Raising the Wow Factor
From Computer Worlds’s The top 25 overlooked and underrated features in Leopard: “Leopard harnesses the Core Animation libraries code that developers can use to imbue applications with all manner of animated elements to offer [a] stunning new screensaver options [that works] with iPhoto albums or folders of photos that you select….[It] creates a photo mosaic [...]
Bona-Fide Good Stuff
There’s a new feature in Leopard. It has to do with the “Help” menu, and not just in Apple programs like the Finder or iTunes, but the “Help” menu in any application, including Microsoft Office 2004. You click on the “Help” menu in the top menu bar and along with the regular options, you get [...]
My Mac mini is ready to change its spots
Many of you may not know this, but on Friday, Apple will release its new operating system, OS X 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, into the wild. This is the sixth major operating system that Apple’s delivered in six years (compare to Microsoft, who has said there will only be one major upgrade to Windows during the [...]
Waiting for Leopard
From Waiting for Leopard: “It’s a double-shame that Apple seems to be slow out the gate with Leopard. Because 2007 probably presents the biggest opportunity Apple has had to increase their market share since, say, 1982, which was the last year that the company could have bought out Microsoft.” I read pretty much every Leopard [...]
A Spotty Leopard
Two days ago, at the World Wide Developers Conference 2006, Steve Jobs introduced the world to Leopard, the next iteration of Mac OS X. I told you last week that I’d give you my thoughts on the whole thing. And though I may be a couple of days late, thanks to the design update of [...]
Less Than A Week Away
I know all y’all motherfuckers are excited about Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at the World Wide Developer’s Conference next week, and not because he’s going to announce, as Robert Scoble wrote on Monday, “a dizzying amount of new products,” which may include a new iPhone, a new Mac Pro to replace the PowerMac G5, and [...]
AppleTorrent?
Mac OS Rumors has a report that Apple is jumping on the BitTorrent bandwagon. Their sources are telling them that “Mac OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’ will include a system-level ‘BitTorrent’ filesharing client that can be user-customized to ‘donate’ upstream Internet bandwidth for things like pushing Software Update packages to Leopard users, delivering iTunes Store content, [...]
