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Leopard is Coming--What Do You Think the Top Secrets Are?
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What I would most like to see is way to legally add my DVD's to my iTunes Library without having to resort to Handbrake or Mac the Ripper. Wrap a little FairPlay around it so it can't be copied (after all you already own it on a disk) to make the studios happy and you would really seeTV take off. Make it a function of the OS to drive sales/switches.
Would never happen. You can't assume that the person owns the disk, what about rentals?
Eliminating bloatware?
I'm beginning to think that the "top secret" ingredient to Leopard has been hinted at in one of the recent new Mac ads, the one about Microsoft and all the bloatware demo. programs. If both iLife and iWork, in full working order, are included not only on new machines but system disks the ad all of a sudden has real punch. And with a spreadsheet in iWork, that saves to and reads excel, it would be quite handy. At the same time, no need to give beta testers a crack at things.
I'm beginning to think that the "top secret" ingredient to Leopard has been hinted at in one of the recent new Mac ads, the one about Microsoft and all the bloatware demo. programs. If both iLife and iWork, in full working order, are included not only on new machines but system disks the ad all of a sudden has real punch. And with a spreadsheet in iWork, that saves to and reads excel, it would be quite handy. At the same time, no need to give beta testers a crack at things.
What about CDs? iTunes imports those and you can't be certain the person owns it
That is a very interesting idea... and one that would truly revolutionize how people use their Macs. I would assume that the price would be increased if such a thing happened... but I hope the price increase is no more than the combined prices of Mac OS X, iLife, and iWork separately... in fact, I hope it's a little less than that combined total. If it was, I'd buy it instantly...
Apple would never integrate something like WINE, why would they give an excuse for not developing for the mac, if it was so easy to just run a app developers would just think oh we don't need to port a mac version, they can just use the windows version
I don't know...a lot of people stay with Windows because the ONE app they use requires the OS...
I don't get this either. Why can't I import my DVDs onto iTunes like my CDs? It's not as if I can even buy stuff off the iTunes store since I don't live in the US. Which makes thE
TV useless.Get it sorted Apple.
Would anyone else besides me love to see Growl or a growl-like notification system built into the core of the OS? I absolutely love Growl and can not live without it. It is very nice knowing what your computer is doing, especially when multitasking or changing input devices or networks.
As far as confirmed features, I am most excited about Spaces. If they ingeniously merge Spaces and Expose, they may just have the best windows management experience ever. Like if you could close stuff from Expose as in Dashboard. The possibilities are endless and the impact will be tremendous, even more so than a revamped finder. Plus, no one really innovates on this front. Gnome's multiple desktop feature sucks big time. The only really nice thing I have seen recently on this front is the live preview system in Vista, very handy.
As far as confirmed features, I am most excited about Spaces. If they ingeniously merge Spaces and Expose, they may just have the best windows management experience ever. Like if you could close stuff from Expose as in Dashboard. The possibilities are endless and the impact will be tremendous, even more so than a revamped finder. Plus, no one really innovates on this front. Gnome's multiple desktop feature sucks big time. The only really nice thing I have seen recently on this front is the live preview system in Vista, very handy.
CDs aren't encrypted. DVDs are. To allow the DVD to be ripped, you need to decrypt it which may not be illegal but it would not make the movie execs happy. Unhappy movie execs = no iTunes movies = no additional revenue for Apple.
Not a secret feature, or even anything that exciting, but I sure would like it if the Finder was improved to handle network shares better. A "Reconnect at Login" box a la windows drive mapping would be sweet.
Yes!
I'd also be happy with a built-in printer test page. I'd like to see it as a toolbar item in the Printer Setup Utility. Select your printer, then click on "Print a test page". Any reason Apple could not produce the coolest printer test page in town?
Apple already supports Boot Camp. A WINE-like Application makes more since and would be much better for programs that will be Windows only--a feature like this would be especially useful for programs that are no longer in development and are still really useful.
Plus people from the Windows side of the mountain already have a lot of software--many people don't want to switch over to the Mac and have to buy some their software from scratch just to get Mac licenses on the software that wasn't dual licensed for both the Mac and the PC.
I can list many more reasons why Apple should and would decide to develop a WINE-like application for Mac OS X Leopard--or even Mac OS X 10.6.
Here is something that you can already do with Safari:
1. Click on to the "Safari" menu
2. Click on the "Preferences..." option
3. Click on the "Appearance" tab
4. Uncheck the box titled "Display images when the page opens"
This should at least partially meet your criteria.
Perhaps you aren't using the most up-to-date version of Safari which does have fair PDF support but if you are using the latest version of Safari I do agree that a few major improvements can be made (such as adding the keyboard shortcuts command+= to zoom in and command+- to zoom out of PDFs). Also command+[ (the back keyboard shortcut) doesn't work for me when I am viewing PDFs in Safari. I'm not sure if it's because I have Safari plug-ins or not but it certainly is annoying.
Try this:
1. Press command+option+8 (to toggle systemwide zooming on and off)
2. Press command+option+= (to zoom in when systemwide zooming is on)
3. Press command+option+- (to zoom out when systemwide zooming is on)
This feature works great for viewing videos in Safari.
Yes I have a reason--Apple wouldn't be able to make a universal print test page standard because Apple would need to know more about each printer brand and style to make a proper test page. Leave this job to the printer manufactures--most of the manufactures will probably do it much better than Apple. If Apple went back to manufacturing printers again however--then--bring on the test page for Apple printers Apple!
Yes--that's the WINE-like application that we've been talking about in this thread. Wouldn't it be great to have?
(I first brought WINE up in this thread on post #25.)
Although I agree they should leave it to the printer manufacturers, can I just point out that Microsoft have a standard test page on Windows? If the printer driver is installed correctly (the thing being tested) the actual test page layout is universal. That would go for OSX too.
CrossOver for Mac already fills this need. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be too happy if Apple stomped all over their territory...Yes--that's the WINE-like application that we've been talking about in this thread. Wouldn't it be great to have?
(I first brought WINE up in this thread on post #25.)
Finder and Spotlight intergrated together better into one app that has much drawn from iTunes. Essentially, you can do away with folders altogether, all images are lumped together, all documents, all music, all video, etc etc. Then you create 'playlists' of various items like in itunes.