apple juice

Mac users: New version of
Safari. Adds tabbed browsing, autofill, among other items. Check it out yo!

Since everyone and their dog has linked to this…

Apple understands digital media far better than the current record companies. People want fast, easy downloads for a reasonable price. (Let’s say 50 cents a track, or a flat fee per month) Apple has the people that can weave an interface right into iTunes that would make this all seemless.

At the right price, it becomes an issue where you wouldn’t ever bother downloading gigs and gigs of music to your computer. If there was a monthly fee, and any time you wanted a song, you could just download it in 15 seconds, why bother keeping 60 gigs of music on your computer when it’s all on the network?

There are some very intersting possibilities..

New switch commercials: “I’m Dr. Dre and I’m a hip-hop artist”

“Radio Stations” in iTunes showcasing the Universal catalog. Able to click-buy the track or CD right in iTunes.

An immediate “in” on the production side, Apple Hardware, Software in the recording studio.

An Apple Logo on every CD? That sure would build some mindshare.

250 free songs on every new Macintosh?

But who knows. I’m just pulling that stuff out of my butt. Does Apple really want to get into a completely different business?

I can’t wait to get home and try out iCommune. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for, and may actually turn out to be a better solution than Apple’s forthcoming Rendezvous support for iTunes. Rendezvous is cool, but my local network consists of basically me. I need to be able to share with my family and friends.

There is a new Safari build available, however, I have no idea what is fixed. I’m sure the notes will pop up soon, somewhere.

That was a pretty wild keynote. You could tell Steve was pretty amped up about it from the beginning.

I can’t wait to test out some of the new applications. And I would suggest that everyone download and try out Safari, so far it’s looking pretty good.

BTW, this was posted with Kung-Log, I’m testing it out…

Goodness, they’ve been busy

Keynote, presentation app, Steve’s been using it for the last year…

Showing “beautiful” typography

Alignment guides Very cool

Support for alpha channels for graphics… and multiple different graphics file formats…

love the shot of the lady in the audience that doesn’t know she’s being filmed

Safari – Apple’s new Web Browser

“Fastest browser on the Mac”

iBench stats, 5 seconds faster than Chimera, 3 times faster than IE

Javascript test, Safari is twice as fast as IE

Launches 40% faster.

“We wanted to innovate”
Google is integrated Sweet! I love google, (and who doesn’t?)

Snapback takes you to the top of the page?

New bookmarks system

“We wanted to make it extremely easy to use”

Uses the metal interface ( Interface is very bare-bones looking)

Demoing…. Wow, it looks really fast…

Plugging Finding Nemo…

Quicktime, Flash, Java, all works… what’s that music making site he went to?

Bookmark adding looks nice, uses a sheet, lets you rename the bookmark right away…

Bookmarks library looks exactly like iTunes and iPhoto

Any website listed in your Address Book is in Safari

Are there tabs? I love tabs when I’m using Chimera

Ahhh snapback takes you back your google search…. Or back to the top level of any website you’ve typed in?

Bug button right in the window, so you can send website errors right back to them…

Obviously Apple wants to address the web browsing deficiency that has existed on the Mac (until now apparently)

Based on Open Source rendering engine… (Gecko?)

“Open Source, We think it’s great!” Posting all their improvments to the web.

Nope, using KHTML, from Konqueror?

Beta, for free, Today…. (presumably here, but not yet…