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Mac OS X Leopard demo videos a'plenty
As excited as I am for the iPhone, I'm just as excited for Mac OS X Leopard - that's why I have to thank TUAW reader Uros for sending us a link to a big ol' batch of Leopard demo videos posted at Brightcove, a video sharing service. Demoed in the videos are features like Screen Sharing, Cover Flow, Parental Controls, new screensavers and even some interesting new stuff in Preview. Most of this stuff isn't too groundbreaking on the scale of, say, Spaces, but the devil is in the details for me and it's really interesting to see some of the handy new features that unfortunately couldn't make it into Steve's keynotes. For example: Leopard's new Dictionary app can also search Wikipedia, right from within Dictionary itself. If you're interested in seeing more of Leopard in action, these videos might satisfy your appetite - at least until Apple orders them to be taken down, of course.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
tobias said 12:40PM on 6-25-2007
Anyone who can find the wallpaper used in the demo?
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Tris said 12:49PM on 6-25-2007
Anyone know the wallpaper?
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Eric King said 1:07PM on 6-25-2007
Wallpapers:
1600 x 1200 - http://imageho.st/image/216311600x1200.jpg
1600 x 938 - http://imageho.st/image/86081imagination.jpg
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Quine said 2:16PM on 6-25-2007
I just want to know one thing, which no one has been able to answer yet: will screen sharing (via finder or iChat) be able to work through (residential) firewalls without forcing the poor confused home user to figure out how to port forward? that would be SO nice.
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Tristan Currier said 2:52PM on 6-25-2007
@3
Thanks Eric!
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tobias said 3:38PM on 6-25-2007
Thank you Eric!
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infinitespecter said 4:59PM on 6-25-2007
I'm as big an Apple freak as the next guy, but since when is the concept of Virtual Desktops "groundbreaking"? Linux, and even Windows has had this feature for the better part of a decade. Same goes for Safari Web Clipping feature (Windows 98 Active Desktop anyone?), and Time Machine.
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niclet said 6:20PM on 6-25-2007
I remarked that in most of the images or videos of Leopard, there is no Dashboard icon.
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Catt said 6:45PM on 6-25-2007
Thanks for the video links now I can go see what I'll be getting myself into in the Fall if all goes well.
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Michel said 8:22PM on 6-25-2007
time machine ? no, linux and windows never got integrated animated backup in applications with full preview of documents. NO
Virtual Space ? of course linux (unix in fact) had that for yEeeAArs. windows NEVER . it was only ugly buggy hack. win32 never supported what it should to do nice virtual space as in X11.
now, "Compiz" brings the same kind of niceties of Leopard to virtual spaces in linux (zoom, animation, and so on. very nice, very smooth)
Safari Web Clipping ? NO. never ie 4 did that. ie4 allowed people to put webpages on the desktop. not pieces, the whole page in the stupid background place: the desktop. and IE4 was a very very baaad idea. microsoft needed 3 versions of IE to reverse back. (after all, ie4 only served to kill netscape).
anyway, you can find all informations in wikipedia if you don't trust me.
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hu... yes, it's in fact Microsoft who invented the Yellow Cartoon Dog. for the marvelous "Bob" Interface... yeah.
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Ben the Dog said 11:33PM on 6-25-2007
#7 - As a relative Apple newbie I see where you're coming from. From my point of view, a lot of the features touted in Leopard and to a certain extent Tiger were certainly available in either Linuz and/or Windows. However I think what Apple has done is take existing technologies and make them a million times more accessible to the ordinary joe computer user. For example I was telling someone about Time Machine (I'm not a huge fan of the graphics, but the idea is solid). He informed me that Windows introduced a similar feature ages ago. That may have been the case, but I've been using Windows for a heck of a long time and I never knew about it. Mac brings it out and already - months before its release - I know what it is and how easy it would be to use it.
Anyway, I'm wandering off on a tangent here, but what I'm saying is that I believe Apple's strength lies in making technology much more user-friendly to non-tech geeks like myself (and my parents!).
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Catt said 7:30PM on 6-26-2007
#11 you are right on... sure Windows and Linux had/ have some of the same ideas to some extent but they never made it user-friendly enough for the average person to use not even the non-average person. I consider myself an advance user of Windows and although Windows have had backup built in for years ask me how many times I've used it quite frankly I've forgotten its there. The few times I did use backup and restore I could not restore some emails that I had supposedly backed up. If the interface was like time machine, it would have allowed me to navigate to the date and time, even the person I sent the email to and restore that one or two emails that I'm interested in. Anyway, Apple has a knack for making otherwise menial and boring tasks computer tasks fun and for that I'm excited about Leopard and can't wait for it to ship.
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