Oh. My. God. Font auto-activation! The end of font management 3rd party apps? Not since the heady days of Adobe Type Manager have I been truly comfortable with font management. Booyah! Semper font!
Umn does that mean "home on ipod" is finally here or am i missing the point ?
I've had to say WOW to quite a few of those. A great bunch of ideas. More useful to me than some of the already known features. It looks like I may be getting Leopard as soon as it comes out after all!
I like the Dictionary application as it is. Wikipedia will only poison it.
As long as there is no java6 Leopard is completely useless for me and thousands of other developers. I'm not going to spend my money on Leopard as long as there is no confirmation of Java support..
So which are the TOP SECRET features Steve was gloating about?
You can already scroll a background (inactive) window in Tiger (10.4):
1) Hold down the Apple/Cmd key
2) Drag the scroll bar in an inactive window in the background
You can also drag windows around in the background using the same method. The one thing you can't do is use the scroll wheel though.
Grammar check FTW!
Where's "Resolution Independence" ???
Hasn't MS Word had a grammar check for 5 or 10 years already? Do other apps really need a grammar check? Seems like an odd one to bundle with an OS.
Also the full true 32-bit compatible 64-bit support into the future - finally. Very exciting.
With Leopard's official announcement, Apple now details a list of 300+ new features that can be found in Mac OS X 10.5.
Sitening compiled a list (with descriptions) of 16 of what they felt were the coolest least known features coming in Leopard.
TextEdit: OpenDocument and Word 2007 Formats
Terminal: Workspaces
.Mac Sync for System Preferences
Guest Log-In Accounts
Grammar Check
Scroll Non-Active Windows
Printer Drivers via Software Update
PDF Manipulation in Preview
Self-Tuning TCP
Archive Mailbox
SMS Forwarding
Event Dropbox
Font Auto-Activation
Instant Screen Sharing from the Finder
Wikipedia in Dictionary
Synchronize with Yahoo! address book
Yesterday, we took a look at some of the under the hood improvements and system requirements as compared to Tiger.
Meanwhile, AppleInsider looks at iCal 3.0 and Safari 3.0, and Apple has updated their website which show off the major new features of Leopard.
Article Link
Where's "Resolution Independence" ???
What else does Leopard not have that it was supposed to have???
Where's "Resolution Independence" ???
What else does Leopard not have that it was supposed to have???
You've always been able to scroll non-active windows, even in Mac OS 9 (and maybe even before that). Just hold down the CMD key, and click on the scroll bar of an inactive window. You can scroll it without making it the front window (you can also move the window around, or close it, etc).
Why does this guy apparently think this is "new" in Leopard?
Ben
[edit: Looks like Fotek2001 beat me to it. GMTA.]
Hasn't MS Word had a grammar check for 5 or 10 years already? Do other apps really need a grammar check? Seems like an odd one to bundle with an OS.
Umn does that mean "home on ipod" is finally here or am i missing the point ?
It will show up eventually (if it's not already in it, I don't know how long it's been out). Java is a solid piece of OS X.As long as there is no java6 Leopard is completely useless for me and thousands of other developers. I'm not going to spend my money on Leopard as long as there is no confirmation of Java support..
Yes MS Office had it, but that didn't extend to say Safari text inputs. OS X having it exposes it to every application where you input text.Hasn't MS Word had a grammar check for 5 or 10 years already? Do other apps really need a grammar check? Seems like an odd one to bundle with an OS.