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WWDC Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Videos
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The reason Stacks is " leaning " becomes self-evident through a bit of applied logic as to where Leopard will be heading tomorrow, rather than today.
Once more, look a bit more closely at a Stacks folder. Now, hold your hand up to the monitor.
Stacks lines up perfectly to the curve of your fingertips across the screen.
This is just one minor detail in Leopard which, right under the radar, points clearly to aMac OS multitouch interface just around the corner.
I think you are right. CoverFlow seems to work perfectly on the iPhone with multi-touch, and with Microsoft announcing Surface recently, Apple will want not want to be seen to be left behind.
It is a bit of a pain that there is no print selection option, but then this is a mac. Actually you can do it in just as many if not less steps on a mac.
1. Highlight the text you want to print.
2. Drag it as a text clipping to your desktop.
3. Right click on it and Print....BOOM
Done.
I would love to actually just be able to drag a text clipping to my desktop printer in my dock and be done with it, but that would just be to simple.
1. Highlight the text you want to print.
2. Drag it as a text clipping to your desktop.
3. Right click on it and Print....BOOM
Done.
I would love to actually just be able to drag a text clipping to my desktop printer in my dock and be done with it, but that would just be to simple.
I never understand at all when people say things like this. Why does something aesthetic need to be changed simply because it's not new? I'm just as happy listening to good music made in the 60's as I am listening to good music made in the 00's. After getting polished by a couple of revisions, the Aqua scroll bars and jelly bean buttons looked cool then, and they look cool now. I'm not denying that some things don't age well and can look dated after a few years, but arguing that an aesthetic element should be changed simply because it's not new makes no sense to me.
no problemThere are some amazing wallpapers at that site. Thanks a lot for the link
Just to clarify, the Alex voice is miles ahead of the standard Mac voices that are built-in to the OS available today. But there are voices that are at least on par with Alex, if not surpassing him, which have been available for a long time from other tech sources such as at&t. In fact, for a long time some of those amazing voices have be available as a plug-in that you can add to the OS X voice services.
I think the best solution for 10.5 would be to use the aqua graphite controls by default. I do, and when looking back at the pics of people using the default "aqua blue"...it is too bubbly and vista-ish now [in reverse, but hopefully you get my point].
on the other hand, the graphite aqua scrollbars make a huge difference and don't look outdated or bad at all, at least I don't think. I'd love to see them be the default in 10.5
Please dont mix 'colours' with user interface. The UI on iTunes is outstanding and the best around IMO. Just because you dont like the colours of the scrollbars or the amount of grey doesnt mean its a horrible UI.
People are shortening GUI to UI. Its just assumed that iTunes has an awesome UI...
Not so - Vista gives you a thumbnail preview. Quick Look lets you preview movies, flip through a document or presentation etc. Its much more powerful.
Um, you're not just talking about the Command-Shift-4 then pressing spacebar feature, are you? Because that's been around since at least 10.3. If you didn't know about it, now you do!
And it's a good lesson to learn that you should always do a quick google search. http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscreenshot.htm
Useless if the selection you want is larger than your screen size (often happens on my macbook)Um, you're not just talking about the Command-Shift-4 then pressing spacebar feature, are you? Because that's been around since at least 10.3. If you didn't know about it, now you do!
lOUDsCREAMEr said:
Please use the software before you ask Apple to lose features.
aswitcher said:
You are using too many widgets then. Widgets are meant as a quick reference. In and out. If you have more than one screen of widgets that you think you need... all I can say is you're wrong.
Cormier6083 said:
It's currently just a complete dump of the Apple TV software. They are unifying the look. It's actually pretty nice, and now finally scrolls names of tracks if they are too lengthy. Please wait for the release version, as this is still just a beta.
lekun said:
And, you're wrong. Coverflow in Finder is a great new way to look at all of the documents on your machine. This gives you the ease of scrolling through a bunch of images, VERY rapidly. You can find an image that you can't quite think of the name of so much more quickly than you could on any other solution. Combined with Spotlight and Quicklook, Coverflow in finder lets you search for a phrase to narrow your view, flip through documents, and spot check with Quicklook. Simple. Fast.
MacFly123 said:
Please wait for the final version. Visually, Apple rarely lets us down.
123 said:
I would like you to back that up. This is an included voice, no purchasing of a plugin.
SiliconAddict said:
You're wrong. Quicklook is so much more. It's not a "preview app like other OS's[sic]". You have to use it to believe it. Vista's software preview will show you docs and excel documents. As does quicklook. Quicklook also gives you access to the other sheets within the workbook even! (Can Vista? I haven't tried yet). Quicklook obviously works with MP3s, Keynotes, Powerpoints etc, and is an option that can easily be invoked or put away with the spacebar... conserving desktop real estate.
inkswamp said:
You're overseeing this process? You should be fired. Turn in your badge, and your thumb drive, and have your boss send me an e-mail so I can explain to him what needs to be done.
First, if someone spent maybe 30 seconds on Google searching for the .DS_STORE "issue" they would come across this KB article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301711 . That stops the creation of those "invisible" files on network shares. I'm curious as to why this even matters to you or your users. Do you all have "show hidden folders" on? Is there a reason for this?
Also, regarding Mail/Address Book... Yet again, these answers can be easily found in google. Try words like "Directory" or "LDAP" along with "Apple" "Mail" and "Exchange" in your query. I've done it. I'm doing it. It works.
Um, you're not just talking about the Command-Shift-4 then pressing spacebar feature, are you? Because that's been around since at least 10.3. If you didn't know about it, now you do!
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscreenshot.htm
Aren't they talking about printing, not "print screen"ing
Ah, you're probably correct. I didn't even think that he might be talking about actually printing on paper because I do it so rarely. But there are third party apps that add this print-selection-only function if you want it.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/226854/
Sorry, I'm not trying to disagree alot but I think its way ugly. I like simple wallpapers. And I know its so Vista, but did anyone else want animated wallpapers??? I really did. You know on "The Island" the guys desk with a smooth flowing white wallpaper??? That is HOT!
i just love the colors...
to each his/her own
Sorry, I'm not trying to disagree alot but I think its way ugly. I like simple wallpapers. And I know its so Vista, but did anyone else want animated wallpapers??? I really did. You know on "The Island" the guys desk with a smooth flowing white wallpaper??? That is HOT!
Something like this?
Actually, I wasn't even thinking that! Haha. While printing a screen cap may work in most instances when you just want to print a selection, if the selection you want to print is larger than the screen height, just printing the screen cap wouldn't work well.
Personally, I see little reason to ever print, because the only times I'd ever want to read something off the net, I'm never far away from a net connected computer. And the times that I do want to read something offline, I usually want to see the entire document, or the document is so short that it doesn't matter if I print an extra page along with it. 'Print selection only' isn't a bad feature to have, but I personally don't see much need for it. If it was built into the OS I wouldn't object, but I'd use it so infrequently that I'd probably forget it was there and just print normally.
Oops, I misunderstood your misunderstanding! That's why I posted this...
Haha! I didn't know what you meant when you said that, so I misunderstood your misunderstanding of my misunderstanding!
I'm not saying will do it before Leopard. But it could have been done if they wanted at WWDC and given devs 4-5 months to get ready.
And it is perfectly possible before this fictional OS 11. They can do it in 10.6.
