iPhone 3.1 Beta 1 brought us non-destructive video editing on the 3GS and voice control via bluetooth.  What 3.1 Beta 2 has to offer is a mystery at this point, but as we look for changes and notice any we will be sure to let you know.  If you are a developer for iPhone you can get it in your Dev downloads page. 

  If you have paid your $99 and have access to the development kit for iPhone, then you can now get the most recent update.  The iPhone SDK 3.0-Beta 4 and iTunes 8.2 Pre-Release are now available.  While we do not have a lot of details regarding the updates, we do know that in order to activate the iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 firmware you must already have iTunes 8.2 installed.  We will be sure to update you of any significant changes should they come our way.

[UPDATE]  According to a post on MacRumors

 "One forum poster points out that the latest iTunes 8.2 beta carries references to Blu-Ray data from Gracenote, suggesting that iTunes could support the reading/recognizing of Blu-Ray discs. This note is not present in the current version of iTunes"

[Apple Dev]

  There has been an enormity of speculation regarding the next Apple products as usual, and although the picture above is just a concept, there is some recent news about many different Apple products coming to us in the near future that every Apple fan should know.

Snow Leopard has been a long time coming, or so it seems.  While the next iteration of OSX is just around the corner and in the same release cycle of OSX releases, the time we have sepnt thinking about it feels extended as to the Leopard release.  Recent news says it should be out by September due to the work remaining for Quicktime, Open CL and other essentials to the operating system.

The next Xserve will be available in June and will be updating the line of Mac Pro with Xeon processors.

The next iPhone will be fairly soon for this summer and have some sort of video integration.  We should see some hardware updates as well and could even see a dual-core processor.  Although doubtful, we could see the addition of a QWERTY keyboard similar to the Palm Pre, which would make many very happy.  There will be tethering as seen in iPhone 3.0 beta, but for an unknown cost at this time.  

There is much to look forward to and as always we will be here to help keep you informed of the latest and greatest Apple hardware and software.

[Hard Mac]

  Windos 7 Beta ill be available for download on January 9th per Microsoft.  For those who were not fond of Vista, Window 7 is much better in my personal experience.  The Beta is very stable and much faster than Vista and in some reports, XP.  This is definitely worth checking out, and why not, it’s free.

[Download]

  Apple has announced an online application called iWork.com.  It will be announced in a beta soon, but they showed it off at MacWorld today for the first time.  

“iWork.com is a service for you to share with other people. You can notify other people that you’ve shared documents, and collaborate on them. They can review and edit documents online.”

“iWork.com is a service for you to share with other people. You can notify other people that you’ve shared documents, and collaborate on them. They can review and edit documents online.”

You can download a copy and your collaborators can download a copy, and each person can add notes and comments which are seen by everybody.

There can be multiple people viewing the document, all leaving notes to each other on the right hand side about the whole document. You can then download the doc directly from the website. What you can’t do is edit documents online–it looks like you have to download it and edit it offline.

To see other people’s comments that they’ve created online, you can click “show shared documents” in Pages, and view the documents you’ve uploaded. A blue dot shows a new note that you need to read.

By going back to the shared pages list, you can see the Keynote/Pages/Numbers docs you’ve shared, including all the notes people gave.

Customers can sign up free for the beta, but it will be a fee-based service once iWork.com launches.  Another use besides sharing documents with others is sharing documents with yourself, seeing your docs anywhere. It ships today.