Leopard 9A303 Screenshots and Features

[MacRumors]

AeroXP and World of Apple have posted screenshots from the latest built of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

These screenshots depict some additional features from Leopard including:

Leapard's Firewall preference tab
The Firewall alerts you when an external machine tries to enter your machine
File Recovery is now included, allowing you search and restore deleted files

Apple seeded the latest version of Leopard (9A303) to developers last week.

 

[macintel4me]

Isn't this a repost? I saw these pics already and I thought there were from here. hmmm

 

[dalvin200]

i like the calculations in spotlight!! awesome!

 

[dmw007]

i like the calculations in spotlight!! awesome!

I know, that is pretty cool.


I can't wait until Leopard is released.

 

[MacDonaldsd]

I do like the new spotlight features

 

[relimw]

File recovery as a standard feature has been needed for a long time, it's about time they put it in.

 

[MatthewCobb]

OK, either I'm dim and can't see why on earth anyone would want to do a calculation in Spotlight, or the rest of you are being ironic and I just haven't got it...

Which is it, folks?

 

[henrikmk]

OK, either I'm dim and can't see why on earth anyone would want to do a calculation in Spotlight, or the rest of you are being ironic and I just haven't got it...

Because it's a zillion times faster to press cmd-space 2 + 2 than going to Dashboard, click on the calculator and typing the numbers there?

 

[ziwi]

Please be ready in January...or very soon after

 

[AndyR]

Would be so cool if Apple pulled a stormer and released this before "Virus Insecure Spyware Trojan Adware" and blew everyone away.

Sadly I don't think it will come out in time but its still gonna be cool!

 

[galstaph]

I can't wait for this this to be finnaly out and ready
soo many cool new features. Now I need to find the cash to buy me a new machine to make it worth my while....

 

[Compile 'em all]

i like the calculations in spotlight!! awesome!

Yeah, spotlight is starting to have that Google feel to it

 

[bousozoku]

There seem to be substantial enhancements to the firewall in GUI. Maybe, they'll finish off the last of those things that have to be done behind the scenes.

Will the look-and-feel shown be seen everywhere? I hope so.

 

[hirenj]

Reference library

Did anyone else notice how the Dictionary app is no longer called Dictionary and Thesaurus, but "Reference L(something)", probably Reference Library.

On that note, wouldn't it be cool to have Wikipedia/Encyclopaedia integration? And, since it would seem like a minimal bit of extra effort - add in searching for APIs and programming reference material. All from spotlight. That would really kick arse.

 

[Chef Medeski]

i like the calculations in spotlight!! awesome!

So, basically in OS 10.5, they are trying to make Dashboard less useful. That it figure out ways that marginalize the last release. But I do think $80 is just worth that feature. Two thumbs up. Especially since Calculator and Dictionary take up like 25MB of RAM.

 

[dalvin200]

did i hear somewhere that there would be integrated google search in spotlight?

 

[nagromme]

Nice! A hint at what res-independent Aqua UI elements will look like--see the stoplight dots on the window:

http://img179.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture6tc2.png

(Looks like they still need to add a vector stroke around those buttons though.)

 

[treblah]

AeroXP and World of Apple have posted screenshots from the latest built of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Unless the OP at AeroXP is the admin for WoA, they blatantly ripped off the AeroXP thread. And four days late too.

Poor form in linking to World of Apple.

 

[jlewis2k1]

the second this thing becomes available i am driving to my apple store and taking my little mac mini with me (getting a small upgrade). while it is being upgraded i am going to purchase leopard, apple care for my ipod and mac mini :-D. so i expect to pay around 600 or 700 bucks there.

 

[mkrishnan]

It is starting to sound nice!

Spotlight changes -- sweeeet!

The file recovery feature seems outstanding... very nicely designed and simple, yet functional. This sounds like it's a feature completely on its own besides Time Machine.

I like the firewall improvements, although it would be nice to see outgoing app firewalling also built-in. Nonetheless I like this a lot. I also hope that you can set whether you want that pop-up asking if you wish to accept an incident transmission, or automatically deny all incident transmissions of that type. Cuz god that could get annoying.

 

[ChrisA]

OK, either I'm dim and can't see why on earth anyone would want to do a calculation in Spotlight, or the rest of you are being ironic and I just haven't got it...

Which is it, folks?

The average user would never use the feature. BUT this is a DEVELOMENT preview. Developers use calculations inside queries all the time. For example (I paraphrase..)

Let X= 5
Find all gizmos where the size is between (size of a bus)-x and (size of a bus)+x

This will turn up some gizmos that are about the same size as a bus and we can adjust what "about" means be setting values to X. In the above I'm asking the system to look up the size of a bus an perform two calulations of the result.

One other example:

Let X be (number of time file was accessed this week)
set "rating" to current ratting + 0.1(X-5);

Not something you'd do unless you were making a script or automator action. Devalopers need a user interface so they can run the querries by hand and get them to work before putting the query in thier code. Spotlight has always had the ability to do complex querries but now in leopard it seems a little of that is prevented to the user.

 

[Markleshark]

One of the comments at WoA said something like 'It's nice to see Apple are securing the OS to make sure a widespread virus is never a possibily' and I couldn't help but agree fully and think thats one of the best points ever made. Ever.

If you think about it, if its secure in the first place all your resources can be put into making it even more secure and updating that security, rather than fixing things that aint secure, making it secure and then updating that shoddy security. But we knew this already...

Edit: Not use calculations in Spotlight? Have you seen how many 'Google opens' that will save me a day...

 

[hesdeadjim]

The average user would never use the feature. BUT this is a DEVELOMENT preview. Developers use calculations inside queries all the time. For example (I paraphrase..)

Let X= 5
Find all gizmos where the size is between (size of a bus)-x and (size of a bus)+x

This will turn up some gizmos that are about the same size as a bus and we can adjust what "about" means be setting values to X.

One other example:

Let X be (number of time file was accessed this week)
set "rating" to current ratting + 0.1(X-5);

Not something you'd do unles you were making a script or automator action

Does it really matter if "average" users would use it? I and most engineering studengs use google's calculator function all the time. It would be great to utilize spotlight instead to save some time.

 

[dukebound85]

Because it's a zillion times faster to press cmd-space 2 + 2 than going to Dashboard, click on the calculator and typing the numbers there?

i have always been a fan of pressing actual buttons on an actual calculator. guess im used to it

i cant really stand using a calculator app, i mean you got to move the mouse here and the allllllthe way over there to click the add button lol

 

[peharri]

I too like the idea of a calculator in Spotlight.

I think they could take it one step further, and maybe have other things you can do there just by typing in some letters. For example, if you want to copy a file from one place to another, rather than find it and click it and stuff you should be able to just say "cp" (for copy) "/path/to/file /path/to/new/file", etc. You could have a whole set of prefixes like cp, like mv (move), ls (list, you know, to see what's in a directory), and stuff like that.

Also it'd be kind of useful to have a record of the things you've typed, and what the results were, so maybe they could allow you to open a window, where you enter your "command" on a line at the bottom, let's call it a "command line" because that's what it'd be for, and then the results would scroll up above that line (together with what you typed. So you can see what it was you entered.)

That'd be cool.