Live coverage of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' WWDC 2006 keynote address in reverse chronological order:

• Keynote ends.
• No "One MoreThing..." Jobs thanks devs for coming, over 1,000 Apple engineers on-site to help.
• Devs get Leopard preview copy with all technologies and features shown today
• Leopard to ship in Spring 2007
• Recap of Leopard features (those thatApple will show today, that is)
• iCal to add multi-user, Enhanced parental controls.
• Showing off Photo Booth effects - live in iChat
• The ubiquitous iChat video conference with Phil Schiller...
• tabs, multiple logins, animated icons, video recording, invisibility...
• Onto iChat in Leopard...
• Web Clip is very nice and easy.
• Demo turning comic strip - Dilbert - into Widget - quick and easy.
• With Leopard, users can turn any part of any web page into a widget with "Web Clip."
• Dashcode ships with library (ex: search field) - just drop into your widget.
• Dashcode for devs of Dashboard Widgets: design, develop and debug widgets.
• Dashboard in Leopard... 2500 widgets currently available...
• Jobs demos Mail features
• Mail can take any incoming mail message and turn it into a "To-Do" via simple checkbox.
• New special mailbox in Mail called "Notes" - no more emailing yourself notes.
• Apple Mail updated: stationery (HTML themed), notes and to-dos; industry standard html email
• Leopard VoiceOver: sounds like actual human voice reading- lifelike (Audience cheers)
• Closed Captioning for QuickTime. Braille support. More.
• Apple is focused on Universal Access in Leopard; better ways to navigate OS
• Just create keyframes: Core Animation will do the rest. Jobs demos.
• Leopard Core Animation: lets devs "dramatically increase" the production value of apps
• Spotlight includes Application Launcher - start typing few letters of app to launch.
• Spotlight in Leopard will be able to search other machines on same network with permission.
• Jobs demos multiple desktops for different jobs - can transfer info / drag and drop between virtual desktops.
• Virtual Desktops "Spaces" is what you'd think it'd be: different desktop spaces for different groups of apps.
• Virtual Desktops! (finally!!!)
• Leopard will include Front Row.
• Boot Camp: 1/2 million downloads, will ship as part of Leopard. Final version will be better
• Leopard not shipping yet, still work in progress: Looks like we may have a crash. Relaunches.
• Jobs does demo with iPhoto - loses photos, uses TM to recover. Nice.
• You have to see it to adequately understand (See it in action here.)
• Great for Finder - works with 3rd party apps as well
• Finder windows visually (very cool) move through timeline on right side.
• "Time Machine" backs up to a server or another hard disk.
• Whole new way of backing up files.
• Only 26% of people actually do backup. Reason for "Time Machine."
• "Time Machine" automatically backs up your entire Mac.
• Runs 32-bit apps side-by-side with 64-bit - no emulation, no translation
• Leopard: support for 64 bit applications
• Don't want Redmond's photocopiers started too early. (laughter)
• Jobs: You know, our friends up north spent over $5 billion on R&D, but these days all they seem to be copying is Google and Apple. Shows money doesn't buy everything.
• Jobs back: giving preview of Leopard today - can't show everyting; keeping some features top secret.
• If you can't innovate, impersonate -with slide of Elvis impersonator
• Bertrand Serlet (Apple Senior VP Software Engineering) takes stage, talks about Vista's similaries to Mac OS X.
• Compares screenshots of Mac OS X Tiger vs. Windows Vista
• Jobs mentions "Redmond - start your photocopiers" - says Redmond took it to heart
• 19 million Mac OS X users now.
• Jobs thanks devs.
• Jobs: now over 3000 Universal Binary apps
• Schiller exits stage, Jobs returns.
• Redundant power supply.
• Quad, Xeons: 2.00, 2.66 or 3.00GHz.
• Totally BTO - Up to 4,976,640 configs possible - up to 5TB of storage
• 1U footprint with Intel Xeon.
• No other company could have pulled this off in just 210 days.
• Transition fro PowerPC to Intel took just 210 days becuase herecomes Intel Xserve...
• Ships today. Crowd give loud applause, whoops of delight.
• Build-To-Order (BTO): Up to a million configurations possible
• ATI Graphics graphics x1900 or Nvidia FX4500
• One standard config: 2.6 Ghz dual, 256 MB ram, Superdrive, $2499
• Up to 3 TB of storage
• 128-bit vector engine replaces AltiVec (Velocity Engine)
• Pro Mac entire line now Quad machines
• Twice the bus speed of the G5
• 1.6 to 2.1 times faster than the old top of line Power Mac G5 Quad
• Features "Woodcrest" processors - Core 2 Duo - up to 3 Ghz - all models dual processor.
• Mac Pro - same case - two optical drives...
• PowerMac - says it's goodbyes. Schiller takes stage.
• 157 stores in the chain with 17 million visitors last quarter.
• Retail recap: 50 percent of new Apple retail store Mac purchases are to people who are new to the Mac.
• WWDC features 100 hands-on labs.
• 1:4 ratio of Apple engineers on site to help.
• Jobs takes stage to applause. This is largest WWDC ever, with 4,200 registered devs from 48 countries. 750,000 registered Mac OS X devs total worldwide.
• Hodgman cracks on Vista's copying. Gadgets are Widgets, etc.
• Lights go down. John Hodgman now on large screen.
• Funny Apple banner seen today: Mac OS X Leopard. Redmond has a cat, too. A copycat.
• Please shut off electronic devices. Yeah, riiight. (9:50am)
• 15 minutes to go...
• Music playing now in hall. People filing in... (9:45am PDT)
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• Oh, one more thing… Apple store currently offline (click for full story in new window)
• Keynote is scheduled to begin at 10am PDT, 1pm EDT.