MWSF: Other highlights from the keynote speech

Some of the more noteworthy newsy items that came out of Macworld's Steve Jobs keynote:

• 2004 saw over 1 million visitors per week at Apple retail stores around the world.
• The iMac G5 is the most popular/highest-selling Mac ever made.
• There will be 200 new features in Tiger, which will be released during the first half of 2005.
• Spotlight search looks *wicked* fast. The OS notifies Spotlight immediately and dynamically as things
  change.
• Tiger will deliver a major Mail upgrade. Searches will create smart mailboxes which will be far more dynamic,
  faster and more intuitive than filters.
• Quicktime 7 has full surround sound support, live resizing, full MPEG-4 integration, and HD playback. It uses the
  h.264 video codec, reputedly the best in the world.
• Dashboard widget demos: stock ticket, ebay widget, calc, addressbook, calendar, stickies, iTunes controller,
  dictionary, thesaurus, world clock, unit converter.
• iChat gets major upgrade and will support 10 simultaneous users, plus up to 4-person videoconferencing multiparty
  chat, using the h.264 codec. Awwwww, yeah!!

Stay tuned for more coverage of the iWork and iLife suites.