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The Quicktime features like Realplayer and DivX integration would, combining it with Flip4Mac, make QT the one stop for video playback, which definitely would be a first and very cool besides.
 
IJ Reilly said:
Safari 3.0:
- Isolation box. When this is activated, Safari grows a little black shield around it and everything to do with Safari takes place instead in an encrypted disk image of a special filesystem that nulls unix permissions, anything that is written goes there and can't execute out of the image. The image is deleted after the session.
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That's pretty sweet!
 
Diatribe said:
The Quicktime features like Realplayer and DivX integration would, combining it with Flip4Mac, make QT the one stop for video playback, which definitely would be a first and very cool besides.
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Until they add playlist features to Quicktime, it won't be a one stop for me.
 
gauchogolfer said:
I'd like the MSN and Yahoo chat integration to be true, especially for video chats.
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This is one of the reasons I think this stuff is made up. I just can't see MS or Yahoo! allowing them to do this.
 
The biggest reason I think at least some of this stuff is BS is the following "feature":
Safari 3.0
- Tabs can now operate on more than one line, and be saved.
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All I can say is "Heck no." This is one of the things that makes Properties panels in XP (as a feature of the XP UI in general) so horribly user-unfriendly. Multi-line tabs are not logical, and are a very poor design choice. I highly doubt Apple will implement this. Ergo, the list is BS. :)
 
AtHomeBoy_2000 said:
Safari 3.0:
- Isolation box. When this is activated, Safari grows a little black shield around it and everything to do with Safari takes place instead in an encrypted disk image of a special filesystem that nulls unix permissions, anything that is written goes there and can't execute out of the image. The image is deleted after the session.
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Aw! That's one of vista's (actually, IE 7's) prized features! They're going after them like never before. Leopard is going to make Vista look like crap.
 
dr_lha said:
Apple engineers must surf a lot of dodgy porn. ;)
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yea, I was wondering about that. First "private browsing" and now this... either they're really concerned about sensitive financial data or they're in to some sicko porn. :p or both

I wish they'd fix ichat. I really want to like it, but it just can't hold a candle to adium, and it doesn't seem like this is going to fix any of the things that I wish they'd fix. (more customizable, chatting in tabs, option to display user name rather than real name if contact is in address book, just to name a few)

no thanks on mail's "gmail thread system." My least favorite thing about gmail is their thread system.

too many widgets. We just don't need widgets for every little thing.

Please fix spotlight's metadata searching so it actually WORKS, and make it faster. No other changes needed.

the automater, ical, address book, and quicktime changes all sound good to me. :)
 
Did I miss it? The most important new feature that I want is an updated Finder that brings it into line with what Explorer has been able to do for at least 10 years. Without that there is no way I would go for it.
 
jholzner said:
This is one of the reasons I think this stuff is made up. I just can't see MS or Yahoo! allowing them to do this.
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Several (open and closed) projects have been doing that for almost a decade.

It wouldn't be a stunning new "innovation" from Apple, it would be "about time."
 
I agree that the MSN/Yahoo integration sounds fishy although it is difficult to see how iChat will ever be any use in a cross-platform environment unless it embraces some other protocols. To be fair, Skype is beginning to look and behave like a really decent OS X app, so what's the point in iChat?

As for spotlight, I hope there's more under-the-hood changes as I am constantly disappointed by the Tiger implementation. Why can't I drag items from the pop-up list? Why can't I do 'open with' with a spotlight item? Why didn't smart folders work like normal ones, and have proper and/or logic to their contents? These are the things I want to see in spotlight 2.0. (also, why would it be called spotlight 2.0? It's not an app).

I guess the 'lighting-up' spotlight effect is for when you are looking for something and, hey, there it was, right in front of me... hmm...
 
Features sound possible (though slightly dissapointing--where is the revamped finder??) I don't care about "Dashboard 2.0".) though the screenshots look horribly fake and do not match the description. The spotlight search does not have the new icon view, and neither the apple or spotlight icon is changed. You can place Widgets on the desktop in tiger. If they wanted this to be convincing, why not take a screenshot of iChat's "different layout" that's hard to explain?

Oh yeah, it's fake.
 
michaelrjohnson said:
The biggest reason I think at least some of this stuff is BS is the following "feature":

All I can say is "Heck no." This is one of the things that makes Properties panels in XP (as a feature of the XP UI in general) so horribly user-unfriendly. Multi-line tabs are not logical, and are a very poor design choice. I highly doubt Apple will implement this. Ergo, the list is BS. :)
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Here's the reason why I think it's fake:
QuickTime 7.2:
- Full screen and audio recording available in non-Pro version
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There's no way that Apple is going to give us full screen QuickTime for free. ;)
 
Josh said:
Several (open and closed) projects have been doing that for almost a decade.

It wouldn't be a stunning new "innovation" from Apple, it would be "about time."
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True but they are just hacking the protocol and I'm sure Apple would prefer to get premission before doing it like they did with AIM.
 
Even if only half of those are true I'm definately buying it. And I don't usually get about getting the new OSs right away.
 
I'm waiting until 10.5.3 at the earliest... I want a version of Leopard that is close to bug-free...
 
tipdrill407 said:
Why? MSN live messenger allows you to message Yahoo users so i don't see why this won't happen.
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Fair enough, I didn't know that. Is that integration endorsed by Yahoo, or a hack like with other Mac messaging solutions? Presumably Apple need to get the iSight camera working with as many video protocols as possible, or just adopt one that is actually widely used.

Regarding iChat, it's odd how all those rumours about interactive whiteboarding features didn't get a mention.
 
jholzner said:
True but they are just hacking the protocol and I'm sure Apple would prefer to get premission before doing it like they did with AIM.
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They are not "hacking" anything, in the criminal definition of the word. It breaks no laws nor constraints and is perfectly legal.

Trillian, for example, is a closed-source IM client which you can buy over the net. They have legally been in opperation for several years.

It is not by some secret, illegal "hacking" that this is possible, nor is it by affiliation with Yahoo!/MSN/AOL.
 
IJ Reilly said:
Isolation box. When this is activated, Safari grows a little black shield around it and everything to do with Safari takes place instead in an encrypted disk image of a special filesystem that nulls unix permissions, anything that is written goes there and can't execute out of the image. The image is deleted after the session.
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Can somebody please explain to me what this means?
 
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