“Those in attendance at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference last week went home with the first new build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard released to third-party developers in almost two months. Build 9A466 was demonstrated as the first ‘feature-complete’ beta of Leopard and arrived one year after developers first got their paws on Leopard at last year’s WWDC,” Think Secret reports.
“The biggest change in build 9A466 is the revamped Finder, which sees some substantial changes to the interface, including iTunes-esque windows, complete with CoverFlow for documents and folders,” Think Secret reports. “Stacks, or collections of files that are grouped together in a single dock icon, also make their debut in build 9A466.”
Think Secret has published a gallery of screenshots, linked within the full article here.
I’m surprised that OS X doesn’t have big cat growl system alerts. And it should at least purr after every software update.
Hmmmm..can’t connect to ThinkSecret.
Must be getting a lot of hits.
Why do you hate me, Leopard Beta?
See http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a466/source/picture21.html
Has it actually been THIS long since Macs could share specific folders, without using third-party tools? I remember this ability in OS9 and below, and I can’t check my Tiger Macbook right this moment.
What’s next after the big cats are all exahusted I wonder? And what cats are even left?
Mac OSX 10.6 – House Cat?
Mac OSX 10.7 – Mountain Cub?
ThinkSecret’s web server must have imploded just now tearing a small hole in the fabric of the space-time continuum. Not good.
In an obvious tribute to Goldfinger, Mac OS X 10.6 will be named Pussy Galore. (Honor Blackman is 79 and still looks pretty hot. I guess that makes her a GGMILF.)
That Leopard is essentially being iTunized goes very far in explaining why Apple happily settled the Contois iTunes interface patent suit.
Wonder if at the time Contois had any inkling that Apple wouldn’t be using the patent to go after other manufactuers, but rather wanted to use the iTunes interface throughout OS X.
Love the iTunified network control interface.
“I’m surprised that OS X doesn’t have big cat growl system alerts. And it should at least purr after every software update.”
I just hope it doesn’t spray my desktop when XP comes around during Parallels…..
Or leave furballs. Or attack and kill my mouse. But it would be nice if it occasionally licked the monitor clean. I sure get tired of doing it myself.
licking it or cleaning it?
I’d rather Apples ‘Cats’, than Microsofts ‘Dog’ of an operating system…
“licking it or cleaning it?”
Yes.
“Microsofts ‘Dog’ of an operating system…”
ME-OWWW ! ! !
Where’s my copy Apple? I’m a select level developer but we haven’t had an update since April.
mw : ahead
My guess is they are moving into “space” themes. Leopard is a transitional version, but WWDC was all about space. Maybe they’ll use the names of planets… OS X 10.6 Mercury
Can QuickLook be invoked in Stacks on the Dock?
Maybe they are moving from cat to car names.
Mac OS
10.6 Edsel
10.7 Yugo
10.8 Gremlin
10.9 Trabant
I trust they will leave one planet for Vista…yeah, Uranus
Uh, wait, not yours. It was supposed to be a play on words involving MIcrosuck. No offense intended to you.
is anyone else annoyed by the fact that the “stacks” lean to the right? makes me quesy
> I trust they will leave one planet for Vista…yeah, Uranus
LOL
I’m glad I didn’t have a mouthful of coffee when I read that.
This is a placeholder comment until I can get through the TS gallery. Taking forever!
for M@c
How about Felix.
http://www.felixthecat.com/
Lion has not been used.
About Back to My Mac:
See screen: http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a466/source/picture21.html
If your ISP provides a dynamic IP which is then changed by an internal router to a new dynamic IP on your internal LAN, how does BTMM capture and route this IP data over WAN? The screen shot shows a local and global address for the machine, but there is no way that the global IP shown in the screen shot is going to resolve to my specific machine over the internet. There isn’t enough info. There are hundreds of thousands of machines behind DHCP routers using the same IP shown.