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Hidden Images at mac.com Indicates New .Mac Features

Posted by pudge on from the but-what-features-i-cannot-say dept.

brotherash writes "Here's an image that describes the new Address Book feature to be added to .Mac on Jan 7th. It is simply a screen shot of the upcoming web-based address book feature with 'coming Jan 7th stamped on it'." I can't tell what's going on in this image. It looks like a new UI for Address Book, but it also might have a .Mac icon in it. We'll find out next week, I guess.

41 comments

  1. HAS to be web feature by mutterer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you look closely you'll notice that there are no close, collapse, maximize buttons anywhere on the window. This indicates that this isn't just a redesigned AddressBook.app, but a web-based address book, presumably for .Mac subscribers only.

    1. Re:HAS to be web feature by sweetooth · · Score: 2

      Being that it is just a screen shot I don't know that it is enough to say this has to be web based. The elements look differant to me than the other .mac areas for email etc. The address area also looks quite a bit like a listview control and not necessarily html. Of course they could be giving the whole site a ui revamp to match what we see in this address book website.

      On the other hand it is hard to deny that the icon in the upper right hand corner looks just like the logout icon in this screenshot for the webmail. image

      Also, why would Apple put an image of a new Mac OS X feature on the mac.com site rather than the apple.com site. They resolve to the same address but are most certainly contained within differant directory structures. Or maybe it is both a new .mac web feature and a new new addressbook.app for .mac subscribers.

  2. Hide In Plain Sight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not hidden any more. It's on the .Mac front page.

  3. .Mac users should get more than just this trinket by nilepoc · · Score: 1

    After reading that the iApps are going to most likely become pay for upgrade items. I am hoping that they will give the upgrades to the people that currently have .mac. I signed up on the hopefully not false promise that there was more coming for the people accepting the pay for it service of .mac.

    fingers crossed for Jan 7th

  4. I Quiver in Expectation by NickFusion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine! A book...that you can put addresses in!

    This will revolutionize that "Interweb" thing all the kids are excited about.

    Do I smell...patent?

    (Sorry...news you can lose, IMHO)

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    1. Re:I Quiver in Expectation by coolgeek · · Score: 4, Interesting
      News you can lose...maybe. Except for this: when you enter a contact in your Palm, that contact info gets on all your computers (via iSync), acessible from all your applications, including your web address book for those situations when you're away from your own computers, and you've left the Palm at the office (or wherever).

      Sounds kind of like something I wish I had for a long time now...and please don't tell me Exchange is a *solution* for this.

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    2. Re:I Quiver in Expectation by raju1kabir · · Score: 1
      Except for this: when you enter a contact in your Palm, that contact info gets on all your computers (via iSync), acessible from all your applications, including your web address book for those situations when you're away from your own computers, and you've left the Palm at the office (or wherever). Sounds kind of like something I wish I had for a long time now...and please don't tell me Exchange is a *solution* for this.

      No, but LDAP plus a little homework is.

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  5. How do people find these things? by MacAndrew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Was this image linked somewhere? Is this snooping?

    I'm not concerned -- I want to know how to do it!

    1. Re:How do people find these things? by nilepoc · · Score: 2, Informative

      Point your browser to apple.com and start typing extensions after the url. Tweak the names using dates, and otherr themes you observe in the urls.

      And have lots of spare time.

      Good luck, Share what you find.

    2. Re:How do people find these things? by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Informative

      It's easy. Go to http://www.mac.com. Log in. Look at the giant thing that says, ".Mac address book with contact synchronization available Jan. 7." Submit story to Slashdot. Profit!

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    3. Re:How do people find these things? by dagar17 · · Score: 1

      you know its a slow news day when........

    4. Re:How do people find these things? by sweetooth · · Score: 2

      Funny that this is the answer. I was certainly wondering if this was posted somewhere in the .mac members section. Finding that particular url would take way to damn long to do manually.

      Of course I couldn't see paying for .mac so had no way of verifying this myself.

    5. Re:How do people find these things? by MacAndrew · · Score: 3

      Was it really that simple? Why the story title "Hidden Images at Mac.com" like this was a scoop?

      I'm never submitting a story again (oh no), given what's accepted and I've had rejected. "An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff, and prints the chaff." (atrtributed to Adlai Stevenson, but I think it's older; editors have been around at least as long as politicians)

      Uh-oh, I sense an editor coming with "off topic" points. Which would merely prove my point, nyah. :)

  6. Of course here is your answer by sweetooth · · Score: 2

    This comment from a .mac user points out exactly what it is. Figures that this isn't really news.

  7. If you were a .mac subscriber.... by neverkevin · · Score: 5, Informative

    The you would have known that it is not a hidden image, it is on the members home screen with the text underneath:

    "Enjoy access to you key contact infomation anywhere. Your online .Mac Address Book will soon work with iSync so you can have all your key contact information, including addresses and phone numbers up to day. A great feature when you are on the road."

    Too bad i can already do this with my iPod.

    hmm by the choice of non-stories slashdot posts about Apple, it would be nice to have a Mac person working for slashdot. I'll volunteer :)

    1. Re:If you were a .mac subscriber.... by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Funny

      hmm by the choice of non-stories slashdot posts about Apple, it would be nice to have a Mac person working for slashdot. I'll volunteer :)
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      Nice sig. You're definitely qualified to be an editor. ;-)

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    2. Re:If you were a .mac subscriber.... by Refrag · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The key is that the .Mac mirror of your Address Book will be available from Webmail. That will rule.

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    3. Re:If you were a .mac subscriber.... by brotherash · · Score: 1

      You're right I must admit - I am not a .mac subscriber. I found a link to the first image (the one that the slashdot editors left in my message) on a another Mac news site but I also submitted the story with a second image which did not get published. I snooped for that one. I guess that means I have more time than money - I can spend time snooping images but I can't pay for .Mac.

      Either that or I have a more powerful service than .Mac called a webhost.

    4. Re:If you were a .mac subscriber.... by wirelessbuzzers · · Score: 1

      Wasn't one of the editor's switching to OSX?

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  8. Rumour Engine starting up! by 42 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love how the rumour engine begins to start up just before MacWorld! This is one of the things that make MacWorld so fun. A MacWorld without these crazy rumours floating around just isn't the same. Hopefully we hear a few more doozies before the 7th!

  9. And this is important how? by schoolsucks · · Score: 0

    So just because some insignificant feature was hiddena and some geek found it, Slashdot deems it frontpage material?

    1. Re:And this is important how? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Since this story wasn't on the front page, your statement makes you look pretty stupid. Ba da bing!

  10. THE PHONE BOOK IS HERE! THE NEW PHONE BOOK IS HERE by Picass0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since I was a small child I yearned desperately for an address book... oh, if only the doctors hadn't given me until Jan. 6 to live....

    This is news? I fucking address book? You apple types are high strung...

  11. Where the FUCK are the KDE3 debs??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oops. Wrong forum. Waitaminit...

    Why are all Macintosh users GAY???

  12. Are you on crack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That is not a hidden image. It is right on the .Mac homepage! And has been for the last couple days!

  13. Some Hidden Image. . . by Cokelee · · Score: 1

    As pointed out the image isn't all that hidden.

    If it were, the apple legal team would be hot on the chase.

    1. Re:Some Hidden Image. . . by damiam · · Score: 1

      No, they'd just remove the image. What's there to so for?

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  14. isn't that a drawer? by MyDixieWrecked · · Score: 1
    That sure as hell looks like it.

    maybe the addressbook app will be killed and the drawer added as a system service to apps that need to use the address book? I'd say that that sounds like apple's style to me.

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  15. Another image! by brotherash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're feeling observant you will notice that the title of this article promises "images" but only delivers one. You will also note that my quote is a bit odd, claiming that the image "describes" the new feature when in fact it only gives a release date. This is because my quote has been heavily edited including a reference to this additional image.

    The image that was posted by slashdot has been posted everywhere but this additional image (which describes the feature in slightly more detail and which clarifies "what's going on in this image") was the reason I submitted the story to slashdot to begin with.

    I guess Jakob was right - people don't READ on the web.

    -Shmuel

    1. Re:Another image! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Man, this image is even older than the first? What are you trying to pull here? For crying out loud, this "new" image even refers to iSync as Beta, and everyone knows it has already been released! This image has been publicly available on Apples website for ages.

    2. Re:Another image! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Dude. That additional image is MONTHS old. All it says is that you can synchronize iCal and Address Book using iSync (the beta version, which is already old!), which I've been doing since iSync beta was released months ago. Maybe that's why that image was edited out, hrm?

  16. It's not a .Mac Icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I could be wrong, but to my eyes that blue globe on the right side doesn't look like a .Mac "sphere" at all. Rather, it just looks like some blue circle with some sort of white shape in the middle -- perhaps one of those "dueling arrows" or a circle shape but not the .Mac spirally circles. And, besides, the text beneath it looks sorta like "Update" or "Import or something like that. What do you think?

    1. Re:It's not a .Mac Icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's the "Logout" icon. Go to your .Mac webmail and you will see it already there. Been there for a long time.

  17. Subject me no likey by PeePeeSee · · Score: 1

    Looks like some W. Sanchez work perhaps since he is now back at apple working w/ .mac? Figured since this whole thread is a bunch of shit I might point out something interesting.

  18. WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you're feeling observant you will notice that the title of this article promises "images" but only delivers one.

    If I'm feeling observant I'd say they screwed the verb agreement, too (Hidden Images ... Indicates). So, what, I'm supposed to conclude there are more images from that?

    The image that was posted by slashdot has been posted everywhere but this additional image...

    So the title really should have been "Hidden Image" after all, you only had one.

    This story is a waste of a click.

  19. That one is older than the previous one! by thefinite · · Score: 2

    Syncing between computers in .Mac has been around for months. Also, the image refers to the beta version of iSync, while the final one was released already. When you made this comment:

    I guess Jakob was right - people don't READ on the web.

    were you referring to yourself?

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  20. Unrelated, but interesting by Greedo · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm just installing Backup, and I notice at the end of the EULA/Read Me is the following:

    Portions of this Apple Software utilize the following copyrighted material, the use of which is hereby acknowledged.

    Daniel Stenberg (curl)
    Copyright (c) 2000 Daniel Stenberg, , et al.

    Just thought it kinda neat to see that Backup is based, in part on cURL.
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    1. Re:Unrelated, but interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What would a Beowolf cluster of Jesuses do in Soviet Russia, where all your base are belong to us?

      Profit!

  21. I Stand Corrected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You're absolutely correct: that blue blob on the right side is the Logout icon. That definitely leads me to believe that the screenshot in question is not an application but rather an extention to the .Mac utilities available online. Good eye!

  22. Price preview for iApps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    $US129 for iPhoto and iMovie
    $US79 for iTunes and iCal
    $US29 for iSync

    better get your downloads of the current versions done folks - the shakedown is coming.

  23. Thanks by mtec · · Score: 2

    Pic ASS o

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