As usual, we’ll have a liveblog of the event. Stay tuned for more details. – r.
Apple will be hosting a media event on 17th March to preview their iPhone 3.0 software.
Join us at an invitation-only event to learn about the new SDK and get a sneak peek at the iPhone OS 3.0 software. The event takes place at Apple, Building 4, Town Hall on March 17 at 10:00 a.m.*
*March 18 at 4:00 am AEDT
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One of the more useful features of iLife ’09 is the ability to make slideshows in iPhoto to show your friends and family, accompanied by the music of your choice. Apple also includes five popular songs within the iPhoto application that you can choose to include with your slideshow. Here’s the thing – it’s surprisingly easy to copy these songs onto your desktop without any copy restrictions and at near iTunes Plus quality (192kbps). This makes it possible to add these songs to the media player of your choice.
You’ll be needing a Mac with iPhoto ’09 installed, and that’s about it.
Note: Don’t stress if some of the buttons and scroll bars look a little different. I’m using a theme for Mac OS X called iLeopard.
First up, open iPhoto, select a few photos from your library and click ‘Slideshow’ from the + button located in the bottom left corner of the window. Then choose Slideshow and give it a name (shown above). Click ‘Create’.
Click on the iTunes icon titled ‘Music’ in iPhoto to open up the window shown above. From there, it’s as simple as dragging the tracks from that window to your desktop or folder. You can even drag directly from the music options window to iTunes, complete with song name and artist information.
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Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen has revealed that Apple will be teaming up with Adobe to make Flash for the iPhone. The iPhone friendly version will not be as watered down as the ‘lite’ version but it also cannot be as resource-heavy as the desktop version. Apple and Adobe have not put a date on the completion of the product but Adobe’s CEO said that he was “pleased with progress” as far back as June of last year.
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Speaking of Windows 7, here’s some great news to accompany what you just heard about that big wide hole in the middle of Windows 7 UAC security. No more Windows 7 beta releases. Microsoft confirmed today that you’re stuck with the latest update of Windows 7 until the final release software ships in August. It was expected, but couldn’t come at a better time. – r.
One of the good things about Windows 7 is that (unlike Vista) it doesn’t endlessly nag you everytime you actually want to change something on your computer. The level of security depends on what you want to see and what you don’t want to see on your PC. The default option is set so that it won’t bug you when you change a Windows setting. It only asks you to confirm if a program makes changes to your computer. But here’s the catch – User Account Control is considered a Windows setting, so a little coding on the developer’s part can turn it off entirely, leaving your PC exposed to pretty much anything. Of course, you could just turn up the UAC settings so that it asks you to confirm everything, but it kinda defeats the purpose of having Windows 7 security in the first place, until Microsoft provides a fix. I think I’ll stick to Mac OS X, thanks. – r.
Hear that? It’s the sound of Déjà vu. Microsoft’s latest version of Windows will sell in five different retail versions – just like Windows Vista. According to a screenshot leak, Windows 7 will ship in five different packages – Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate. There’s no word yet on pricing but I imagine it will also be similar to that of Vista’s.
P.S. My apologies for the extremely poor Photoshopping. I’ll push out a better version in a moment. – r.
It was on this day, 25 years ago that Steve Jobs introduces the first macintosh computer (pictured above). The Macintosh was the first successful computer to use a graphical user interface and a mouse. Happy birthday.
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh, accompanied originally by what is perceived to be one of the greatest advertisements of all time.
Even if their 1985 Super Bowl spot (for ‘Macintosh Office’, a product that wasn’t put on shelves until several years later) entitled ‘Lemmings’ was a complete failure, it’s worth revisiting, so hit ‘Read More’ for the embedded clip. – r.
[via 9to5mac]
Somewhere in between all the hype of Obama being the first African American and first Hawaiian President of the United States, we all seemed to forget that Barack Obama is also the first president to be a Mac user.
However, the Obamas weren’t the only presidential candidates in 2008 to use a Mac. John McCain’s daughter Meghan was featured in this month’s copy of GQ with her trusty MacBook Pro.
In fact, even the Vice Presidential candidates are almost all Mac users. Democrat Joe Biden has been pictured using an iPhone on several occassions, but Sarah Palin was recently spotted using a Dell notebook. Then again, that’s probably more of a good thing. – r.
[Obama - 9to5mac,
McCain - GQ via Macenstein]
