Apple® CEO Steve Jobs and a team of Apple executives will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. At the keynote, Apple will unveil its next generation software - Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS® X; iOS 5, the next version of Apple’s advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad®, iPhone® and iPod touch®; and iCloud®, Apple’s upcoming cloud services offering.
June 6th is going to be a fun day.
I’ve recently started using Ecoute, the iTunes client by the guys from PixiApps, and i’m in love with it, using it I realize how large and cluttered iTunes is when it could just be a tiny window. But I do miss just how linked in iTunes is with Apples network - I can listen to podcasts in Ecoute (which is a huge step forward from the last update) but I can’t download new ones, if the guys at PixiApps added multiple libraries, podcast updates within the app and iPod syncing it would BLOW MY MIND.
I realize it would take a lot of backwards engineering and it’d be pretty much the same story as Audion I posted earlier this week - the developers constantly updating the app so it would work after Apple patched the exploit - but all that functionality packed in a small little window would be amazing. Apple need to stop shoehorning any shit they can into iTunes and break it up for the launch of Lion at least. I don’t even care if its all apps (iOS and OS X) in the Mac App Store, media in iTunes (with an interface like Ecoute) and Ping all on its lonesome - it just needs to change.
Well well, never knew clever guys at MacPaw were working on a new application, from the guys behind Clean My Mac it’s a new application called Ensoul - with a snazzy video to boot! Launching with the Mac App Store. Icon doesn’t give much away though, and neither does the video, just something very reliant on you having an iOS device. Oh and every 100th subscriber to the mailing list gets a free license, worth a try eh?
i’ve really got my fingers crossed the new macbook air is going to be cheap. my imac g5 is lovely, but that fact it gets itself into a tizzy if i try to play a youtube video is really rather off-putting. as i’ve already said in a previous post os x 10.7 is going to be my almost valid reason for an upgrade, and i think the new macbook air is going to be my best bet.
starting college next year i’m wanting something portable, and the macbook air is one up on that; it’s REALLY portable. it can run windows, for my moments of insanity when i want to run windows - though, ‘want’ isn’t the word, it’s usually ‘need’, for compatibility and such using microsoft office, though that will hopefully be solved with office for mac 2011, which i sadly can not run on my imac g5! also, i don’t need masses of memory, i’m not a heavy user, 80% of the time it’s just the internet, music, tweetie, windows live and sparrow! the other 20% is when on occasion i have a project and need to use iwork, ilife or photoshop or indesign. my only other request is a built in cd drive, i don’t think i could put up with carrying a superdrive with me, sadly it’s really quite unclear about weather the macbook air will be getting a cd drive or not. if you have a better insight into that please let me know and tell me more! as thats what is shrouding the idea of getting a macbook air with doubt for me!
so, i hope you can see why i’m hoping beyond hope it will be very, very cheap, it would be a mac which would fulfill all of my needs, portability, function, and hopefully price. i would buy a mac mini, but what alludes me is that if i would have to buy an apple display as well, and that would actually result in it being bloody expensive! that and its not exactly portable unless you have a display (and preferably a keyboard and mouse, i wouldn’t like to carry them around as well) where ever you’re going!
but yeah, i just wanted to have a short (i know, i’m funny aren’t i?) rant about that. $800 would be ideal! although i know that is NEVER going to happen, though i would happily pay $1000, if it’s any higher than that, i think apple have lost out on a large target market: people who need a cheap, and more importantly, portable, apple device. don’t anyone dare say the ipad is a cheap portable apple device, that doesn’t count! if it’s anything greater than $1000, i think i might just wait a little longer and get a low-end macbook. huwbert out.
