[ashtoash]

I'm downstairs 20 feet from the doors of the keynote theater, waiting to get in. We had to wait outside in the pouring rain for an hour, but we're inside and comfortable waiting for our seats.

[d4nth3m4n]

is the keynote general admission?

pics?

[Colin Davis]

Dial me up on your cell phone, put it in your pocket and "Forget" to turn it off?



Colin "Optimistic" Davis

[wdlove]

I remember standing in line waiting for the Keynote at MWNY 2003. The time seemed to pass quickly being with other Mac fans.

Are you also in the VIP line?

[Wiskedjak]

http://www.keynoteuser.com/news/MWSFLive.php

7:33 am

Well, here�s a twist. We DO have net access in the hall. There don�t seem to be any rules either. The problem is, due to such a HUGE media turnout, we�ve been banished to an overflow room in the basement of the south hall. There are two huge HD screens, but this one caught EVERYONE off guard. I look around and see other members of the media also caught off guard. It seems you had to be on the �approved� Apple list to get a seat in the actual Keynote Address. Oh well, lets hope we get the free goodies at the end. -Brian

[Big Mac]

You're quite lucky to be there and strangely enough quite lucky that it's raining. Back in MWSF 2003 we had to wait for hours outside, until they finally opened the doors and people rushed in. I wonder how early you got there in order to be at the front of the line - 3AM?

[jamesl]

HI

When will we hear some news about the keynote?!!?!?!

How much longer?!

[Big Mac]

It's 7:45 in California and I imagine it's schedule to start at 9.

[Goldfinger]

Steve minus 1 hour and 9 minutes.

[jamesl]

What time in England will it be when the Keynote is finished?

How soon does news normally get posted?

[Big Mac]

The news usually comes in as Jobs makes each announcement, play by play, on any of the various news sites. I doubt it will be any different this time.

[TailsToo]

I saw that MacNN has a special section on their homepage.

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by TailsToo:
I saw that MacNN has a special section on their homepage.

Wow, I didn't see that... they basically closed MacNN and made it all about the live coverage... very cool. We will just have to wait and see.

[Big Mac]

Most sites will display a lower bandwidth live event recap page in order to make reloads faster and less intense.

[Hugi]

A complete listing of my activities during the past hour:

reload thread
...
...
reload thread
...
...
pretend to be working
...
...
reload thread
...
...
Come on, 9am PST!

[Big Mac]

LOL Hugi, pretty much the same story here.

[ajprice]

Same here Hugi....

[awcopus]

What tabs do you guys have open in your Safari browser?

For me, this forum, macnn's "live" keynote coverage, macintouch, and the Apple Store. Kind of rapid cycling through them and refreshing..... then doing a little work in FCP... then back to cycling and refreshing.... in fact, I gotta go now and do that some more! LOL!

[Goldfinger]

I'm afraid everyone here is doing the same

EDIT: Is macnn irc down ?

[mitchell_pgh]

NEWS FLASH Design and Media Productivity Plummets on Jan. 11... film at 11.

[derbs]

awww crap. It's 8.59 and there's been no update on the macnn news page. I hope Apple haven't turned off the internet...

[Turias]

Originally posted by derbs:
awww crap. It's 8.59 and there's been no update on the macnn news page. I hope Apple haven't turned off the internet...

Steve's always a couple minutes late.

[Sn1PeR]

where is the macnn live thread?

[Wiskedjak]

Originally posted by derbs:
I hope Apple haven't turned off the internet...

Nope, the Internet is still working fine over here.

[derbs]

hey there's been an update

http://mwsf.macnn.com

[ThisGuy]

i am so excited that i am masturbating with me feces.

[Turias]

And watch as the forum dies...

[Mrjinglesusa]

Apple Store is now OFFICIALLY "Be Back Soon".

[Sn1PeR]

apple store is down -- it's about time!

[Mrjinglesusa]

For those not reading live feeds:

Nothing new yet.

1) Retail store overview

2) Recap of iMac G5

3) Tiger update (still on time to ship "1st half of '05"

[Mrjinglesusa]

Jobs just encountered a bug in his Spotlight demo and had to go to a new machine. I thought this was only supposed to happen to Gates!

[videian28]

tiger is beta software, the crap gates was slinging had already been shipped


big difference

[SouthPaW1227]

^^ this is my live feed, keep it coming!

And that's too bad about the bug...it happens to everyone sometime.

[Turias]

Originally posted by Mrjinglesusa:
Jobs just encountered a bug in his Spotlight demo and had to go to a new machine. I thought this was only supposed to happen to Gates!

Cut him some slack. There's a reason why the OS still has 3-6 months before it is going to be released. Now if this were released software or something that was going to be released today, that would be a different story.

[Big Mac]

It didn't sound like a bug but rather a user error on SJ's part, but I'm not certain. Hey guys, macteens.com has a really fast, complete feed.

[Turias]

Mail in tiger. Now search across all mailboxes. Integrated spotlight into Mail.

Finally. I've been waiting for multi-mailbox searches since Mail 1.0. This is the thing that drove me to Gmail and caused me to drop Mail in the first place.

[Mithras]

There's a great feed over at engadget, with better details than the MacNN feed:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000477026962/

[Mrjinglesusa]

Some people seem to want the updates here. If not, I will stop.

9:48 am
iphoto more�
Editing
still see the thumbnails across the top, while editing a photo. Added an editing Dashboard. Balck and white points
brightness, exposuer, histogram, saturation, tint, straighten. Works on any photo type.

9:46 am
iPhoto�
more formats, more editing, no need to leave iPhoto
advanced slideshows, new books and new book designs
easier to use.
He�s demoing it now�PROJECT FOLDERS!
Superfast search
Calendar view, find by date
new formats: supports Mpeg4 movies!
Supports the RAW format now

9:45 am
iLife �05
he�s flying through this
EVERY app has a major upgrade
iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand

9:44 am
I�m able to make posts every so often, but my mysql database is taking a beating�

Okay, he�s done with Tiger�"Long before Longhorn.�

Next-
HD video
2005 is going to be the year of High Def Video.
Apple already has FCP HD, the most popular HD product in the world
SECOND HD product-Final Cut express HD!
Comes with LiveType and SoundTrack-sounded like ST is now integrated INTO the app.
FCE is still the same price. Available in Feb.
$99 upgrade from FCE to FCEHD.

9:41 am
Open architecture
e-bay widget
�pretty dogone cool�

last thing is iChat
up to 10 audio, 3 video
uses H264 compression
Of course that cool 3d 3 window with drop shadows on the black floor below the images. He�s testing with Danika Cleary in Paris now.
Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller are in his list also�
Here comes Phil. This stuff is just beautiful. Now Scott is on. All three at once and no stutters.
He just went full screen, with very little loss. We�re watching in HD and this is amazing stuff.

9:38 am
He�s demoing the coverter widget right now. Currency, including UP TO DATE rates. He tried the Euro and the dollar looked really bad. He jokes �you may not want to use this one much.�

Using the yellow pages to look for a sushi restaurant. Now on to weather. It�s raining here, so the widget shows rain drops dripping off of it. Sun for sun, clouds for clouds, even lightning. Very nice images on this one. Heh, it�s getting funny now. Blowing wind, hail, this little widget has everything!

9:35 am
Demo of H264 scaling
beautiful full screen, with onscreen controls. Man, this HD feed is totally amazing.

Dashboard
new cool black circle icon with little icons on top of it.
this stuff was all demoed at WWDC (so far)
new ones: converter (feet to meters)
Dictionary and Thesaurus
Stock tracker showing Apple UP and MS DOWN right now got a good laugh
Flood tracker
translation
yellow pages
weather
It would seem there�s no need for Sherlock now�
the widget bar is now UNDER the dock, this stuff is beautiful. Apple stock is down today, so Jobs joked �Well, we�ve still got a lot more to go in the Keynote don�t we!�

9:32 am
QuickTime 7 in Tiger
most major update in a decade.
330 million copies downloaded
98% to windows users
Live Resizing
Full surrround sound to 24 channels
full screen overlay controls, full HD playback
complete Mpeg4 comliant
New H264 codec, which I believe we saw at WWDC.

9:29 am
Spotlight is now integrated in the Finder

Mail in tiger. Now search across all mailboxes. Integrated spotlight into Mail. He�s now demoing a smart mailbox in Mail. Nice dynamic feature. Now on to photos in an e-mail. There�s a new slideshow feature for messages with multiple images in them. No trip to iPhoto needed. One button and it drops them into iPhoto with a nice full screen suck effect. When done, iPhoto launches and the photos get added.

[Mrjinglesusa]

From keynoteuser.com:

9:59 am
iMovie
faster, more transitions
Mpeg4 video editing
Magic iMovie-plug camera in and let the thing automatically spool the video, and build your movie FOR YOU
nondestructive editing
HD editing in iMovie! Wow.
HDV 720p and 1080i
Demoing the app now�

9:58 am
Cutting the price for ordering photos down to 19 cents per photo. The books really are much better than the old versions. I think this feature will really take off now. He�s showing a baby�s first book now.
new offerings
Hardcover: 11x8.5
softcover 11X8.5
softcover 8x6
Pocket book 3.5x2.5
20 pages minimum $29.99 for 20 pages
the other prices went by too fast.

9:55 am
okay NOW he�s on the book stuff.
the sample images of the books are nice, lots of new layouts. He chose one and hit automatic, so it made the book for him. Now they have doublesided pages. You can move pages around, and there are some new effects. There�s one page that takes your photo and breaks it into a page full of tiny photos, all laying together as one big photo. You can even adjust the photos after they are in the book.

9:53 am
Demoing the book feature
he has 25,000 photos in iPhoto
He�s editing a photo now, changing exposure, etc. Nothing fancy, but it�s nice to have these tools in iPhoto now.
Makes me wonder if Keynote 2 will have this dashboard. LETS HOPE!
He just used a cool grid function to straighten a photo.
new slide show is amazing. all the cool transitions, and the quality on this HD feed is awesome.

[Krypton]

Keynoteuser down
MacNN MWSF down
Engadget down
MacMind coverage gone wonky

Bah! No wonder Apple didn't want to stream this.

[awcopus]

Originally posted by Big Mac:
It didn't sound like a bug but rather a user error on SJ's part, but I'm not certain. Hey guys, macteens.com has a really fast, complete feed.

I had never heard of macteens.com, but their keynote coverage is just terrific. Thanks for the rec. Big Mac!

btw, I am blown away by iMovie's new capabilities. It's really a gut check for me as a videographer that software this powerful is being given away for just about nothing while I've spent a small fortune on a professional DVCAM camera and the whole Final Cut Pro HD Suite. Wow, things are moving awfully fast!

[kiwibabe]

keynote user is still up you just have to refresh the page a couple of times.

[Mrjinglesusa]

Mackeynote.com:

10:17 am
Music Notation
John is going to play with Steve at the Mac
John�s playing on a Keyboard. Nice, there�s a scrolling score on screen. John sang �I didn�t win the grammies for playing the piano!�
Steve is editing notes ON the staves.

Multi-track recording
Recording 4 tracks for the demo
they�re doing TWO guitars and TWO mics at one time. It�s about time!
All this is recording over a base of 4 tracks already in GarageBand.

10:14 am
GarageBand
He�s reminding us about the Jam Packs
Jam Pack 4, Orchestral
#1 request
8 to 8 track recording at a time
Real-time music notaion
Pitch and timing fixing
recorded tracks are now as flexible as software instrument based tracks
make your OWN loops
fun vocal transformer
Here�s John Meyer again to demo it�

10:12 am
nice animation in the themes
there�s a moving marquee of movies and photos moving across the top of the menu, and he dropped photos and movies into the spots on the marquee. It�s hard to describe, but I�m sure we�ll see demos all over the web today.
The interface looks pretty much the same from what I can see on screen.
There�s a nice wedding theme, and a claymation looking kids theme.
Heh, a baby mobile with movies in all the mobile parts.

10:09 am
iDVD
new version
15 amazing new themes
Animated Drop zones
1 setp DVD creation-capture right from Camera to DVD
All formats now + and - R and RW (not sure about Dual layer)
demo

10:08 am
Sony guy is now on stage to talk about HD.
Steve liked the camera so much he invited Sony to come to the stage.
Again, the year 2005 is the year of HD-in the HOME
They both mentioned Blu-ray DVDs for the new HD DVD format.
The sony guy joked with Steve about �Just do the Software!� Implying Sony doesn�t want Apple to make good hardware
Sony will continue to develop smaller and cheaper HD cameras in the future.

10:02 am
man, I never realized how nice HD really is. They are running a feed right off a camcorder. You think DV was better than VHS, this stuff makes regular DV look like a joke.
�we just keep making it better and better�
current generation of DVD gives you a nice letterboxed version.
New camcorders coming out
Sony HDV Camcorder-$3499

[iLikebeer]

macteens.com is still up and running
More detailed than mwsf.macnn.com too.

[Mrjinglesusa]

iWork '05!!!!!

10:23 am
He�s wrapping up how these apps all talk to each other.
Sell for $79. Still worth it in my book. Ships Jan 22nd.
Free on all new Macs.

the next big thing
iWork
The successor to AppleWorks
iWork is all new for OS X
2 apps
Keynote 2
Cinema Quality preso for eveybody
10 new themes
Animated Text
Animated Builds
Presenter Display
Interactive Slideshows
Self running shows
Timers, notes, The interface looks pretty much the same
Hard Cover theme
Automation FINALLY
Water Color theme
Scrapbook
Charts and graph support
He�s been using it all along
Flash Output!!!!

macteens.com:

January 11, 2005 (12:25PM CST): Steve has shown a variety of screen shots from Keynote 2 that shwo the new abilities. Compatible with Appleworks, PowerPoint, Flash, and PDF.

January 11, 2005 (12:25PM CST): Apple introduces pages - word processing with an \'incredible amount of style\'. Supports all the things you\'d expect... columns, footnotes, tables of contents, tables and charts, and all the features of text edit. 40 apple designed templates.

[Krypton]

http://www.appletalk.com.au/feed/index.html

^ This one is good

iWork 05 includes 'Pages' and Keynote 2

[trevorM]

the next big thing
iWork
The successor to AppleWorks
iWork is all new for OS X
2 apps
Keynote 2
Cinema Quality preso for eveybody
10 new themes
Animated Text
Animated Builds
Presenter Display
Interactive Slideshows
Self running shows


Timers, notes, The interface looks pretty much the same
Hard Cover theme
Automation FINALLY
Water Color theme
Scrapbook
Charts and graph support
He�s been using it all along
Flash Output!!!!

[Mrjinglesusa]

There are two good feeds posted on this topic so I will stop with the updates.

$79USD


Pages is Appleworks, word and pdf compatible


Steve is back, lots of marketing hype


The keynote will obviously run somewhat over 1hour and 30 minutes. *dies of lack of sleep*


Pages supports tables, as you'd expect from a modern word processor


Adding a page is like adding a slide in kenote. looks to be built in cocoa


alpha channel shadowing, alignment guides as in keynote, nice sizing and flow


resizes and rotates images


integrates with iPhoto to include your personal images


Phil Schiller talks with his hands, and lists Pages features


template gallery looks like kenote on start

[Mrjinglesusa]

It's here. Sub-$500 Mac = the Mac MINI!!!

$499 USD

half as high as an ipod mini, surface of a little dish, comes with panther and iLife '05

standing ovation from the crowd

size of a portable hard drive

beautiful, quiet, firewire, usb2, analog, digital video out, it looks a bit like the engadget fake

like the ipod mini, very tiny the size of a CD, box with drive

Mac Mini!!

Apple introduces Mac mini. New member of Mac family Slot-load Combo optical drive. Play DVDs, burn CDs. Queit. Tiny, FireWire, ethernet, USB 2.o, both DVI/VGA output. Very tine. Height is half the size of an iPod mini. BYODKM. Bring Your Own Display, Keyboard, Mouse.

1.25GHz 256MB/40GB More memory and larger hard drive for $599. Will ship on January 22. Ships in a box smaller than the regular iPod box.

[Krypton]

Mac mini, $499 or $599 fits in the palm of your hand (very small).