Press Release
November 9, 2004
The Many Dimensions of Mac OS X Explored at the 2004 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
Sebastopol, CA--Mac developers, system administrators, digital musicians,
and users were treated to a thorough exploration of Mac OS X's past,
present, and future at the third O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, which took
place in Santa Clara, CA from October 25-28. Over 500 attendees filled
sessions examining the many aspects and applications of Mac OS X: a Tiger
preview, digital forensics, Podcasting, AppleScript, GarageBand, Mac hacks
for the home, Mac OS X in a Unix environment, creating digital music, and
much more.
In addition to tracks devoted to the needs of programmers and sys admins,
two new tracks debuted at this year's conference. The Insanely Great Mac
track focused on cool and useful applications in mobile computing, home
automation, creative networking, and digital media. The Digital Audio
track, for musicians and tech gurus, explored fine tuning Macs for peak
performance, designing workflows to manage huge amounts of content, how to
work with professional applications, and how to get new music in front of
audiences. "We added a digital audio track to this conference because we
believe there are opportunities for developers in this arena," noted
conference program chair Derrick Story. "At the moment, the iPod and ITMS
are grabbing the headlines. But a more complete understanding of the audio
process--from how it's created, managed, distributed, and consumed--can
lead to further innovation in this area."
Just a few of the notable conference participants included Stewart
Copeland, the former drummer for the Police who now creates award-winning
film and television scores using Mac OS X technology; New York Times
columnist David Pogue; Andy Hertzfeld of Folklore.org; Chris Bourdon and
Wiley Hodges, Apple's Tiger experts; Karelia Sofware's Dan Wood; audio for
gaming guru Clint Bajakian; Brent Simmons of Ranchero Software; Michael
Bartosh of 4AM Media; and authors Niel Bornstein, Gordon Meyer, and Ted
Landau.
Other conference highlights include:
Winners of the second Mac OS X Innovators Contest were introduced. First
Place in the U.S. category went to "Delicious Library" from Delicious
Monster Software, which lets users create a home or office lending library
of books, movies, music, and video games. In the International category,
First Place went to "FotoMagico" from Boinx Software, which allows users
to create live presentations and complex slideshows with pictures from an
iPhoto Library
Andy Ihnatko took attendees on a riotous virtual tour of his treasure
vault (a.k.a. unit 227 at Uncle Bob's Self-Stor) of the gizmos and jetsam
he's saved and created throughout the years
Sean Fitzroy and Vikki Merriman detailed their experience of using Mac
OS X to create the film which won the 2003 Boston 48 Hour Film Project
Apple Developer Connection once again stocked its Airport Extreme Lounge
with the latest Apple hardware for conference attendees to test drive, and
hosted an evening reception to bring conference participants together
informally
"If you ask folks who attended the Mac OS X Conference about what they
liked, I'm sure many of them will say that it was as much about connecting
with others in the Mac community as it was the technology itself,"
concluded Story. "I had countless interactions with speakers and attendees
that reminded me how much I truly like these people."
Additional Resources:
Complete conference details
Press coverage, blogs, photos, and news from the conference
Details on the results of the Mac OS X Innovators Contest
For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at O'Reilly
conferences, contact Andrew Calvo at (707) 827-7176, or
andrewc@oreilly.com.
For more information on Mac-related issues, visit the O'Reilly Mac
DevCenter.
About O'Reilly
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