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Snow Leopard Videos Demonstrating Several New Features Surface
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You have been able to do this in Leopard and I assume previous versions as well.
I just added one
I think quicktime will be dumbed down, providing some of the pro features but made more accessible in there use for the average joe.
I swear by Quick Look. I always find myself hitting the spacebar when trying to skim through my school notes on my Tiger iBook. I agree about the search function, though. I often need to find stuff in the system folders where Spotlight doesn't search.
Personally, I have yet to see $130 worth of upgrade here. I might pay $20 for Snow Leopard, but not $100+.
These are just small little tidbits leaked from a user, why would you "see" anything worth the $130?
Unless I am wrong (or misunderstanding), if you don't want web pages in Spotlight results, doesn't de-selecting "Web Pages" in the Spotlight Preferences remove them from future search results?
Quicktime trim scrubbers
However the new trim functionality looks horrible in this video. I haven't had the privilege of using it yet so I can't say whether it actually is horrible but those little keyframes remind me of the newer versions of iMovie. Looks dumbed down to me.
Me too.
However the new trim functionality looks horrible in this video. I haven't had the privilege of using it yet so I can't say whether it actually is horrible but those little keyframes remind me of the newer versions of iMovie. Looks dumbed down to me.
I love to see the Polish in action too, but much prefer latin american or Italians.
LOL totally what I was thinking when I read that ... although I wasn't specific in my preferred alternatives
.I don't see how drill-down in Stacks is any better than the way things worked before Leopard, and the way that they re-enabled after the mega-whining on how Stacks worked in 10.5.0. In fact I can see drill-down in Stacks working a lot worse than the simple list navigation - all they need to do is re-enable alias folder browsing in that interface.
I still find calling Put Back a new feature to be reaching somewhat. I'm in the 'if I trash something I want to delete it' crowd. I have never once wanted to get something back from the trash ... well once or twice AFTER I've emptied it but that's a job for Time Machine (if that) not Put Back.
Re QuickTime, I didn't see the video but that's curious if they're removing options. Perhaps they are downing the features and making it more the consumer-level media import/export/player; I'm hoping they're doing away with the paid pro. I wouldn't have put it past them to hand most of QT off to iTunes - I think that that is a terrible idea and has really already gone too far, but it seems to be the trend.
I'm still hoping for a lot more from SL. Exchange in Mail could be nice if implemented well, but I think they need more than what we know for the usual upgrade price. Having said that, I'm now struggling to think of that much that we really got out of the Leopard upgrade. Spaces (turned off), Time Machine (not used), Stacks (flawed), Alex voice (decent but rarely useful); widespread BlueTooth, AirPort, graphics, sleep, etc. problems that are still not rare after 7 minor updates and almost two years - fixing those shouldn't be a selling point of SL (if it even does)
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Aren't they moving that functionality off to iMovie or higher?
What was the greyed out Export in the list? The others aren't greyed out (Movie (keep current format of clip), Desktop, ATV, iPhone, iPhone (Edge). The list for Save as, comes up with a "Share Progress" window
Isn't "share a copy of the current file in my specified format" a bit different from "save this file as this format"?
The previous bit showed presumably copying to iTunes/MobileMe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb4SrJwDmp4#t=1m17s Someone's already said - some of the 10.6 changes might be to enable the OS to become more touch accessible.
Now if only we can get that video's epic music showing someone clicking "Open at login" for Mail.app but have it actually hide when it opens if you select that option under Prefs. That would be the greatest advancement in OS X history.
Pointless Quicklook? Really? Why fire up Word (which will take years) to confirm contents of a document when you can just press spacebar and know in a second?
I'm guessing file size/picture quality. For streaming video to the phone. (video embedded in websites etc)
I also am waiting to see if SL will boost the performance of my MB. If it does not, there will have to be some interesting features or software I use that requires SL for me to upgrade.
I'm still hoping for a lot more from SL. Exchange in Mail could be nice if implemented well, but I think they need more than what we know for the usual upgrade price. Having said that, I'm now struggling to think of that much that we really got out of the Leopard upgrade. Spaces (turned off), Time Machine (not used), Stacks (flawed), Alex voice (decent but rarely useful); widespread BlueTooth, AirPort, graphics, sleep, etc. problems that are still not rare after 7 minor updates and almost two years - fixing those shouldn't be a selling point of SL (if it even does)
I agree; however,
I do use spaces when I am on my laptop without my external display;
I use TM in conjunction with Prosoft DataBackup (clone + backup to disc); stacks is flawed, I usually go to Finder instead;
I use the Alex voice to listen to scans when I scan parts of documents with my USB pen scanner.
10.5.7 finally fixed my airport connection. Before this, my wireless signal was constantly dropping for no apparent reason and would not reconnect even if I was within a few feet from my router. This despite running the cron jobs (launchd), repairing permissions when needed, and not installing hacks.
Apple needs to sell SL to me. I won't buy it just because it is cool.
Actually, unless something changed, IIRC, I thought that QuickLook was only for a general look at the document and that Apple had warned that all of the contents of a document might not display when using QuickLook.
Agreed! Quicklook is brilliant and I use it constantly. I suppose you have to be in a line of work where you need quick access to lots of documents of various types to see the true usefulness of it. I love that I can hit the space bar and move through a folder full of documents and get near-instant views of the contents without opening a single application.
Well!!! I'm probably going to get it. I don't feel like waiting another 2 years.
Also, the videos are down.
the new bootcamp stuff will be nice if i want to put something from my pc partion on to my mac partion i wont have to restart every time and i wont have to have a copy of my music collection on my pc hard drive with the new boot camp stuff your basicly geting mac drive which is normally 50 bucks and quicktime pro another 30 bucks right there so that is worth at least 100 imo
I was there on Day 1 of Leopard and was mildly disappointed. I will probably wait until 10.6.2 this time.