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Slideshow: WWDC keynote highlights

The big news from Apple's WWDC keynote address is out. Faster MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs at lower prices, an announced September release for Snow Leopard, iPhone 3.0 worldwide release on June 17, and an all-new iPhone called the 3G S.

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Build a Better Leopard 1 of 17

Apple is selling Snow Leopard as an incremental improvement on Leopard, with small nice touches plus improved speed and better use of resources.

Snow Leopard Threads

Snow Leopard: lots of refinements, powerful new technologies, and Exchange support.

Fastest notebook ever made

The 13-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch MacBooks are the greenest, fastest and less expensive macbooks yet.

TomTom third party app

Using the best route at the best time of day and it voice cues Tom Tom helps to deliver real navigation as a true iPhone experience.

Applications available

There are over 50,000 apps available on the iTunes store.

Built in Digital Compass

Digital Compass gives you Longitude and Latitude, and you can jump into maps. If you tap a second time on your phone it'll even flip the map to orient the way you're facing.

Lost Phone?

If phone really is lost or stolen, you can send it a remote wipe command to delete all of your data. Erase contacts, mail, and everything. And if you find it again, you can plug it in and it will restore from backup.

Find My iPhone

Find My iPhone is a service available only to MobileMe customers. If you lose or misplace your phone you can log in to MobileMe and it will show you where you left your phone. You can send a message to your phone from the home, and it plays an alert (whether or not you left it in silent mode). And the sound alert means that you lost it at your house, the sound still plays so you can walk around to find it.

Cut,Copy,Paste

Cut, Copy, and Paste works across all apps and developer API's.

Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard is a better Leopard. So it's priced at $29—for Leopard users. Family pack at $49. Available in September.

OpenCL

OpenCL is based on C, hardware abstracted, automatic optimization, and numerical accuracy, so you can use it for scientific computation.

iPhone 3.0

iPhone 3GS will be just $199 for 16GB version. $299 for 32GB iPhone. AT&T prices in the U.S. for new and qualified customers. And both come in black and white.

Camera App

New feature of iPhone 3.0 allows you to create a still or movie, flick to what you want to take, and it takes 30fps VGA with audio, and it's auto focus, auto white balance, auto exposure.

Push Notification

New software allows developers to push things like scoring alerts, as well as instant messages. There are three types of notfications: text alerts, badges, and custom alert sounds.

Third Party Devices

Developers will now be able to create medical software that allows healthcare providers to monitor patient information on their devices

Third party demo

Limo 6 and Planet Waves let you control your guitar and your amp at your next gig. Using accessory framework you can connect iPhone to connect amp and guitar.

Support for more languages

Multilingual customers running in English can switch to a different languages on their keyboard. iPhone 3.0 will now support more than 30 languages. Every one of the languages has both portrait and landscape keyboards.