MacObsession

When Apple did their final Macworld Keynote earlier this month, they promised that the new iLife ’09 would be out by the end of this month.
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One of the most underappreciated features of Mac OS X is the scripting language, AppleScript. This month’s MacObsession Book Pick is Apple Training Series: AppleScript 1-2-3 by Sal Soghoian and Bill Cheeseman.
Bill Cheeseman.
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Here’s another Apple TV ad in the Mac versus PC series. The series John Hodgman (PC, as a boxer) and Justin Long (Mac). Enjoy.

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The third thing announced at the Macworld 09 keynote today is the new 17 inch MacBook Pro. All the other Apple notebooks have been refreshed in 2008, so this one is overdue.
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Apple has announced a refreshed version of their productivity app, iWork ’09. New features for Keynote (presentation software):
- magic move (automatic transitions)
- chart animations
- new themes
- new Keynote remote app for your iPhone or iPod touch, available for 99 cents in the App Store
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iLife ’09 will be available in late January. It will be free with new Macs (as always) and will cost you $79 if you want to buy it. Apple’s new iLife ’09 suite includes improved iMovie and Garageband. New in iMovie ’09:
- expanded timeline view
- video stabilization (removes jitters)
- animated travel maps (geo capabilities)
- dynamic themes (comic book, scrap book, filmstrip)
- advanced drag and drop
- precision editor
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I’m watching the Macworld ’09 Apple keynote now. They just announced a new version of iPhoto. iPhoto ’09 has been updated with more features :
- facial tagging and detection / recognition
- geotagging (manually or automatically, if your camera/phone supports it)
- Flickr and Facebook integration
- sync slideshows with iPhone and iPod touch

One of the more popular applications for organizing photos on the PC is Picasa by Google. Now at version 3.0, the Windows-only software is free and integrates well into the Google ecosystem. Now Mac users can play Picasa, too, with the release of Picasa for Mac.
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Happy New Year!

On a day when lots of Microsoft Zune media players (thousands? millions?) suddenly stopped working, let’s do a quick round-up of the latest Mac-related news and rumours.
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