“Released in April 2005, Mac OS X version 10.4 (known as Tiger) introduced the Spotlight integrated desktop search feature, a new Dashboard that popularized widget use, an updated Safari Web browser, and more,” TechRepublic’s Erik Ecke reports.
Now, Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is just around the corner.
Ecke reports, “Featuring more than 300 updates and improvements, the new ‘Leopard’ release packs several significant enhancements. In addition to including a new Time Machine automated backup utility, the updated operating system boasts Spotlight search capability across multiple systems, the Front Row and Photo Booth applications introduced with Tiger on Intel-powered systems, virtual desktop ‘Spaces’ that enable users to maintain multiple desktop with specific applications running simultaneously, the addition of RSS, stationery and other new features to Mail, and much more.”
Eckel takes a deeper look at some of the many new features and enhancements Apple is putting into Mac OS X Leopard, including:
• Boot Camp
• Desktop enhancements
• Finder
• Front Row
• iCal
• iChat
• Mail
• Quick Look
• Parental Controls
• Photo Booth
• Safari 3.0
• Stacks
• Spaces
• Spotlight
• Time Machine
• Universal Access
Full article here.
oh yeah
I love it already.
Looking forward for the day to buy it!
And WOW… I heard by October 28th.
APPLE is early.
Should be “bloody wonderful”.
Damn sweet Apple. Many many thanks if this does arrive before the end of October.
Jason
No further secret details? Is this it? Tiger speeded up a bit, that’s about it, right? or am i Missing something?
What an absurd headline.
It’s an enormous misrepresentation of the truth. Hey MDN, the headline should read:
“Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard to copy many of Microsoft Windows Vista’s already released magnificent features”
That should do it.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Re-Post from other thread:
OK, developers, I only want to know a few things:
Is there a spaces type feature for Dashboard? Or Dashboard folders? I want someway to better manage my 300+ widgets.
How are the multiple clipboards implemented in Leopard?
Are there sliders for controlling the degree of transparency and icon size (other than the usual way of controlling icon size in the get info box)? Is there something that controls things system-wide?
And, why are my posts always right under Pune Tang’s?
Dave Smith,
You’re obviously missing quite a bit, you moron.
Give us an example….
Still waiting!
Zune Tang, take a laxative and go lay down.
Your stupidly. Our your own damn fault.™
You are wasting you time trying to burn Zune Tang. He/she likes the attention.
Missing the one feature I had *really* hoped it would have: screen resolution independence. I’m extremely disappointed.
Zune, how’s the Mac running? I see you’re sense of humor is still in tact. Let us know how you like Leopard. Thanks.
If you read Zung Tang’s posts over a long period of time, it’s easy to tell that it’s all tongue in cheek.
Some things he/she writes is so over the top, even Monkey Boy wouldn’t believe them. Just relax and enjoy the writings of an obviously very good fanboi baiter.
Nothing really stands out for me with Leopard. The only thing I will be interested in is speed. Sure, there are a couple of new eye candy things.
Zune Tang you are funny. It’s the other way around with Vista. Microsoft would not even exist without Bill Gates taking apples idea (a mouse, keyboard, curser) and marketing it to the masses.
Plus, Vista is a pile of steamy dung that nobody wants or needs.
To be fair even a speeded up Tiger would be worth the money.
In the media are wowed by all the eye candy.
In the meantime, spinning beachballs galore, panics everywhere, and inoperable Apple apps that aren’t new, are all leading to some very disappointed early adopters.
And, might I say, even more disappointed APPL holders.
Screen resolution independence will be there when it’s needed. That is, when Apple releases new displays with greater than 100 dpi resolution.
I suspect they are not far off, just waiting for Leopard to be released.
Are you OK, or have you been sniffing the glue again? If there is a disappointed AAPL holder right now, he/she needs to run–not walk–to the nearest psychiatrist and get in line with you. (AAPL’s market cap tops HPQ’s now.)
Obviously you’re another trip-trop-trip-trop troll looking for the attention your parents (two?) never gave you. There are no “early adopters” of OS 10.5, you imbecile; neither are there any inoperable Apple apps that “aren’t new.”
Be careful, LC, and zip up your pants. Your penis envy is showing.
If you’re going to be a WinFanBoyTroll, LC, at least get the stock ticker symbol right:
It’s AAPL, not APPL. Jeez, what a maroon! (Quoting His Excellency, Bugs Bunny)
I’ll be using the Microsoft voucher I got from the California price fixing class action settlement to buy Leopard, and it’ll feel really good.
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Lies! They are all disappointing! This is the most disappointing OSX release ever! I know because everyone told me so after the last Leopard feature introduction!
@David Mullar
October 28th is a Sunday. I’m thinking Friday the 26th or Tuesday the 30th are more likely for an end of month release. If Leopard is already an unannounced Gold, then I’d expect sooner than that.
Help. Need input!
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I have a G5 iMac before Front Row was built in. So, its totally useless to me unless there is a third party usb connection to use it.
Any one out there know of any patch or third party system to add Front Row to a G5 iMac. It came with Tiger.
en
One “theft” from windblows is that I can finally see my artwork before I click on it in the finder. A huge improvement if you use a lot of .eps files. Of course Apple went three better by using coverflow and showing all of the info below the image in it’s own window. A MUCH better implementation than what Exploiter gives you.
MDN: control – Kismet!
Before you flame me, yes, I know preview in the three column works, except for most .eps, flash, and swf files.
Windows has a greater market share than OS-X, therefore it is better.
“The market has spoken.”
– S. Colbert
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
FORGET LEOPOLD!
New Vista Version Coming!
I told the marketing folk long ago that Vista needed to have five versions not four! But, being the easy-going, no-waves guy I am I let it slide, I let the “experts” have their way.
RESULTS:
Anemic, sluggish, weak, poohpooh sales!
I will no longer sit by and let this continue! Per my executive order 31148V.101 we will add to the Vista line-up – “Vista 2X Super Ultra Turbo-Ultimate”. SUTU (as I call it) will include 33% of all of the modern architecture features that we originally promised for Longhorn 3 years ago but dropped from the final version.
“Vista 2X Super Ultra Turbo-Ultimate” SUTU includes:
Dynamic Core Desktop Acceleration – DCDA
LiveTime Animotron Technology – LtAM
Windows Interscope Code Manager – WICM
The zLife Suite of applications:
StudioBand – Record up to 4 tracks of music.
zPicture – Your JPG photo manager
zWeb – Create Beautiful text webpages
zMelodies – A new skin for Mediaplayer making it a zApp
zFilm – Video editing for any WMV file
All of this Tech-goodness for just $699!
….. and it comes in a RED box.
@ Cubert
Ya, organization of widgets isn’t too great if you have a lot of widgets. It takes too long to:
1) open dashboard
2) press ‘+’ icon
3) remember which direction to go
4) find the widget
5) watch the cool effect
Now, (chances are you remember the name of the widget), I just go into Spotlight and type the name of the widget (ex. calculator.wdgt), and it launches automatically in Dashboard. WAY faster.
MDN Magic Word: ‘daily’ (holy crap! daily?! perfect!)
Going back to 8.1, Apple always say “150 new features!” but never list more than a dozen or two.
My predictions:
Leopard release date: Friday, Oct 26th, 6pm.
Small special event at Apple Cupertino campus: Tuesday, Oct 16th to announce the release date, and unveil a new/updated Mac which will ship on Oct 26th.
Best of all when it released, it won’t be vaporware any more.
Just my $0.02
@Question for Leopard: Dude you can hack your iMac to use Front Row today OR you can wait for Leopard for it to be fully supported.
Apple getting set up for a Friday release of Leopard? Right. Won’t happen.
And all the dates being thrown around here? Bullocks – unless you work in Apple’s PR department (and if you do work in that bastion of super-high-security, today’s probably your last day on the job anyway, and then they’ll change the date just to spite you).
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“No further secret details? Is this it? Tiger speeded up a bit, that’s about it, right? or am i Missing something?”
don’t worry gentle fanboy, What you see now is just a warmed over Tiger, but Steve will unveil those secret features he promised you soon.