MacBreak Weekly 52

• Apple announces new and updated iMacs ,Mac minis , and Airport Extremes , as well as major changes to .Mac such as larger iDisks, .Mac web galleries and iPhone integration.
• Merlin likes Backup.app a lot more now due to the larger iDisks
• Merlin was given an iPhone
• Everyone wants Flickr uploads... here's a solution: Enable Flickr for e-mail uploads, they will give you an e-mail to use to upload. Add a flickr contact with that email. In the photos app on the iPhone, chose a photo and press "Email Photo" and chose your flickr contact. Add a title in your subject line and description in the body of the e-mail and off you go!
• The new keyboard has a mixed reaction within the group
• Everyone loves the new design of the new iMac
• Skimming, or real-time scrubbing, is a new feature in the all new iMovie and the updated iPhoto
• iPhoto has gotten an extreme upgrade and iMovie has been rewritten from the ground up
• The iPhoto photo editing tools have been upgraded and are a lot better.
• iWeb has been updated for custom domains and Web 2.0 widgets and HTML snippets
• Steve just skimmed over the updates for iDVD and GarageBand

Our crappiest mac apps... out of the box

• Andy: NetInfo Manager
• Leo: Chess
• Scott: DigitalColor Meter
• Leo: TextEdit
• Alex: Stickies
• Merlin: iCal

iWork '08 discussion

• Numbers is the new spreadsheet app in iWork '08. The equations are in Plain English
• Keynote ships with a special tiger version of Leopard's Core Animation for the special builds, transitions and point to point animations.
• Pages has a "just a word processor version" and the tradtional template version

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