More Leopard Features and Screenshots

[2nyRiggz]

Still... meh.

Agreed....Think they will change up UI a little(I mean allows us to transparent the dock without an app..stuff like that)






Bless

 

[Dr.Gargoyle]

Well, I don't know about the name considering iHome are a successful company that make a range of iPod-enabled clock radios but it certainly sounds like a good product.

well, I was more talking about a digital media hub gadget previously named iHome. uHome? would do just as well for me, just begin to produce it.

 

[Daschund]

thank goodness for the ichat upgrades.

I'd still second the request that it needs to work with MSN to be useful in the real world...

Daschund

 

[BenK01]

But I stand by Apple for now, that they do have some "bigger" features they just aren't showing us....

What's the next logical step in a computer interface? I used to say "Computer, show me the money" to open Quicken back in pre-OS X days. More of a gimmick than anything else, but imagine if the Finder and maybe even other apps became "speakable."

Me: "Check mail"

Computer: "You have nine new messages. Would you like me to read them?"

Me: "No, thanks."

(clicks on an email, reads message)

Me: "Reply to this message"

Computer: "Type or speak?

Me: "Type"

type-type-type

Me: "Computer, I'd like to add a photo of the kids to this email."

Computer: "iphoto has 6,813 pictures of the kids, which one would you like?"

Me: "One from the birthday party last week."

Computer: (a strip from iphoto appears) "Here are 23 from last week. I've highlighted the one where your wife fixed the red eye. Is that the one you want?"

Me: "Yes, that will be fine."

Computer adds the picture to stationery in the email, other pictures go away.

Me: "Send the email"

Me: "...and order me a pizza."

This kind of thing can't be too far off. A 75 mhz Performa could do it in a rudimentary way. Imagine what a modern Mac may be able to do. "Speakeasy" has a nice ring to it.

 

[MacBoobsPro]

if only. if only. but I can't see it happening. it's such a shame because I'd love to be able to use iChat

NO one uses iChat because no one uses AIM. Its all crappy MSN!

 

[IEatApples]

I use the Junk Meter widget to see mine and just leave it sitting open on Dashboard all the time.

Thanks! It's great, but I would have preferred a "get info" option, or something like that.
Oh well..

 

[ebow]

i like the new Preview look

I don't. Well, if they would make most other apps follow the same look (pioneered by Mail.app) then I wouldn't mind it too much. The number of distinct interface styles is getting to be absurd. Thank goodness for UNO.

 

[nagromme]

One thing im not too keen on is the Safari loading icon. I think the loading bar in Tiger is much easier to see.

If you are working in another window you can see the bar shooting along (or not) the Safari window with out looking directly at it. If they keep this new one then you will have to 'actually look at it' to see where its at.

I'll chime in too agree with everyone on this Sites have all different favicons in that spot--so there's no one image to show the page is loaded! Bad place for a progress meter. The big bar was better.

I want a way to see how much space the trash is taking up before I empty it. Is there a way? There was in OS 9 and OS 8.

Silly as it seems, you can Select All in the Trash, then Get Info. (Or Cmd-A Cmd-I for short.)

 

[Applespider]

NO one uses iChat because no one uses AIM. Its all crappy MSN!

I use iChat with a Jabber ID to chat to my MSN buddies. I don't tend to send them files or audio chat with them so it's fine for just text.

 

[xPismo]

Progress is good, but I don't see any killer apps which will make me upgrade day 1. This might change, but really 10.4 does everything I need it to do so far.

I guess my pro apps will probably force me to upgrade at some point.

Does anyone else get a kitten ichat image with the third spotlight image? Is that a new feature? (/me missed something.)

[edit] ah I get it now. That image should have some context around it... its a preview image in spotlight... maybe I' slow today.

 

[baleensavage]

A lot of the features look great but the Spotlight screenshot has me worried. It looks like very little has changed with the results. The biggest failure of Spotlight for me has been the lack of the ability to sort your results by modification date. I used to use the find file to look for items on our server all the time, now it is totally useless because they show up alphabetically. I would have hoped that Apple would have gotten wise about that with Leopard. Apparently they havent listened to all the Mac users who think that Spotlight in Tiger is trash.

 

[m-dogg]

I like the safari updates like the warnings and ability to consolidate tabs into one window. Those are some little things I've wished for.

There are some add-on's available to accomodate some of these today, but I'm happy to see them finally being integrated into the app itself.

 

[ebow]

Does anyone else get a kitten ichat image with the third spotlight image? Is that a new feature? (/me missed something.)

It's the new Kitten War integration in 10.5--supposed to be a top-secret feature but I guess the cat's out of the bag (pun intended for my enjoyment only--I'm in a lonnng meeting).

 

[SiliconAddict]

Purchase spare battery? Nice Apple nice. It may be a legit option, god knows its somewhat a PITA to find on apple's site, but still. I don't want to hear anyone complaining about MS's in OS ads.

 

[Applespider]

Purchase spare battery? Nice Apple nice.

Wasn't there a 'purchase printer ink' in Tiger somewhere? I don't have a printer at home so can't check... but pretty sure I remember us having the 'OS as a shop' discussion a couple of years ago.

 

[DPazdanISU]

Oh. I thought it would be how fast the dock unhides when you hover over it.

im pretty sure this allows you to control how often applications spring up and down in the dock when something happens in them-- kinda like when you get an incoming chat while you are using another app...

alot of people get annoyed by that feature and i am one of them

 

[Project]

I dont see what the problem is for something like a battery.

 

[ebow]

im pretty sure this allows you to control how often applications spring up and down in the dock when something happens in them-- kinda like when you get an incoming chat while you are using another app...

alot of people get annoyed by that feature and i am one of them

I'm pretty confident that aspect is called "bounce". I know that Adium has an option to limit how many bounces the icon makes when it's trying to notify you of something. I thought that there was a setting for the OS itself but I could be wrong.

The only significant place Apple has used the term "spring" before is with spring-loading folders, something they haven't yet brought to folders placed in the dock, so that must be what it means.

 

[dongmin]

• Finder Prefs - Grid spacing

Yes! Welcome to the 21th century, Apple. About time. The current grid spacing is one of my biggest OS X peeves.

 

[dongmin]

see a little demo animation for search inside the safari app.
http://www.handras.hu/stuff/ani2.mov

Has that pop-up video flavor, doesn't it??? Stylin...

 

[elmimmo]

• Preview - improved buttons

Hey, don't say that too loud.

From the ever changing Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines:

Making each toolbar icon distinct helps the user associate it with its purpose and locate it quickly. Variations in shape, color, and image all help to differentiate one toolbar icon from another.

And that's how they read now… "Back" at the release of Tiger it was like this:

Each toolbar icon should be easily and quickly distinguishable from the other items in the toolbar. Toolbar icons emphasize their outline form, rather than subtler visual details.

(no explanation on why the changed was deemed more appropriate).

Hey, don't look at me. I did not write that!

 

[Cougarcat]

i like the new Preview look

Really? I can't stand it. The buttons break Apple's own Human Interface guidelines and make the interface even less inconsistent. One of the first things I did when I got tiger was to install Mail Stamps to restore the old look.

 

[Leondunkleyc]

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[Porchland]

What's the next logical step in a computer interface? I used to say "Computer, show me the money" to open Quicken back in pre-OS X days. More of a gimmick than anything else, but imagine if the Finder and maybe even other apps became "speakable."

Me: "Check mail"

Computer: "You have nine new messages. Would you like me to read them?"

Me: "No, thanks."

(clicks on an email, reads message)

Me: "Reply to this message"

Computer: "Type or speak?

Me: "Type"

type-type-type

Me: "Computer, I'd like to add a photo of the kids to this email."

Computer: "iphoto has 6,813 pictures of the kids, which one would you like?"

Me: "One from the birthday party last week."

Computer: (a strip from iphoto appears) "Here are 23 from last week. I've highlighted the one where your wife fixed the red eye. Is that the one you want?"

Me: "Yes, that will be fine."

Computer adds the picture to stationery in the email, other pictures go away.

Me: "Send the email"

Me: "...and order me a pizza."

This kind of thing can't be too far off. A 75 mhz Performa could do it in a rudimentary way. Imagine what a modern Mac may be able to do. "Speakeasy" has a nice ring to it.

I want mine to use the old-school Mac voice that Radiohead used in "Fitter Happier."

 

[playaj82]

Has that pop-up video flavor, doesn't it??? Stylin...

I wish you could change the color or shape of the pop-up.
Or, if you could use Independent ResUI and have it zoom in on that portion of the web page where the word appears, but within the Safari web browser.

Or combine it with some core animation stuff and blacken the rest of the screen except for the Safari browser, and put red dots on the term each place it shows up like a laser pointer in a presentation

That would be slick