1. New Purchases and Questions [ Paul Timmins - 20 min]
2. New Apple Products - WWDC (http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/) announcements [Paul Timmins, LeRoy Lees - 30 min]
Break
3. Introduction to the Mac Mini as Media Centre, [LeRoy Lees, Wally Cherwinski - 40 min]
- Plex (http://plexapp.com) and Sapphire (http://appletv.nanopi.net/Sapphire)
- Screencasts.com online tutorial: SCO0201 Mac mini Media Center - Part 2 (http://www.screencastsonline.com/index_files/SCO0201-plex.php)
- Related articles: MacWorld Mac Mini Media Centre, April 2009 (http://www.macworld.com/article/140210/2009/04/macmini_mediacenter_cost.html)
- Related iPhone apps: Rowmote (http://lifehacker.com/5142839/rowmote-turns-your-iphone-into-an-apple-remote)
4. "I didn't know there was an app for that" [Ben Schmidt - 20 min]
A brief survey of a few obvious and not-so-obvious types of apps for the iPhones and iPod Touch...
- Sketch Books Brushes (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2009/05/jorge-colombo-iphone-cover.html),
- Bird Guides, iBird Explorer (http://www.ibirdexplorer.com/),
- e-book Readers, Stanza (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-buys-iphone-e-book-app-maker-lexcycle-2009-4), free e-books: Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top)
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WWDC news
- Laptop refresh
- Mac OS X "Snow Leopard"
- iPhone OS 3
- iPhone 3G S
Laptop Refresh
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- 13 (http://www.apple.com/ca/macbookpro/specs-13inch.html)" MacBook "aluminum" upgraded to MacBook Pro
- 15 (http://www.apple.com/ca/macbookpro/specs.html)", 17 (http://www.apple.com/ca/macbookpro/specs-17inch.html)" and Air (http://www.apple.com/ca/macbookair/) were speed bumped and given price reductions
- Apple's MacBook Pro site (http://www.apple.com/ca/macbookpro/)
- Goodbye Express Card slot (on 13 and 15). Hello SD card reader
- Less environmental (http://www.apple.com/ca/macbookpro/environment.html) impact
- Lithium-polymer batteries (http://www.apple.com/ca/macbookpro/battery/)
- backlit keyboard
- button free glass trackpad
- 500Gig HD or 256Gig SSD available
- FW 800 port
Snow Leopard (http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/)
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- due end of September
- focus on 3 aspects:
* tuning of the existing technologies
+ Safari 4
+ Finder completely re-written
+ Exposé and Dock features improved/integrated
+ QuickTime X
+ Preview "selection" improvements
+ Higher resolution iChat
+ No PowerPC support (Intel ONLY)
+ 6 Gigs SMALLER footprint (How? In part, no PowerPC support)
* new technologies
+ OpenCL
+ Grand Central Dispatch
* Microsoft Exchange 2007 server support
- $29 USD -- no CDN price announced?
iPhone OS (the operating system used in all iPhones and the iPod Touch)
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- Feature comparison by iPhone model (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3630) with iPhone OS 3 from Apple
- 40 Best Features (http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/06/how_to_use_best_40_features_of_iphone_3.html) article
- Find My iPhone (http://www.apple.com/mobileme/whats-new/) (and a real-life story (http://happywaffle.livejournal.com/5890.html))
- MMS (http://www.apple.com/ca/iphone/iphone-3g-s/messages.html) (the next generation of texting that includes multimedia)
- Tethering (Apple instructions (http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3g/tethering.html), Rogers info (http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_faqs))
iPhone 3G S (the phone)
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- Rogers home page (http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_devices?setLanguage=en) for the iPhone
- 16 and 32Gig models in both Black and White
- 2x faster
- 3 MPix camera with touch spot focus/white balance and VGA video
- voice control, spoken memos, iPhone speech
- Digital compass
- 1 Million sold (http://www.pcworld.com/article/167096/apple_sells_more_than_a_million_iphone_3gs_models.html) on the first weekend
The latest beta of Sapphire is v6.5 (January '09).
Updates can be found here http://wiki.awkwardtv.org/wiki/Sapphire