Leopard screensaver, Help menu video leaked

These are from the first build I had my hands on... and were uploaded to Google Video almost a year ago in 2006 :P

Unfortunately, I think the PS3's pictures slideshow does the effect better.

I just hope this screensaver also get pics off Aperture... Because currently Front Row only communicates with iPhoto and not Aperture. For someone like me, who has 99% of pics in Aperture, the new screensaver (AS WELL AS THE NEW FRONT ROW OF COURSE) would be basically useless without that feature.

The screensaver looks kinda cool though (although mine is seldom active or, when it is, I am not in front of it staring at the pics) :-)

that screensaver was in an earlier build.

@All -- thanks for the responses and info!

Yes, I am aware of all of that, but no, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm not interested in having to hack away at spotlight to get it to stop it's madness. Believe me, I've already taken the necessary steps to completely disable spotlight on all of my systems and it irks me that I am forced to go to such lengths.

And I can totally understand how it would be a hugely useful feature for people with tons of PDFs, etc. Rock on, spotlight!

And yes, I know it pretends to have privacy features, but 1) it won't let one add one's hard drive to the list and 2) why should I have to add things to a list. Why can't I just turn it off?

What I AM looking for is an off switch for spotlight which then would allow find to work like it used to. No indexing, no having to turn on the buggy FileVault, no having to tell spotlight not to index all my files. All I want is a way to do filename-only searches of my entire hard drive -- that's it.

It's just really annoying that for that rare moment when I need to find a file and I don't already know where it is, I have to bring up spotlight and all of the bloated madness that comes with it. Then I have to go through all these steps to turn it off again when it never finds what I'm looking for in the first place because I'm typically looking for something in a "hidden" folder.

And, as an aside, Michel, no, we do not have complete control of our computers under OS X. But that's a completely different topic.

Cheers,
FL

If you bother to look at Spotlight's preferences, you can tell it precisely which files to index or not.

1. Set home directory to be encrypted via FileVault
2. Tell Spotlight not to index your home directory
3. Securely delete the Spotlight database and force it to re-create them
4. Use “locate” (see the --database parameter) and “/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb” (create a copy and modify the paths) with an update database stored within your FileVault-encrypted home directory.

Fritz, are you aware that Spotlight can be told to ignore items (even volumes) the user does not wish to have indexed?

I couldn't live without spotlight on a mac.

It's helpful in tons of pdf documents, website developments and so on.

you know you can control what folders it indexes ?

you know in leopard, there are networked spotlight ?

you know you HAVE the control of YOUR computer ? no little man behind you


I don't want uber-geek find stuff (you have the unix command find and grep, by the way, with regular exp and so on) when spotlight can find whatever I need by name, content or meta-data.

That screen saver looks a lot like the screen saver that gets created when you Simpsonize yourself and save a screen saver to your machine with your image. Then again, there aren't that many ways to randomly display photos in a cool way.

@Dale -- it indexes your files (and emails and anything else it has a plugin for) which amounts to reading them and storing bits of them away in its database. For someone like myself who does government consulting, I can't have this.

Cheers,
FL