler, and more openly interoperable runtime to compete against.
RoughlyDrafted: Leopard Wish List: 2005 How Open will the iPhone Get? Surfin’ Safari » Announcing SquirrelFish
Microsoft’s Application Features in Mac OS X, System Wide. Microsoft’s business model of tacking on features hasn’t been a total wash. The company’s desperate efforts to invent novel marketing features for every new release of Windows and Office have pioneered a number of ideas that have later found their way into Mac OS X. One example is the idea of Fast User Switching, which Apple added to Panther. Windows XP pioneered the trick, but built it upon the kluge that is Terminal Services.
Microsoft also helped originate the basis of Ajax web apps by inventing XMLHttpRequest in order to make its Outlook Web Access 2000 web app work decently within Internet Explorer. Today, standards-based web apps are eating a hole into Microsoft’s monopoly on the proprietary desktop platform, and tools such as SproutCore and resulting products such as MobileMe are poised to tear down interoperability barriers and level the playing field. Microsoft may now regret having opened Pandora’s Box in terms of standards-based web applications, but its efforts to seal the web back up with the proprietary Silverlight plugin, which turns web apps into .NET programs, will now be next to impossible.
Another example of a Microsoft innovation are the fancy text features in Word, such as red underlining to highlight spelling mistakes and the green squiggle for grammar errors. Word also features a variety of word auto correction, smart dash insertion, and text replacement features (such as typing TM to get the ™ character). The former have already become system-wide features in Mac OS X, while sources indicate that the latter text processing features will find their way into Snow Leopard, and therefore every application that runs on it.
RoughlyDrafted: Remote Display part 3: Terminal Server Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore
Super Size Me. On top of injecting Word features into its OS for the use of every application, Apple will also expand the use of its own Data Detectors, a technology it invented in the mid 90s for identifying useful bits of text and making it actionable. Leopard introduced Data Detectors in Mail as a way to extract contacts and events for use in Address Book and iCal, but Snow Leopard will expose Data Detectors everywhere it draws text.
Sources also indicate Snow Leopard will expand upon Font Book to provide full Auto Activation of any fonts requested by any application, using Spotlight to track them down. Snow Leopard is also suggested to have a new set of frameworks specifically for working with multitouch trackpad gestures, patterned after those introduced with the MacBook Air.
Speaking of the ultra-thin Air, sometimes less is more. However, the high cost and relatively low capacity of Solid State Drives like the $1000, 64 GB SSD option offered for the Air means that one Microsoft feature Snow Leopard could do without is bloat. As one reader noted, “Currently, Leopard requires 9 GB of available disk space for installation and iLife requires an additional 3 GB. This means that a product such as the [SSD] MacBook Air comes with the hard drive 20% full.”
How the MacBook Air stacks up against other ultra-light notebooks Leopard Predictions for WWDC 2006 WWDC 2007: An Inside Perspective From the Halfway Point
Think Small. Snow Leopard aims below the bloat to accommodate the coming wave of SSD-based systems. In the latest build, sources say Apple’s own apps are losing weigh dramatically across the board. The apps in the Utilities folder all drop from 468 MB to 111.6 MB, for example. Other apps are similarly svelte, as the graph below indicates.
Is this the product of just code optimization and shared resources? One factor likely relates to work on Resolution Independence, which substitutes bitmapped raster graphics (which define every pixel) with smaller vector graphics files (which draw GUI elements and controls by recipe).
Vector graphics can be scaled to any size while retaining a high quality appearance, while bitmapped graphics can quickly look blocky when scaled up. Adding larger bitmapped versions can solve that problem, but at the cost of consuming more disk space. Apple earlier told developers it would be providing a library of shared, high quality vector graphics they could use instead of each packaging their own bitmapped art into every app.
The dramatic size reductions in these apps must also involve more efficient Localization. For example, Mac OS X Leopard’s Mail currently weighs in at over 285 MB, but the majority of its bulk comes from 18 language localizations inside the application bundle that consume 276 MB. The actual Universal Binary code is only a few megabytes and even its associated graphics and other resources only amount to 2.8 MB.
Why does Apple default to dumping support for 18 or more languages in every app without providing any simple, centralized way to get rid of the unnecessary ones? Perhaps that question is answered in Snow Leopard, where Mail is reportedly just 91 MB. That’s too big to simply to be an English-only, stripped down version for developers, but still far smaller than than Leopard’s. Across the board, it appears Snow Leopard apps are about a third as large as their Leopard equivalents.
And so while Snow Leopard paradoxically gains more useful features through code improvements and under-the-hood retooling rather than from a Microsoft-style new feature focus that aims to deliver “wow” with flashy marketing gimmicks, the system is also getting smaller and tighter. There must also be some other subtraction, right? Will Snow Leopard scrape away the old Carbon API? That’s the next myth.
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Windows 7 release is just around the corner and we would like to announce to you that.
Release Date: 22 october 2009
Here's what Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer revealed about Windows 7 at All Things Digital a few minutes ago. The biggest "feature" is the touch and multi-touch integration, which takes many of its roots from Microsoft's Surface Table, and will be available as an interface options for other apps. Here's some more stuff they pulled out, which we captured in photos here.
• There will be a OSX-like dock, though how OS X-like is yet to be seen. • Multi-touch gestures in photogalleries like two-finger zoom, flicking, and panning. Think of the photo app on the Microsoft Surface table. • Multi-touch paint program where you can draw with 10 fingers (again, think of what you've already seen in Surface) • Multi-touch piano app • In-depth mapping application that pulls from Microsoft's Live Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth
Looks like a LOT of the multi-touch features were culled from the Surface team, and the non-touch features look fairly similar to what's already in Vista (based on the video above). Those apps are demo apps only, and will be revised/rewritten/reworked before the final version of Windows 7 is available. All this will be yours in about 18 months.
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It was an exciting day today for Apple geeks like myself everywhere. The keynote speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, CA always sets the world a-Twitter and today was no exception. The biggest announcements centered around the new iPhone operating system, MacBook Pro updates, and OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you two things:
I live in Montana, the “Land without AT&T,” so I don’t get to have an iPhone. I do, however, love my iPod Touch. Those who know me personally will attest to the fact that I am nowhere near cool enough to pretend to not be impressed with Apple’s product announcements. Even though they didn’t announce the immediate release of a $15, 128 GHz 12-Core netbook with free worldwide 4G connectivity and a 1000-hour user-replaceable battery, I’m still an Apple fan-boy. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Now…on with the news.
iPhone 3G S
A new version of the highly-popular iPhone is scheduled for release on on June 19th in the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. The iPhone 3G S (”The ‘S’ stands for speed,” according to Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller) brings a faster operating experience to the end user with a faster processor and more built-in memory and its ability to take advantage of HSDPA, a faster cellular technology.
Though the phone looks similar to the current iPhone 3G, it now includes a number of internal upgrades.
A new camera allows iPhone 3G S users to control the focus by touching the screen or using an autofocus feature. Standard definition video capture is now available, as well. New headphones with a microphone, clicker, and volume controls allow easy access to the Voice Control features. Now you can voice dial or request music to be played on your iPhone without having to tap that screen. New hardware encryption allows users taking advantage of some of the new operating system features such as Exchange support or Find your iPhone (discussed below) to instantaneously wipe the data from their phone remotely and/or encrypt backups. Improved battery life, increased environmental friendliness, a built-in digital compass, and support for the Nike+ fitness accessory are also new features of the iPhone 3G S. iPhone OS 3.0
Being the tiny little Macs that they are, iPhones (and iPod Touches) can have hundreds of features added or improved simply by upgrading the software that drives them. On June 17th, owners of the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G will be able to download and install the new iPhone OS 3.0. First- and second-generation iPod Touch users get to fork out $10 for the download.
Many of the 100 new features present in this operating system release were demonstrated at a press event in March. Some of the key features include:
Cut, Copy, and Paste Landscape mode in all applications Push notifications for apps Spotlight search across the entire device Bluetooth-based peer-to-peer gaming Find My iPhone - This cool features allow MobileMe users to log in using a web browser and see where (on a Google Map) they last left their phone. It will also all you to play an alert on your phone to help you find it in the couch cushions. If your phone is stolen, you can remotely wipe all the data from the phone to keep out prying eyes. Turn-by-turn GPS-based directions is allowing companies such as TomTom to deliver live GPS navigation in conjunction with a cool suction cup cradle device that adds hands-free calling, power, and a louspeaker to your iPhone. Tethering (using your iPhone’s 3G cellular connection in lieu of of Wi-Fi for a Bluetooth-connected laptop) and MMS (Multimedia Messaging Support - the ability to send photo or video messages) have been added in this release but won’t be available to users in the US using AT&T. Twenty-nine carriers will support MMS and dozens will support tethering at the time of the iPhone OS 3.0 launch, but AT&T isn’t one of them. Guess it’ll be a bit longer before your kids can send photos of their junk to each other during their middle school lunch breaks. Safari 4
Apple’s web browser, Safari, reaches version 4.0 today. Safari 4, which has been in public beta since February, primarily offers speed enhancements. It’s available right now for both Mac and Windows by clicking here.
I’m not going to list the 150 features of Safari 4 here, so I’ll just point out a few of the more interesting ones:
Increased speed - According to Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Safari 4 can execute JavaScript nearly eight times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3. Safari 4 can also load eight pages three times faster than IE and Firefox, according to Apple’s figures. By the way, please don’t tell me you’re still using Internet Explorer. If you are, close this window now, and come visit this site again after you download Firefox, Chrome, or Safari. Thanks. Other features such as Top Sites, Full History Search, and Cover Flow for browsing bookmarks are all very handy. Most interesting to me (as a web designer) is all of the cool back-end standards support that Safari 4 offers. CSS Animation, CSS Effects, CSS 3 Web Fonts, CSS Canvas, Acid 2 and 3 compliance, SVG 1.1 support, and much more allow designers and coders to write more powerful, more accessible websites. The problem is, of course, that it will literally be years before the most widely-used web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer) catches up, so we have to keep writing hacks for sites and dumbing designs down to work on that oh-so-popular browser. As a photographer, ICC Color Profile Support is nice to see. Images intended for display on the web should still be in the sRGB color space, but it’s nice to know that Color Profile Support is out there in browsers (Safari isn’t the only one, I believe.) Snow Leopard
This item (and the next) definitely affect photographers. Snow Leopard, or Mac OS X 10.6, is scheduled to be released in September. We’ve heard about Snow Leopard before, and the keynote today gave us another glimpse at what it will offer.
In a departure from trends set by the last few major Mac OS updates (Tiger and Leopard, particularly), Snow Leopard focuses more on solid performance updates than flashy new features.
The biggest jump that Apple made here, in my opinion, was the decision to support only Intel architecture with this operating system. Those still working with an older PowerPC-based Mac will be unable to install Snow Leopard. That’s ok. The time has come. Even though I still have one PowerPC Mac in my arsenal, I’m ok with this decision. Removing all the extra code required to support both the PowerPC and Intel architecture reduced the footprint of the OS installation to less than half the size of Leopard. This should clear up around 6GB for most users.
The code for the Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of new hardware technologies such as multi-core processors and lots of RAM. 64-bit support will help programs like Photoshop and Lightroom really fly.
Quicker Time Machine backups, faster wake-up and shut-down times, built-in location services, automatic updates for printer drivers, and more efficient file-sharing aren’t as flashy as the dozens of truly new features introduced in Leopard, but they are a very welcome bunch.
MacBook Updates
This is, not surprisingly, the announcement that I’m the most excited about. You’ve figured it out by now, right? I’m a Mac user. I’m a huge Mac fan. I’ve spent years working with both Macs and PCs on a private and a professional level. You can get the same things accomplished on a PC that you can on a Mac and vice-versa (for the most part). However, anyone looking for a computer recommendation from me is only going to get a recommendation for a Mac. In my experience, they are so much cleaner, faster, and easier to use and maintain for almost all average users than a Windows-based PC. I know lots of people disagree. It’s like religion and politics, though. You aren’t going to change my mind (and I understand I probably won’t change yours if you’re a die hard PC geek like I once was), so don’t even try.
Ok…got that out of my system. Let’s talk about today’s announcements.
Almost all of Apple’s laptop line got a refresh today. Two really cool things to point out: They got less expensive and they are shipping immediately!
MacBook
The MacBook is Apple’s inexpensive, entry-level laptop. The upgrades today include a faster Intel processor, faster memory, and a larger hard drive. The $999 base model comes with the following features:
2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 2GB DDR2 Memory 160GB hard drive NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card Standard keyboard White polycarbonate shell You can customize this machine by maxing out the RAM at 4GB and putting in a 500GB hard drive. Not bad!
MacBook Pro
This is a true professional-grade, photographer’s laptop. I’ll be writing another article shortly on the exact specs I’d recommend, so I’ll try to keep my opinions to myself for the rest of this article.
There were a few big changes in this line…namely the promotion of the 13-inch Aluminum unibody MacBook into MacBook Pro status. The 13-inch MacBook Pro has two standard processor speeds available (2.26 GHz and 2.53 GHz) .
All of the MacBook Pros (13-, 15-, and 17-inch models) have built-in, non-user-replaceable batteries. Apple claims that they offer up to 7 hours of run time (8 hours for the 17-inch model). The built-in battery in the new 13-, 15-, and 17-inch MacBook Pro is designed to retain up to 80% of its original capacity at up to 1000 full charge and discharge cycles.
All of the MacBook Pro models can now take up to 8GB of RAM. This is very good news. It was the only thing that was causing me to recommend that photographers go for the 17-inch MacBook Pro instead of the 15-inch. That changes now…more on it later.
The 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros now have a built in SD (Secure Digital) Card slot. Handy, but not necessary. I’m still using CF (Compact Flash) primarily, but I’m sure this will change. The addition of the SD Card slot removes the ExpressCard/34 slot that used to be in that location. Some have balked at its removal, but I’m a pretty high end user and, though I thought I’d find good use for it, I’ve never used my ExpressCard/34 slot. Shameful…I know. I don’t think you’ll miss it either. If you must have one, the 17-inch MacBook Pro keeps the ExpressCard/34 slot at the expense of the SD Card slot. You could always get an SD Card reader to put in that ExpressCard/34 slot, of course.
MacBook Air
The MacBook Air got a bit of a performance boost and a significant price cut. For $1,499, you can get a model with a 1.86GHz processor, 2GB RAM, and a 120GB hard drive. For $1,799, a 2.13GHz MacBook Air equipped with a 128GB Solid State Drive can be yours. The USB-to-Ethernet adapter is now included in the box with the Air. It was previously only available separately.
As I’ve mentioned, I’ll be following this up in a day or two with an article about the ideal photographer’s laptop. Your comments are welcome.
If you’d like to watch the Keynote address for yourself, it is available here.
The name of this rumored new iPhone you guys have been hearing about may be called the “iPhone Video”. An image was posted just two hours ago of AT&T’s support section of their site. In the image a drop down menu is open and it gives you the option to select “Original iPhone” “3G iPhone” and “iPhone Video”. This is not referring to video playback on the device but video recording. And if this is correct that means a better camera will come on the new device, as well as the rumored video editing software, and iChat. Could this be photoshopped or real? We will just have to wait until the announcement at WWDC. What do you guys think? This could be a marketing plan for Apple. Let me a explain what I mean…(image inside!) . If this image is true, Apple may have set this up and told AT&T to update their site with it and let just one person catch wind of it. Once its out they remove it and have tons of people talking about it. Free advertising and it builds buzz about it.
Trying to predict what we'll see at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this year gives one the slight feeling of deja vu. Heading into the annual conference last year, we knew there would be three basic topics covered in the event's opening keynote speech: OS X 10.6, the iPhone platform, and new iPhone hardware. You can bet that WWDC 2009--sold out for the second straight year--will hit on those same three areas. But there are still plenty of questions surrounding the specific details of what we'll see Monday morning when the conference opens at San Francisco's Moscone Center. We know that the human headliner of the kickoff event, the conference keynote speech, will be Phil Schiller, vice president of marketing. Apple has promised he will discuss iPhone OS 3.0, which should be available this summer, as well as Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The other headliner, that will invariably steal the show, will be new iPhone hardware, if it is indeed introduced. It seems a good bet since it's practically Apple tradition now to introduce the latest update to its incredibly popular smartphone at WWDC. The device may not be immediately for sale, and Apple could wait to roll them out in July, like last year. But the No. 1 reason Apple is likely to debut the phone Monday is that the point of WWDC is to teach developers how to work with Apple's mobile and desktop operating systems. It wouldn't make much sense to bypass the opportunity to familiarize them with new application programming interfaces (APIs) for new iPhone hardware. Of course, rumors have been bubbling since at least January about a second-generation iPhone 3G. Some of the more credible leaked photos and uncovered clues seem to point to a more evolutionary update to the phone's hardware, instead of a major change like last year's upgrade to an iPhone that could handle 3G wireless service. Things that appear likely: It's easy to see Apple keeping the 16GB model of the iPhone, and introduce a 32GB version, while keeping the prices the same: $199 for the smaller, $299 for the larger. A new camera with the ability to take video. A magnetometer built into the phone's hardware. Speculation regarding a discount version of the phone in a smaller capacity with fewer features for $99 has cropped up also, mostly from Wall Street analysts. Apple already has a 10.8-percent share of the smartphone market, and lowering the price by $100 would be a way to expand the user base even further. But like most things with Apple, we won't know what they're going to do until they decide to tell us.
Beyond rumor, speculation, and grainy photos appearing online, it's impossible to know exactly what to expect. Despite that, some are already saying the anticipated keynote will be underwhelming compared with most years, with Steve Jobs sidelined, and no early signs of any sort of monumental update to the iPhone hardware. Most of the updates to the iPhone will have to do with the operating system update, which Apple already detailed at a special event in March. We know for sure iPhone OS 3.0 will add some features iPhone users have been demanding since the phone's debut in 2007: background processing, system-wide search, the ability to copy, cut, and paste, multimedia messaging, and an option for a landscape virtual keyboard. There will also be 1,000 new APIs available to developers creating applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch platform. Apple didn't discuss every single one of those at the March event, so it's certainly possible Schiller and whoever else joins him onstage could have saved one or two of the best things to unveil Monday. Apple has also promised to give more details on Mac OS X 10.6, which the company announced at WWDC last year, and promised it would be ready in "about a year." Apple will likely give us the release date on Monday. Leading up to the event, rumors of a Verizon service plan option on the iPhone, and the unveiling of an Apple touch-screen tablet have surfaced. Those are likely wishful thinking--for now. Though those rumors could both become reality, it's not likely they'll appear at WWDC. AT&T's contract with Apple to offer the iPhone is said to guarantee exclusivity for five years. And most agree a touch-screen tablet wouldn't be available until 2010 at the earliest. Of course, many WWDC attendees may still be holding out hope that Jobs will make an appearance Monday. Apple has been clear that Jobs' return as CEO is scheduled for "the end of June," though it's impossible to say for sure whether he would simply attend the conference or not. We'll be live-blogging the keynote speech, which is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. PDT on Monday. So please be sure to come back and read about what Apple is announcing as it happens.
At the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3, Microsoft and Nintendo unveiled new gadgets that will literally put you in the game. The new additions to the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii don't require you to purchase a new console. Although the Nintendo Wii, allows gamers to interact with games by motion, whether it be baseball of the Wii Fit, Nintendo has taken another step forward to allow gamers to be more involved in getting fit with the introduction of Your Shape.
With Your Shape, you are brought into the video gaming world and can control the frequency of workouts, and the type of work out, whether it be shaping or toning your body. As your workout progresses, you will be given different excercises to drive up your heart rate and keep you in shape. No need to buy a new console, the gear you're going to need to play Your Shape comes free when you purchase the game this holiday season.
Microsoft is also making strides to give gamer realistic interaction with Project Natal. Project Natal is Microsoft's code name for the new Xbox 360 motion sensing bar. Natal is controller–free, using what looks like a TV–mounted camera/microphone bar to sense motion, sound, and even 3D movement. Project Natal takes gamers into their games, using voice recognition and full body motion capturing allowing gamers to use their whole body to play the video games, not to mention new games make it fund for the entire family. And it's not just for games, the motion sensor bar doubles as a remote control for multimedia play back, so no need to by universal remotes because watching your favorite DVD's can be done at the flick of a wrist.
In case you haven't heard, the Wii's Your Shape will be out just in time for the holidays, but there is still no release date for Microsoft's Project Natal.
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