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Latest Leopard Build Screenshots?

Are the screenshots...

  • Real

    Votes: 297 92.8%

  • Fake

    Votes: 23 7.2%
  • Total voters
    320
  • Poll closed .
nagromme said:
I find it odd that they show two different ways of warning for phishing: the red bar and the sheet.
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I thought the same thing but then I realized that what most likely is happening is when you first visit a page it gives the drop down menu. However, if you decide to not close that page and keep it opened the drop down goes away but that red banner appears up there to remind you.
 
I think these shots are real... No reason to doubt, I guess.

As for the Icon preview, I could swear that this feature has been mentioned in Apples Leopard feature previews/notes. Either way, it better have all that. Vista has "Live Icons", which show an icon-sized version of the application, even if it's video, OpenGL, web page or whatever when the app is opened and minimized. And for documents/images/videos it shows their actual content as an icon. IIRC, unopened video clips can loop a small segment of the clip as the icon.
 
AppliedVisual said:
IIRC, unopened video clips can loop a small segment of the clip as the icon.
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Ugh... I hope that could be turned off. Scrolling through a folder full of moving icons would be like scrolling through some of those obnoxious web pages full of animated GIFs.
 
puuukeey said:
does anyone wonder if there (is/is not) a contingency plan for what happens when google decides to (PLEASE GOD NO!) close it's doors? I''m just curious. as steve said, once you add a feature, you can't take it away.

and now that we have that extra layer of googlebuddiness on the board, I bet we'll see pleanty more exclusive google features.

aside from that
anyone wonder if google will google is planning to eat apple?
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I think Apple would buy the assets if they started to tank.
 
notjustjay said:
Ugh... I hope that could be turned off. Scrolling through a folder full of moving icons would be like scrolling through some of those obnoxious web pages full of animated GIFs.
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Yeah it can be turned off. It's actually off by default. Not only would it be obnoxious, but could really take some time to load and a lot of overhead to manage.
 
Well, I'll put it this way...

If those are fake, I sure hope Apple implements something along the lines of what those screen shots offer. Even if small. The anti-phishing stuff would've been awesome like 3 months ago for me... BUT HEY YOU LEARN!
 
AppliedVisual said:
Yeah it can be turned off. It's actually off by default. Not only would it be obnoxious, but could really take some time to load and a lot of overhead to manage.
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How about the selected video files play in their icons?
 
nagromme said:
Vista has text-in-icon, doesn't it?

I find it odd that they show two different ways of warning for phishing: the red bar and the sheet.
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I agree with that, maybe they haven't decided which one to use.
They are probably real though, nothing spectacular as most fakes usually are.
 
The page-curl looks dumb to me. I organise all my photos within the finder, pasting sample pictures onto folder icons, etc, to create a visual representation of the photos/folders/files inside. For me, it's a great way of organising thousands of photos across a few dozen main folders.

Apple killed the beauty of this method with 10.4.4, when JPEG icons started to be rendered as ugly pixellated images with black borders. As far as I can tell this problem has not been addressed. So, I'm still running 10.4.3. If this page-curl materialises, and I have to use it, it will piss me off no end. It is completely pointless.

What they really need to do in Leopard is revolutionise the finder. The current version is slow, disorganised, unpredictable, and confusing.

Or better still, bring back a Aqua-skinned version of the visual Finder of OS 9: The visual navigation through nested folders is what got me hooked on the Mac!
 
A consistent interface would be nice (and "Apple-like"), but I want increased functionality, efficiency, and for god's sake, some decent networking!! Call me a noob-hater-asshat, but why can't Apple get their networking in order? I know, I know, it's windows' fault, but it's not just pc>mac networking, it's mac>mac as well. Improve that and it's worth the upgrade to me alone.
 
nagromme said:
Vista has text-in-icon, doesn't it?
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KDE has had that for a few years now. It's annoying as heck if you have many text files around because folder views are just plain noisy. It's okay for directories full of images, though the initial generation of the thumbnails can take awhile. On the whole, I'd say it's a feature that sounds much more useful than it actually is.
 
motulist said:
If those screenshots are real, the iCal update looks very disappointing...it looks like the iCal update is more a cosmetic update rather than a feature update. The only new feature I can see in that screenshot is something about new event notifications, but that's hardly what people have been clamoring for.
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iCal has been a disaster for 4 OS X releases now. It is, without a doubt, Apple's worse application. It's missing functionality, basic functionality, that has been in every calendaring program since 1992.

iCal is a sad example of Apple going to far to the extreme of minimization.

All I really wanted in the last 2 OS updates was a decent iCal. It's the only thing on the Mac that continually hurts my productivity.

I've learned that iCal is just the price of being a Mac guy, and I don't hope for greatness. Heck, I don't even hope for mediocrity. iCal is always going to be slow, inconsistent UI and barely usable.

I'm at peace with that fact now.
 
BWhaler said:
iCal has been a disaster for 4 OS X releases now. It is, without a doubt, Apple's worse application. It's missing functionality, basic functionality, that has been in every calendaring program since 1992.

iCal is a sad example of Apple going to far to the extreme of minimization.

All I really wanted in the last 2 OS updates was a decent iCal. It's the only thing on the Mac that continually hurts my productivity.

I've learned that iCal is just the price of being a Mac guy, and I don't hope for greatness. Heck, I don't even hope for mediocrity. iCal is always going to be slow, inconsistent UI and barely usable.

I'm at peace with that fact now.
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Such as what things are missing?
 
Rewording

Chaszmyr said:
I think the anti-phishing stuff is great, but I don't like the way they word it. People who are not very familiar with the internet might get the fishing warning from a "paypal" link and think that it is saying Paypal is a fraudulent site, whereas it is actually saying "this site isn't really paypal."
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I agree. It should be made more clear that "eBay" is not fraud, but instead the site being viewed is an imposter. Otherwise people may lose credibility in the warnings/turn them off, thinking that it is warning them about "eBay". Also, I think the integration with Google is great, but I hope Apple opens Safari up to other providers, too. I would love to be able to search Yahoo, Dogpile, Orbitz, or Wikipedia. It seems they are putting all their eggs in the Google basket (I know Google has representation on Apple's board, but still).
 
BWhaler said:
iCal has been a disaster for 4 OS X releases now. It is, without a doubt, Apple's worse application. It's missing functionality, basic functionality, that has been in every calendaring program since 1992.

iCal is a sad example of Apple going to far to the extreme of minimization.

All I really wanted in the last 2 OS updates was a decent iCal. It's the only thing on the Mac that continually hurts my productivity.

I've learned that iCal is just the price of being a Mac guy, and I don't hope for greatness. Heck, I don't even hope for mediocrity. iCal is always going to be slow, inconsistent UI and barely usable.

I'm at peace with that fact now.
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I can't say I agree. Mabe it's because I haven't gone and tried other calendering programs, but I use iCal every day and it's a pleasure to use. It syncs events and to-dos with widgets on dashboard, I'm subscribed to some online calenders to keep track of lost and 24, amung other things, and it's all colorful and organized and looks great. Sure, theres definitely potential for upgrades, but I think it's great as is.
 
sounds great. i like the anti phishing add on.

but i also want the ability to add extra search engines to safari. like i can on Firefox.

ie, Add
ebay search
imdb search
dictionary lookup
amazon
and more

if they do that, and add the ability to share bookmarks across multiple accounts, ie share bookmarks via .mac. i would love it, because i have more than one computer.
 
mdntcallr said:
if they do that, and add the ability to share bookmarks across multiple accounts, ie share bookmarks via .mac. i would love it, because i have more than one computer.
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You can already sync Safari bookmarks (as well as calendars, mail accounts, contacts, keychains etc) through .mac.

Check out System Prefs/.mac/sync
 
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