“In perhaps one of the most stunning MacWorld Keynotes to date, Steve Jobs unveiled three completely new applications (Safari, Keynote, & FinalCut Express) and upgrades to three existing iApps (iPhoto 2, iMovie 3, & iDVD) in edition to it’s new hardware. Dig Deeper for the skinny on the veritable buffet of software.” Read more at MacSlash.
MacSlash has a booBoo in that iMovie, iPhoto, and iTunes are the free downloads and iDVD costs $49, not the other way aroung as they reported.
I’m sorry, but why the HELL is Safari brushed metal? What real world device is a web browser supposed to be emulating?
Is it me, or does Apple not give a shit about their own style guidelines?
In other news, Apple foolishly decides to buy their own web browser instead of purchasing OmniWeb…
>What real world device is a web browser supposed to be emulating?
On Jaguar, the brush metal look is “native” Cocoa. It is not “emulated” in any way. But it IS still slower than plain Aqua.
>Apple foolishly decides to buy their own web browser instead of purchasing OmniWeb…
Excuse me, but KHTML already does things that OmniWeb’s HTML rendering engine can’t do yet: CSS and proper(er) javascript for example. The wise choice would have been to choose Gecko, but all in all, feature-wise, KHTML IS better than OmniWeb.
What real world device is a web browser supposed to be emulating?
That Newtonesque tablet PC everyone wants Apple to release.
I couldn’t see any mention of it on the iDVD product page.
Now that you have the option of purchasing the software (as opposed to being a bundle with Apple’s SuperDrive) I’m assuming it will work with non-Apple drives (such as external firewire drives) … I’m wondering if this is so.
Anybody know the story about this?
On Jaguar, the brush metal look is “native” Cocoa. It is not “emulated” in any way. But it IS still slower than plain Aqua.
All Cocoa native programs are not brushed metal, it is simply a checkbox in the Interface Builder for anyone to optionally use for their app. Bascule was referring to Apple’s development guidelines which suggest that brushed metal is only use when emulating a real word device. Like iTunes emulates a radio (in a way) and iMovie emulates a DVD player (again, in a way). SO it *is* kinda strange that they chose brushed metal for an internet browser. Dunno. ;
<< I’m sorry, but why the HELL is Safari brushed metal?
<< What real world device is a web browser supposed to be << emulating?
A safari? Not a physical thing, but a noun anyway? A porthole? It is silly, but I’m just happy to see something that’s not craptacular
A browser that uses the Konquere rendering engine? No tabbed browing? Wow!!! What wilL Crapple come up with next?
What is tabbed browsing, and why have so many people become such fanatics over it?
And keep in mind, Safari is only a beta. Enough feedback to Apple and the tabs y’all love so much will appear.
…so stay tuned and wait for the final!
and still no x86 OSX
This new monster notebook definitely has my respect, even though I am not generally a big fan of Apple (Apple’s notebooks are their only hardware I would ever consider buying).
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index17.html
This new monster notebook definitely has my respect, even though I am not generally a big fan of Apple (Apple’s notebooks are their only hardware I would ever consider buying).
Right, and just for shits and giggles, I put together a 1ghz notebook that ran me a little over 5k.
Crapple.
“Bascule was referring to Apple’s development guidelines which suggest that brushed metal is only use when emulating a real word device.”
The guidelines don’t just say: when emulating a media device though. They also say that brush metal when the app is for the “Digital Lifestyle” and integration of the iApps. If you look into its Bookmarks feature you’ll see that it tightly inegrates with the other iApps.
I’m not a fan, but I see this as consistent with their own guidelines.
at least in the highend. 1800 for a tibook or 1800 for a slow aqua crappy ibook with a 14 in screen
In hardware terms, nothing interesting, except that now I won’t be surprised if Apple takes iBook back to the basics.
In software… as everyone and their cat that used IE on the Mac knows, Apple’s move is a bit late… late… real late… dead late. At least 4 years late. KHTML is not the best renderer in this world, but anyway… and there’s always Mozilla
(Looks to me that Microsoft now will have the reason to stop IE for the Mac. Not if Mac fans lose something.)
On the other hand, now we have the “iDigiOffice”
Handy if you want to give reasons to people came back buying stuff in the edge of a war. Or not?
This has been mentioned on several other sites, but I didn’t see it commented on here…
Apple released a single click install of X11 of OS X today.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/
Pretty cool stuff if you ask me. The less fuss I have to go through to run some my favorite apps the better.
Combined with the new release of the GTK libraries for OS X and I can’t think of a reason you’d use Photoshop when you have GIMP.
http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/press/2002.12.31.gtk-osx.released.ht…
Oh yeah, think about special effects houses using this on Macs. It’ll be a hard choice between generic linux boxes or Macs for post-production work.
http://filmgimp.sourceforge.net/
Say what you will about Apple, but they’re playing nicer with more kids in the sandbox than just about anyone else.
Regards!
I’m not a fan, but I see this as consistent with their own guidelines.
It’s not consistant with anything. For one “digital lifestyle ” is an incredibly loose term, applicable to almost anything. Is an Address Book a digital lifestyle app? I wouldn’t say it is.
Also remember that the whole brushed metal justification was added after 10.2 came out. They thought it looked cool, then tried to figure out how to justify it usability wise.
Ditto for the dock, the aqua theme etc. A lot of the changes in OS X were usability killers, but they looked cool and made it easier to market, so they were put in anyway. God knows why people think MacOS is easy to use, nothing could be further from the truth, it’s a usability nightmare. Even Linux is more consistant these days.
Combined with the new release of the GTK libraries for OS X and I can’t think of a reason you’d use Photoshop when you have GIMP.
Remember that it was Film Gimp that was ported, which is now based on a very old branch of the gimp. The next version is based on GTK2 which doesn’t yet run without X11 on OS X.
Also remember that Apples X11 is just XFree with the Apple name. It’s what you’ve always had available.
Say what you will about Apple, but they’re playing nicer with more kids in the sandbox than just about anyone else.
Except their customers?
The guidelines don’t just say: when emulating a media device though. They also say that brush metal when the app is for the “Digital Lifestyle” and integration of the iApps. If you look into its Bookmarks feature you’ll see that it tightly inegrates with the other iApps.
I’m not a fan, but I see this as consistent with their own guidelines.
Here’s what the guidelines actually say (from http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuideli…)
“This window style has been designed specifically for use by—and is therefore best suited to—applications that provide an interface for a digital peripheral, such as a camera, or an interface for managing data shared with digital peripherals, such as the Address Book application.
This appearance may also be appropriate for applications that strive to re-create a familiar physical device—the Calculator application, for example. Avoid using the textured window appearance in applications or utilities that are unrelated to digital peripherals or to the data associated with these devices.”
I think it’s self-evident that Safari should not use the brushed metal according to these guidelines.
I work for a design & lithographic print firm.
Use gimp instead of photoshop? That certainly made me chuckle, do you live in the real world or some imaginary amateur world where everything is printed on inkjets??!?
As it is I couldn’t prise thier macs from thier cold dead hands…
I can’t think of a reason you’d use Photoshop when you have GIMP.
Gah? You’re joking, right? Please, please tell me you’re joking.
Considering that…
A. A legal copy of Adobe Photoshop is $600 US.
B. The Gimp is FREE
C. I don’t like to run stolen / pirated software
D. 99.99999% of what most anyone does with Photoshop is replicated in the Gimp
Yeah, I can’t find one single reason I would run Photoshop over The Gimp.
As far as professionals at print / lithographic firms turning their nose up at this I’ll chalk that up to artists not wanting to change the brand of their crayons.
Projects like Film Gimp are going to expand the number of “professional” features in The Gimp code base as well.
Image editing applications, much like office suites, face the possibility of feature overload. When a free alternative matches 95% of the most usable features of a commercial product there really ceases to be a whole lot of incentive to pay for the commercial application.
These things cost $3,300, not $5,000 like somebody here said in a comment above. Sure, Apple is overpriced, but lets not exaggerate it out of all proportion…
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?family=…
$600 is nothing for a company or professional designer who makes that money back in a couple hours.
Using the GIMP over Photoshop will cost you hours every day of valuable time.
Now you could make an argument for JASC etc.
Personally people who do their own stuff at home and not for profit will use the GIMP over Photoshop. But for them cash is a big deal.
Yeah, I can’t find one single reason I would run Photoshop over The Gimp.
How about… CMYK?
As far as professionals at print / lithographic firms turning their nose up at this I’ll chalk that up to artists not wanting to change the brand of their crayons.
You know, there are features professionals need that you may not use such as support for ICC profiles and color correction. Oh, and did I mention CMYK? You know, CMYK, colorspace you use for prepress because, well, that’s what colors the ink is? How about line screen configuration for your CMYK plates? Oh wait, it doesn’t have that because it doesn’t support CMYK. How about line screen control for your black plates? Doesn’t have that either…
I could go on, but you get my point
Actually, for home users, Adobe has a $99 Photoshop Elements, which is a $100 better than GIMP in every way. I’d say the price is very worth it for the features and simplicity it provides.
When you actually need to do professional quality print work. Gimp CMKY? Anyone? When you need very high quality antialising and text manipulation, flexible yet powerful layer manipulation, wide industry support. The list goes on. Gimp is a toy, great for replacing mspaint.