I had two missions for the afternoon. Ride the cable car and eat at In-N-Out burger. The closest In-N-Out Burger is down at Fisherman's Wharf so it made sense to take the cable car so I could kill 2 birds with one stone.

I got my Muni pass ($11) for the day so I could take the cable car there and back without having to look for a ticket place on the way back to the hotel. I got on at the Powell Street and had to wait in line for about 30 minutes since there was a rather long one.

I got on the cable car and it quickly got cramped. I discovered something though. At the end of the line it doesn't fill up with people because I guess the tourists are trying to not crowd the cable car so early. So I had a plan on the way back to not get on at the end of the line.

The other thing I did this afternoon was played around with Tweetie. Chris, one of my former colleagues I met at the show, got me to try Tweetie. It really is a superior Twitter client. It has this functionality, where you can actually tag in your Tweets where you currently are located based on the iPhone's Core Location functionality. Since I don't have the iPhone 3G it wasn't extremely accurate, but it was really close.

I got down to Fisherman's Wharf and indulged in In-N-Out Burger. It was really yummy. I was in a burger coma after that and decided to do a little walking down to Pier 39.

It was a beautiful day. Last year it was very overcast in the bay, but today it was clear.

I was pretty bored otherwise so I decided to do the touristy thing and go take one of those Bay Adventure Cruises. A tour that took you out into the bay, under the Golden Gate Bridge and then around Alcatraz. It was pretty fun. Below are some photos. I took them with the iPhone so don't be surprised that the composure is really bad. You can't zoom on the first or second gen iPhone!

After the cruise, I did a little shopping and then walked to the cable car. I walked past the end of the line to the first stop and sure enough I had no problems getting on the car. The cable car operator was pretty funny. His commentary was a little off color, but not that bad. Instead of saying "Coming up on Bush Street." He said, "Coming up on the street of the President who I am glad is out of office". One of the passengers also said "There's Lombard Street" and the operator said "Did you just say Rush Limbaugh? No. OK. That's good. Because names like that don't belong on this car." Pretty funny.

So I am back at the hotel. Unwinding before the trip home. I'll probably stay close to the hotel tonight and do some packing. The flight home tomorrow starts early afternoon. Hopefully SFO won't be too delayed.

Here are the photos from the cruise:

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I went to two sessions today. One on AppleScript, the other on Text Processing. I was going to stick around for a security session in the afternoon, but wasn't looking forward to another one of the conference center lunches.

It was a great show. I am glad I got the opportunity to go. I learned a lot of stuff. It lit a fire under me to really spend more time learning Mac and iPhone programming. I got to meet up with past and present co-workers. I met some new folks.

The sessions today were not as good as Wednesday, but I got a lot out of the Memory Management and View Controller stuff.

Tonight is the Conference Bash for the attendees. The Red Hot Chili Peppers Cake is playing. Free beer and wine. I am heading down there in a couple of minutes.

I am still loving being right here in the city. Feels good to just walk especially since it is not hot.

UPDATE 9:15p: I made it back from the Bash. It was Cake, not the Red Hot Chilli Peppers who played the show. The show wasn't bad. I remember about 3 of their songs. It got over about 8:50p.

Food wise there was Pizza, Cheese Dogs, Ice Cream, Sushi, and Pasta. It was a nerd buffet.

It was a long day, but luckily I got into all of my sessions. I didn't dilly-dally around. I just got in line for a session as soon as possible.

The food is starting to wear me out at lunch time. Tomorrow I may have to find something outside of the convention center.

I did have a nice lunch experience with a co-worker that I used to work with at two companies. It was nice to catch up and shoot the breeze about past and present work.

I am not going into any details, but I went to two rather interesting sessions today. One on prototyping your app. Another on some of the ins-and-outs of the development tools that I have never explored.

Tonight we went to a great East German restaurant in town called Walzwerk which was suggested by our dev manager last night. I had a pork loin schnitzel, potatoes, and green beans. It felt like being at home or in Europe.

Unfortunately there is not much I can really say because of the NDA. But the information I learned today is pretty awesome. You can tell Apple has a definite direction for all of their developer technologies.

I didn't get into 3 sessions today because it was sitting room only. All three were iPhone sessions. I am going to have to wait for the videos to be posted to ADC on iTunes.

Tonight is dinner with 3 managers from my company (who didn't come to the conference). Luckily my company's office is just down the California coast from San Francisco so they were able to drive up. It should be fun.

This is truly amazing.

You really get hypnotized just looking at it. I've gone back to look at it about 3 times in the last 2 days. Amazing show of the Quartz Composer technology.

The first day is over. I am heading to bed soon.

A co-worker and I went over to a nearby Italian restaurant for dinner. Not stellar, but not bad. It is hard to find good Italian where we live in Florida so it wasn't anything new.

I was sorry to see that Steve Jobs didn't make it to WWDC just because I am pulling for him to get healthy and get back to the company.

Overall it was a really good day. The conference is just awesome in itself. On the way back to the hotel I bumped into a WWDC attendee from Europe in the elevator and we were chatting about random stuff like the free crap they give attendees and the keynote. The conference really seems to cultivate a lot of positive energy.

I installed Safari 4 on my laptop. The final version looks really good. They went back to moving tabs underneath the bar rather than in the title bar... And I was just getting used to that running the beta version.

It was a pretty interesting keynote, but there was a definite feeling of Steve Jobs missing. Phil, Bertrand, and Scott all did a good job, but it wasn't the same energy as last year.

I guess I am most interested in the software. I am still not sold on upgrading to the 3GS. The camera is pretty cool and the speed increases are seem worth it. I am just not 100% sure. My 8 Gb 1st Gen iPhone fits all my needs right now.

It is pretty exciting to see that Snow Leopard is only $29. I totally thought they would set a higher price point. That is great. It kind of sucks that you have to wait until September. I may try to add the Snow Leopard preview to my laptop tonight.

More thoughts maybe tonight when I have time to go back and review the liveblog.

I did have one annoying thing happen. Bertrand has an accent. The sh*thead in front of me kept on mocking his accent. What a jerk.

I met up with two co-workers for lunch. It was good to see both of them in person. Haven't seen either since WWDC last year.

The afternoon sessions have started. Currently in the Core OS State of the Union session. A lot of discussion about how similar the Mac and iPhone platforms are. [REDACTED]

(2:43p)

12:05: That's it. Game over. No Steve Jobs.

12:03: Wrapup? Going over what was discussed. Discussing sessions today.

12:01: New Ad for iPhone. Spying concept. Funny.

12:00: S available June 19.

12:00: Original iPhone 3G still on the market... $99

11:59: Price: $199 for 16 Mb. $299 for 32 Mb.

11:57: Much better battery life for the S. 9 hrs of Wi-Fi. Environmentally friendly phone. Amazing speed.

11:56: Hardware encryption. Asked by other companies. Helps with Find My iPhone app.

11:55: Amazing new compass app! Works in Google Maps. Very sweet.

11:53: Voice control interface!! Phone calling! Play a song. Ask phone "What song playing on iPhone?". Tell Phone. "Play more songs like this".

11:49: 3 Megapixel zooming camera. Autofocus and tap zoom support. Nice feature. Auto Macro as close as 10cm away. Captures video!! Switch to change between photo on video in Camera app. Edit and crop right from phone. Sharing to Youtube. Build in video capture right into your applications.

11:47: Speed ups everywhere. Approximately 2x on average faster across the board. Built in support for fast 3G network 7.2 Mb bandwidth.

11:46: Introducing iPhone 3G S: Fastest most powerful iphone ever. S stands for speed. Really fast iPhone.

11:45: Phil talks about how the iPhone has changed the industry. Talked about 2/3 of mobile browsing happening on a iPhone. iPhone have 10x the amount of the apps as the nearest competitor... Android.

11:44: Scott is done with his talk. Back to Phil.

11:41: That's it for the developer demos. Free 3.0 upgrade for iPhone. 9.95 for Touch. Avaliable June 17. WWDC attendees get an iPhone 3.0 GM today.

11:37: Line 6 and Planet Waves. Control Guitar and Amp right from iPhone. Not my cup of tea. But looks pretty good/cool. More demo troubles.

11:33: Zipcar. Location software. All the available zipcars in city. Browse through the cars. Cool little way where you can find the car just by hitting a button on the iPhone and it unlocks the doors.

11:29: PASCO. Science app for education. Scott Forstall helping with balloon bursting. All decked out in science gear. Demo bombed! It didn't work. Thing is you can connect accessories to a phone including science gear.

11:26: ngmoco:) Games exclusively for iPhone. Star Defense Game app. Tower defense strategy game. Very 3D intensive. Funny demoer. Game ON!... 3.0 features: shop right from game to get game packs. BAM 100 more hour of gaming in your pocket! LOL.

11:22: TomTom. Accessory integration. Navigation software. Turn by turn. Software talks to you. TomTom car kit puts your iPhone on a dock attach to windshield. Use int portrait and landscape. Enchances GPS signals. Also plays music for car stereo.

11:19: Scroll Motion. Bookstore app. Soon to have 1 million books for the software. Nice UI. About as good looking as Stanza. Cut and paste from book for Textbooks.

11:16: Airstrip Technologies. Medical software. Airstrip CC. 3.0 features. Push notification alert. Real-time monitoring of a patient even outside of the hospital. Very sweet app even from a non medical person.

11:14: Gameloft. Asphalt 5. Game. Great graphics. Play ipod while playing game. Console quality gaming the developer says. iPhone 3.0 features: p2p, wi-fi play on internet.

11:13: iPhone 3.0 developers are going to come up and talk about what they have done with iPhone 3.0.

11:13: 1000 new APIs in iPhone SDK.

11:12: Push notification is in 3.0. Laughs.

11:11: New component to embed Google Maps right into an app.

11:10: Accessories. Opening up for Hardware accessory developers to create companion accessories. Discussing Diabetes medical tool that talks with device. Talks over Dock connector or wirelessly over bluetooth.

11:09: Peer-to-peer connectivity. Two kids can find each other and play Backgammon with each other. Bluetooth support.

11:05: New Find My iPhone app. Funny video from 30 Rock. Service only to Mobile Me 3.0 users. Find exactly where your phone is. Big applause. App actually pings with an alert sound on the phone even if in silent mode. Web page shows your phone in Google Maps. Very Sweet! Can send remote wipe!

11:04: Language support. Soft keyboard support makes it easy to change languages. New support for L-R languages. Support for over 30 languages now. Both portrait and landscape.

11:04: Adding support for emerging HTML standards.

11:02: Safari updates. Javascript 3 times faster. Remember login and password. Webform autofills.

11:00: Tethering. Sharing Internet Connection from machine to iPhone.. Works Mac and PCs. USB and Bluetooth! Needs carrier support. 22 countries on release of 3.0. AT&T support later. A bunch of Whats!

10:59: Parental Controls. Controls movie, video, and apps.

10:58: Spotlight support. Search across phone apps. iTunes enhancements. Rent and purchase movies right from phone. Get TV shows, music videos, audiobooks. Support for iTunes U since Apple supports education.

10:56: Landscape support comes to all apps. MMS. Requires carrier support. 29 carriers will support it at launch. AT&T will support at end of summer!! Boos.

10:56: Cut copy paste in all text controls.

10:55: Back to Scott. 100 new features for iPhone. Cut copy paste. Works across apps. Undo support with shake.

10:53: Fun again for a developer to write apps. A bunch of users showing what their favorite iPhone apps are. Very neat video.

10:51: MLB baseball profile. Developer Tools are simple. Embrace power of the mobile device. Developers can't believe they are writing for a mobile app... Think it is a desktop app.

10:49: Video of some App developer stories. Game, medical developers. A guy who writes game software and travels around the country. Cool looking graphics app showing on a nurses iPhone.

10:48: 50,000 apps in the App Store. 40 million iPhones and Touches sold. 1 billion apps sold in 9 months. Apple gives big thank you.

10:47: Scott up now to talk about iPhone. History of iPhone SDK.

10:46: Snow Leopard $29!!!!!! Big applause. Family pack $49. Available Sept. They want all Leopard users to upgrade.

10:46: Snow Leopard only for Intel. Past and Present.

10:45: Exchange support needs Exchange Server 2007. Laughs about the fact that Mac users get exchange support for free and Windows users have to pay for Office to get it.

10:41: Demo of Exchange Support from Craig. QuickLook. Data detectors all work with exchange email. Meeting invites look really easy to use.

10:40: Exchange Support. Ho Hum from this audience. Easy setup gets an applause though.

10:38: OpenCL. OpenGL beyond graphics. Explaining OpenCL. Big applause for making OpenCL an open standard.

10:38: Explaining GCD.

10:36: Multicore. Threaded programming is hard. Grand Central Dispatch. Integration all areas in the software stack.

10:35: Memory of 64-bit... An app can use 16 Billion GB. 64-bit math 2x faster.

10:34: Bertrand back. Talking hardware. The power of silicon. CPU, GPU, 64-bit.

10:32: Quicktime X demo. Video is center stage. Controls get out of way. Trim video right from QuickTime video player! Awesome. Sharing MobileMe and other video sites.

10:30: Spring loading into expose. Very Neat! Google Maps is really fast in Safari. Stunning speed. Top Sites shown.

10:28: Finder thumbnails are really sweet when increasing size. Play movies right in Finder. Dock Expose demo. Really nice feature to compete against Windows Task Bar refinements. Very nice.

10:27: Demo by Craig Federighi of Snow Leopard refinements. Drilling into stacks. Stacks are scrollable.

10:26: Quicktime X. Modern foundation Hardware acceleration. HTTP Streaming. New UI.

10:25: Crash protection. Most crashes are caused by plugins in Safari. Fixed it by component. Javascript 50% faster.

10:24: Safari is very fast against other browsers. Speed difference based off IE8 speed 7x faster. Bunch of laughs. Safari 100 on acid test. IE8 20.

10:23: Mail. Much faster. Safari. Top Sites feature. Today Safaris ships.

10:22: Preview. Missed it. Ack.

10:21: Snow Leopard install is 45% faster. Recover disk space on install. Over 6 GB more space.

10:20: Refined 90% of the apps in Leopard for Snow Leopard. Finder UIs have not changed. Just Cocoa rewrite.

The Dock: How to deal with clutter. Expose is now build in the dock. Interesting!

10:19: Introduce Snow Leopard. Build a better Leopard. Goals: Refinements, Technology, Exchange support.

10:17: Leopard most successful software Apple ever had. Big dig at how Vista sucks! LOL... Making point that Windows 7 is just rebranded Vista.... DLLs suck, UAC sucks. Registry sucks.

10:17: Bertrand is invited up to talk about OS.

10:16: 5 notebooks on screen. Very environmentally friendly designs. World's greenest line of notebooks. Big applause.

10:15: Updated Macbook Air. Mild applause.

10:12: New 13" unibody MB. 2 hrs more battery life. 7 hrs. Up to 500 Mb HD. Firewire 800. It lives! This MB is now called a 13" MBP. Starting $1199. Shipping today.

10:11: New 17" configuration. Shipping Today.

10:08: New SD card slot for 15" MBP. Awesome performance. 250 Gb. 8 Gb RAM up to. Starts $1699! Really Nice specs.

10:06: New 15-inch unibody MBP. 7 hours battery life! New Lithium Polymer batteries. 5 years of life before battery diminishes.

10:05: Talking about unibody MBPs.

10:05: Bertrand and Scott Forstall will be giving presentations a little later after Phil.

10:03: Phil Schiller giving presentation so far. No Steve. Over 5000 developers at WWDC.

10:03: 75 million active OSX users since. Tripled since 2006.

10:00a: Lights went down. Warning to mute cell phones. Crowd happy.

New Mac vs PC commercial. PC is making jokes. Really funny.... Innovation, but not too much innovation from developers this week. Mac says " Have a great connference".

Crowd going wild.

9:59a: Doors are already closed

9:58a: Seats are pretty good. About 30-40 meters from the stage.