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Steve Jobs to Kick Off WWDC with Preview of Mac OS X "Tiger"

virividox said:
im curious s the new features, wish they bring back the favorites in the finder
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Can't you just do that by making a folder that you keep in the sidebar and command option dragging to it? That's all favorites was in the first place...
 
davecuse said:
WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator.
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How can an acronym have itself in its definition. It just seems wrong. According to a little bit of web research, it seems it originally stood for WINdows Emulator, but later realizing it is not a "true" emulator, developers switched up the acronym.
 
singletrack said:
I'd like to see a Be style finder (which I miss a lot) coupled with the Smartfolder/playlist technology they've been adding into all the iApps, more speed especially in low ram situations and for them to make their mind up as to whether the GUI should be metal or aqua. Or perhaps it's going to be more stripy this time. ;-)

Two of the missing Panther features would be nice also - 'Home on iPod' and DarwinPorts.

Safari 1.2 for Jaguar as well as 1.0 has many bugs in it still and it's a pain designing websites that work in 1.2 but break in 1.0.

It's about time they upgraded QT Broadcaster as well.
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ick. I hate the stripes. I'd like it to be more customizable, so I don't have to pay for shapeshifter
 
anjaki said:
I've heard a rumour that Apple have done a sponsering deal with Siegfried and Roy for the use of the name Tiger, and that during the WWDC, via a live video link (probably iChat), Steve Jobs will remotely cut off Roys life support system.
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iLife support system?
 
Two things I hope from Tiger:
- much enhanced 64Bit support. CoreFoundation and Quartz should get a nice boost from a partial recompile.

- a resolution-independent UI AKA "Quartz G3". This would bring about a performance hit on slower machines, but would enable Apple to take the lead again in the UI department before Longhorn hits.

All in all I believe that Tiger will focus again on under-the-hood stuff after Panther was so much about UI chrome.
 
pjkelnhofer said:
How can an acronym have itself in its definition. It just seems wrong. According to a little bit of web research, it seems it originally stood for WINdows Emulator, but later realizing it is not a "true" emulator, developers switched up the acronym.
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No, it's weird humor to have the acronym included in its explanation. Another example would be GNU (GNU's Not Unix).
 
Just remember:

pjkelnhofer said:
How can an acronym have itself in its definition. It just seems wrong. According to a little bit of web research, it seems it originally stood for WINdows Emulator, but later realizing it is not a "true" emulator, developers switched up the acronym.
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"Gnu's Not Unix". One of my favorite TLA's.

'Nuff said.
 
Foocha said:
Mail, Address Book & iCal should be integrated into a single application.

They should sort out printing HTML e-mail from Mail - it often comes out reverse for me, for some bizzare reason!

...oh yes and how about Home on an iPod - so you can log in to a home folder on your iPod - this would be a killer app.
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Cripes, I didn't even know you COULD get HTML mail from Mail. I never saw that as an option when setting up a mail account. :eek:
 
Oh please please PLEASE return networking like it was under JagWIRE (Job's pronunciation) you know back when you could actually browse and see the other Macs on your network, not have to type in their IP addresses (which is dumb).
 
stoid said:
That would be awesome as I'd love to attend a WWDC as a CS major. Too bad I'd still have to find money for airfare.

I may have an internship with MTV or VH1 next summer so maybe I can get in free then since I'm already over there.
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the funny thing is that i'm not a CS major, i just do software development mostly as a hoby (most of the higher level code in MRChat came from yours truly :D)

stoid said:
BTW, what's with the hex code in your sig?
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if i'm going to WWDC, i'll bet you can figure it out based on my personality type and mindeset. :eek:

idkew said:
try www.acronymfinder.com

WINE

btw- means WINdows Emulator according to the site.
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bzzz. WINE is a recursive acrynum: WINE Is Not an Emulator. basicly WINE is a reverse engeneered implimentation of the Win32s API, allowing most (but not all) windows apps to run on a non-Windows OS. (must be the same acitecture)

there is a project called DarWINE that runs on Darwin, and it will let you use apps compiled against Win32s, but they still have to be compiled for the PPC for the time being. afaik, they are working on an emulator backend to allow x86 windows apps to run on the PPC. they havn't posted any news lately (even thouth they promised it) so they could very well be working with apple to get it included with Tiger :D
 
...oh yeah, and...

How about System Restore functionality like in XP - this is unbelievable, it actually works!!

Also, centralised Software Unistall - probably in system preferences. An easy way to unistall an app and all that came with it - libraries etc. It would need developer support, but the sooner they add it, the sooner developers can get on board with it.
 
AirUncleP said:
Jobs will have a special guest with him on stage. None other than that Roy, or was it Sigfried, guy who almost got his head ripped off by one of his "pet" tigers. He will be demo-ing a new access feature allowing users to operate OS 10.4 when they have no face.
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Sad... but real funny!
 
pjkelnhofer said:
The only bad thing about the name is that tigers are an endangered species. Of course, so are almost all of the big cats.

The Longhorn on the other hand was saved by a congressional act.

I can't get over the fact that the next version of MicroSoft OS is named for something that the namesake of Apple's next OS would eat for lunch. Literally.
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Not a bad thing, many consider Apple to be an endangered species.

As for Congress protecting the Longhorn- does it surprise you that they protected a producer of bull$hit?
 
rdowns said:
As for Congress protecting the Longhorn- does it surprise you that they protected a producer of bull$hit?
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Now that was funny.

I can't believe no one has mentioned it, but could Tiger Woods take Jeff Goldblum's spot in the next generation of iMac commercials?
 
I like this:
an expanded Enterprise IT track specifically designed to help enterprise developers, system administrators and IT managers understand the core technologies that will be delivered in Tiger and fully leverage them in their environments;
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I really think Apple has a platform they can push into businesses-- hopefully they'll start pushing. I know my company has started looking at XServe and XServe RAID, but Apple hasn't been particularly easy to deal with on this...
 
What I would like to see is a 3D Finder, not 3d buttons but as a real 3d GUI A cube where you store info on each face, multiplying the space by 6.

Also I would like to see a new device to replace the 'old' 2d mouse.

That would be the kind of revolution that happened in 1984... :rolleyes:
 
Refresh button!!!

How about the ability to refresh a Finder window.

It was all very cool in the old days with chatty-old AppleTalk, where there was not need to refresh the Finder window since it was always up-to-date, but things are a lot different with today's networking. A refresh button is an absolute essential!
 
&RU said:
A befs would be great, but does anyone remember the boot times? Nothing is more impressive than booting up inside of 30 seconds.
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Impressive, but how often do people boot their machines these days. Doesn't everyone just put them to sleep every day.
 
That's good news! Let's hope Tiger will be as big an update as Panther was. What do you all think: Will Tiger debut in late 2004 or not until early 2005?
 
areyouwishing said:
Im looking forward to Tiger, but what erks me is that you are paying for features that should be in the OS in the first place... just like with a lot of Panther features.
5. NO MORE DOCK BOUNCING!!! Why does it take 3 bounces to open Photoshops splash screen, and my PC needs ZERO seconds (ie, click icon, see splash... instantaneously) What is the finder doing during this bouncing?
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Splash screen doesn't mean the app is loaded. I have a P4 2.8GHz w/1GB of RAM. Most apps I use don't come instantly. The splash may come fairly quickly, but the time I wait for a usable document is longer. Also, some apps on Windows take several seconds and the OS gives no indication it is still loading. Even the hourglass doesn't stay while the app loads. At least on MacOS, I see the bounces so I know it's loading.
 
pjkelnhofer said:
How can an acronym have itself in its definition. It just seems wrong. According to a little bit of web research, it seems it originally stood for WINdows Emulator, but later realizing it is not a "true" emulator, developers switched up the acronym.
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It's a "recursive acronym." It was done intentionally as a little joke.
 
Merlot with your Tiger?

It would be a big step for Apple to re-enter the enterprise with built in WINE support. IBM is looking at having Lotus Notes run under Linux as a WINE application. ;)

They already have X11, SAMBA, and WINE would make them an easier choice for enterprise customers who have spent a lot of money on homegrown applications that run under winderz. Many of the large entrprises are still running WinNT and have not switched to XP. The cost of migration is very steep and MS just took some of them to the cleaners with their recent licensing deal that promised free OS updates but their will not be an OS update until 2006 or 2007 from MS.

Also Apple's new buddy IBM has WinNT to Linux migration tools and best practices that could easily be modified for OSX.

But what do I know? :rolleyes:
 
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