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New screenshots of Snow Leopard appear, show desktop web apps

by Cory Bohon Jun 21st 2008 at 11:15PM

A German site, Apfeltalk.de has posted screenshots of the forthcoming version of Mac OS X, 10.6 (a.k.a "Snow Leopard"). Most of the screenshots show off the Safari 4 developer preview that will include the "Save as Web Application" option in the File menu.

The website also shows off the next version of Address Book.app that will bring Microsoft Exchange support to the Mac platform. We do however have to speculate about the System Preferences.app screenshot that shows two Time Machine icons with one labled "Dock" and another labeled "Time Machine" -- this seems out of place and unlike Apple.

You can see all of the screenshots (before Apple's legal team gets a hold of them) on the Apfeltalk.de site.

[via Engadget]



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ericla93

I got my hands on it-Im posting shots on my website.
Its all true. Ill post a link when its up.

June 22 2008 at 7:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lassi

When Leopard betas were out you could see similar "issues" with languages. For example some os components were in finnish, but new and changed ones (eg. the ones not yet translated) were in english, so it can very well be that every other thing in that preview release is in german but safari 4 and addressbook exhange preview are in english...

June 22 2008 at 4:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Fairly

"PLEASE get rid of the aqua buttons, drop-down menu's and scroll-bars."

Oh my goodness. I couldn't decide whether to just ignore this as it's so out of touch or to try to condense a few year's skills in interfaces into a few sentences. I still can't.

But before launching into something as in orbit as this it might behoove the poster to take a second look at where interfaces have been for the past thirty years and how the Cocoa classes are structured.

June 22 2008 at 4:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brett

I know apple isn't planning to introduce any new features on the surface but how about at least some minor UI changes?

PLEASE get rid of the aqua buttons, drop-down menu's and scroll-bars.

Replace them with black or white iphone like buttons and UI elements. Or in the style of the time-machine preference pane buttons in the system preferences.

June 22 2008 at 1:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Josh

Nah. All they have to do is complete the transition to the iTunes theme. The iTunes-esque Leopard theme is quite good, though incomplete. Buttons still need to be made.

June 22 2008 at 3:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bobertoq

I couldn't agree more! They need to replace the stoplight buttons with buttons that have much less eye candy and look more professional
The list headers need to be replaced by the iTunes list headers
The scrollbars need to be replaced by the iTunes scrollbars
The drop-down menus need to be replaced by the iTunes store drop-down menus
The buttons need to be replaced by the iTunes buttons (e.g. the one in the store that says your email address)

I'd also like to see an option for white or graphite iTunes elements, aaand the Tiger dock. Then I'll be happy :)
(Or just anything to replace Aqua. Not that Aqua is bad, it's just waay to flashy and doesn't match well with Leopard)

June 23 2008 at 2:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jash Sayani

Next Step for Apple: Sync WebApps with the iPhone :)

June 22 2008 at 11:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

For all you people screaming fake, remember this this is an early, early beta. The last thing to get polished in a new operating system is the GUI, the the missing and incorrect icons are probably bugs.

If any of you have taken a look at the early Windows 7 or Leopard screenshots, you'll know that they looked quite similar to their previous iterations.

So the pictures are *probably* real, but it *probably* doesn't matter, because the interface will get upgraded to some degree anyway.

June 22 2008 at 10:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
XIV

"before Apple's legal team gets a hold of them"

Damn, I was too late.

June 22 2008 at 10:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rickumus

Snow Leopard can't come soon enough. Leopard is pretty much Apple's Vista. I rolled back to Tiger months ago. It doesn't have the eye-candy, but it's way more stable.

June 22 2008 at 6:07 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cory

Anyone else notice that in the address book screenshot, the little card that is usually at the very top of the window next to the words "Address Book" is missing?

Something about these makes me distrust them.

June 22 2008 at 5:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Liski

Wouldn't Snow Leopard have MobileMe branding instead of . Mac?

June 22 2008 at 4:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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