The 2008 Macworld Conference and Expo marks the first big Apple event since Mac OS X Leopard was released last year. That means we should see a flood of new software releases and updates utilizing Leopard's many interface and performance enhancements. Even though the latest Mac OS was released into the wild in October of 2007, Macworld could be considered Leopard's coming out party.
Most of the Mac's killer apps have already been updated to run on Mac OS X 10.5, leaving only a few big-name applications to officially debut at the show. But for developers big and small, Macworld will be their first chance to publicly demo the latest versions of their creations, so there will be plenty of new apps to check out. Most of the new apps making the rounds won't require Leopard to run, but the ones that do may prove to be the most exciting thanks to Leopard's new Core Animation engine.
Here's a list of what we're most looking forward to seeing, testing and drooling over at Macworld 2008.
- Office for Mac 2008 from Microsoft
- Final Cut Express 4 from Apple
- Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac from Adobe
- Premiere Pro for Leopard from Adobe
- Soundbooth for Leopard from Adobe
- iPhone v1.1.3 from Apple (rumor)
- Mac OS X 10.5.2 from Apple (also a rumor)
- iTunes 7.6 from Apple (rumor)
- Transmit 3.6.4 from Panic
- CandyBar 3.1.2 from Panic
- Airfoil 3 from Rogue Amoeba
- Parallels Server from SWSoft/Parallels
- OmniFocus from Omni Group
- Bento from Filemaker
- BlingIt for Mac from Vertus
- Together 2.0.4 from Reinvented
- Default Folder X from St. Clair
- Interarchy 9 from Nolobe
- Desktopple 1.3 for Leopard from FoggyNoggin
- iBank 2 from IGG
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