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- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Avoid the slow mirror---
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Mac OS X’s Aqua has matured very slowly over the last few years. It seems like many OS X users are tired of Aqua and ready for a new revolutionary GUI to compliment and enhance the experience of using a Mac. An increasingly popular theme for Apple’s latest applications have been smooth unified metal and dark glass. With each major update to one of Apple’s applications, its seems like the days with blue gel scroll-bars and candy bar progress bars are ending.
Its no question that Leopard will feature a new GUI, but no one really knows what it will look like. Its no doubt that Leopard will feature resolution-independent graphics support that will allow for greater resolution displays with the same and windows sizes. However, the details of the interface have not yet been revealed, but many are hoping that we will see the final announcement of Leopard features at Macworld 2007, where chances of a GUI announcement are high.
Apple Gazette has featured a new rumor from a supposed insider that has claimed that the new GUI that will replace Aqua will be nicknamed ‘Illuminous’. The report has no solid information on what the Illuminous theme will look like, but I believe I know exactly where Apple might be headed.
As I said, Apple’s latest trend in its software GUI is a darker, flatter, translucent, reflective, “illuminating” glass appearance. The GUI is also making headway beyond the sheer appearance, to window sizes, visual effects, icons, etc. Fullscreen applications will definitely be a hit in Leopard, to clear your desktop from clutter and manage your workspace more efficiently. Just like Aperture and iPhoto, imagine fullscreen browsing, video-editing, Garageband, iWork, etc. Sleek graphic effects when opening windows, files, applications, are also likely to be improved making the OS seem more alive, similar to the widget ripple effect. And with the new GUI change, I am also expecting Apple to replace their outdated icons. Ultimately, Apple is heading towards a sleeker, darker, simpler, livelier GUI.
Apple has been the leader in computer and GUI design for years, and Vista’s new Aero interface has probably provoked Apple’s design team to topping them off with a mind-blowing interface (that requires half of Aero’s hardware requirements). It would be a true disappointment if there was no sort of GUI announcement when Steve finished giving the major features in Leopard.
The dark translucent appearance Apple has developed over the last three years has seemed to have expanded to many of the operating system’s core applications. Here are a few of the many traces of the new dark glass appearance rumored to be featured in Leopard:
(MIRROR DIDNT CATCH PICS) - haydesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I wonder why Digg doesn't automatically mirror stories that make it to the front page?
- thejokell, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22@MeatBiProduct
Hi. My name's the world and I don't care about linux if it's not on a server. - neoknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18of course, they bookmark it and then come back later to read after the server puts it's pants back on.
- wild, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14"I see my comment is being dugg down. Please consider the irony of the situation: when I posted my comment the article had 74 diggs, and was down. Now, the article has 156 diggs and is still down. are you serious? This is the lamest ***** ever."
Its being dugg down because its IN ALL ***** CAPS and thats just annoying and unnecessary. Not to mention it adds nothing new to the conversation. O, and the fact its already been clearly explained to you that some of us, shocking I know, actually bookmark articles we are interested in reading to return to later.
And why take the time to write a comment, when I can jus quickly scan the home page at work and one click the stuff that interests me every couple of hours in a matter of seconds? - dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15"There are more than just Diggers out there you know"
LIES!! - MBX1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13best "illuminous" review/ article so far
- mckk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Why do you all always posts this link, even though it doesn't work. Damn, you should at least check it.
- blackbeltbones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10'This Account Has Been Suspended.' Nice!
- r3zonance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Yeah, but it appears to have cached the WordPress error screen, how useful.
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Digg needs a 'remind me in a week' button for exactly this reason.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Perhaps it's because people want to bookmark it so they can access it later when the digg effect has died down
edit: damn neoknight beat me. - SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Isn't it odd how Apple always seem to be one step ahead of things (well me at least). I was only the other day complaining that the old Aqua interface style was begining to look dated and I preferred the glass effect buttons in Vista... lo and behold up pops a new GUI for 10.5 that has the looks of Vista, but with much more consideration and planning in order to make it as usable as it is beautiful. Just what the doctor ordered, they just booked the sale of one Mac mini come the release of 10.5...
- tafdc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I'm going to Digg it just to tick you off, showgun...
- chrismcelligott, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12It has to make Vista look old and all of the current black UI's Apple has just don't do that, hopefully it's something newer.
- thbt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Digg needs a separate bookmarking button.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12More like a reality distortion server implosion...
- virtualball, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Agreed.
I believe that this would be a great looking GUI! I already love the transluscent black float window used in iPhoto, iWork, and more. Also, this would make iTunes 7 look a lot more at home. Wow, I'm actually hoping Apple pulls this one off! But ya know, only time will tell, 1 more moth!! - haydesigner, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Yeah, that's the poster fault. :::rolls eyes:::
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Obviously he's been using the pro apps a lot.
- fahrvergnuugen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Ctrl + Option + Command + 8
- Dog_Paddle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8I'm with chris on this, the black is just too similar to Vista.
If they do introduce a new GUI, I'm sure they'll have an option to choose which one you want. I'm hoping they go the iTunes 7 look. - jdstorer2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6The "Marked as Lame" doesn't reference the Poster, it references what's Posted.
- muzzymate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7GawtMilk, make sure to give your Lemmings a parachute first or they will splatter when they hit the button. You have to save at least 25% to pass the level.
- jshadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@brstilson, consider how long Aqua has been out, versus how long Aero has been out. I think they're allowed to need a little catch up.
- burty89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@leobaby:
Go read http://digg.com/about
Digg is not a bookmarking site, despite what lots of users may think... Its people who use it as a bookmarking site that are destroying the quality of the stories making it to the front page by digging articles which they haven't even read... - Jist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4No content... great article.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So the new GUI will be "flatter" and "reflective," as well as "darker" and "livelier." Got it.
- paulmalenke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6What do you expect with a HostGator account...
- rogersmj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"marked as lame since i'm sick of getting wordpress error everyday..."
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Wordpress has exactly ***** to do with the database going down or not. The same thing could happen no matter what content management system they were using on their crappy web host, the database server would still die under the load of all these digg users. Wordpress just gives you a nice error message about it. What you said is like saying you hate a certain kind of car because you saw it in green and you hate green. That's stupid, because you can get the car in different colors. - hotdamn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4good god, that is hideous.
- fegul, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10goddamn it, 29 diggs and its down?? (with no mirror!)
wtf mate. - swalter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3if you've got the latest version of shape shifter: http://unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter ... you can download this "7" theme (iTunes7) from interfacelift and try it out. I'm using it now and love it.
http://interfacelift.com/themes-mac/details.php?id=171 - r3zonance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, 8090 takes me to a nice cached Wordpress > Error.
- jonathantneal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So, if nobody has been able to view the page since something like 29 diggs, and there are no caches currently available, then why have the diggs now reached into the hundreds?
- SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i'm sure it was cool before his account was suspended.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@meatbiproduct
When linux has the hardware recognition and a broad assortment of quality software that mac and windows does, the world will care. - mpancha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34 comments down the site was hosed, duggmirror doesn't have a cache, and the nyud cache doesn't have images (which means a review of a GUI without pictures is not a good review to comment on)....
What I'm getting at is, at the time of my post, there are 213 diggs. How did that work?
Maybe digg should add a feature where you can only digg a story once you've at least clicked on its link. - Appleologist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The website is finally back up. Sorry guys.
- mouthwash, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3not real....the dock's too fugly 4 apple
- mbabauer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I was about to say...this looks a whole lot like Windows here. The "dock" gave it away.
- T-Bird, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hopefully it'll come back online later this morning.
- ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i don't understand, in the last hour this story have been dugg hundreds of times, yet the site is down and duggmirror didn't catch it. What are people digging, exactly?!
- wild, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I said "article" not "comment"."
You sure about that? What I quoted:
"I see my comment is being dugg down."
Umm, you sure do seem to like spelling "article" as c-o-m-m-e-n-t. And when your bookmarking by digging, you don't read comments or check the link. You just hit the button and keep scrolling. So, based on your numbers, I would guess you're right, its not just "some" users, its "most" users... - NovaPrime9, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Why? It's hard to make a PDF in Windows? Man, I should get a raise... ;)
- moisie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From the about page: "After you submit content, other digg users read your submission and digg what they like best." If people like the submission they can digg it if they want.
- Distortions, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone have a copy in their browser cache or smart enough to save some images?
- stelriah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3how is this still getting diggs when the links are all dead.
- r3zonance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ha!
Dugg to death already. And no duggmirror :( -
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