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Macworld 2008: First Macbook Air Ad
Despite all of the commotion around the Macbook Air at Macworld, our guys James, Vincent, and Ewdison still managed to get a video of the Macbook Air’s first advertisement up on YouTube in a fashionable manner. Hopefully that isn’t the 56% reduced packaging Steve was talking about!
Original post by Ken Allen
Macworld 2008: Macbook Air
All the Rumors were true, the Macbook Air has been released today at Macworld. Boasting a weight of 3 pounds, .76 -.16 inches in size from front to rear, a full size backlit keyboard, 13.3-inch display, mult-touch gestures for the trackpad, iSight built in, 1.6GHz (1.8Ghz optional) Core 2 Duo , 2GB RAM, 80GB HDD (64GB SSD Optional), 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, USB 2.0. Mini-DVI, and a 5+ hour battery life. The Macbook Air has no internal optical drive, but can “borrow” optical drives from other devices, or Apple has an optional USB optical drive for a respectable $99.
Apple additionally went more environmentally friendly by cutting packaging size down 56%, making circuit boards Bromide and PVC free, and taking mercury out of the displays.
The Macbook air can be pre-ordered now in Black or White, and can be seen in stores in 2 weeks at a respectable $1799. Hit the cut for more images of the MacBook air.
Original post by Ken Allen
Macworld 2008: iTunes Movie Rentals
09:37 PST: Steve announces a towering awaited iTunes Movie Rental service.
Apple has come a distant way in movie and song downloads via iTunes, but Steve explains that their current numbers certainly aren’t decent. Apple has sold 7 million movies, 125 million TV shows, and last week Apple sold their 4 billionth song. Today Apple will be releasing iTunes movie rentals for use on all of their video playing devices. Movie rentals will cost $3.99 for new titles, and $2.99 for older titles. Movie rentals are available for 30 days after buying, but the catch is once started, the movie only has 24 hours to be watched.
All major studio’s are involved in iTunes movie rentals which will assemble pretty much all movies in theaters available for rental. iTunes will have movies for rental today, and will have by 1000 movies for rental by the end of February.
Original post by Ken Allen
Macworld 2008: iPhone Firmware v1.1.3
09:24am PST: Steve Jobs announces new features for the iPhone along with an already known iPhone SDK release in February.
iPhone v1.1.3 features include Google Maps cell tower triangulation called Skyhook Wireless for virtual GPS to pinpoint your general location and give directions to where ever. Skyhook Wireless has driven all around the USA in their vehicles and collected physical location documents for triangulation. Google Maps plus allows you to drop a pin on any location you’d like to add to memory. SMS now works like mail, allowing one SMS to be sent to multiple individuals. You can now add bookmark icons called Webclips to websites on your home screen. You can add up to 9 pages of these Webclips on Springboard. Icons can now be moved around the screen and placed anywhere within the 9 pages of springboard. Lyrics can additionally now be obtained and placed transparently by album art.
All of the updates are available as a software update for free today.
Original post by Ken Allen
SlashGear Livecast the Macworld Keynote 2008
Less than half an hour until Steve Jobs’ Macworld Keynote, and by at SlashGear Vincent & James are waiting to go in to livecast the whole event.
Will we see an ultraportable MacBook Air? What about a 3G iPhone? Check out the Livecast and find out!
Original post by Chris Davies
iPhoneCam WiFi video streaming software
The brothers Aspeslagh first wowed us with their award-winning iPhone video-conferencing app - and the mirrors needed to turn the handset’s rear-mounted camera into a forward-facing one - and now they’re back with software that streams video from the iPhone to a Mac via the WiFi connection.
Original post by Chris Davies
Macworld Keynote rumors go wild as hours tick down
With the Macworld Keynote mere hours away - and our boys Vincent and James on their way to LiveBlog the whole thing for SlashGear - the rumor mill has not only spun up to a high milling-speed but practically consumed its own grinding wheel (yes, I’ll leave that metaphor alone now). Central to the bloghype has been a purported leak of Steve Jobs’ keynote itself (reprinted in full below) in which the Apple chief announces the iPhone SDK, new 13-inch MacBooks measuring just 0.8-inches thick, a 16GB iPhone and YouTube downloads for Apple TV. General consensus is that it’s too vague - and bland - to be real, and is either the warbling fantasy of an Apple-fan with too much moment, or a distraction purposefully put out by devious Apple.
However, it’s not only leaky transcripts: the rumor of a so-called MacBook Air, hinted at by sources supposedly close to Apple and believed - thanks to a photo of one of Apple’s keynote boards - to involve some structure of built-in high-speed networking, has led various Mac sleuths to search Whois, site user logs (in which a mysterious “MacBookAir” entry showed up as visiting prior to the board was spotted) [via Engadget 1/2] and even press releases for accessories to try to confirm that Steve will announce a super-slim notebook with external optical-drive.
Original post by Chris Davies
