It ’s been nearly a twelvemonth since Leopard , the 5th personification of OS X , was annunciate .
If you ca n’t recall all the public features , here ’s a refresher you may glint through before the big show on Monday . The secret features revealed there should be hearty , considering the OS ’s long delay to October .
Time Machine
Leopard ’s most radical conception is Time Machine , a way to back up your calculator without actually going to the hassle of backing up your information processing system . The system of rules journals every alteration on your magnetic disk , giving you access to older adaptation of your work . desire a filing cabinet you just overwrote or delete ? Use Time Machine ’s browser app to scroll back a few Day , then rob your data from oblivion . Of naturally , if your drive sound poo - poo , your Time Machine is useless . We ’re impressed , but we ’d be more impressed if Time Machine could go forrad in meter to when our web log posts are already written , 10 hours from now .
Time Machine can backup , on the fly , to an outside or connection’d drive . Here ’s the officialApple video .
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I personally practice Mail , and I ’m super excited over two tweaks that ’ll appeal to organizing junky . The first is the Notes box seat . How often do you broadcast yourself an e-mail as monitor notes ? The new Mail has a dedicated corner that initialize take down substance so they appear like Post Its . The Other subroutine is the ToDo leaning . chain armour let you foreground text edition in any app — even document file in Finder7mdash;and sprain them into thing on your ToDo inclination . Sweeeeeeet . Mail also does stationary now , in HTML . Just like Outlook Express did 5 years ago . The templet included range from photo record album to ecards . They’re decent . Here ’s avideo .
iChat
It ’s fargin awesome . We ’re spill the beans app screen - sharing over iChat video ( so you may show off slideshows , or powerpoint , or even TV in Quicktime . ) Then , there ’s iChat ’s backcloth . The backdrops can overwrite your messy way with a photo of a beach , or of Times Square . The coolest affair ? iChat sustain video backdrops — one deterrent example they had was of someone appearing to be riding a rollercoaster . Then , there ’s Screen Sharing , which I did n’t discover Steve talk about during the keynote . I assume it ’s a VNC eccentric of remote control . Apple’svideo here .
Spaces
All the young Macs support mellow Re LCD . But even the biggest LCDs get crowd together after you open a spreadsheet , a post program , and a web internet browser . So that ’s where Spaces comes in . space lay your covering windows out across 4 practical desktops that you could chop-chop switch between . you could zoom out to see all 4 , then scuff apps between each virtual desktop . BTW , this has been around for a long meter in Linux machine . catch ta love how Apple accuses M$ft of copying , while they ’ve re-create third party apps like Konfabulator since Tiger .
Dashboard and doodad
Dashboard , if you do n’t recognize , is a programme that runs useful mini apps called Widgets : They can check up on the weather , check origin price , sway some canonical calculator action , and loads more . ( Here’sApple ’s directory of Widgets . ) What ’s novel ? A Widget creator that seems more suitable for developers , and a way to change state any part of a webpage into a Widget . Eh .
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public eye is OS X ’s lookup serve that can find not only file , but icon from iPhoto , electronic mail from Mail , and contacts from Address Book . You get the idea — you could search your system for whatever . What ’s new here is support for searching Mac ’s across the web , and support for additional hunt syntaxes . Meh .
iCal
The bighearted new thing about iCal is chemical group calendar support , using the CalDAV standard . Using a compatible WebDAV host , you could automatically schedule meeting during times when everyone is useable , and mechanically call for meeting room . ( So , we ’re one step closer to iCal being useful for workplace use . )
Parental Controls for Net - Access
parent can throttle internet memory access on machines by remote control . It was n’t announce at the Keynote , but Giz found this sidebar on the Leopard internet site .
Bundled Apps
Bootcamp , the software that help Windows Machines run on Macintel machines , comes out of genus Beta and will ship with Leopard . So will Front Row , Apple ’s media web browser , and Photo booth .
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Core Animation is a developer tool for scripting graphics . It ’s well explained by watch an deterrent example of aprogram .
64 chip Support
Leopard is Apple ’s raw operating organisation , due to dispatch the shelf in the springiness of 2007 . The OS has been compose tofully bear 64 - snatch appsand the Quad Xeon 64 - bit micro chip in the new Mac Pro desktops . And at the same time run older 32 - bit apps . All without emulation .
[ * this post was extract from a former article on Leopard ]
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