Less than two weeks after WWDC has come to an end, Apple has uploaded videos of sessions from the event via its Developer portal. Unfortunately, the videos are not available to the general public, as registered developers must log in with their Apple ID in order to have access to them. The reason for this is that Apple claims the videos contain confidential information that is subject to the Registered Apple Developer Agreement.

Included in the Developer portal are 109 videos covering topics on iOS 5, new features within iCloud, and OS X Lion, along with a few others. The videos are available as free downloads in both high and standard definitions through iTunes and can be downloaded as digital booklet slides as well.

The specific categories of material covered within the session videos are:

• Apple Platforms Kickoff
• App Frameworks
• Core OS
• Developer Tools
• Graphics, Media, and Games
• Internet and Web

Via [MacStories]

Apple has three primary categories to determine which apps are the best:

• Design: Well-designed apps are delightful, elegant, intuitive, engaging, exciting, compelling, and reliable.
• Innovation: Innovative apps are revolutionary, inspirational, unique, and do things in completely new and exciting ways.
• Technical excellence: Technically advanced apps have excellent performance and make extensive use of the latest Apple technologies to deliver innovative, platform differentiating, and advanced features.

The winners are chosen for Student, iPhone, iPad, and Mac categories from apps available for sale in the iTunes App Store and the Mac App Store (app links below are to the respective App Store). The 2011 ADA winners are:

Student

• Grades 2 by Tapity – a GPA calculator
• Pennant by Vargatron – an interactive history of baseball
• Pulse News by Alphonso Labs – an innovative and beautiful news reader

iPhone

• Cut the Rope by chillingo – a physics-based puzzle game
• Golfscape GPS Rangefinder by Shotzoom – an augmented reality rangefinder for 35,000+ golf courses
• Infinity Blade by Chair Entertainment Group – a sword-fighting action game

iPad

• Osmos for iPad by Hemisphere Games – a physics-based game of survival
• Our Choice by Push Pop Press – an interactive book platform featuring Al Gore’s latest publication on the environment
• Djay by algoriddim – DJ software for your iPod library

Mac

• Capo by SuperMegaUltraGroovy – a learning tool for musicians
• Pixelmator by Pixelmator Team – an outstanding image editor
• Anomaly Warzone Earth by 11 bit studios – a highly rated game with a “mixture of action and strategy in a tower offense formula”

See Appletell’s complete WWDC 2011 coverage.

Via [Gigaom and CNET]

Jonathan Mann, who’s best known as the “song a day guy”, has been writing, recording, producing and posting a song and video a day since January 1, 2009.

He’s recently used Kickstarter to earn the funds to come out with the 1st official Song A Day album, which will be released on September 28, 2011.

Today he has come out with WWDC 2011: The Musical. Perfect if you want to get to the heart of what was announced and don’t want to watch all two hours of it.

See Appletell’s complete WWDC 2011 coverage.

Via [TechCrunch]

Optimized specifically for the iPad and iPad 2, Real Racing 2 HD is a heart-pounding, visually astounding 3D racer that puts the steering wheel directly in your hands. The expansive, 10-plus hour career mode and extensive, one-of-a-kind multiplayer means the fight for first place is never over.

When iOS 5 is released, Real Racing 2 HD will harness the power of AirPlay and Firemint’s dual-screen technology to deliver an unrivaled, must-be-seen-to-be-believed gaming experience to players worldwide. Relish Real Racing 2 HD’s superb visuals as they’re streamed effortlessly to your big screen TV. Grip your iPad 2 and steer with unerring precision and the freedom of wireless play. Stay closer than ever to the track with real-time racing telemetry, displayed directly on your iPad’s screen.

Other features of Real Racing 2 HD include:

• Cutting Edge Visuals: Relish exceptional, luscious graphics that push the iPad to its limits, and take full advantage of the iPad 2′s enhanced hardware.
• Immersive Gameplay: 30 licensed cars from real-world manufacturers. 15 stunning locations. Regular updates supply a stream of new events, improvements and features.
• Career Mode: Over 10 hours of Cup, Head to Head, Championship, Time Trial and Elimination races await your expert skills.
• Precision Controls: Take the wheel as your iPad becomes the ultimate racing implement. Come to grips with unerring handling on iPad 2, thanks to full gyroscope support.
• Multiplayer: Compete over local Wi-Fi or online with players of Real Racing 2 HD and Real Racing 2, and experience pioneering 16-player online multiplayer.
• Online Racing: Track your progress against the world’s top racers using Game Center and Firemint’s Cloudcell technology. Record and upload videos of your best to YouTube for max kudos.
• Drive Anywhere, Anytime: Upload and download your save games between Real Racing 2 HD and Real Racing so your progress is always synced.

Product [Firemint Real Racing 2 HD]

Introducing iTunes in the Cloud beta. The music you purchase in iTunes appears automatically on all your devices. You can also download your past iTunes purchases. Where you want, when you want.

Automatic Downloads. Purchase music from any device or computer and automatically download a copy to your Mac and iOS devices.

Download Previous Purchases. Download your past music purchases again at no additional cost. Your purchases are available in the iTunes Store on your Mac or in the iTunes app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Previous purchases may be unavailable if they are no longer on the iTunes Store.

iTunes 10.3 also adds Books to the iTunes Store, where you can discover and buy your favorite books on your computer and automatically download them to iBooks on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. This version also allows you to use Automatic Downloads with apps and books or download previously purchased apps and books from your computer or iOS device.

iTunes 10.3 is available for download through Software Update or from apple.com and iTunes 10.5 beta is available to developers via Apple Developer.

Product [iTunes]

“In just 9 months we have 50 million Game Center users. To put that into perspective Xbox Live has been around for about eight years and they have around 30 million users.” This astounding achievement was introduced at the WWDC 2011 keynote along with some changes that will be introduced in iOS 5 when it is released later this year. If you like playing games on your iDevice then the Game Center changes will make finding friends to play with much easier.

Game Center will enable you to see the friends of your friends and the scores of the games they’re playing, which will help you expand your network of gaming allies or opponents. If you need more friends to play games with you’ll also be send and receive receive friend recommendations. Once you see one of them playing a game that you want to try, you can buy it directly from within Game Center.

You’ll also have an easier way of finding new games to play, which is handy because there are so many and more coming out every day, with the new recommendations page. You’ll see featured games as well as all of the games your friends are playing.

There will also be added support for turn-based games in which each player makes a move in turn, such as Scrabble. You’ll be able to check all of your turn-based games at once to see if it’s your turn to play which will be a big time-saver.

Finally, there are other improvements in iOS 5 that will improve your gaming experience. One change is to the App Store where you’ll be able to see all of the apps you’ve purchased, even if they’re not installed on that mobile device. The new notifications will also help as they will appear at the top of the screen rather than in the middle so you won’t be interrupted if you’re in the middle of a tricky fight or challenging puzzle.

All of these changes to the Game Center and iOS 5 will make playing games and finding friends to play with even funner and easier.

See Appletell’s complete WWDC 2011 coverage.

Via [Gamezebo]

A Developer Preview of the upcoming Safari 5.1 has made its way into the hands of developers through the Safari Dev Center yesterday. The final release of the new browser will be included with OS X Lion when it releases this fall and will be accompanied by a Windows version, as well.

Among the browser’s new features, Safari 5.1 will support new HTML5 APIs, take advantage of GPU acceleration in the Windows version, allow full-screen web pages, divide plug-ins and the WebKit rendering engine into separate processes to avoid browser crashes, support the latest CSS3 features, and add support for the Web Open Font Format as well as the Mathematical Markup Language (aka MathML).

As with any pre-release software, more features in the final version could possibly surface, although these are definitely plenty already. It is clear that Apple is stepping up against the competition in the field of web browsers, and we can only wait and see how well it performs in comparison to the others once it releases to the public this July.

Via [MacStories]

In case you need to catch up with all of yesterday’s WWDC news, or even if you’ve already read up on all of the news coverage surrounding the event but would like to watch Apple’s keynote for yourself to get all of the details of Apple’s upcoming offerings, a video of the keynote is now available to watch via Apple.

Yesterday’s WWDC keynote introduced Apple’s upcoming iCloud, iOS 5, and OS X Lion products among many other exciting new things that any Apple fan should know about.

You can watch the keynote from here and keep checking back at Appletell for more WWDC coverage as the events continues throughout the week.

As Apple has introduced its iCloud service at the WWDC keynote yesterday, you may be wondering what will become of its predecessor, MobileMe. Unfortunately, Apple has decided to discontinue the $99/year service with iCloud as its replacement, according to a new support document from the company which outlines the details of how the transition over the newer service will take place.

As of June 6th, if you were a paid subscriber to MobileMe, your account has been automatically credited with extended service until June 30, 2012 for free. After that date, MobileMe will be officially discontinued as iCloud completely takes over.

Once the transition between services is complete, all of a subscriber’s emails, contacts, and calendars from MobileMe will be moved over to iCloud and they will be to keep their me.com or mac.com email addresses. However, MobileMe Family, storage upgrades, and the ability to create a new MobileMe account or begin a trial are no longer available. Those who have unused activation codes from the purchase of MobileMe, however, are able to request a refund from Apple from here until June 30th of next year.

Read [Apple support document]
Via [9to5 Mac]

Tapping the Purchased button in the App Store will bring up two tabs: one is a list of every app that a user has purchased, and the other listing just the apps that a user has purchased but are not installed on that particular iDevice. Tapping on the Purchased tab in the iTunes app will instead show a list of all the songs a user has purchased, most recent purchased, and finally a list of every song purchased sorted alphabetically by artist. For both apps, a cloud icon is displayed for content a user has purchased but is not currently available on the particular iDevice, and tapping it download (and install, in the App Store’s case) said content.

This small update, just like Active Downloads, may only be useful for some although it is definitely nice to see some new features without the need for an iOS update.

Via [TUAW]