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Safari 3 (available as a free, very polished beta) opens PDF files in a browser window.
There's also this excellent plug-in (free for home or edu use).
Finally there's dedicated apps for scientific PDF management, like the award-winning Papers.
sweeeeet.
I'll pick up a new Mac Mini once Leopard comes pre-installed. That will be my first intel Mac and a huge speed bump over my 12" PB! I guess I like my computers to be small.
I'll pick up a new Mac Mini once Leopard comes pre-installed. That will be my first intel Mac and a huge speed bump over my 12" PB! I guess I like my computers to be small.
command + escape activates front row
Exactly. And with a tower the keyboard's usually right in front of you. I never use the remote with my iMac either. The keyboard's right there!
Really, the laptops are the only ones where the remote is useful. I've set mine up on projectors or just up in front of people and used the remote many times. But on a desktop? Never.
I still don't get it...
Why does everyone always post about the updated icons, how an application has moved, and other things that really don't matter. It seems to happen much more often relating to macs, but I saw a story on digg yesterday about some new KDE icons. Who cares?? As a mac (linux and windows, too, for what it matters) owner, I want to know more about the meat of the OS and how it will affect my daily usage. Talk about if performance in core animation has been improved, boot camp rebooting has been simplified, finder has finally reached the level of linux/windows circa 1995, etc. I can always set my own background, find the application with the old icons (or quicksilver), etc. There. Enough venting. Please, someone, show me why I'm wrong, because i HAVE to be missing something.
Why does everyone always post about the updated icons, how an application has moved, and other things that really don't matter. It seems to happen much more often relating to macs, but I saw a story on digg yesterday about some new KDE icons. Who cares?? As a mac (linux and windows, too, for what it matters) owner, I want to know more about the meat of the OS and how it will affect my daily usage. Talk about if performance in core animation has been improved, boot camp rebooting has been simplified, finder has finally reached the level of linux/windows circa 1995, etc. I can always set my own background, find the application with the old icons (or quicksilver), etc. There. Enough venting. Please, someone, show me why I'm wrong, because i HAVE to be missing something.
the secret features were revealed at wwdc 07. im surprised no one has realized this. as far as i can tell they seemed to have revamped the finder quite a bit including its stability
Does anyone else agree that Thinksecret is doing Apple a disservice with these poorly compressed images?
Come on? Are you saying that are the secret features? Not shocking. Even Vista had more interesting features
of course, if you save them, you can hunt for that scrap of an idea later using spotlight
Gaaaahhhhh!
Do Thinksecret really think we want to see yet more grabs of the desktop pictures system prefs?! - and 7, yes 7! grabs of the voiceover utility!?
Anyway...
It good to see the status bar in Mail.app - rather than having to keep the separate 'Activity window' open, I'm looking forward to mail becoming the home of all my individual and sometimes random notes etc. I'll be keen to see how I might be able to change those note and to-do's into alarms / ical events...
Also, I'm surprised that the icons on the sidebar of finder windows don't scale to fit as they currently do. I get the feeling Apple are hoping to have a user only ever have one main finder window open that is always kept to quite a large size, I get the feeling that we'll be seeing more and more finder options and functionality - could the finder do away with the necessity for desktop in its current form?... just a thought...
Do Thinksecret really think we want to see yet more grabs of the desktop pictures system prefs?! - and 7, yes 7! grabs of the voiceover utility!?
Anyway...
It good to see the status bar in Mail.app - rather than having to keep the separate 'Activity window' open, I'm looking forward to mail becoming the home of all my individual and sometimes random notes etc. I'll be keen to see how I might be able to change those note and to-do's into alarms / ical events...
Also, I'm surprised that the icons on the sidebar of finder windows don't scale to fit as they currently do. I get the feeling Apple are hoping to have a user only ever have one main finder window open that is always kept to quite a large size, I get the feeling that we'll be seeing more and more finder options and functionality - could the finder do away with the necessity for desktop in its current form?... just a thought...
10.6 will probably be "Lion" (maybe "Lynx" for a smaller OS update)
This is probably a VERY stupid question, but what were the OS names before the 10 series? I'm new to the Apple world.
Come on? Are you saying that are the secret features? Not shocking. Even Vista had more interesting features
thats b/c xp to vista was like going from mac os 9 to 10.4
I am not a fan of all the dark greys in Leopard, I like bright whites of Tiger much better.
I wanna be excited for Leopard but I just don't see any new thing in it that I desire. That combined with fear of bugs and lockups for the first few months, diminished performance and the possible need for memory upgrade kind of takes the win out of the bag for me.
I just wish there this one, or even several big new things in Leopard that stood out and screamed gotta get this.
I wanna be excited for Leopard but I just don't see any new thing in it that I desire. That combined with fear of bugs and lockups for the first few months, diminished performance and the possible need for memory upgrade kind of takes the win out of the bag for me.
I just wish there this one, or even several big new things in Leopard that stood out and screamed gotta get this.
thats b/c xp to vista was like going from mac os 9 to 10.4
Whaa!? It had a number of new features I could count on my hand. The difference between Tiger and OS9 is astronomical!
well..there was OS 8 and OS 9...with all the ".'s" of course after them..but actual NAMES..idk..
I would like to see Cougar or Lion. Do you think Lion could be the name of the final OSX Release because its the King? I really hope there isn't a Bobcat or House Cat/Feline. They are just too fluffy looking.
That icon for "Notes" in "Mail" sure looks a helluva lot like the iPhone's "Notes." I'll be ecstatic if Leopard Mail's Notes/ToDos end up syncing with iPhone 1.2.
they effing better.
after using leopard, my iPhone .mac inbox shows a folder called "notes"
forgot my laptop had a remote, tis in the bag. until front row can play dvd images from the hard drive (dvd player can so why nit FR?) I doubt i'll be using it much anyway.
though it does look very nice, i guess if i had something like a mini hooked up as an entertainment centre then yes though.
the future..
10.6 (puss)
10.7 (damn cat)
10.8 (Crispy Fried #27 & pair of gloves)
...
etc
though it does look very nice, i guess if i had something like a mini hooked up as an entertainment centre then yes though.
the future..
10.6 (puss)
10.7 (damn cat)
10.8 (Crispy Fried #27 & pair of gloves)
...
etc
Pretty Big New Things...
Spaces - For me thats going to be like Expose - I cant even remember how i lived without it now. Whenever I use a mac without Expose and I find myself hitting F9 and nothing happens... oh man! you mean I have to actually start moving my windows out the of the way to 'find' a window?... I already know Spaces is going to revolutionise how I interact with my Mac - again!
Time Machine - unless you have been in the position when you hit 'Save' instead of 'Save As' or when you delete a folder only to find an image within that folder is linked to another document someplace you will never know how valuable this awesome new feature is going to be...
iChat Theatre & Quicklook - Collaborating and presenting work / ideas / etc with others just became a whole new big deal... When other's start to implement Quicklook with their documents it will get even better - I can already imagine having an open document in Photoshop and hitting a Quicklook button to 'show' it to a client via iChat - they want to see a change? I jump back to Ps, make the change, hit Ql button - and boom... you get the idea...
Quicklook - no more having to keep Preview, Quicktime, TextEdit et al constantly open to quickly look at various files...
Spaces - For me thats going to be like Expose - I cant even remember how i lived without it now. Whenever I use a mac without Expose and I find myself hitting F9 and nothing happens... oh man! you mean I have to actually start moving my windows out the of the way to 'find' a window?... I already know Spaces is going to revolutionise how I interact with my Mac - again!
Time Machine - unless you have been in the position when you hit 'Save' instead of 'Save As' or when you delete a folder only to find an image within that folder is linked to another document someplace you will never know how valuable this awesome new feature is going to be...
iChat Theatre & Quicklook - Collaborating and presenting work / ideas / etc with others just became a whole new big deal... When other's start to implement Quicklook with their documents it will get even better - I can already imagine having an open document in Photoshop and hitting a Quicklook button to 'show' it to a client via iChat - they want to see a change? I jump back to Ps, make the change, hit Ql button - and boom... you get the idea...
Quicklook - no more having to keep Preview, Quicktime, TextEdit et al constantly open to quickly look at various files...
Pre OSX releases were usually not called by their codenames. Mac OS 9 and 8, System 7 and 6 (maybe 5?) and before that, just finder.
Of course, if you wanted to get really old, you could start into GS/OS.
I would like to see Cougar or Lion. Do you think Lion could be the name of the final OSX Release because its the King? I really hope there isn't a Bobcat or House Cat/Feline. They are just too fluffy looking.
I just looked up Cougar on the internet and another name for it is Puma... So I guess that one is out.