Be prepared for our live coverage of the WWDC 09 keynote with Phil and the gang. Will a new iPhone be in our immediate future? Only The Phil knows for sure.

Coverage starts at 10am Pacific, Monday June 8 right here. 

We will also be covering the event via Twitter. Follow us at Twitter.com/maclife.

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12:02AM: Recap of today's stuff.  Thanks for reading. We'll see you in the iPhone 3GS line

11:59AM: $199 16GB 3GS - $299 32GB 3GS- Available June 19! / $99 8GB 3Gavailable now. Note the $99 iPhone is the same 8GB iPhone available now.

11:58AM: iPhone is still green. Arsenic free glass. 

11:57AM: Battery life 3G talk time still the same. 

11:56AM: Accessibility controls. Nike + support built in.  Hardware encryption -instantaneous wipe, backups enrypted.

11:55AM: built-in digital compass. Go boy and girl scouts! integrated into Maps. Orient to heading. Developer API 

11:53AM: Voice control! tap home button. can make calls with the sound of your voice. Play songs with voice control. Ask it what's playing. Genius play list "play more songs like this"

11:53AM: developers can add video capture right into apps. 

11:51AM:  Captures video! Huzzah! 30fps VGA with audio, autofocus, auto white balance, auto exposure.Vides are right along side your photos. EDIT with a tap of your finger. Trim. Share. Via MMS, mobile Me, YouTube, email video

11:50am: Auto macro , lowlight enhancement.  

11:48AM: 3G 7.2 Mps HDSPA - 3 megapixel autofocus camera -Tap to focus, tap the object to focus on it. Really slick!

11:47AM: 2.1x faster to launch messages, Load SimCity 2.4X faster Launch NY Times 2.9x faster - 3X faster sunspider jaascript benchmark than iPhone 3G

11:46AM: New Version iPhone 3GSS stands for speed. Same design.

11:46AM: WW mobile browser share - iPhone 65%

11:45am: And Phils back. 

11:45AM: iPhone OS 3.0 - Free for iPhone / $9.95 for iPod touch. Available June 17- Developers get the Gold Master today! Luckies!

11:41AM: Demos are nice, but Apple better hurry with the iPhone release. Everyone's computers are dying. 

11:38AM: Line 6 demo. Robbie can attach his guitar to his guitar. Another Demo fail. Poor guys

11:36AM: Ohh swanky Zipcar key feature. horn and unlock support

11:34am: Zipcar Demo. We're all getting cars! (no, no we're not)

11:29 ngmoco's Star Defense looks cool, out today. $5.99.

11:25AM. Optional Tom-Tom Car Kit holds up your iPhone, charges it, has a speaker for directions, plays your iTunes on your stereo.

11:23AM. Tom-Tom doing turn-by-turn navigation. Real-time traffic, and it talks to you. Looks just like a Tom-Tom in-car navigator.

11:21AM. Iceberg Store will sell books, magazines, and newspapers. Uses copy/paste and in-app email to let students cite text for papers. It grabs bibliographical info automatically. Textbook publisher partners.

11:19AM. AirStrip technologies shows off an app that lets doctors monitor patients from anywhere. (Like the golf course! Or, um, medical conferences.)

11:15AM. iPhone 3.0 has Media Control access so you can listen to your own music inside non-Apple apps. Gameloft shows this off with Asphalt 5.

11:13AM. Demos starting showing what developers have built with iPhone 3.0 so far.

11:12AM. Developers will be able to put Google Maps into their applications, with pan/zoom, annotations, everything the Maps app can do. They can do turn-by-turn directions in their apps too.

11:10AM. Accessories: The iPhone will be able to control accessories through companion applications. Examples include LifeTouch's blood glucose meter, which has an app for controlling your diabetes.

11:10AM. Peer-to-peer connectivity. Uses Bluetooth to find iPhones within range so users can play games against each other.

11:08AM. In-app purchase, allowing devs to offer add-on paid content to their apps. (Magazine issues, extra levels for games, etc.)

11:07am: An alert sound plays WHETHER YOUR PHONE IS ON SILENT OR NOT and displays your home number. If it's at your house, the alert helps you find it. And there's a remote wipe command if it really is gone forever. YES!!!

11:06AM. Find My iPhone for MobileMe customers only. Log in on a browser and it PUTS YOUR LOST PHONE ON A MAP. Um, yes please.

11:05AM. Find My iPhone feature introduced with clip from 30 Rock when Liz lost her phone. LOL.

11:03AM. HTML 5 support in Mobile Safari. Support for more languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Korean, Thai, 30-plus in all.

11:02AM. JavaScript running 4 times faster. HTTP streaming picks the best quality for your connection. Auto-fill for websites.

11:01AM. Tethering! Share Internet connection, Mac or PC, wired or Bluetooth. You just turn on tethering on your phone, no software needed for your computer. 22 carrier partners. NO AT&T. MORE VERY VERY LOUD BOOS.

10:59AM. iTunes: You'll be able to rent and purchase movies from the phone. This is news! TV shows, music, and audiobooks too.

10:58AM. Spotlight lets you search for anything on your phone, even apps.

10:56AM. Landscape support coming to Mail, Notes, etc. And MMS support (29 carrier partners, including AT&T "later this summer." LOUD BOOS.

10:56AM. iPhone 3.0 review: Cut/Copy/Paste across all apps, with Undo. Devs can use it in their apps too.

10:49AM. It only took 9 months to reach 1 billion downloads from the Store. (We helped!)

10:48AM. 50,000 apps in the App Store. 40,000,000 iPod touches and iPhones have been sold. That's a-spicy user base!

10:47AM. Scott Forstall is here to talk about the iPhone. Yeah, baby.

10:47AM. Available this September. Today the developers get a near-final preview. LUCKIES!!!

10:46AM. Snow Leopard will be a $29 upgrade for Leopard users. $49 for Family Pack (up to 5). WOW.

10:45AM. Exchange support requires the latest version of Exchange Server 2007.

10:44AM. Demo just showed dragging a contact from Address Book to iCal to schedule a meeting over Exchange. It's a witch!!!

10:41AM. Type in Exchange password to auto-detect your company's Exchange server. Email, folders, notes, to-dos are right there, but you're still using Mail, so you get Spotlight. Preview with QuickLook, even Office docs. EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE OFFICE INSTALLED.

10:39AM. OpenCL is a technology in Snow Leopard to take advantage of GPUs. Open standard, all the top graphics card manufacturers are in.

10:38AM. Effect of Grand Central Dispatch is to let Mail use more threads while it's busy but fewer threads when idle, for better performance than in Leopard, where it uses the same all the time.

10:36AM. Takes advantage of Multi-core CPU with multi-threaded programming, controlled by Grand Central Dispatch.

10:35AM. Snow Leopard takes advantage of the Mac's graphics and CPU power. It's 64 bit to use lots of memory, and to let the processor do its math faster. All major system apps run in 64-bit mode in Snow Leopard.

10:32AM. QuickTime demo. The controls and window title fade away when you're watching the video. You can even trim and share your video -- awesome visual timeline, smooth scrubbing.

10:32AM: Safari 4: Top sites shows you your 12 most-visited sites at once, puts a blue star on any that have changed since you last looked. Full History puts your browsing history in a Cover Flow view.

10:29AM. Click and hold an app's icon in the Dock to see all the windows open, Expose-style.

10:28AM. Finder windows will let you zoom thumbnails, play a movie, even thumb through multipage PDFs.

10:27AM. Snow Leopard demo beginning. Stacks window gets a scroll bar, and you can drill down into subfolders.

10:27AM. QuickTime Player is revamped. The window title and all controls disappear when the content is playing.

10:26AM. QuickTime gets hardware acceleration, ColorSync, and HTTP streaming that works with any server.

10:25AM. The number 1 cause of crashes across OS X are browser plug-ins. Safari 4 will let the plug-in crash without crashing the rest of the browser. You just reload the page. Smart!

10:24AM. Safari 4 gets 100/100 Acid3 test score. "It's very, very standard." IE 8 gets 21 percent.

10:22AM. Improved Chinese character input method: Draw characters on the trackpad with your finger.

10:22AM. Same Dock, but with Expose built in. Installation will be 45 percent faster, and will recover disk space since the OS is half the footprint of Leopard.

10:20AM. Snow Leopard keeps the same Finder interface, but it was rewritten for "lots of little benefits."

10:19AM. "We come from such a different place. We love Leopard. We're proud of Leopard. So when it became time to think of the next big cat, we decided to name it Snow Leopard."

10:17AM. Here comes Bertrand Serlet to tell us about Mac OS X

10:16AM. All MacBooks conform to EnergyStar version 5, which comes out this summer.

10:15AM. Mentions the upgrade to 13-inch white MacBook. They're updating the MacBook Air today too. Faster processor, $300 price drop, 128GB SSD option for just $1,799 (that's a $700 drop from yesterday).

10:14AM. Two stock configurations of 13-inch MBP, $1199 and $1499. Available today!

10:12AM Revamped 13-inch MacBook gets the special, lithium polymer battery too. Added features to make it like a 13-inch Pro: Up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, up to 500GB HDD, up to 250GB SSD, backlit keyboard

10:11AM They're all shipping today!

10:11AM They're also revamping the 17-inch MBP and dropping it by $300 but it keeps the ExpressCard/34 slot.

10:10AM. Starts at $1,699

10:09AM. Up to 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo, and up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM. (Ka-ching.)

10:08AM Replacing the ExpressCard/34 slot with an SD card. Ooh, neat.

10:08AM. Up to 1,000 recharge cycles: Current laptop batteries can recharge about 300 times before capacity diminishes.

10:06AM. But this is: Brand-new version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro. Also a unibody. Lithium-polymer battery like the one in the 17-inch MBP. Up to 7 hours battery life.

10:05AM. Phil getting started talking about the Mac. Gushes about the new unibody notebooks. This is not new information.

10:04AM. Today we'll hear about things Apple is doing with the Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch to keep growing that user base.

10:03AM Chart of OS X users since the debut of OS X. Its gone from 25M active users to nearly 75M in the last two years.

10:02AM. Phil Schiller takes the stage. Over 5200 developers from 54 countries are here!

10:00AM: Lights down. 

9:58: Pirate

9:56AM "Welcome to the 2009 Worldwide Developers' Conference." Turn off all cell phones and paging devices. (Not you.)

9:55AM: 5 Minutes to go. Giddy with anticipation. and probably all the caffeine we consumed. 

9:52AM: Hanging with the developers

9:43AM: We're inside and waiting for Phil to arrive. Radiohead playing.