MacWorld 2009: Keynote

Watch Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, unveil Apple’s latest innovations at Macworld 2009. See the video-on-demand event right here:

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0901ouabdcaw/event/index.html

MacWorld 2009: iLife 09

Apple has updated its worksuite iLife including iWork, iMovie, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand.

iPhoto ’09
- Faces: Addition of facial recognition to events. Photos can be tagged to recognize faces, as in Facebook.
- Places: Uses geotagging to find information about the latitude and longitude of a photo. This information can be supplied either by a newer camera with built-in gps capabilities, or manually by user input.
- Slideshow Themes: Uses facial detection to properly position pictures in a slideshow. There’s also support for Facebook and Flickr, with built-in geotagging.

iMovie ’09
- Dynamic Themes: Context-sensitive menus for clips, along with animated travel maps
- Automatic Image Stabilization: Helps reduce motion in shaky video
- Precision Editor: Video and audio
- Advanced Drag and Drop: For placing video wherever you want it in the timeline
- Video Effects: Brings back special effects to iMovie

GarageBand ’09
- Learn to Play: Teaches how to play an instrument with video instruction from professionals/celebrities. Nine basic lessons included, with additional downloads available at $4.99 each from within the app.

It will be released on January and will be shipped with all Macs.

More info: http://www.apple.com/ilife/

Credits to: MacRumors

Mac OS X 10.5.6

The Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, and 10.5.5. It includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

What’s included?

iPhone OS 2.2 out!

What’s in this update:

• Enhancements to Maps
  • Google Street View*
  • Public transit and walking directions
  • Display address of dropped pins
  • Share location via email
• Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls

• Enhancements to Mail
  • Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
  • Improved formatting of wide HTML email
• Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)

• Improved stability and performance of Safari
• Improved sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages
• Pressing Home button from any Home screen displays the first Home screen
• Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings

Official Website

http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

ATI Catalyst 8.11 Vista/XP

AMD ATI just released Catalyst 8.11 for Windows Vista and Windows XP

The Catalyst team has been hard at work to bring you some very significant performance gains in a number of games, so be sure to install Catalyst 8.11!

Source

iPhone 2.2 Firmware for end of November

The iPhone 2.2 firmware should become available on November 21st.

Recaps of new features:

- New look for the Safari with the Google search bar now occupying its own space on the title bar
- Toggle On / Off to disable the auto-correction
- 461 Japanese emoji icons
- Support for new languages.
- Line-in audio is activated and can be used through the headphone jack
- Google Street View, Google Transit information – Routes public transport, Walking directions, Location sharing.
- App Store: ‘Categories’ now shows the icons of the applications instead of the list, In each page of the application has been added by a button ‘Tell A Friend’ & ‘Report A Problem’, Added the possibility of scoring the application when the user chooses to delete from the device, Added the possibility for direct downloading of podcasts from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store.

Source: Macrumors

VideoLAN 0.9.6

New Version!

“The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.2 – Grishenko.
Resulting of 2 years of development, it features many new functionalities, including a new interface for Windows and Linux.”

Changes in VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.9.6 :

DirectX 9 & 10 November 2008

Microsoft has released a New Version of DirectX! Go update your computer!

DirectX is a group of technologies designed to make Windows-based computers an ideal platform for running and displaying applications rich in multimedia elements such as full-color graphics, video, 3D animation, and rich audio.

Realtek High Definition Audio Drivers R2.08

This download contains the latest audio drivers, software and utilities for the Realtek high definition audio controllers.

It is highly recommended to always use the most recent driver version available.

Applies to:
Realtek ALC 880, ALC 882, ALC 883, ALC 881, ALC 260 and ALC 262 chips

Source

Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”

Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition delivers the features you need for an increasingly mobile digital life, including 3G wireless support and guest sessions that lets users temporarily share computers without compromising security. Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition consolidates its support for virtualization with an integrated Virtual Machine builder, and brings with it a fully-supported Java stack and support for per-user directory encryption. More »

Dailymotion HQ on all videos

I think that you have already noticed that by watching videos I post on my blog.

So Dailymotion added High Quality for all videos. High Quality brings higher resolution (512-by-384-pixels) at up to 30 frames per second (fps) for users with a broadband connection (520 kbps connection or higher), Flash Player 9 and a computer with a dual-core processor.

See the difference

http://www.dailymotion.com/HQ

Flash Player 10 out!

A new version of Adobe Flash Player is out in version 10.0.12.36!

ATI Catalyst 8.10 Vista/XP

AMD ATI just released Catalyst 8.10 for Windows Vista and Windows XP

The Catalyst team has been hard at work to bring you some very significant performance gains in a number of games, so be sure to install Catalyst 8.10!

Source

Apple’s New Macbook and Macbook Pro

Apple has revealed yesterday during the event show their new model of Macbooks.

All series of Apple’s laptops were updated, Macbook, Macbook Pro and Macbook Air with improved graphics performance, and glass Multi-Touch trackpads.

Check Apple Website:

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

http://www.apple.com/macbook/

Open Office 3

Open Office 3 is out for Windows, Linux, Mac!

Be careful their servers are already overloaded: