thinksecret.com — Apple recently seeded Select and Premier level developers with a new build of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the first substantial revision released to developers since Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in early August.
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brentrisOct 24, 2006
What you saw when your co-worker was minimizing the window was probably the Genie Effect. That is, the window kinda gets sucked in like into a vacuum cleaner. You can switch it to the Scale Effect in the Dock System Preferences. That just makes the window scale down as it goes into the Dock. Very fast, not distracting, but still provides the motion to let you know where the window went.You can easily change any icon of anything to anything you want. I change the icons of all my DVD-ripped movies to the icons of their DVD cases.
tdhurstOct 24, 2006
You sound like a whiner. How about you have a talk with your parents first?I've been on computers since I was five and my parents have never had to turn on parental controls (not that I ever showed them how to, either). It all comes down to personal responsibility.
uownedgeOct 24, 2006
Looking good so far. I'm really excited to see what all has yet to be shown though. So many rumors floating around. The suspense is just killing me :)As far as Finder goes, IMO, it's the best file manager we have around right now (between Mac-Win-Linux that is). It works well, it's fast, and it looks good for the most part. The only thing I don't really like is that the only view that seems to be efficient is the column view. The other two just seem to be so incredibly awkward.
aurifexOct 24, 2006
I dumped Apple in the early to mid 90s, and switched to Windows. I hated the direction Apple was headed, as did most other people. Since 2000, with the release of Mac OS X, Apple has made a major comeback. Microsoft has wasted away since it's rise in the early 90s, Bill Gates knows Microsoft, powerful as it is, is going downhill, which is why I believe he's resigning from his spot in a year and a half ago.Leopard and Vista will be the final showdown of operating systems. I'm not saying that if Leopard wipes the floor with Vista, Microsoft will never make another operating system, that would be absurd to say. However, it will severely cripple the Windows market, and cause Microsoft to spin faster in the downward spiral it's already in. The government has progressively been switching to both Mac OS and Linux over the last few years, and has shown no sign of slowing down.The main reason I believe Leopard will win this battle is because it's being based off OS X, which has been in constant development for over 7 years. Apple has spent a lot of time perfecting it, and working out all the bugs. Vista is based on a completely new, un-tested foundation, and when it's released it will have major problems, just as OS X did back in 2000, except Microsoft can't afford to wait another 7 years to get their act together.Another fine point is the very real possibility that Leopard will include the rumored "Windows killer", which is the ability to run Windows programs and games from within Mac OS directly, without dual booting into Windows. This would devastate Microsoft, but since that's still only a rumor, only time will tell.
tc811Oct 24, 2006
I'm glad they finally fixed the grid spacing in finder; I hate how far away icons are from each other (waste of desktop space).
nandabanaotakunOct 25, 2006
UNO is terrible at handling third pary apps, especially with transparent windows. Besides, brushed metal isn't so bad. :/
deix15x8Oct 25, 2006
What if you use parental controls for the opposite reason. I'm in high school and my parents have no idea how to use a mac. To get around the learning curve and the problem of them messing things up i created an account for them with the strictest controls possible and only the programs they need available. That removes any extra buttons or other things that might get them confused so that all they have is a windows with ONLY the usable apps. Can't make it any easier than that for a non mac user to use a mac.