Apple announcements at WWDC 2004

This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on June 28, 2004). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Somehow in all of the weekend’s festivities, I’d managed to completely space that this week was the 2004 WWDC (and I call myself a Mac geek?), so coming home to start finding reports of new toys from Apple was a very pleasant surprise.

First off: their line of monitors has been updated, in a big way. And I do mean big — as in a 30\” widescreen LCD monitor. I so want one of those…and I so can’t afford it.

Secondly: a preview of Mac OS X 10.4, AKA Tiger. Wow — lots of yummylicious geek-flavored goodies in there. Most interesting to me are the metadata-centric search capabilities and Safari’s built-in RSS aggregator (which looks quite impressive). I’d be more excited about iChat’s conferencing capabilities, but I’ve got so few people on my iChat list with iSights that I have no clue if I’d ever have a chance to use it.

Really looking forward to getting my hands on some new toys to play with once they’re released!

iTunes: “Hawkmoon 269” by U2 from the album Rattle and Hum (1988, 6:22).