Latest Leopard Visual Tweaks and Intro Movie

[skwoytek]

I just finished downloading and installing Leopard - officially, from ADC.

There was no music during the intro movie. My sound was working before I shut down Tiger to install and it worked after I logged into Leopard.

Just no music during the welcome video. Any chance Apple dropped it?

 

[junker]

Gallery link on orginal post

What's up with the 404 Error on the original story's "Gallery" link?

Maybe in the previous 16 pages somewhere I can find a re-direct or maybe it's now just dead - either way... could someone fix it?

I've been coming back to this story to see the gallery shots... for what seems like 2 days now. >:-(

 

[Evangelion]

I am really surprised that Apple themselves haven't produced an app that utilises CoreAnimation to show exactly what it can do.

Time Machine uses Core Animation.

 

[Evangelion]

A.k.a. crappy and phone-homeish CoreAnimation. No, thanks, I will stick to OS X...

Since WPF was released before Core Animation was released, how can it be a knock-off of CA?

 

[TBi]

They both hibernate fine, but in those cases the machine is off when it's in hibernation - when it comes back, everything is exactly as it was left. If you could change the disk state whilst it was in hibernation, all sorts of weird stuff could happen.

There was some discussion on the feature on one of these forums around WWDC. Thread here.

Apple could find a way to "lock" a drive so you can't edit it whilst it is in hibernate mode. I remember old BIOSes allowing you to make drives read only.

Or maybe even make the drives invisible to windows and mac OSX (alternatively of course )

 

[Stridder44]

What's up with the 404 Error on the original story's "Gallery" link?

Maybe in the previous 16 pages somewhere I can find a re-direct or maybe it's now just dead - either way... could someone fix it?

I've been coming back to this story to see the gallery shots... for what seems like 2 days now. >:-(

Amen.

Meanwhile people are arguing over what song should be in the opening video...

 

[the JoshMeister]

Glad about how the Dock looks...

Never mind the fact that the dock hasn't really changed since day one

You haven't seen what the Dock looked like in the first few developer preview builds of Mac OS X, have you?

Screenshot of Mac OS X Developer Preview 3

Take a close look. Files, applications, and minimized windows all jumbled together randomly, ugly mismatched backgrounds instead of transparent ones, etc.

After carefully analyzing the Dock from DP3, I would think anyone would be grateful for what we have today.

 

[TBi]

Since WPF was released before Core Animation was released, how can it be a knock-off of CA?

Because some people don't study their history

He probably thinks nazi germany is a rip off of the current crop of white supremacists in america!

(OMG Godwins Law!)

 

[Project]

Time Machine uses Core Animation.

I know, but it barely scratches the surface of Core Animation.

 

[the JoshMeister]

Anti-Phishing Dropped from Leopard?

The new visual tweaks and intro video are nice, but I'm kind of concerned about something that I haven't heard mentioned in a while.

To those using the latest build of Leopard: Did Apple scrap the anti-phishing features that were being developed for Safari, or is there phishing protection in the latest builds? Aside from Safari, does Mail now have anti-phishing features? These features are both present in Vista's browser and mail client, and it would really pain me to see Apple slip behind in operating system security and keeping users protected. Right now, Apple's is the only major browser that doesn't have phishing protection built in, which I think is a crying shame, especially since Apple has built up their reputation of being the safer platform.

Also, if anyone who's using the latest Leopard build is interested, I would like to have a guest on the Tech Pulse podcast to discuss some of the upcoming (and lesser-known) features of Leopard. If you're interested, please e-mail me at my first name at techpulsepodcast dot com.

~Josh

 

[nlx]

hello apple remember the rest of the world ? look at that map with the US in the middle of earth… !

now i'm sure Apple is ethnocentred

 

[Rhuantavan]

hello apple remember the rest of the world ? look at that map with the US in the middle of earth… !

now i'm sure Apple is ethnocentred

Yes, it's a sad sad thing.

 

[CaptainScarlet]

One thing I still noticed, is that WOW in window mode makes everything horribly slow. This is not the case in 10.4.10.

I have no idea if it's Leopard or if its WOW. But it's definitely something that needs to be looked at.

 

[hamis92]

Here's what I did with the intro video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3559237378449847393&hl=en

GarageBand was my tool, and the music is actually an Apple "Loop" that comes with it.

 

[cecemf]

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!)

Yes it works on 10.4.10 and Safari, Mail, Address book ....

But thank you very much as i didn't know that function before !!!!

 

[lookmark]

There's also zero reason to upgrade to Vista to get WPF. Simply bundle the .NET Framework 3 or above with your WPF application's installer and XP users are fine. WPF is not a selling point of Vista.

That's a geek solution, not a mainstream one. And WPF will be coming to the majority of computers simply by people buying PCs, even if Vista never sells another boxed copy. It's inevitable.

So, the Windows dev community are stuck with a kludged VS2005 or a Beta VS2008 for building Vista (or, more correctly, .NET3) applications... and Vista's been 'Gold' for at least 10 months...

Interesting.

I'm expecting adoption of Leopard's features amongst 3rd party apps to be very swift. Within a couple of months you'll have real apps doing really cool stuff with tech like CoreAnimation -- not just some 'technology demo' stuff.

Agreed.

 

[cecemf]

There's also zero reason to upgrade to Vista to get WPF. Simply bundle the .NET Framework 3 or above with your WPF application's installer and XP users are fine. WPF is not a selling point of Vista.

Also, WPF is a nightmare to code for. MS have thrown out the paradigm used by Windows coders for so long and managed to replace it with something rather cumbersome.

Finally, when Leopard ships, there'll be a copy of Xcode right there on everyone's install DVDs which is 100% capable of letting developers use every cool new thing in Leopard. Vista's been out for... well, since November last year for MSDN people like me. The latest non-beta version of Visual Studio still doesn't support developing for WPF/WCF/etc. Sure, there's a ('Technology Preview') plugin -- not updated since February -- which gives some flaky, unintegrated WPF support to VS2005, but it's not worth bothering with for any serious application.

So, the Windows dev community are stuck with a kludged VS2005 or a Beta VS2008 for building Vista (or, more correctly, .NET3) applications... and Vista's been 'Gold' for at least 10 months...

I'm expecting adoption of Leopard's features amongst 3rd party apps to be very swift. Within a couple of months you'll have real apps doing really cool stuff with tech like CoreAnimation -- not just some 'technology demo' stuff.

You are so right !!! Look with the transition to Intel it went really smooth !!!

Imagine such a big transition with Microsoft style !!!! even after 10 month Of vista you still don't have the proper tool to build application for it LOL !!!!

VIVA APPLE !!!

 

[cecemf]

Yes it works on 10.4.10 and Safari, Mail, Address book ....

But thank you very much as i didn't know that function before !!!!

You haven't seen what the Dock looked like in the first few developer preview builds of Mac OS X, have you?

Screenshot of Mac OS X Developer Preview 3

Take a close look. Files, applications, and minimized windows all jumbled together randomly, ugly mismatched backgrounds instead of transparent ones, etc.

After carefully analyzing the Dock from DP3, I would think anyone would be grateful for what we have today.

That actually scary !!! Mac os X came a long way since then !

 

[swingerofbirch]

hello apple remember the rest of the world ? look at that map with the US in the middle of earth… !

now i'm sure Apple is ethnocentred

I think that just happens to be the best picture of Earth from space that exists. It's quite often used, known as the blue marble.

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2429

 

[NicP]

What's up with the 404 Error on the original story's "Gallery" link?

Maybe in the previous 16 pages somewhere I can find a re-direct or maybe it's now just dead - either way... could someone fix it?

I've been coming back to this story to see the gallery shots... for what seems like 2 days now. >:-(

I concur, is there a new gallery up somewhere?

 

[Trepex]

Anywhere in Canada doing pre-orders? Amazon.com offer says it will only ship within the US...

 

[Lesser Evets]

Since WPF was released before Core Animation was released, how can it be a knock-off of CA?

Well they both rip off Gertie the Dinosaur, so eat that, nerds.

 

[mactogo]

The latest Mac OS 10 Leopard seed that was released on Friday to developers has introduced a number of notable visual tweaks to the operating system. Notes and screenshots have been gathered from public forums which reveal the improvements found in the latest version of Mac OS X Leopard.

iCal's icon reflects today's date

- The Welcome Video to Mac OS X 10.5 now has a new audio track and has been posted to YouTube.
- iCal's Dock icon now reflects the current date (image)
- New Desktop images (image)
- New Spaces Icon (image)
- Front Row has its own icon (image) and seems identical to Apple TV
- Menus and dialog sheets now overlay with a translucent filter, allowing you to see a hint of the underlying windows.
- Screen sharing "finally works right" and seems very fast at full resolution
- More user interface consistency across the operating system

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ical showing surrent date is a nice feature, i was wondering why it didnt show current date when i switch to mac and i got my macbook pro but i guess better now than never. im waiting for leopard, i hope they come out soon.

 

[goosnarrggh]

That's a geek solution, not a mainstream one.

Geek?

The geeks already had WPF on their XP machines because they visit Microsoft's Windows Update website on a regular basis and look for updates labelled as "non-critical".

What displaced was talking about is, in fact, the mainstream solution.

We're talking about software manufacturers bundling .NET 3.0 with their software installers on the CD.

We're talking about an automated installation, where one portion of the installation is a prerequisite check to see whether or not .NET 3.0 is already installed on an XP system or not, and including it as part of the installation process as necessary.

Sounds pretty luddite-safe to me.

For the mainstream people who don't buy new software... well, they wouldn't even notice the absence of WPF in the first place because they obviously don't have any software that depends on it.

 

[goosnarrggh]

even after 10 month Of vista you still don't have the proper tool to build application for it LOL !!!!

IMO anybody developing software that targets .NET is just asking for a performance-hog.

Imagine buying "universal" software that, by design, never runs natively anywhere. Well, with .NET, you get the equivalent of always running under Rosetta all the time. That's probably the reason why they needed to add a presentations framework in the first place - the .NET byte code is interpreted so slowly, they needed to hack in a back-door into native code to get the animations running at a reasonable speed.

I'll stick with the native Win32 API (and Win64 if I ever need to write 64-bit native code) thank you very much.