Apple Technology Briefing

So today I attended to an Apple technology briefing @ FSU where they presented some of the tools that come with Tiger (Mac's latest OS Version OSX 10.4). While it was interesting some of the features that it has particularly Automator (which I never got to try while I had a Mac) which basically is a way to use pipes outside the shell, it can give users a lot of functionality and you can write your own scripts and feed them as part of the pipeline. In general I do like Mac since they got OSX, they have done a great job on creating an OS that is very good, stable, secure, and still very easy to use by any non-computer geek, but leaving the power user with a lot of tools in his hands. In general the presentation they made was interesting. I don't consider myself a developer and I don't think I'll be one, but the tools they showed from XCode look very usefull to easily create graphical applications on Mac. It was just the end that kinda turned the beauty away, when they started talking as sales people... "...and the new MacBook Pro is 4 times faster..." as any other corporation will try to use every second they have to sales hype.

Anyways, apart from the hype at the end, something that really can be useful is that they mentioned that FSU have been selected in the South East side to be part of iTunes U, they are still talking about it, and probably by next Fall content from FSU will be available to download from the iTunes U servers, that means lectures will be available for download, the same way there are currently from Standford.