Official WWDC thread

[Elliott]

Looky everybody!

http://store.apple.com/

[Leif]

YAY :-)

[the evn show]

Maybe someone should start a WWDC thread. We've got what 3? 4? going on right now?

[Dazzla Veteran]

Maybe someone should start a WWDC thread.  We've got what 3? 4? going on right now?

Lets make this it then ;)

Safari 1.0 is done and will be available as a free download in a few hours :D

Over 100 new features in Panther

That means it's a paid update.

[Elliott]

I think the Macintosh area is the busiest forum in the board right now, maybe besides the General Section. :p

Edit - And Thanks Dazzla. This'll help all confusion around the forum.

[the evn show]

Those screenshots posted look mostly confirmed.

Anyone remember what site they came from? They just earned some serious credibility.

[Dazzla Veteran]

Hehe, nice. The left hand side lists your most visited places, quality. Concentrating on the user :cool:

[KingChris]

Active directory support will be usefull, One of the main failings of Jaguar is networking

[the evn show]

Another site doing semi-live coverate is mymacdealer.com They have a few more details than the live discussion on forosx:

Panther introduction. FreeBSD 5.0. New Finder?now user-centric with iTunes-like interface. Action button?like ctrl (right) clicking. Labels back. Fast search. Dynamic network browsing. Auto-sync files with .Mac.

The BSD5 is a major step forward!

[Dazzla Veteran]

Expose just confirmed as real, I can see real potential in expose.

Expose:

Easy window arranging method. Pressing a function key resizes all windows so they are all viewable. Clicking on a window brings it to the front. It can also resize windows in a single program or document. Also works with multiple-button mice and screen corners. Can also clear all windows to a corner.

[macster]

OMG OMG OMG!!!

Sorry too excited

[KingChris]

Expose works with middle button mice and screen corrners. Could apple finaly dump the one button mouse?

[Dazzla Veteran]

Holy crap:

FileVault:

Protects sensitive information. Secures the entire home folder and will encrypt and decrypt files on-the-fly.

How cool?

[KingChris]

Not cool but what should be there, XP encrypts the filesystem. A good adition though

[doofy]

* FileVault: secures a user's entire Home folder. [13:26 ET]

* Expose uses Quartz Extreme. [13:25 ET]

* Users can assign any key on their keyboard (or assign screen corners) to perform this feature. Lots and ooohs and aaaahs from the audience.[13:23 ET]

* Expose shrinks all of the windows in order to display them all on the screen at once, so you can find what you are looking for easily. [13:23 ET]

* Jobs says it makes it easier to find the window you are looking for. [13:22 ET]

* "Expose" is a new feature for organizing windows. [13:21 ET]

* Next up: "Expose" [13:20 ET]

* New .Mac to offer auto-syncing of files. [13:19 ET]

* The searches appear tremendously fast in the new Finder. Jobs says it is "The best the world has ever seen." [13:18 ET]

* There is a new iChat 2 icon with a camera in the middle that Jobs has not mentioned yet. [13:17 ET]

* Jobs demoes Panther. [13:17 ET]

* Panther features a one-column Finder, brushed metal Finder window, fast searching, an 'Action" button, the return of Labels, and New open and Save panels. [13:16 ET]

* Jobs says the old Finder was 'computer-centric' and Apple wants something 'user-centric' [13:15 ET]

* Panther to offer lots of UNIX features and Windows operability. [13:14 ET]

* Mac OS X is now the most popular UNIX in the world, says Jobs. [13:13 ET]

* Over 100 new features in Panther, the next major revision of Mac OS X. [13:12 ET]

* Apple also releasing Safari SDK for developers. [13:11 ET]

* Safari 1.0 final will be available for download in a few hours. [13:10 ET]

* 5 million Safari beta downloads since January. [13:10 ET]

* Apple has sold 5 million songs on its online music store. [13:08 ET]

* Later today Apple will ship its one millionth iPod. [13:08 ET]

* Jobs showing a rendered pic of the upcoming San Francisco Apple store. [13:06 ET]

* 58 Apple retail stores: 17 million visitors so far. [13:06 ET]

* 300,000 Airport Extremes have shipped. [13:06 ET]

* 3800 attend Keynote [13:04 ET]

* "We have so much great stuff for you today, we may need to take a break in the middle," says Jobs. [13:03 ET]

* Steve Jobs takes the stage. [13:02 ET]

[Dazzla Veteran]

Yeah, but this isn't about windows, this is about OS X, so it is cool :p

[brn2prgrm]

[sarcasm] What's taking em so long with the Apple online store? :p All they need is some clumsy webmaster to update it in a matter of seconds! :D [/sarcasm]

[~clean]

great stuff ... lookin better all the time !

[Elliott]

New version of Mail.app:

New version of Mail.app is improved with performance improvements everywhere. It includes Safari rendering, object-oriented addresses that can moved around, threaded view of mail ["impressive"] ., etc. Mail has a popup triangle for people with multiple addresses.

[~clean]

Pixlet:

Studio-grade quality codec for QuickTime. Ability to compress cinema-quality files without losing quality. 48-bits per pixel source data. No noticeable visual artifacts, and no inter-frame compression for easy editing and scrubbing. Decodeable with 1 GHz G4.

sounds good !

[Dazzla Veteran]

Less important to us I guess, but he just announced "Pixlet", it's a new codec for Quicktime, studio quality apparently, 48 bits / pixel source data, no noticeable visual artifacts, no inter-frame compression. He showed a Finding Nemo trailer in the format.

[doofy]

check this site : http://www.macminute.com/wwdc2003.html

[Dazzla Veteran]

Decodeable with 1 GHz G4.

Oooo, I didn't read that. Woah, that's high requirements, guess they'll need new towers :D

[~clean]

yeah ! hehe a hint at new hardware then ;) ;)

[Elliott]

He also showed the Matrix with the new compression. No visual artifacts seen.