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WWDC: Leopard Details
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I like QuickLook the most.
All these new 'revolutionary' features are just fancy graphical interfaces for things that are already achievable today with simple applications. For example, you can get multiple virtual desktops with a program called Desktop Manager. I have it installed and running all the time but I NEVER use it... Time Machine? Fancy interface for a simple thing. New finder with no tabs? Blech. Spotlight across networks? Very small feature. None of the new features seem like anything is too out of this world.
Oh, and all of those fancy new Find features in Safari (Command-F) are already present in Firefox.
I'll be getting a new Mac before Leopard is released.. When it's actually released I'll see whether or not it's really worth the update... $129 is a lot of money for a college student.
All these new 'revolutionary' features are just fancy graphical interfaces for things that are already achievable today with simple applications. For example, you can get multiple virtual desktops with a program called Desktop Manager. I have it installed and running all the time but I NEVER use it... Time Machine? Fancy interface for a simple thing. New finder with no tabs? Blech. Spotlight across networks? Very small feature. None of the new features seem like anything is too out of this world.
Oh, and all of those fancy new Find features in Safari (Command-F) are already present in Firefox.
I'll be getting a new Mac before Leopard is released.. When it's actually released I'll see whether or not it's really worth the update... $129 is a lot of money for a college student.
Does anyone know how much it'll be sold for in england? I'm assuming its no just a direct currency conversion moment is it?
Tiger is only $69 with the higher education discount... I assume Leopard will be the same (as Tiger also costs $129 standard)...
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Did you notice the pretty green grass needs mowing. Desktop/Dock/Finder all in all I like it.
Did you notice the pretty green grass needs mowing. Desktop/Dock/Finder all in all I like it.
I love this feature. I requested this on the OSX feedback page when Panther was out and my primary reason for doing so was that the only way to get a decent preview was to be in column view. I wanted something that could be used in icon view (which i mostly use).
But the way it has been implemented into every view including coverflow, and also in time machine is just amazing.
This in combination with the improved finder, stacks and spaces will make my daily workflow so much better !
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Might as well mention that the only thing i didnt like about the Leopard preview was the desktop background picture. I hope this is not the image of Leopard we will see anywhere there is a reference to leopard or on all the systems in the Apple stores from now on!!!!
I think green works but why not go with something like the typical Apple background in green with some 3D depth to it or something. Grass just looks messy !
Not a complaint just seems like a strange choice
Might as well mention that the only thing i didnt like about the Leopard preview was the desktop background picture. I hope this is not the image of Leopard we will see anywhere there is a reference to leopard or on all the systems in the Apple stores from now on!!!!
I think green works but why not go with something like the typical Apple background in green with some 3D depth to it or something. Grass just looks messy !
Not a complaint just seems like a strange choice
I'm sure we'll see other cool features as time goes on, but I absolutely
hate the shadow in the dock. It's just a waste of space and clutters up
the otherwise clean look of your desktop.
I've been using APE & Cleardock for so long now and totally prefer no shadow
at all. And you can change the Application running arrows to show up with
your preferred desktop background.
Fortunately there will be plenty of GUI mods available once Leopard is
released.
hate the shadow in the dock. It's just a waste of space and clutters up
the otherwise clean look of your desktop.
I've been using APE & Cleardock for so long now and totally prefer no shadow
at all. And you can change the Application running arrows to show up with
your preferred desktop background.
Fortunately there will be plenty of GUI mods available once Leopard is
released.
Apple's taken the desktop metaphor even further with a new innovative use of the new "stacks" feature.
Instead of cluttering your desktop with individual drives and devices, there will be a single stack available, that when clicked, will show a list of all mounted drives. (If you prefer, you can choose a Finder window view instead.)
Since this stack essentially encompasses your computing resources, it will be called: "My Computer".
A bonus feature is the ability to view available network shares and computers. Taking the user-friendliness metaphor a little bit further, this feature will be called: "Network Neighborhood".
leopards transparency and document preview in icons looks quite like vista and that wasn't the best.
vista was an upset
leopard looks like an upset
PS3 was an upset
2007 is a bad year for technology, i look forward to OS11.
i keep looking at leopard on apple.com and i keep wondering whether i should even bother to upgrade or stick to good old Tiger, the best OS i have ever seen, including leopard.
What? I thought Tiger was a huge upset. They only introduced dashboard and spotlight...Dashboard is only slightly helpful.
Panther was huge with exposé, but Leopard looks to be pretty close with spaces and the unified look. Not to mention, a whole bunch of improvements that let you actually get to your work faster or avoid unnecessary steps like opening apps to find what you were looking for...etc.
Leopard is shaping up to be my favorite look of Mac OSX!
Wow! Stacking is wonderful, talk about speeding up workflow. . . Also impressed with spaces, although Linux has had that for a while, right?
Spaces has been around for a long time. At least in other apps. There are plenty of virtual desktop apps out there. But as always with apple, they make it easy and integrated! That is what I love!
DVD Player can't play HD DVD's or Blu-ray's.
The HD settings in DVD Player are just cosmetical.
What I really want is the ablility to open HVDVD_TS folders and Blu-ray folders from the HDD and play them. With Interactive Menu /U-control and everything.
Like we do with VIDEO_TS folders from DVD's now.
I had really hoped that they had implemented HD support in the new DVD Player, damn.
To all those who listened to the audio feed provided by iPhone Alley from yesterday's World Wide Developer Conference 2007 - we appreciate all support given from everyone. We tried our best to deliver the feed to you; UStream's servers, for the most part, held up nicely - we were actually on a dedicated server. We really did try our best and will try to serve the Mac community in future events. The audio quality was not the best at first, but then became better a few minutes into the presentation. We hope you enjoyed listening and we also hope you stopped by the IRC chat room; a lot of talk was going on in there during the presentation.
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We all had a great deal of fun. We hope you stop by iPhoneAlley.com and receive the most up-to-date in-depth reviews and information available on the web for the upcoming iPhone. While you're at it, you might want to stop by the iPhone Alley forums, too.
We enjoyed serving you and hope to serve you in future events.
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Gotta Love Irony
You know, that is absolutely the best reference to a Mac user copying Windows 98 that I have ever seen. Props for the ingenuity of discovering and pointing out an obvious irony.
You know, that is absolutely the best reference to a Mac user copying Windows 98 that I have ever seen. Props for the ingenuity of discovering and pointing out an obvious irony.
Heh. Well, it really doesn't come as too much of a surprise to me. Mac copies Windows. Windows copies Mac. Various flavours of Linux copy them both, and so on. I wonder if one day in the future we'll finally converge on something unified, or if this sort of leapfrogging will perpetuate forever.
Awesome, kind of like the Windows 95 default screensaver? No wonder this baby needed to be delayed until October. This is certainly worth the wait.
Just that Steve stated it was 64 bit, and that it could run 32 bit apps. A statement like that would say that you need a 64 bit system for the OS and that the os can run new 64 bit apps and old 32 bit apps.
Yes I known that leopard beta is running on 32 bit systems, but that does not necesarly mean it will be released as both 32 and 64.
Hey ALL, if anyone can get Apple to clarify it or post it, that leopard will run on PPC G4 and Core Duo / Solo??
Im sure some of you have contacts.
For those of you who have been posting about the switching between OS X and Windows via sleep ...looks like it was removed from the site! Then I found this...
https://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/12/leopard-and-boot-camp-faster-restarts/
https://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/12/leopard-and-boot-camp-faster-restarts/
iPhoney SDK
Judging by the comments on the related thread on p1 of this forum I'd suspect this is also a bit of an afterthought for Apple. OK I can see that it would work, but it is not going to enable development of applications which can be used off-line is it? (Or did I miss something?). I realise that a mobile device is designed to be always connected, but there are certainly instances where applications need to be created which do not depend on the Web.
Google Gears for iPhone!
For those of you who have been posting about the switching between OS X and Windows via sleep ...looks like it was removed from the site! Then I found this...
https://www.macrumors.com/2007/06/12/leopard-and-boot-camp-faster-restarts/
...which confuses the heck out of me. Didn't Inkhead post from firsthand WWDC experience that this feature was available, just a few pages back?
Perhaps he could enlighten us some more. I'd like to hear that he actually got to use this feature.
It is really interesting to me how differently people feel about the new looks... features... etc. Anybody agree??
I mean some people can't get over how great Leopard is and how excited they are to use it while others are complaining about the ugly desktop and what not, lol.
And just to put in my 2 cents, I don't like the black apple/spotlight logo in the menu bar. I think the look now is cool and sleek. I also don't like how the edges of the new dock are slanted. I like just the square..... but hey those are minor design things. I think that Leopard is going to be great, and totally worth the money.
I mean some people can't get over how great Leopard is and how excited they are to use it while others are complaining about the ugly desktop and what not, lol.
And just to put in my 2 cents, I don't like the black apple/spotlight logo in the menu bar. I think the look now is cool and sleek. I also don't like how the edges of the new dock are slanted. I like just the square..... but hey those are minor design things. I think that Leopard is going to be great, and totally worth the money.