[thelist] Apple WWDC - Dashcode & Time Machine

Jose Hurtado jlhurtado at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 13:45:37 CDT 2006


Folks,

A few minutes ago Steve Jobs and company finished their Keynote presentation
of Apple's World Wide Developer Conference... no big surprises in the
hardware front, except for a quad-Xeon powered Mac Pro at $2500 (cheaper
than Dell!) BUT big innovative things coming to developers, two stood out:

Dashcode
- An editor for creating widgets, those Javascript apps that load data live
from the web, and make live easier... the new thing is that it allows
regular users or develpers to quickly build "screen scraper" widgets, like
capturing news, video feeds, podcasts, images whatever, without coding.
Coding opens up even more power.

Time Machine
- This is probably the most useful technology I've ever seen applied to
backup, the ability to go back "in time" on any document, and either do a
full restore or a selective restore of any document, anywhere in the Mac.

There are many more exciting announcements related to Mac OS X Leopard,
which would come next Spring, but overall, a great upgrade is coming, Apple
is showing you just can not copy cat real innovation.

For all of us who use two or even three OSes, it is refreshing to see the
Mac getting more and more exciting.

An excellent report on the whole keynote is here:

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/live-from-wwdc-2006-steve-jobs-keynote/

I followed the report on that page on this excellent live coverage of the
conference... no I'm not there, but thanks to these folks at MacOSRumors and
Engadget it was the closest best thing:
http://www.macrumorslive.com/web/

Best Regards,

Jose L. Hurtado
Web Designer / IT Security Professional
Toronto, Canada



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