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Latest Leopard Visual Tweaks and Intro Movie
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I'd like that ;-)
Bring that Start Trek version of leopard ;-) .
Ya that is JUST what Leopard needs is more of the space theme and nerd-fest they are turning it into. Seriously lose the space theme except for time machine and stop turning it into a freakin' nerd OS. What happened to Apple knowing what's cool??? Let's just make the whole OS Star-Trek themed while we are at it...
Bring that Start Trek version of leopard ;-) .
LOL. All these intros are great. More exciting that Leopard itself. Good editing.
Thanks!
I know seriously. There's like 3 people obsessed with this opening video and then everyone else who hasn't even seen the original pics.
I was once told by many macrumor people on here. They told me that Ill be able to run MOST of Leopards features except for FrontRow,Boot Camp, and some others. I have the same g4 PB as you just not prolly in size wise.
I don't know, it doesn't (at least in my mind) seem to work with it, in terms of syncing. The music they have now works nicely...
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A feature I haven't seen mentioned on any Leopard reviews is the cool instant dictionary lookup... I guess it could be just something that I never noticed in Tiger, but in my Leopard (599) I just have to mouse over any word of text, and press Command+Ctrl+D to make the definition of the word neatly display beneath the word itself. If I hold the Command+Ctrl after tapping D, I can slide my mouse over text and get the definition of every word my cursor touches instantly. There is also a drop-down menu to change the dictionary mode from Dictionary to Thesaurus and to Apple, which gives the "
Definition" of a word (The definition for the word Tiger for example talks about OS 10.4)... And then there's a "More" button that opens the dictionary.app and let's you say, look it up in Wikipedia. Here, let me demonstrate...
Sorry this isn't pertaining specifically to a new feature of the new build, I just discovered it and thought it was a really cool un-documented feature. I can't wait for the final release! Spotlight is SOOO fast, like, it finds 10,000 pictures across 2 internal hard drive's and an external in like practically 3 seconds! and Quicklook is the most amazing and useful thing ever... ever...
It also seems like more things have the "hold shift for slow-mo eyecandy" in Leopard due to Core-Animation... lots of widgets can be slow-moe'd (Calendar, Weather), spaces, stacks, pretty much everything... the other day my computer bugged out on me while in Spaces and all my windows were super small, and clicking wouldn't quit spaces, but I could still manipulate my windows and type in tiny little boxes and stuff, it was sweet =P
Ok, sorry for rambling, it's just that using Leopard has made me so excited to be able to dump Tiger and buy and exclusively use a bug-free Leopard in October (or at least relatively bug-free... more so than it is now at least!)
Definition" of a word (The definition for the word Tiger for example talks about OS 10.4)... And then there's a "More" button that opens the dictionary.app and let's you say, look it up in Wikipedia. Here, let me demonstrate...
Sorry this isn't pertaining specifically to a new feature of the new build, I just discovered it and thought it was a really cool un-documented feature. I can't wait for the final release! Spotlight is SOOO fast, like, it finds 10,000 pictures across 2 internal hard drive's and an external in like practically 3 seconds! and Quicklook is the most amazing and useful thing ever... ever...
It also seems like more things have the "hold shift for slow-mo eyecandy" in Leopard due to Core-Animation... lots of widgets can be slow-moe'd (Calendar, Weather), spaces, stacks, pretty much everything... the other day my computer bugged out on me while in Spaces and all my windows were super small, and clicking wouldn't quit spaces, but I could still manipulate my windows and type in tiny little boxes and stuff, it was sweet =P
Ok, sorry for rambling, it's just that using Leopard has made me so excited to be able to dump Tiger and buy and exclusively use a bug-free Leopard in October (or at least relatively bug-free... more so than it is now at least!)
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If I've missed it in this thread or elsewhere, can someone point out pics to the new menu look? They're more translucent? Like the menu bar?
Thanks!
Thanks!
10.5 is looking good, useful features and unlike Vista no complex package selection or overpricing, but I'm going to wait until it's on the new iMacs and get both at the same time.
Correct. Open up Tiger's Dictionary.app and look in the Preferences. Change the contextual menu to open up in a panel instead of the application.
Yup. Or control-command-D will also bring up the panel. The Apple dictionary is new to Leopard though - a small but nice addition.
Interesting technology in Vista? Where?
You probably feel the difference because all other Windows were SIMPLY CRAP UI-wise. And as Vista gets a bit closer to OS X, you think MS is "taking risks"...oh boy...I will stay with OS X and its rock-solid performance as well as industry-leading design, thank you very much.
At least eJamming does.
After reading the posts on MacRumors for years, I wouldn't be surprised if some people DO want the "complex packaging" and have a different version for different places. I'm surprised no one has said (I use my Mac at an office. Why do I need the Chess app and front row? Apple should really make a separate package for office people." Me, I like the just the one version plus a different version for server. The way it is now works fine for me.
One feature that I'd like to see, but probably won't come, is an integrated Spotlight & QuickLook plugin, plus maybe adding the default document icon for that kind of file in there, too. That way, you can quickly find a specific kind of file, take a quick look and do whatever you want. The default icon thing would be nice so that even if you don't have the program that created the file, the file's icon won't be that boring generic file icon.
The state of resolution independance.
Why aren't the icons the same as the ones usually in Leopard's Finder? The others are silver.
Hmm.... I expect an exact date this week for Leopard. Doesn't anybody remember that Apple puts up the "x days, x hours, x minutes, and x seconds" wallpaper up on the apple.com page about a month before the new OS is released?
Interesting technology in Vista? Where?
You probably feel the difference because all other Windows were SIMPLY CRAP UI-wise. And as Vista gets a bit closer to OS X, you think MS is "taking risks"...oh boy...I will stay with OS X and its rock-solid performance as well as industry-leading design, thank you very much.
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