iLife ‘11
So, got my hands on iLife ‘11 today.
First impressions:
- iMovie is actually really decent.
- iPhoto is awesome. Built in e-mailing FTW
- I don’t really care about GarageBand
- iWeb is interesting
Now, I wish they would hurry up with iWork ‘11 already.
Apple Mac Event
Today is the “Back to the Mac” Apple Mac Event. Starting at 1PM EST (10am PT).
Expected new things are - new Macbook Pro, OS X 10.7 “Lion”, possibility of Verizon iPhone.
Follow the liveblog here:
Other places you can follow the liveblog:
Source: Gizmodo
Marco.org: Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews
I wrote a script to crawl U.S. App Store customer reviews for the top 100 apps from every category (minus duplicates) and compute the most common words in 1-star and 5-star reviews, excluding words that were also common in 3-star reviews.
Keep in mind that the results are not representative of…
Very very interesting.
Source: marco
Apple Fall Event live blog
This is a live blog of Apple’s Fall event.
Starts at 1PM EST.
(Direct URL - http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event)
1:00 PM - Event has started. Jobs is here!
1:01 PM - Woz is here. :)
1:02 - New Paris store. New Shanghai store. Looks really nice.
1:03 - New London store as well.
1:05 - One-to-One lessons up to 80,000 people.
1:06 - iOS :- revolution in touch and apps. 120 mil iOS devices shipped.
1:07 - 200 apps downloaded every second.
1:08 - iOS 4.1, Proximity sensor, iPhone 3G bugs fixed. added HDR photos.
1:09 - HDR photos - Jobs, explaining HDR.
1:10 - Explaining GameCenter.
1:11 - Auto matches players.
1:12 - President of Epic Games on stage.
1:13 - Game codename - Project Sword.
1:14 - Awesome CG!
1:15 - Project Sword available holiday season.
1:16 - iOS 4.1 next week. iOS 4.2 November. Adding wireless printing, Airplay.
1:18 - Airtunes to Airplay.
1:19 - iOS 4.2 demo on iPad. Folders.
1:20 - iPods! 275 mil iPods sold.
1:21 - All new iPods. New designs.
1:22 - iPod Shuffle : People miss the buttons.
1:23 - Smaller, buttons, VoiceOver and playlists. Genius.
1:24 - Five diff colors. $49.
1:25 - iPod Nano - Mulittouch! Clip on it.
1:26 - Volume buttons. FM radio, 29 languages. 24 hour battery life.
1:28 - Demo of iPod Nano. Screen rotation.
1:30 - 6 colors. 8GB - $149.
1:31 - iPod Touch. #1 portable gaming device. 50% market share.
1:32 - Even thinner.
1:33 - Retina display for Touch! 4X pixels. LED backlit.
1:34 - Apple A4 chip. 3-axis Gyro, iOS 4.1. Front Facing camera with Facetime on Touch. Rear camera with HD recording.
1:35 - Facetime with iPhone users as well!
1:35 - Available next week! Pre-order today.
1:36 - Ads.
1:38 - iTunes. 11.7 bil songs downloaded. iTunes 10! Hybrid view.
1:39 - New iTunes logo!
1:40 - More elegant and simple. More than 5 songs, shows album art.
1:41 - Ping. Social networking for music.
1:44 - Follow people. Other people follow you.
1:45 - Demo of Ping.
1:49 - iTunes 10. Download today at apple.com!
1:51 - Apple TV. Not a big hit.
1:52 - Everybody wants HD! Lower prices.
1:53 - 2nd generation Apple TV. Much smaller!
1:55 - built in WiFI, HDMI, Optical Audio! Rentals only! No storage.
1:56 - 99c HD TV show rentals.
1:58 - Netflix on Apple TV.
2:00 - Stream is having issues.
2:04 - Netflix Instant Queue.
2:07 - Apple TV connection with iPad.
2:08 - $99 Apple TV. Preorder today. 4 weeks.
2:09 - Review of event.
2:11 - Coldplay!
2:22 - Event is basically done. Listening to Coldplay.
Have a good day!
