We got so caught up in the Keynote we forgot to post the winners of this years Apple Developer Awards. The winners all get snazzy gifts like new MacBook Pros, passes to next years WWDC… we’re jealous, yes. Congratulations to all.
Best Leopard App Winner: Delicious Library 2.0
Best Leopard App Runner Up: iBank
Best Mac OS X Developer Tool Winner: CSS Edit 2.5
Best Mac OS X Developer Tool Runner Up: rooSwitch
Best Mac OS X Dashboard Widget Winner: Bart Widget
Best Mac OS X Dashboard Widget Runner Up: Pemdas
Best Science Computing App Winner: Papers
Best Science Computing App Runner Up: Single Crystal
Best Mac OS X Game Winner: WOW Burning Crusade
Best Mac OS X Game Runner Up: Wacky Mini Golf
Best Mac OS X Student Product Winner: Picturesque
Best Mac OS X Student Product Runner Up: Pathway
Best Mac OS X User Experience Winner: Coda
Best Mac OS X User Experience Runner Up: Sandvox
If you wish to watch the borefest which was this years Keynote, then Apple has now uploaded it. It’s encoded in really poor quality, whatever happened to h.246?
Citing Safari’s increasing market share (currently 4.9%, according to Apple) and Apple’s desire to see increased adoption of its innovative browser platform, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that Apple has ported Safari to Windows (XP and Vista).
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web - up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer.
Just a quick note. The Keynote has now started. Go to MacRumors or Engadget for live updates. Meanwhile a German site has claimed to got a copy of the Keynote transcript. It’s probably fake as most of it is consumer items, this is a developer event!
So we’re just one day away from Steve’s keynote. We will NOT be providing a live update service. Please go instead to MacRumors or Engadget. Here are the start times of the Keynote for you (…well most of you) around the world!
7:00AM - Hawaii
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Mountain
12:00PM - Central
1:00PM - Eastern
5:00PM - GMT
6:00PM - London
7:00PM - Paris
2:00AM - Tokyo (June 12th)
Apple is set to announce a massive upgrade of their .Mac internet suite. This much needed update comes after Jobs himself said “I couldn’t agree with you more and we will make up for lost time in the very near future”, in response to a question on .Macs rather poor state. The upgrade is due to Apple and Google’s cosy partnership. Google will be providing remote storage for Apple removing their reliance on Akamai.
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz may have let the cat out of the bag on Apple’s plans for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard’s file system. While showing off the Zettabyte File System in Sun’s ‘Thumper’ hybrid storage/server platform at a company event in Washington today, Schwartz let it drop that Apple too has big plans for the open source file system.
“In fact, this week you’ll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10,” Schwartz said.
Apple has sent out brief teaser emails to developers inviting them to WWDC 2007. “Feature-complete” presumably indicates that Apple would finally be revealing the “secret” features that they have been hinting at for months. The email reads:
See the future.
Then take it home with you.
At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, we’re planning to show you a feature-complete version of Mac OS X Leopard, and you can take home a beta copy. Be the first to get your hands on the Leopard beta and get a huge head start on development. Register now for WWDC 2007 — it’s your ticket to the future of Mac OS X.
Apple’s WWDC Pages have been updated with a block set aside for the WWDC Keynote address. The 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference Keynote will take place on Monday morning, June 11th 2007 and start at 9am Pacific. According to the published schedule, the keynote is blocked off for a lengthy 3 hours (9am-12pm). Bring it on!
Update: Oh well, Apple has now changed it to 9am-10.30am so just 1.5 hours. We guess we’ll get an hour about the iPhone *yawn* and just 30 minutes on Leopard. Oh Apple, oh Apple.
During Apple’s Annual WWDC Keynote given by Steve Jobs and a host of other Apple top executives and product managers, Phil Schiller introduced the PowerMac’s Intel replacement: the Mac Pro. According to Apple VP Phil Shiller, the new Mac Pro is anywhere from 1.6 to 2.0x faster than the latest PowerMac G5 “Quad”. Advertised as having “millions” of ways to configure the machine, the base configuration includes the following:
Dual-Dual Core 2.66 GHz Xeon 5100 Processor, upgradeable to 2x Dual 3 GHz, 1 GB FB-DIMM RAM (2×512 MB), expandable to 16 GB, 250 GB Hard Drive, 3 empty slots (3 Gbps SATA), NVidia GeForce 7300 GT (256 MB VRAM), configurable to ATI Radeon X1900 XT or Quadro FX 4500 (512 MB VRAM), SuperDrive (2 5.25″ slots total, 1 remaining) and 4 PCI-Express Slots (One extra-wide, taken by GPU).
Apple also updated its Xserve server line to include Intel processors and other advanced features such as lights-out management and redundant power supplies that business customers require. The base configuration now stands as follows:
Dual-Dual 2 GHz Xeon 5100 Processors, upgradeable to 2x Dual 3 GHz, 1 GB DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM RAM, configurable up to 32 GB, 24x Combo Drive, configurable 8x double-layer SuperDrive, 2 x 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) Ethernet, Built-in ATI Radeon X1300 with 64MB of GDDR3 SDRAM and mini-DVI to VGA adaptor.
They are both available immediately on-line via the Apple Store.
It’s finally here! The WWDC keynote with Steve Jobs will start at 10AM PST (6PM - GMT) tomorrow and he is due to showcase Mac OS X 10.5, Mac Pro and new displays as well as “one more thing…”. We’re not providing any live coverage but these sites will doing text feeds: MacRumors, MacTeens and The Apple Blog. We’ll have a full analysis of everything from WWDC on Wednesday when Craig re-starts his article series! 20 hours to go…
If you watch this, please note that you cannot reclaim the 3 minutes 56 seconds lost from your life back. This video was shown at the 1984 Apple shareholder’s meeting, what were they thinking!
Apple today announced the dates for its 2006 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), which will be held in San Francisco. The annual conference, which usually takes place in June, will now take place from August 7th-11th 2006. Last year Apple showed of Mac OS 10.4 and announced the move to the Intel platform. This year we can expect a preview of the next Mac OS installment, 10.5 “Leopard”. The move back to August might also suggest that Apple may plan to launch updated PowerMacs (Mac Pro) at the event. Should be fun! Oh wait… not Apple’s defination of fun.
Apple today announced the dates for its 2006 
