“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 took a closer look at the global IP shown, and maybe “hundreds of thousands” wouldn’t be sharing that IP, but I still don’t understand how this is going to work.
Cats:
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/agarman/bco2ns.htm
“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.”
If I remember from the keynote, your computer let’s the network know every time it’s IP is changed.
Leopard looks plain and boring compared to Looking Glass and Beryl.
@JB,
“is anyone else annoyed by the fact that the “stacks” lean to the right? makes me quesy”
The reason is the same as why the Dock arcs when you pass your mouse over it – the human hand moves side to side and up and down in an arc and not a straight line. Stacks is meant to mimic the natural movement your hand will make with the mouse. Lefties need not apply.
I’ll bet there’ll be a System Preference to adjust the positioning of the stacks…just like you can move the Dock to the left or the right side of the screen…leaning right is just the default (insert your favorite political joke here)…
Ummmmm, yea but, still don’t like the lean.
“Lion has not been used.”
There’s a homophone tied to Lion (albeit slang) that marketing departments like to avoid.
“If I remember from the keynote, your computer let’s the network know every time it’s IP is changed”
That part I get, but say my desktop Mac receives a dynamic IP from my Airport of 10.0.1.1. My Mac doesn’t know what IP address the my IP has given to my Airport to use. And if I reset my Airport, it will likely be given a different dynamically generated IP from my ISP, while my desktop Mac is still using 10.0.1.1. That’s not an IP discoverable over a WAN. I’m wondering how BTMM is keeping track of all the changing dynamically driven changes that are happening upstream from the machine.
I read somewhere that all the releases of OS X so far have all been German tank names… Make something of that if you will… Mind you, the Germans are now noted for their engineering quality.
Spark,
.Mac only needs to know the IP address of your router. Your router will direct the traffic to the correct computer.
where can I pirate this? I can’t wait till October.
Help me please
I’ve got a couple of old cd-roms that won’t run in OSX. They do however run just fine in Classic or Windows. When I upgrade to Leopard I seem to have two choices:
1. Run Windows via Bootcamp/Parallels or
2. Throw them out.
I there any software that will enable me to avoid the Microsoft path?
Dobie Gilles: Try Crossover.
The first thing to go away will be the default (Yecch! It’s Vista!) background!!!
Hideous! What were they thinking?!?!?