Tag: KEYNOTE

Tonight was the big CES 2011 keynote by Microsoft head honcho Steve Ballmer, and Windows on ARM took center stage. Those of you hoping to see some in-depth ARM action -- well, you'll have to wait until Microsoft and its partners have had a bit more time to flesh things out. If the interface looks familiar to you, that's because at this point we're looking at a new version of Windows beneath ...

If you're a blogger, a designer, or just someone who uses a lot of images from Flickr, you might want to check out ViewFinder. ViewFinder is a Mac app that offers speedy searches of Flickr, using tags, titles and descriptions. It even lets you limit your search to Creative Commons-licensed images, and automatically generates attributions for you, so you can properly credit the work you download. ...

They've just showed off hardware-accelerated HTML5 at the MIX10 keynote, and it's damn impressive. Main points: Full-screen, HD-encoded video on netbooks -- the keynote highlighted the dropped frames in Chrome, while IE9 rendered it fine -- made possible by the hardware decoder on the netbook. Multiple HTML5 videos on one page? -- then they scroll the page down... and there are two HTML5 ...

PowerPoint slideshows can be a good way to get ideas across -- when used correctly. Sometimes, they can be boring and confusing, even doing more harm than good. Here are a few tools and techniques you can use to create engaging and effective presentations. 1. Use the Lessig Method All too often, PowerPoint presentations become bogged down in graphs, long quotes and giant chunks of text. My ...

It's been almost 17 months to the day since Apple last made significant (paid) updates to their flagship iWork productivity suite, but the company has announced that iWork 09 is now available. All three iWork applications have seen updates, and Apple has also announced an iWork.com Public Beta allowing users to view and comment on iWork documents. Among the changes to the desktop applications, ...

So some guy named Steve Jobs got up on stage at something called the WWDC yesterday and talked about some products from a company called...orange or banana? Or was it carrot. Oh, Apple, that's right. It was long. And sometimes boring. So thanks to Mahalo Daily, here it is in Sixty Seconds. Did we get our iPhone with iRobot and iHateMakingMyOwnCoffee? We do get Exchange integration and now we're ...

The first thing you'll probably notice about the new web-based presentation creator, 280Slides, is that it looks an awful lot like Apple's Keynote. As great as Keynote is, 280Slides has a few advantages: it's free and it's web-based. It's got all the features you would expect from good presentation software: you can present in full-screen mode straight from the web, download your slides, or ...

So you can't find time in your day to watch the 90 minute Steve Jobs Keynote that took place yesterday, even though you live and breathe Apple? Is your computer in the manager's line of sight, so you can't even watch it at work? Mahalo Daily has got you covered: they've managed to shoehorn the Steve Jobs Keynote into 60 seconds. No, this isn't some fancy new video compression; let's just call it ...

If you have a Mac with a remote (and almost all of them ship with one these days), you might have been slightly dismayed to realize that other than controlling media playback there's not a lot you can do with it. As usual, someone has solved this problem. iRed Lite is a little utility that you can run on your Mac that will listen to commands from your remote and control other programs, like ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/First_Look_at_iWork_08'; Hot on the heels of today's new iLife suite, iWork '08 comes to the table too. Whilst new Keynote, and Pages, features are expected, the most hotly tipped question was "Would Apple bring out an Excel rival"? Behold Numbers and so much more. ...

If you a) are an Apple fan (or are just Mac-curious) and b) enjoy refreshing your browser, you should do what I'm doing and head over to our sister blog TUAW, where they're liveblogging Steve Jobs' keynote right now. Speculation as to whether any Earth-shattering plans will be revealed today is rampant as ever--iPhone? iTV? iBex? Tune in to find out. If your reloading finger gets tired and you're ...

In case you've been living under a rock, today kicks off Apple's 2006 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. Steve Jobs will be delivering his keynote at 1pm EST, and if up-to-the-minute "Stevenote" coverage is your kind of thing, both TUAW and Engadget will be liveblogging it. To quote Scott over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, "Well, we know for sure that a preview of Leopard ...