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Ryan Singer on iPhoto ’09:

Apple realized that people don’t just want to find photos. Go back to iPhoto’s domain: it’s that situation where you have a bunch of photos and you want to look at them and share them. When you’re in that situation, you don’t just want to see random photos. You want to see and share photos of certain things.

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Looks great.

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After four years, JSM is leaving Jeffrey Zeldman’s agency, Happy Cog.

Make no mistake, Happy Cog is the best company I’ve ever worked for. I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to work on a variety of great projects over the years, but it’s time for me to move on and try some new things.

I had the privilege of working with Jeffrey and Happy Cog on projects as well as with A List Apart, and those are some of the best experiences I’ve had in this biz.

Update: Here’s Jeffrey Zeldman’s take.

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Bizarre piece from Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider yesterday, claiming that Gizmodo “got the story right” about Steve Jobs’s health. The report with the headline that read “Steve Jobs’s Health Declining Rapidly”, and included this quote from their “trusted source”:

Steves [sic] health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor strategically vs letting the hype destroy apple [sic] when the inevitable news comes later this spring.

So Apple issues statements from Jobs and from the board of directors which indicates that the cause of his weight loss has been identified and is being treated and that he expects to be in better shape within a few months — and somehow this proves that Gizmodo was right about a report which stated that his health is “rapidly declining” leading to some dreadful “inevitable news later this spring”? What the fuck.

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A MacInTouch reader poked around in the app bundle and found Windows .exe’s. No wonder it looks so weird. Update: Doesn’t seem like the app is a WINE translation, as the MacInTouch reader speculates.

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Snell and Moren’s live coverage had a good mix of play-by-play and commentary.

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Another good overview of new features, with a separate page describing iWork.com. You know it’s a Web 2.0 because it’s clearly labeled “Beta” right in the logo.

I wonder how iWork.com displays fonts that aren’t present on the client side?

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Includes extensive guided tours showing the new features in iPhoto and iMovie.

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I predicted iLife, iWork, and the 17-inch MacBook Pro, but, as usual, I predicted a slew of other fanciful things that didn’t pan out. (It occurs to me that if everything I predicted had been included, it would have been a six-hour keynote.)

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Kids just aren’t as cool as they used to be.

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My thanks to MacHeist for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. There’s something going on at the web site this week where you get a “mission”, solve puzzles, and then you get free software as a reward. You get the outliner Process (regularly $39) for free just for signing up.

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Apple Unveils iWork ‘09 Introduces iWork.com Public Beta for Online Document Sharing SAN FRANCISCO–January 6, 2009–Apple today introduced iWork ‘09, the latest version of Apple’s popular office productivity suite, which adds powerful new features without sacrificing Apple’s legendary ease of use. Keynote ‘09 introduces advanced object transitions, which automatically animate objects with a choice of effects and Magic Move, an innovative [...]

Apple Introduces iLife ‘09 Major Upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie & GarageBand SAN FRANCISCO–January 6, 2009–Apple today introduced iLife ‘09, which features major upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand, and includes iDVD and an updated version of iWeb. iPhoto ‘09 builds on the ability to automatically organize photos into Events by adding Faces and Places as breakthrough new ways to easily organize [...]

Apple Introduces 17-inch MacBook Pro With Revolutionary New Built-in Battery That Delivers Eight Hours of Use & 1,000 Recharges SAN FRANCISCO–January 6, 2009–Apple today unveiled the new 17-inch MacBook Pro featuring a durable and beautiful precision aluminum unibody enclosure, and a revolutionary new built-in battery that delivers up to eight hours of use and up to 1,000 recharges for more [...]

Changes Coming to the iTunes Store * All Songs DRM-Free * Users Can Download Songs Directly Onto iPhone 3G Over Their 3G Network for the Same Price * In April 2009, Songs on iTunes Will be Available at Three Price Points SAN FRANCISCO–January 6, 2009–Apple today announced several changes to the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com). Beginning today, all four major music labels–Universal Music [...]

NewerTech Announces NuCube Acrylic Enclosure For Mac Mini at Macworld Expo 2009 An elegant Cube-like vertical display solution for the mini January 6, 2009, San Francisco — Newer Technology, Inc. (NewerTech) www.newertech.com, the leading developer of PC, Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone performance upgrades and accessories, debuted the new NewerTech NuCube today at Macworld Expo, booth S-2322, in San Francisco. The [...]

Werck Unveils Checkout Server, Checkout 2.3 at Macworld 2009 Macworld, San Francisco, CA (January 6, 2009) Werck BV today released Checkout Server, a dedicated server application for Checkout, their Point of Sale software for Mac OS X, at the Macworld Conference and Expo. Additionally, Werck released Checkout 2.3, an update which includes German, French and Dutch localizations and a new [...]

As of two minutes ago, it appears you can now buy music from iTunes from your iPhone over EDGE and 3G, not just Wi-Fi.

Even better: all the music in the store appears to be DRM-free now. I’m guessing Phil Schiller will announce it later on in the keynote. Maybe this is the “one more thing”?

Update: It’s official.

Update 2: During the keynote, Schiller specifically said music was now downloadable over “3G networks”, but I was right — it works over EDGE too.

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Doesn’t seem like Twitter is holding up well, but I’m jotting notes from the keynote there.

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Kensington Announces New SlimBlade TrackBall - Now “The Ball Does It All” To Turn Savvy Digital Lifestyle Users Into “Smooth Operators” smart made simple Breakthrough Design Provides One-Touch User Interface for Navigation, Media Controls and Document, Photos Browsing Redwood Shores, Calif. - January 6, 2009 - Kensington Computer Products Group, a worldwide leader in delivering smart made simple computing accessories [...]