7:30pm – 10pm
Well that was fast. Snow Leopard owners can run Software Update now to get the first update to the new OS:
Looks like it’s a handful of fixes including an updated version of Adobe’s Flash plug-in and a possibly significant fix to sending messages in Mail.
First, Steve Jobs is back! He’s up-front directing the show and, as has been the case previously, letting others handle the detailed demos and some of the presentations.
NOTE: Some of the links for additional information may not yet reflect these updates.
SPOILER: Sorry, no Beatles in the iTunes Store just yet!
Dave Marra, senior systems engineer at Apple, will be presenting at our September meeting. Dave’s presentations are full of useful information for Mac users of all skill levels. Since he is usually coming from a distance we like to provide him with as large an audience as possible. If you can only attend one ACAMUG event this year, make it this one!
More about Dave:
Dave Marra has conducted over 500 technology presentations, keynote addresses and workshops for businesses, schools, computer user groups and other professional organizations across the United States and Canada. His specialty areas include digital multimedia, internet technologies and cross-platform integration. In addition to his presentations and workshops, Dave has served as a technology consultant to numerous schools, businesses and technology advisory boards. For more information about Dave, please visit his web site at www.marrathon.com.
Presentation topics may change so be sure to verify on the day of the meeting. Got questions you’d like to have answered? Feel free to post them as comments before the meeting so the presenters have a chance to prepare.
Well it a bit past their “this Summer” timeframe but AT&T has officially announced that iPhone users in the U.S. will finally get access to MMS starting September 25th. From their announcement:
We know that iPhone users will embrace MMS. The unique capabilities and high usage of the iPhone’s multimedia capabilities required us to work on our network MMS architecture to carry the expected record volumes of MMS traffic and ensure an excellent experience from Day One. We appreciate your patience as we work toward that end.
No word yet on tethering, another feature promised when Apple released iPhone OS version 3.0.
[UPDATE]
Well according to theAppleBlog someone at AT&T (Brad Mays) is talking about tethering and what they’re saying isn’t good news:
As for tethering, by its nature, this function could exponentially increase traffic on the network, and we need to ensure that some of our current upgrades are in place before we can deliver the expanded functionality with the excellent performance that customers expect. We expect to offer tethering in the future.
So in “the future” cars will fly, robots will cook dinner and iPhone users will finally get tethering?
There are some people claiming that even at $29 for a full new version of an OS, Snow Leopard isn’t worth the money. These people are, to put it charitably, uninformed.
If you want to get an idea why, go check out this meg-review of Snow Leopard by the uber-geeks at Ars Technica:
This is the most complete review I’ve seen yet. Parts of it are technical. Very technical. But even the technical bits give you a flavor of how much work went into Snow Leopard and how focused Apple was on improving the overall user experience by reducing the time we have to wait for stuff to get done.