Here is TGR’s archived liveblog coverage of Macworld San Francisco 2009, held at 9am on January 6th (PST).
9:47
Hello everyone, welcome to The Green Room’s live coverage of Phil Schiller’s opening keynote at Macworld San Francisco 2009. The event starts on Tuesday January 6th at 9:00AM (PST), but in the mean time we’ll be covering last-minute news and rumors on this liveblog. Be sure to check out our liveblog details post for more information.
10:09
Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Roundup – MacRumors
10:19
[Standby] TGR’s liveblog continues soon.
10:21
[Standby] TGR’s liveblog continues soon
6:56
There are 21 hours until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
6:59
Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors
7:08
Rumor Watch – AT&T Tethering Plans may be anounced this week
7:10
Rumor round-ups: Daring Fireball, Gizmodo, Mac Rumors, TUAW
7:21
Macworld.ars: Company may have spilled Mac mini beans
8:52
There are 19 hours until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
9:13
[Standby] We’ll be back in a bit with more pre-keynote coverage.
10:42
Macworld Product Announcements: Picasa for Mac, Filemaker 10 Pro [via Mac Rumors]
11:20
Macworld Product Announcements: Roxio Toast 10 Titanium [via TUAW via Ars Technica]
12:04
There are less than 16 hours until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
12:22
iWork.com now links to Apple.com [via 9to5mac]
1:15
[Comment From Bones]
Was there anything announced today on Tuesday.
1:18
@Bones: Apple won’t announce anything until the keynote. We’ll provide coverage of third party software and hardware products before and after Phil Schiller’s keynote.
1:29
Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, new pricing
2:03
Macworld Product Announcements: BusyCal [via TUAW]
4:00
There are 12 hours until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
4:02
iWork.com set to go live tomorrow
5:55
There are 10 hours until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
6:19
Macworld Product Announcements: SlingPlayer for iPhone/iPod touch, SlingPlayer for Mac HD [via Engadget]
7:54
There are 8 hours until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
9:00
(Parody) Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
10:00
There are 6 hours until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
11:01
There are less than 5 hours until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
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[Comment From Guest]
what’s the time that het keynote start in gmt time
11:14
@Guest: The keynote begins at 5:00PM GMT. Please consult this page for a list of other time zones.
11:56
[Standby] TGR’s liveblog will continue two hours before Phil Schiller’s opening keynote. That’s 7:00AM PST, 4:00AM AEDT or 3:00PM GMT.
2:07
[Comment From Guest]
there are 4 hours until phil schiller’s macworld keynote
2:08
Hello everyone, welcome once again to The Green Room’s liveblog coverage of Phil Schiller’s opening keynote at Macworld 2009. There are now less than two hours until the event starts.
2:11
Apple’s famous “Yellow Sticky Note” has appeared on the Apple Store Online site.
2:13
Apple’s downloads page features a reference to “iWork 09″ [via Mac Rumors]
2:29
There is 1 hour and 30 minutes until Phil Schiller’s Macworld keynote.
2:57
The final Apple keynote at Macworld San Francisco is 1 hour away.
3:12
There’s a large “Greenest family of notebooks” poster inside Moscone. Think of it as Apple giving Dell the finger.
3:14
45 minutes to go everyone.
3:29
There’s half an hour left until MWSF.
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Fifteen minutes and counting!
3:47
Phil’s playlist: MGMT
3:53
[Comment From Cooper]
Hi
3:56
Phil’s playlist: The Killers
3:59
This is it. 1 minute to go.
4:00
Cellphone off voiceover. Keynote beginning.
4:00
Phil’s playlist: Beck
4:01
Phil’s playlist: Coldplay
4:03
Phil yet to be seen.
4:04
lights are down, phil on stage, loud applause
4:05
Phil’s “very excited to be delivering the keynote”
4:05
Discussing the value of retail stores
4:05
Phil mentions the flagship Sydney store on screen!
4:06
3.4 million visitors per week at the Apple Store
4:07
Focusing on the Mac today
4:07
9.7 million Macs last year
4:08
3 new things – first iLife 09
4:08
New iPhoto
4:09
Discussing last year’s introduction of “Events” in iPhoto
4:09
’09 has a new organization system called “Faces”
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Organize by people! Face detection! Snapshots!
4:11
iPhoto can detect the person in the photo, and find other photos with the same face.
4:12
Phil says it isn’t perfect.
4:12
another organization system called Places
4:13
GPS geo-tagging and map in “Places” with all the locations of your photos
4:14
Phil explains that the iPhone and other cameras have built-in GPS.
4:14
if a photo doesn’t have geotagging, you can do it yourself on your mac
4:16
Based on Google Maps, many of the same functions.
4:16
Support for Facebook and Flickr has been added in iPhoto 09
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based on Google Maps, many of the same functions.
4:17
info added to a facebook photo from the site once uploaded “syncs” back to iPhoto
4:17
introducing iPhoto slideshow themes.
4:19
Phil’s demonstrating the various themes available for slideshows in iPhoto
4:19
You can save a slideshow to iTunes and put it on your iPhone/iPod touch
4:20
The various effects used in the slideshow demo look great.
4:21
FULL demo taking place now
4:22
iTunes like interface for corkboard style “Faces” navigation
4:23
nice, sleek interface for face detection. works quite well.
4:24
New iPhoto feature roundup: Faces, Places, Facebook & Flickr, Slideshow themes, Travel books
4:24
interestingly, Phil’s using a cinema display on the demo. does that mean new iMacs?
4:26
Phil’s still demoing new features in iPhoto.
4:29
That’s it for iPhoto 09.
4:29
Introducing iMovie 09
4:31
iMovie has many of the features customers were missing out on in iMovie 08
4:33
Video screening about iMovie’s powerful editing features.
4:35
Randy Ubillos is the Chief Architect of Video Applications, discussing and demoing iMovie 09 now.
4:36
iMovie seems to be becoming more like Final Cut Pro.
4:37
iMovie feature roundup: Precision editor, Advanced drag and drop, Dynamic themes, Animated travel maps
4:40
Features also include video motion stabalization.
4:41
Introducing iMovie effects, includes aged film, cartoon, x-ray – much like Photo Booth effects in terms of choice.
4:42
Phil back on stage to talk about Garageband 09
4:43
‘Learn to play’ teaches you how to play an instrument
4:45
Phil calls it a “true breakthrough”. Are 9to5′s celebrity music lessons going to come true?
4:47
Phil plays a Guitar Lesson video. John-from-the-Apple-Store-type-person-with-a-guitar introduces himself. All lessons are in HD.
4:47
BAM! Here we go. Celebrity music lessons.
4:48
John Fogerty, Sting, someone from Fall out boy. $4.99 per lesson, downloadable from Garageband. Ties into your iTunes account. No word on international availability.
4:49
The guy from Fall out boy is Patrick Stump.
4:50
Colbie Callat, Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, OneRebublic guy.
4:51
New versions of iWeb and iDVD aswell. Ships late January for $79 upgrade, $99 family pack. Still free on new Macs.
4:52
iWork 09 everyone. Phil says he made this keynote on iWork, which is why the software is great!
4:54
Garageband feature roundup: The story behind the song, View lyrics and notation, Practice with original tracks, Create your own mix, Slow down any part
4:54
There’s a bunch of new transitions, effects and animations in Keynote.
4:56
Introducing Keynote Remote app for iPhone/iPod touch! BIG applause.
4:57
Keynote feature roundup: Magic move, Object transitions, Text transitions, Chart animations, New themes
4:58
$0.99 in the App Store (Keynote Remote). Moving on to Pages…
4:59
New full screen Pages editing mode for focusing on your work.
5:00
Pages feature roundup: Full screen view, Dynamic outlines, Mail merge with Numbers
5:01
Connectivity wise, it hooks up to MathType and EndNote.
5:02
40 new Pages templates. Next up, Numbers.
5:04
iWork ships today. $79 single user, $99 family pack, $49 with a new Mac.
5:06
“The Mac box set” introduced today includes Leopard, iLife 09 and iWork 09. $169.
5:07
iWork.com is being launched today. Sharing your documents with other people.
5:08
iWork.com features: Easily upload and notify, View documents online, Add comments and notes, Download a copy
5:09
iWork.com is similar to MobileMe’s desktop app like functionality
5:10
Reminiscent of Google Docs.
5:12
Free beta ships today that customers can sign up for, paid once it leaves beta.
5:12
BOOM! New 17-inch MacBook Pro.
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There’s a matte screen option.
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There’s a matte screen option
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0.98 inches – world’s thinnest and lightest 17″ notebook
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LED screen – 1920×1200. 60% brighter.
5:17
same ports as other MBP models. no surprise there.
5:17
“Longest Battery Life. Ever”
5:19
Eight hours of battery life on a single charge. Non-removable, charges up to 1000 times.
5:20
Confirmed, there’s an anti-glare option.
5:21
Video screening about the battery making process.
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The battery is “environmentally friendly”.
5:24
$2,799
5:25
One more thing! One more thing!
5:25
Lots of great features for boring people.
5:26
Boring people post was a mistake. Sorry.
5:27
Three things about iTunes today.
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It’s all about iTunes
5:28
three-tier pricing. $0.69, $0.99 and $1.29
5:28
This arrives in April.
5:29
Second thing is iTunes Plus. Higher encoded, DRM-free. ALL songs will be iTunes Plus by April.
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The third thing is the iPhone.
5:30
Starting TODAY 8 million songs are DRM-free. Woohoo! Huge applause.
5:30
iTunes Music Store on iPhone is now over-the-air 3G as well as Wi-Fi. Huge applause again
5:31
No matter where you are you can get iTunes music downloads. Starts today.
5:32
Same price. Same selection. Same quality.
5:32
…And the crowd goes wild! Good news for all.
5:33
Musical performance from Tony Bennett. Phil says it’s a nice way to finish our last Macworld. Awwww.
5:36
Thank-you to all of our liveblog viewers today. It’s been great bringing you our coverage. Please visit our blog at: http://thegreenroomblog.wordpress.com for all the latest news from Apple, the consumer electronics industry and more.
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