Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Oct 2007 20:28 UTC, submitted by SK8T
Apple has revealed Leopard's releast date to be 26th October, confirming earlier rumours. "Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple's online store."
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Guh, this is what I meant. Time Machine is a piece of backup software, VSC is versioning software. These are not the same things. Please go back to backup 101.
Mac OS X already supports versioning, but just not as well as VSC; which only has a UI on the most expensive versions of Vista, and even then - it is not a regular user backup solution.
These two things are so disparate it only dumbfounds me that people can think VSC is "better" than time machine.
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And the full list can be found here :
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
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You know, I run both Linux (OpenSUSE 10.3) and Windows (XP), but I must say this Leopard thing looks like it will be very pleasant to use; lots of practical touches like the To-Do feature in the mail client, calculations in the spotlight thing, stacks and auto-downloads to the downloads folder (I always create such a folder myself anyways), ... I must admit it all looks pretty sharp (although I don't like the fact that there are no sideways borders around certain apps, looks ugly IMO)
Also, now that you mention Automator, I see it's not any longer in the list with features on Apple's webpages... and when I search for it on Apple's website I get an error 404.
It's a shame, I really wanted to take another look at it.
Edited 2007-10-17 06:43
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Okay... so I finally found it. Here is the link on Apple's site in case anyone else is interested (since most other links to automator on Apple's website do not work... I believe it had a seperate page before but somehow that is gone).
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#automator
Edited 2007-10-18 19:14
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 13:38 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 22:06 UTC
"The first killer app was VisiCalc. This early spreadsheet turned the Apple II from a hobbyist toy to a business computer. VisiCalc came with room for improvement, though. In addition, a new architecture and operating system, the Intel-based IBM PC and MS-DOS, also needed a spreadsheet to be taken seriously. That spreadsheet, released in early 1983, would be Lotus 1-2-3, and it would change the world. It became the PC's killer app, and the world would never be the same. On May 14, IBM quietly announced the end of the road for 1-2-3, along with Lotus Organizer and the Lotus SmartSuite office suite. Lotus 1-2-3's day is done." Impressive 30 year run.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:45 UTC
"There's a disconnect between how Apple CEO Tim Cook sees his company's tax strategies and how some members of the US Senate view it. That became clearer than ever today after Cook and two other Apple executives testified before Congress, explaining why they're holding most of their international income in Irish subsidiaries like Apple Operations International, which declare no tax residency anywhere in the world. AOI hasn't filed a tax return anywhere in the world for the last five years, yet it earned $30 billion in income from 2009 to 2012, according to a Senate report released yesterday." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean it's just. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and many more - these companies might not be breaking any laws, but it's obvious to anyone that what they are doing is scummy.
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I've read some truly messed up comments up and down the web today. Here's some salvo's to ward off the stupidity landing here.
a) A number is not more important than actual functions. Calling Leopard a "point release" is dumb. Windows is after all just as much a "point release". Windows 2000 -> NT 5.0, Windows XP -> 5.1, Windows 2003 -> NT 5.2. Point is moot.
ii.) The 300 number is a little stretched, but not totally devoid like some try to make it out. Here's a list of genuinely serious features:
* UI recording for Automator. Make OS macros just by point and click. No such thing in Vista.
* Spring-loaded dock. The dock finally gets the Windows feature of being able to drag objects onto a minimized window! Hurrah, finally.
* Wikipedia in the Dictionary app. A system wide dictionary is joy. No such thing in Vista.
* Japanese «» English dictionary. This is a big thing for someone like me, and even if you never use it, it's still a big accomplishment for Apple to create, and include in the OS. No such thing in Vista
* Chapter thumbnails in DVD player, Automatic pillerbox removal, scratched disc recovery. No such thing in Vista.
* Screen sharing. Only present as a client app in certain versions of Windows.
* System Font Protection. Delete fonts willy nilly and don't worry about accidentally deleting your defaults. Vista kind of does this by annoying you so much with the UAC that you wouldn't /want/ to delete fonts.
* CalDev Group Scheduling in iCal. No such thing in Vista, go buy Outlook.
* Photobooth and backround effects in iChat, no such thing in MSN.
* Simple mail setup. POP details auto filled for 30 popular mail services. Go fish in Windows Mail.
* More photobooth features, like animations and backdrops. Nothing like this in Vista
* Better preview, better PDF features (Vista doesn't even support this out-of-the-box), "instant-alpha".
* Printer updates via Software Update! Hurrah. Windows users have to live with ten items from HP in their startup list.
* Download tagging - a somewhat annoying feature from XP, now present on Leopard. Sandboxing, present in Vista, Apple have now catched up on this one; that said Apple are not the ones dealing with hundreds of thousands of virii and malware.
* Spaces. No such thing in Vista.
* Calculations in the search field. No such thing in vista
* Dictionary definitions in the search field. No such thing in Vista.
* OOXML support in TextEdit. That would be like WordPad having .docx support. Do you think that is *ever* going to happen? Not when Microsoft can sell you Office.
* Time Machine. Backup that just f*cking works. For regular people. VSC != Time Machine, go do some research before even bringing VSC up.
* Accessibility that goes beyond everything in Windows
* XCode3. The full IDE provided with the OS. No Express editions, no silly EULAs restricting you to toy making. XCode3 is a serious piece of kit, now with DTrace.