Live Text Webcast from Macworld 2009

Hello, friends! This has become a tradition at Habrahabr, and today in this topic there is a text broadcast from Macworld Conference & Expo 2009 . Sit back, grab something to eat and drink with you. I hope this exhibition will be fascinating, interesting and rich in various new items from Apple.
The conference will start at 20:00 Moscow time , events will appear in the topic from the bottom up for a more convenient reading.

Afterword

Thanks to everyone who was in this text broadcast today! I apologize for not participating in the discussion - it was very difficult to work in real time :) I hope you enjoyed it.

21:38

Phil returns to the stage, thanks his family and friends at Apple. "Enjoy the end of the show, be interested in iWork, iLife, and 17 '' MacBook Pro."

21:32

Tonia Bennett rises to the stage, sings the song "The Best is Yet To Come"



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21:28

Downloading music through a 3G network will cost as much as downloading via Wi-Fi.

iTunes Plus - songs without DRM. Soon all songs in iTunes will be available in this format.

21:26

News about iTunes . There was a breakdown of prices. There is no single price of $ 0.99 per song, since April the musicians have been able to set prices for songs: $ 0.69, $ 0.99, $ 1.29 per song.

21:24

Advertising a new laptop:

21:22

Sales start in January. The 17 '' MacBook Pro comes in the same configuration, priced at $ 2,799 (same price as before).

21:18

Declared 8-hour battery life.

Made a non-removable battery, but making it more, placing the optimal way inside the case. 40% more if it were a removable battery. The battery lasts about 5 years.

21:15

Long life battery:

Up to 8 GB of RAM

320 GB HDD or 256 GB SSD:

21:14

2.5 cm in thickness. Weight 3 kg. The lightest and thinnest laptop in the world. LED display 1920x1200. Aluminium case.

21:11

One more thing, one more thing is the new 17-inch MacBook Pro!
Last year was a great year for the MacBook.

21:10

Phil announces new iWork.com service
This is a document exchange service with other people. You can notify people that you have opened access to documents, and let them work on them. You can edit documents online.

21:03

Mac Box Set - $ 169 for iWork and iLife together.


IWork price - $ 99

20:59

In Numbers '09, we tried to accommodate the wishes of our users.

20:57

There is a link to the Numbers tables. 40 new topics.

20:56

Pages . Analog Microsoft Word. There is a full-screen view.

20:55

Keynote Remote:

20:54

Phil Announces iPod Touch / iPhone App - Keynote remote . Allows you to control presentations directly from the device. The price of the application is $ 0.99 in the App Store.


Topics in Keynote:

20:53

Animation in graphs

20:51

Phil shows sweet with playing cards. With a smooth transition from slide to slide.

20:49

iWork '09
Phil says: “I made this presentation in iWork '09”

In Keynote, you can place objects on slides, and the software does all the work of moving these objects between slides. Supports auto-rotate and auto-resize.

20:48

Lessons from famous personalities:

20:44

Someone Tim shows us how to play the guitar, then the piano. Built 9 lessons.

20:42

Garage band
The latest application. The most remarkable innovation is the “Learn to play” tool that will help people play these instruments!

By running it, the user sees the instructor and the image of the tool. In general, the instrumental tutorial. Phil is going to show us in action.


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20:40

Topics.

20:38

Stylization under the film Indiana Jones:



Effects X-ray and old film.

20:35

Video stabilization takes time, but it works just perfectly!


Randy demonstrates the work of video stabilization on the example of a video shooting from a jeep.

20:34

20:32

You can only drag the audio track and overlay it on other clips.


Randy drags the video files onto the timeline, adds more.

20:31

Phil invites Randy Ubillos, the main creator of the Video Apps for the demo to the stage.

20:28

iMovie.
New features: advanced drag'n'drop, context-sensitive menus, themes.

20:22

Drag a group of people into the left column and the program will create a small album with these people. Very convenient for friends and family!

When iPhoto sees an unfamiliar face, you can call it and iPhoto next time “recognizes” the face, and asks the user to confirm if it is not mistaken in recognition.

20:19

Beautiful slideshow options:

3D effects from slideshow photos:

20:18

Topics. A face recognition system is used to correctly orient the photo so that the faces are in the center.
Starts the demo:

20:15

There is a built-in support for Facebook and Flickr.

20:13

The second method of sorting: in the place where the photos were taken. Geotagging is used.




New in iPhoto. Persons You can organize photos by people. A face recognition algorithm is used.

20:11

Today we will talk about Macs and Phil announces three new things:
First: iLife '09. iPhoto, iMovie.

20:08

Phil talks about the Apple Store. “Millions of people come to the shops every day. They want to feel Macs, iPhones, iPods. "

20:06

Weight loss does not threaten him :)

20:03

The lights go out. Phil Schiller takes the stage.

19:59

Coldplay played and Phil Schiller "puts on his pants", ready to go on stage.

19:58

19:56

7:45 pm

We are inside and are already sitting! MGMT rumbles from the speakers.

19:39

We just ran into Ryan Blok and Veronica Belmont (Ah, Veronica! :) in the parking lot. We are waiting for the beginning.

19:30

I wonder how much Phil and Steve's musical preferences differ? No more coldplay? Jack Jonson? JOHN MAYER ???

19:19

18:57

It's cold here, going to rain. San Francisco. We stand outside the exhibition hall, waiting for our turn to enter and see how Phil Schiller will delight us instead of Steve Jobs.
All the old media friends are already here (or on the way to the exhibition). The lineup is not shorter than usual, even considering the absence of Steve.

Foreword

We have a full hour left, but news about the conference is starting now.
It is safe to say that iWork '09 will definitely be announced, because the link http://www.apple.com/downloads/ in the Top Downloads has the iWork '09 item added , although the link leads to the old version 2008: