Macworld Keynote 2009
iLife 09
iPhoto
- Faces feature is very cool using Face Recognition and Face Detection to help organize your photos
- Places organizes by Geotag
- Geotagging support
- Google Maps display of Geotagged photos
- Flickr and Facebook Export
- New themes for books and slideshows
I really love the books! Super high quality.
iMovie
- Phil recognized that while iMovie 08 had a cool way to work some still wanted to work in a different way and with more control
- Neat editing demo probably better to watch than to explain.
- Image stabilization. Very cool! Hope this helps get some better YouTube videos out there!
- Animated Maps in movies
Garage Band
- Learn to play an instrument
- Guitar or Keyboard
- 9 basic lessons included free
- Artist Lessons Popular Artists will teach you how to play their songs $4.99
- Downloadable so more will be added with a built in store
iLife 09 will be available in late January 09
iWork 09
Keynote
- New animation tools
- Magic Move transitions between slides
- Object transitions
- Text transitions
- Chart animations
- More themes
- Again, watching the Demo will really show these features to good effect.
- Very cool Keynote remote application for the iPhone or iPod Touch .99 in the App Store
Pages
- Full screen view removes distractions from the screen
- Dynamic Outlines
- Mail Merge with Numbers as well as Address Book
- MathType and EndNote integration
- 40 new templates
Numbers
- Table Categories categorize by columns
- Easy formula writing over 250 functions
- New Chart options
- Charts linked to Pages so updates are easy
- Spreadsheet templates
iWork 09 is available immediately
Mac Box set $169 iLife, iWork, Leopard coming at the end of January. Great price!
iWork.com
- Free Beta
- New service to share docs with others by invitation
- Mac or PC browser
- Add Comments and Notes
- Downloads in Pages, PDF or WORD
- Final site will be a paid service
17″ MacBook Pro
- 1920×1200 screen
- Anti Glare options
- 2.93GHz
- Up to 8GB Memory
- Nvidia Graphics
- up to 2 256GB SSD
- New battery technology
- Up to 8 hours
- 1,000 recharges
- Integrated to remove all the overhead of a removable battery
- $2799
iTunes
- new pricing in April .69/.99/1.29 allowing companies more flexibility in pricing
iTunes Plus
DRM-free
- Higher encoding rate
- 8 million songs DRM free starting today 2 million more by end of the quarter so all 10,000,000 songs are available DRM free via iTunes plus.
iPhone version of iTunes
- WiFi and now works on 3G networks starts today
