2006 Keynote Speech

If you didn't see the Apple Keynote from the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on 8/7/2006, you can see it in QuickTime here.

I'm hoping the Top Secret features hinted at are really great, because overall the revealed features were only moderately exciting. Spaces already exists as VirtueDesktops, so hopefully Spaces will be just as good or better (to use). Time Machine is huge, I want that now. I cringed when the Time Machine demo didn't go as smoothly as it could've. The speaker handled it pretty well while he frantically clicked some options. I can sense the Time Machine developers during that. "Doh! I told them it wasn't ready for a demo!"

The ability to make a Dashboard widget out of any part of a web page (WebClip) is really nice. Integration of TODOs in Mail is important to me, since I already do that with regular emails. This is essentially what VooDooPad already does, but it's nice that they're integrating it everywheree.

I wish they'd demo'd what they're changing in iCalendar. That application often leaves me wanting, particularly with setting default reminders (especially when syncing with a PDA). There's still too much I have to manually configure that can be automated.

All the Windows bashing was amusing; I'm a little surprised they do that but I'm pretty new to the whole Apple scene.