2009-06-22 June Meeting Agenda

[ben schmidt]

1. New Purchases and Questions [ Paul Timmins - 20 min]

2. New Apple Products - 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 and Sapphire
  - Screencasts.com online tutorial: SCO0201 Mac mini Media Center - Part 2
  - Related articles: MacWorld Mac Mini Media Centre, April 2009
  - Related iPhone apps: Rowmote

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,
    - Bird Guides, iBird Explorer,
    - e-book Readers, Stanza, free e-books: Project Gutenberg

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[fivespan]

WWDC news

- Laptop refresh
- Mac OS X "Snow Leopard"
- iPhone OS 3
- iPhone 3G S

Laptop Refresh
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- 13" MacBook "aluminum" upgraded to MacBook Pro
- 15", 17" and Air were speed bumped and given price reductions
- Apple's MacBook Pro site
- Goodbye Express Card slot (on 13 and 15). Hello SD card reader
- Less environmental impact
- Lithium-polymer batteries
- backlit keyboard
- button free glass trackpad
- 500Gig HD or 256Gig SSD available
- FW 800 port

Snow Leopard
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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 with iPhone OS 3 from Apple
- 40 Best Features article
- Find My iPhone (and a real-life story)
- MMS (the next generation of texting that includes multimedia)
- Tethering (Apple instructions, Rogers info)

iPhone 3G S (the phone)
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- Rogers home page 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 on the first weekend

[cski]

The latest beta of Sapphire is v6.5 (January '09).

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