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Hard Cider: A Tale of OS X, Photoshop 6.0 And Why A Publishing Conference Seemed More Like An Auto Show - Told In Beautiful Color
At Steve Jobs Keynote
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What does a reported do while he is waiting in line to get into the Keynote...? Why observe the San Francisco scenery. In this case essential services (a Portasan) being installed atop a building under construction.

Using his "Reality Distortion Field", Steve tries to convince the audience that 2 + 2 = 1

 

It depends on what your definition of "Summer" is - Jobs explains when OS X public beta will be rolled out

 

Adobe shows off Photoshop 6.0 which is optimized to use both the Velocity Engine of the G4 and dual processors

Photoshop 6.0 uses vector based graphics and text, and you can go back and forth between Photoshop files and PDF files preserving layers ... up to 8,000 of them

Leaving Jobs Keynote - notice the "Think Different" banner in the background featuring Robert Kennedy. All the Apple "Think Different" banners featured political figures such as Martin Luther King and Eleanor Roosevelt

On the Show Floor

All the little Cubes in a row.

 

Newer was the only upgrade company exhibiting at Seybold. Though tucked away in the corner they drew a steady stream of visitors. On offer were their new G3 upgrades for G3 PowerBooks which require you to send in your present card that they will refit with a faster CPU.

OS X Beta on a 22" Cinema display. Center left is OS X's built-in MP3 player

OS X again - this time with the new Finder visible

Demo-ing OS X on the show floor. Notice the "Dock" and the new QuickTime player

Demo of Photoshop 6.0 which offers much more flexibility than previous version

One more picture of the demo

At times the Expo seemed more like a Car show than a Publishing conference

What is this small electric one seater car doing on the show flow? Good question! Just one of the many vehicles being given away by various booths in an effort to draw people in

This Harley and a new VW Bug rounded out the other vehicles being given away at Seybold this year

 

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