The new iPhone 3G S, new Macbooks, Snow Leopard – all the WWDC news in one handy list

Written on 8th June 2009                                                                                                              8 COMMENTS
Martin Bryant, Co-founder, Social Media Café Manchester

So it’s all over – the WWDC keynote is complete. Apple over-delivered in some areas, under-delivered in others and even gave us a complete surprise or two.

Here’s everything you need to know in one handy list.

A completely refreshed, cheaper laptop lineup. Available immediately.

• There’s now just one Macbook costing $999 / £749. 2GB RAM, 160GB, 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 802.11n wi-fi
• 3 MacBook Pros: a new 13″ version starting from £899, a 15″ from £1299 and a 17″ for £1849 – all MacBook Pros now have SD Card slots and built-in, non-removable long-life batteries.
• The Macbook Air is cheaper now, costing £1149 for the SATA drive version and the SSD version is down to £1349

OSX Snow Leopard is available from September with an upgrade price of a mere $29.

• -Despite claiming it would have “No New Features” last year, Apple has decided under-the-hood tweaks aren’t enough and are rolling out some sexy new ideas in the new OS.
• Support for Exchange servers in Mail, Calendar and Address Book
• Exposé built into the dock (making switching between apps easier).
• The OS now takes up much less space, freeing up 6GB once you install.

A new version of Quicktime caled Quicktime X.

• It’s got a much improved interface.
• Videos can be edited with a new visual timeline and uploaded via email or to MobileMe or Youtube straight from the app.

Safari 4 is out of Beta.

• It’s reportedly much faster than even Chrome
• You can download it now here.

iPhone 3.0 software

• They covered the already known improvements again (MMS, cut and paste, push notifications etc) but added….
• A brilliant Find My iPhone service for MobileMe subscribers. It’ll show your iPhone on a map, you can make it put out a sound (even in Silent mode) to help find it, you can send a message to display on its screen (e.g., “Give it back, thief!”) and even wipe the phone completely if you think it’s lost for good.
• MMS won’t be available on AT&T straight away. Americans will have to wait til late Summer for that. Everyone else should be fine from release.
• 3.0 software will be available from June 17th – free on the iPhone, $9.99 for the iPod Touch.

Turn-by-Navigation is coming

• Including Tom Tom, with dashmounted kit to charge your iPhone and use the iPod app while you drive and take directions.

The new iPhone is called the iPhone 3G S

• S stands for ‘Speed’. It has 7.2mbps HSDPA data
• It looks the same as the iPhone 3G, available in Black and White versions.
• It has a 3MP camera with 30 FPS video recording and editing capabilities. Upload by Email or to Youtube or MobileMe from the device.
• Voice commands are available, from “Call John Smith” to “Play a song by Fiery Furnaces”.
• It’s got a digital compass built in.
• It’s available for $199 (16GB version) and $299 (32GB version) from 19th June.

The original iPhone 3G is down to $99

• The 8GB version only, mind.

Apple, iphone, keynote, macbook, mobileme, osx, safari, wwdc

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Macbook Mod: Turn the Apple logo into a LCD Secondary Monitor

Written on 5th May 2009                                                                                                              1 COMMENT
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Eddie Zarick modified his MacBook to display images or even video through the mac’s apple logo.

He’s put the process into a neat little tutorial but if you’re keen but lazy, he is also offering his one up for sale on eBay for $850.

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Apple, mac, macbook, mod

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Seriously cool/uncool Macbook artwork (you’ll see what I see mean)

Written on 30th March 2009                                                                                                              15 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

It’s original artwork by LübeckerJung on Flickr, unfortunately he’s removed it from his profile…thankfully we managed to grab it via Kevin Fox on Friendfeed!

artwork, macbook, macbook pro, pro

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Macbook Engraving Inspiration!

Written on 12th March 2009                                                                                                              13 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

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design, engraving, Inspiration, mac, macbook

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Sorry Apple user, you’re just a plain boring sheep now

Written on 29th December 2008                                                                                                              11 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Anyone who has spent some time in a coffee bar with wifi already knew it, yet it’s official when Wired reports it. Mac users aren’t special anymore. First of all, every college student has a Macbook, secondly, have you ever seen the sales numbers of the iPhone?! If you need a more thorough analysis of the undoing of the Mac cult, read the Wired article. Here are their eight reasons with links to articles supporting the thesis, the complete story is here.

• Macs are big in Hollywood
• Apple is skipping Macworld
• Some guy with a mullet is Apple’s public face
• Apple is abandoning FireWire
• The Simpsons mocks Apple
• Walmart is selling the iPhone
• The President-elect uses a Mac
• Apple stories = Digg bait

Apple, iphone, macbook, Macintosh, Macworld, Simpson, Wired

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Mischievous Monday Morning: Dell <3 Macs & ifoundyourcamera.net

Written on 2nd June 2008                                                                                                              0 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

There are countless examples of Microsoft ads featuring macs. Here is another one but from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. It looks like they love 12 inch iBook G4s too. Can’t blame them:

Lost your camera? Find it back at ifoundyourcamera.net!

Last winter we went skiing and I brought my digital camera. We made some hilarious movies and a few photos that I would love to post here. But when we arrived back at the lodge the camera was gone. Lost somewhere between the top of the mountain and our lodge. We never found it.

But maybe someone did! It turns out that lots of people lose their cameras. In fact, so many people lose them that there is one website dedicated to found cameras and memory sticks. It has a strange voyeuristic quality to look at all these lost & found photos. New sets of orphan pictures are posted each Thursday. Here are a few:

dell, macbook, mmm

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