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New iPhone Podcast
Scott Johnson of The Instance and Extra Life Radio, has a new podcast. Check out The AppSlappy Podcast.
One Billionth iPhone App downloaded by 13 year old
Bet this kid is pretty happy.
Skype for iPhone
March 30th, 2009… That’s the day when Skype is going to hit the iTunes App store, and you’ll be able to use it on your iPhone.
The app will work only over Wi-Fi, but will be available for free.
There isn’t video available, so you won’t be doing any video chats on the phone, but you will be able to talk for free to other Skype users, and make reduced cost calls to regular telephones.
Skype is planning on a version for the Blackberry, which will be released in May.
Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 announcement
Here’s Engadget’s coverage of the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement.
Bottom line: Cut and paste, subscriptions/purchases within paid apps, push, and more. Update free for iPhone folks, and $9.95 for iTouch users.
Steve Jobs Takes A Leave of Absence
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, is taking a medical leave of absence.
MacWorld 2009 Apple 2009 Keynote Video
Apple has posted the MacWorld 2009 Keynote
MacWorld 2009 Announcements – iLife 09 – GarageBand 09
GarageBand will add video instructions of how to play instruments, (piano and guitar demoed). Nine lessons included. Artist lessons will be available, including John Fogerty, Cobie, Sting, Sarah McLachlan, and more. The lessons are $4.99 per lesson.
MacWorld 2009 Announcements – iLife 09 – iPhoto Faces and Places
iLife 09 is adding Faces and Places to iPhoto. Face Recognition technology to let you tag someone’s face and then find that person in all your pictures. Places will use GeoTagging in the photographs to show where pictures were taken. Support for tagging faces and geotagging on Flickr and Facebook too, including sharing of tagged names for your iPhoto.
MacWorld Guesses
MacWorld keynote today, and here are a few guesses at what they’ll announce:
- New podcasting software
- Mac mini update – bigger processor, a lot more disk space
- iMac updates – four core machines
- iWork.com – cloud computing
- Updates to Mobile Me – stability
- Mac Pro update – more memory
- Snow Leopard