At the WWDC tonic , Steve Jobs described 10 key features of the forthcoming Leopard operating organisation .
1 ) Leopard has a Modern Desktop . rather of putting another blue design up that you ’ll put your pictures over , their dock and menu saloon will adapt and adjust to whatever background you fix .
“ Stacks , ” a new feature that helps you clean house up desktops . Stacks sits on your dock and give you a pot of token that pops up when you select it . mould with folder and downloads . you’re able to put any folder there , and get at them rapidly .
The bobtail is changed as well , and has reflection / transparency/3D - cape .
Stacks can also work as an app launcher if you put all your apps there , and will kill up a square with all your app icons so you may launch stuff with it . Demoing the push-down list with pictures and moving-picture show . HE SAID BOOM .
New sidebar , which looks like iTunes and has the capability to look for other Macs & servers . thing are grouped , and collapsable . It also has a “ Search ” group , where there are smart folders that can group stuff by when you qualify the file , for example .
Also , Cover Flow . Details : Same view as before , list , columns , and now , Cover Flow view .
you’re able to read PDF page in Cover Flow . Cover Flow can view PDFs and scroll up and down through pageboy . When it ’s on a film , you’re able to preview the movie correctly in Cover View . Presumably the same for euphony as well . Steve allege it ’s a great mode to find thing , but if you ’ve used Cover View then it ’s more of a cool slideshow app rather than finding things .
Boom Count : 2 . you may also employ Spotlight seek to seek other machine over the web .
Boom Count : 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . I think he did that one on purpose .
3 ) Showing prevue in Finder to preview Excel MD , PDFs and Word docs without launch Preview.app . you could preview picture show in the Finder Cover Flow , but if you hit space bar then it pops open and give you a cock-a-hoop sentiment . And that ’s “ Quick Look . ”
4 ) Leopard is entirely 64 act . One version of Leopard runs 32 - minute and 64 - bit side by side . you may endure both 32 - mo and 64 - minute apps on every transcript of Leopard . “ First time 64 - bit go mainstream . ” show a 64 - act and 32 - bit reading comparison . Their demo app loads a 4 GB image that can only be maintain in memory on the 64 - bit translation , and 32 - second has to keep accessing the disc to load part of the look-alike when you zoom in .
5 ) Core Animation . It ’s automatic vivification that makes it well-to-do to add “ high production note value ” to your apps . Text , images , TV , OpenGL . Compose things on Scenes of Layers and automobile - uses the GPU speedup . Demoing the starting motion picture in AppleTV with the giant filmdom of TV . This is interactive , and you could search for stuff by tag end . seek for water , all the body of water video come out . Pops out all with a fancy brio . Easy to add hooey to your apps if you ’re a developer .
6 ) Boot Camp is built - in and good than ever , letting you run XP or Vista with native speed . Since it ’s built in , no more burn CDs to install drivers . Interestingly , Steve - o say that it complements Parallels and VM Ware , which they ’re “ helping … as much as we can . ” Over 2.5 million downloads of the Beta . Leopard has Boot Camp build - in .
7 ) Not much has changed with Spaces since last twelvemonth — you may group apps into ( only four ? ) separate “ spaces , ” ( figure above ) or virtual desktops , and move between them with the arrow keys . you may also whizz out to scope all of them at once and on/off switch from there .
- Dashboard gets an upgrade , but nothing we have n’t insure . WebClip is in full force : you may make a widget out of any web page , like Rotten Tomatoes . New , kinda meh , kind cool : partnership with Fandango for on - the - fly picture times , ticket , and previews in Dashboard .
9 ) iChat is spiffied up with AAC - LD ( miserable delay ) , tabbed chats ( <3 ) , Photo Booth essence , iChat Theater and Backdrops — the latter three are for video chatting . you may expand your iChat video recording conference to full screen . well still you could hand and glove view anything that ’s supported in Quick Look ( see above ) . 10 ) Time Machine also has n’t changed much since it was demoed , but that does n’t bother us too much . The sweet Cover Flow port that ’s everywhere rear its head here , too , as it hang through your typed keywords . Click and bushel , basically . It automatically backs up to a local HD or connection waiter , plus you’re able to back up every Mac in the home to one shared movement . Lost file can be hunted down with a Spotlight search , which are place - checkable with QuickLook . One More matter : Safari 3 on Windows XP and Vista . Besides frolic all of its OS X Leopard features , it supposedly smokes IE 7 and Firefox 2 , rendering double as tight as IE and 1.6x quicker than Firefox . Grab thepublic beta here .
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