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Snow Leopard to Provide Icon-Level Previews

It is a little gimmicky feature but then again there are a lot of those in OS X that we can't just live without.

The ability to scroll an inactive window is something I just can't live without but it's there in Leopard!

I'm more concerned about Apple bringing itself up to par when it comes to harnessing GPU based decoding/encoding. I hate decoding h.264 on my CPU and hearing my fan throttle up.

Once the GMA X4500 is into the line up then there's no reason Apple shouldn't put this feature in.
 
old news.

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AppleInsider reports that the preview version of Snow Leopard provides users with a quick way to review audio files within Finder:

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i have my Dell XPS M1530 running a hackintosh leopard. and i already have this feature in finder. previewing audio files by hovering over them untill a play button appears...




this is 10.5.3 ...old news i guess
 
MacBoy08 said:
i have my Dell XPS M1530 running a hackintosh leopard. and i already have this feature in finder. previewing audio files by hovering over them untill a play button appears...

this is 10.5.3 ...old news i guess
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Then you'll be able to provide screenshots to prove it.

P.S. I trust you actually bought a legit license for Leopard in order to put Mac OS X onto your Dell. Otherwise you're just a thief (and from my 10.5.4, also a liar).
 
Wow, this thread just got ugly. But yes, he is wrong. I even sized the icons above 72 and hovering over the icon doesn't work in 10.5.4.
 
MacBoy08 said:
i have my Dell XPS M1530 running a hackintosh leopard. and i already have this feature in finder. previewing audio files by hovering over them untill a play button appears...




this is 10.5.3 ...old news i guess
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What add-on application did you use to do that?
 
lostngone said:
Well apple is claiming that Snow Leopard is only going to have 1 new feature, and maybe just a few small tweaks but how much is Apple going to charge for it, full price(129)???


Don't get me wrong, I know about the 64bit kernel, GCD, openCL, Quicktime X however selling that kind of stuff to the general populace is going to be hard at $129.00 when they don't notice any difference. I guess it all comes down to how much faster it really makes the system feel.
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I guess people will notice a difference when their computer becomes faster and more reliable by an order of magnitudes.

interlard said:
Funny how nobody has notice that if this "feature" is present, you can no longer just click on the file to select it.

Selecting the file is more common that watching a movie the size of an icon or playing a song without having to laboriously hit that space bar (oh the strain!). I think I'll hope Apple keeps the former and drops the latter as a useless gimmick.
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No that's not how it works at all. Hover the mouse over a file briefly and play button appears in the middle of multimedia files. To see it in action in Leopard, try hovering over a video in Cover Flow mode in the finder. This will work in exactly the same way, just on any icon/file.
 
batchtaster said:
Then you'll be able to provide screenshots to prove it.

P.S. I trust you actually bought a legit license for Leopard in order to put Mac OS X onto your Dell. Otherwise you're just a thief (and from my 10.5.4, also a liar).
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Hes not lying, it works via column view.. obviously, he doesnt understand that theyve now added it to the standard icon view but hes right, you can see something similar through column view.
 
Shotglass said:
Any Linux user will crucify you for this. But then again, any Mac user would crucify a PC fanboy for saying nobody used Macs.
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I never saw anyone use Linux "in the wild". Ergo, I can say "Nobody uses Linux" and not lie :D

Also, whoooo cares? All I want them to do is fix the dock so it will display video again, instead of just static images.:mad:
 
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I'm normally the first one to jump on board with these sort of ideas but...

come on, this is just too dumb.

Quick Look is pretty cool. Just hitting space bar and instantly having the screen filled is great. I don't bother opening movie files at all anymore.

but...

Icons?

Who wants to watch a 64x36 version of an HD movie? This is just silly.

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Although I guess with music it could make more sense.

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Still... unless they plan to make icons bigger (uhhh doesn't sound like a good idea...) I can't see this being a good idea.

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But if they could somehow dynamically chose which frame of a video is shown in the preview would be great. Most videos start with a completely black frame and then it fades in... or a logo comes up or something. So... most of the previews icons for videos on my computer are totally useless for identifying them. If they want to make it so it'll like... choose the frame that appears to actually show what the video is of... maybe it could take all the frames from the first few minutes and then chose the frame that has the most in common with the surrounding frames... or something like that. Better yet would be if the people who make the video files could make a cover for them... so recognizing the virtual video by its icon would be as easy as recognizing a physical movie by its cover.
 
Not everybody has 64x64 icons. Some people with 30" displays have their icons set to maximum size. In fact a friend runs his 24" iMac on full size icons and he still has plenty of screen space...
 
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