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Looks good enough to eat!
This is the most secret development of OSX to date. We didn't have an update at MacWorld this year and don't really know if it will show-up in June or not for the WWDC.
Not really the most secret considering the fact that this OSX release is just under the hood changes without any visible changes. What exactly can Apple show us at the MacWorld other than source code?
Apple ain't going on stage to say "Ok we added 200 source headers for OpenCL/Grand Central" and so on.
The best secret in the OS X history was the Intel switch. That was a nice surprise.
And we still heard about it ahead of time.
You know anything that other people don't know as of right now?
Wait, in Quicktime when it says "New Video Recording" does that mean it records the screen? If not, what does it mean?
Put Away works on files, not running applications. Hiding works only on running application windows. Hiding an app removes its windows from the screen, leaving only the dock app icon, and no minimized window icon.
"Put Away" is a relic of the floppy days in classic mac OS. The desktop was a virtual place, not a real folder, and it only showed mounted disk volumes. You could insert a floppy, drag a file or folder from it onto the desktop, and eject the disk, and it would leave behind an icon for the file but the file's contents were never transferred from the floppy. If you wanted to open that file, it would prompt for the appropriate floppy. The desktop was a temporary holding place, so you could have a "working set" of files from different places, and change disks without losing sight of which files you were working on. Only your current file needed its floppy inserted. When you were done with those files, you would put them away, to differentiate from deleting a file, or having to remember where to drag it back to. Apple was still leaning heavily on the "desktop metaphor" at this point. Ejecting a floppy also left behind a greyed-out icon for the disk that could be perused, and you would have to drag the phantom (? or shadow? not sure of the actual term they used) disk icon to the trash to indicate that you were really done with that disk. Dragging a floppy directly to the trash became a shortcut that combined the eject command with the shadow icon removal. The "Put Away" command was reused on items in the trash to put them back where they came from.
Cut to OSX, where the desktop is a real folder that can contain actual files and folders, floppies are all but eliminated, and the desktop metaphor is no longer what it used to be. So, the put away command was not included in OSX. I guess they felt that "undo" in the finder was sufficient for accidental trashings.
Well in my current version of QuickTime it means it lets you record video from the iSight, or probably any other video input.
Windows 7 is just what Microsoft should have released instead of Vista, yet they expect people to pay the same amount of money again to get a few badly done GUI features and less ridiculous memory foot-print.
I'm looking forward to Snow Leopard, unless they push some more GUI stuff in then I doubt we'll see much of OpenCL/Grand Central until the next OS revision, as Snow Leopard will otherwise be more of a developer's release, causing apps to start taking advantage of OpenCL/Grand Central for the greater performance/easier programming.
About Snow Leopard? No.
I know a bit about OS XI, on the other hand, but with its release date still being a ways off (not in three years like some people think), I don't claim to be able to say anything with 100% certainty.
About Snow Leopard? No.
I know a bit about OS XI, on the other hand, but with its release date still being a ways off (not in three years like some people think), I don't claim to be able to say anything with 100% certainty.
I'll bite. What do you know about OS XI?
If this can drastically reduce the spinning beach ball of death, I will be one happy camper. I am nearly ready to give up my many Macs due to frequent OS hangs.
Looks interesting, but I don't think I really like the Stacks "drilling" thing. If I really need into a folder in a stack, I'd just open a Finder window. Stacks should be for a folder you use constantly, not a subfolder of that Stack.
Im almost certain those slimmed down file sizes are due to only the English localizations being included in the Snow Leopard DPs (it wouldnt make sense for them to localize until development is finished). If you account for the lack of localizations, Mail (for instance) has actually grown by 8 megs (the Leopard version of Mail sans language files is 28 megs, the Snow Leopard version is 36 megs).
OS XI will be a trans-spacial, 3D, fully-multitouch OS that does not use a physical keyboard or mouse at all.
No hologram nonsense, of course, but the OS will be far more... hands-on.
And NO, monitor screens won't be vertical. "Tired arms", man! The hardware will require a redesign across the board to accommodate the MTGUI of OS XI.
I disagree. Applications is a great example of a stack that would be frequently used. It's nice that I can tap on the Utilities folder without opening a Finder window and then pick whatever app I want to use.
aaaaaand no one will be forcing you to use this new feature so it's a little arrogant of you to suggest this isn't how stacks should work.
+1. I HATE having to open a Finder window to get to Utilities.
Oh, and I'm still vouching for Path Finder integration, even though there is no way that this can be in Snow Leopard at this point.
+1. I HATE having to open a Finder window to get to Utilities.
Oh, and I'm still vouching for Path Finder integration, even though there is no way that this can be in Snow Leopard at this point.
You should follow one of those tutorials on how to replace the finder with PathFinder. I did it in Tiger, but I haven't found a tutorial for Leopard, and I'm worried I'd break something using a Tiger tutorial.
Would you prefer an unsightly blue circle that just pulses and pulses and pulses and pulses........
I would, but at this point, I don't want to bork anything when I upgrade to Snow Leopard from Leopard.
Yes, it's still a few months off, but I also don't want to get used to Path Finder and then be irritated having to go back to the regular Finder.
There will be Path Finder or something similar for Snow Leopard soon after its launch, I'm sure.
Would you prefer an unsightly blue circle that just pulses and pulses and pulses and pulses........
To be fair, the blue circle looks pretty slick where OS X's mouse icons are waaaaaaay old. Especially the magnifying glass, the time piece (the equivalent to the spinning beach ball in certain apps, I have yet to figure out the difference in their meanings) even the beach ball looks old.
Update our cursor icons Apple!
Find a machine still running 10.2 or 10.3 and tell me that! Mac fonts,skins and icons get more and harsh , ugly and windows-like with each OS.
Oh man, when it comes up as often as it does on my toshiba it looks ANYTHING but slick.