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Jaguar is Over
The Panther Finder is brand-new, with a new brushed metal appearance, and enhanced column view, with the items used most commonly in the far left column. Searching is "live" and a lot faster, and is more user-centric instead of computer-centric.
The Finder now has labels, and icons can resize with window resizing.
The iDisk now caches itself locally, so it can be used offline, and the user can copy to and from it more efficiently (with the real copies happening in the background).
A new feature called Expose allows minimizing into a smaller window, all open windows, to temporarily move everything out of the way, sort of like workspaces.
File Vault can encrypt a user directory and decrypt it "on the fly."
Faxing is now built-in, and available system-wide.
Pixlet is a new compression codec that does video compression without noticable artifacts, for 48 bits per pixel: at 960x540 and 24 fps, can be decoded on a 1GHz Power Mac.
Preview is significantly faster, with searching, and PS to PDF conversion.
Panther features fast user switching, a feature in Windows XP, allowing under-one-second (on the demo machine) switching between two different users.
FontBook is a new "pro" app for font management.
iChat AV is an update to iChat that does audio and video conferencing in addition to text, that works with any built-in or USB mic, and any DV video camera, connecting using only a user's screen name. It is going to beta today, and will be included in Panther, and will be sold for $29 to Jaguar users. Apple will sell iSight for $149, a small camera that does audio and video over FireWire.
Apple is preparing a new set of developer tools called XCode, which works with GCC 3.3, does distributed compiles (using available resources on the network), and has other cool stuff. It is fast, it has improved searching (like the Finder, and over entire projects), and it looks like an iApp (though it isn't metal). It removes the need to link; onnly link objects you need to launch. It starts compiling while you are editing, cutting the time you need to compile drastically. It can modify the program while it is running.
Xcode:
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Completely new set of Developer Tools. Speedy: fast compiles using GCC 3.3, Finder UI built (over 100,000 lines of code) in 377 seconds on a Dual 1GHz G4. Distributed builds can speed building by using other machines on a network (built in 208 seconds with an extra machine and 96 seconds with four machines). Zero Link only links objects needed to launch. Predictive Compile literally starts compiling before the program is told to compile. Fix and Continue can make changes to apps while they are running. A single fix turnaround in Xcode takes about 3 seconds on average.
[source: http://www.4osx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=144
The apple store is being updated, i think were about an hour away from having our collective socks blown off.
i am geek, hear me roar.
If the Apple store was up right now, I'd point you to the "Family License" version that costs $199, and is good for up to 5 computers.
The leak on the Apple store website was true, and Jobs just admitted it in the process of announcing the new G5. Check MacCentral for live updates on the keynote.
-- Fighting mediocrity one bad post at a time.
No. Lets see, I've got Slashdot, MacNN and MacCentral all reloading every few minutes. And of course when Jobs is done I'll watch the quicktime stream. here
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Apple shows off the worlds fastest PC with three things: chip (G5), system, product. The G5 has some amazing properties: it's a 64-bit processor, runs up to 2GHz, and has a 1GHz front-side bus. It offers full SMP ("designed entirely for SMP"). The G5 has a the industry's highest bandwidth using an entirely new architecture. It has a 12 unit core with 2 FPUs.
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Will there be a titilating IDE to go with it?
Yes, it has a predictive compiler; compiles as you write. The demoed compile was ~ 10x faster (they also did away with linking somehow).
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
They announced it will be $129 and ship later in the year. No word if it comes free with new G5s yet.
Random is the New Order.
Updates to the KHTML group for starters.
$2k for the low end, $3k for the dual proc. Could be worse.
$1999 $2399 $2999
3 Models:
1.6GHz $1999
1.8GHz $2399
Dual 2GHz $2999
Random is the New Order.
We have now. He admitted that the leaked dual-970 info was true.
In other big news, Safari goes 1.0!!! (Available for download in a few hours.)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
3 models, all available in August :
1.6 GHz, 256 MB, 80 GB $1999
1.8 GHz, 512 MB, 160 GB $2399
Dual 2.0 GHz, 512 MB, 160 GB $2999 (Wow!)
Looking at the specs on Macslash I'd say someone got over excited and typed book when they meant to type mac.
The Photoshop guy just said, "We'll be releasing new software at about about the same time these machines ship."
Well, my credit card, which has been quivering in my wallet's deepest darkest crevices all morning, is safe for now.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
I know you've read here over and over that OS X is FreeBSD. It isn't.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
iSight
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>> Where do you see Microsoft forcing people to upgrade???
How about their recent decision to release IE 7 only to Windows XP? Sounds like pretty hefty encouragement to me.
1.6Ghz = $2000
1.8Ghz = $2400
dual 2Ghz = $3000
This could very well pull some of the crowd who love UNIX workstations, especially with the specs on that new chip.
Hardware, software, and blinking lights!
Power Mac G5
kawai
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Extraordinary Vacations. Exceptional Prices
See it here
Look here for a couple pictures of the Mac as well as the iSight.
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Original (.mac site, bandwidth will be exceeded soon probably). Mirror on my machine. Another one (side view) here.
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"Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
Quick releases are the proof of significant innovation. If everything runs on 10.1 or 10.2 there's no need to upgrade in an enterprise situation unless the next version provides more benefit than the cost to switch. And with net booting, upgrades are considerably easier than walking around with a CD to each system.
MS may be evil, but they never forced me to buy a new version of windows to get the latest web browser.
That is the new trend. Windows and Apple want you to have a recent OS to get the recent version of their browser. Remember, no more individual releases of IE. That has been in the news for the past month.
of course 10.1 is free if you have 10.0 thus there is no reason to use 10.1 still
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The war on terror is a war for peace
Well I see that they've announced a 3Ghz model within 12 months so that answers that question.
Note that these all have Superdrives. Expect a Combodrive base model once demand drops a bit (September-ish I'd guess, maybe october), at ~$1600-1700 USD.
Given the likely supply issues, Apple's going to try and lower demand initially (That's why the only SMP box is the 2GHz, and why they're all Superdrive models), and then quietly introduce cheaper, lower-spec models in a few months (They've done this a few times before, including the superdrive/combodrive trick)
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Adding more pics to the parent dir.
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Apple does sell a contract for 3 years worth of updates. The store's currently down but I think it's a considerable savings if you're going to upgrade to each new release.
One thing that Apple does that's kind of neat is that they eventually release old versions of their OS for free. If you have some ancient mac and need a copy of 7.5.3, you can just download it. Windows 95, otoh, isn't made available on those kinds of terms.
The Apple Store is back up, with G5 pics and info.
I just finished porting lavaps to Mac OS X, and almost all the system calls I had to make to get the info about running processes were mach system calls. I only used one bsd system call (sysctl), around 6 mach calls I think.
I haven't read anything thus far to indicate that the 32-bit systems are doing to go away immediately upon introduction of the G5-based systems. $2K for an entry-level 64-bit system isn't "out there" at all in my book. It will look pretty damned fast compared to many dual 32-bit systems, methinks.
And I'm pretty shocked at $3K for the dual-cpu unit -- that's going to be one incredibly fast machine. I don't need it but I absolutely must have it (my Mac is a 8500 upgraded to within an inch of its life... a Pinto with a V8 stuffed in there).
- Leo
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Steve Jobs takes the stage. [13:02 ET] .Mac to offer auto-syncing of files. [13:19 ET]
We have so much great stuff for you today, we may need to take a break in the middle, says Jobs. [13:03 ET]
3800 attend Keynote [13:04 ET]
300,000 Airport Extremes have shipped. [13:06 ET]
58 Apple retail stores: 17 million visitors so far. [13:06 ET]
Jobs showing a rendered pic of the upcoming San Francisco Apple store. [13:06 ET]
Later today Apple will ship its one millionth iPod. [13:08 ET]
Apple has sold 5 million songs on its online music store. [13:08 ET]
5 million Safari beta downloads since January. [13:10 ET]
Safari 1.0 final will be available for download in a few hours. [13:10 ET]
Apple also releasing Safari SDK for developers. [13:11 ET]
Over 100 new features in Panther, the next major revision of Mac OS X. [13:12 ET]
Mac OS X is now the most popular UNIX in the world, says Jobs. [13:13 ET]
Panther to offer lots of UNIX features and Windows operability. [13:14 ET]
Jobs says the old Finder was 'computer-centric' and Apple wants something 'user-centric' [13:15 ET]
Panther features a one-column Finder, brushed metal Finder window, fast searching, an 'Action" button, the return of Labels, and New open and Save panels. [13:16 ET]
Jobs demoes Panther. [13:17 ET]
There is a new iChat 2 icon with a camera in the middle that Jobs has not mentioned yet. [13:17 ET]
The searches appear tremendously fast in the new Finder. Jobs says it is "The best the world has ever seen." [13:18 ET]
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Next up: "Expose" [13:20 ET]
Expose is a new feature for organizing windows. [13:21 ET]
Jobs says it makes it easier to find the window you are looking for. [13:22 ET]
Expose shrinks all of the windows in order to display them all on the screen at once, so you can find what you are looking for easily. [13:23 ET]
Users can assign any key on their keyboard (or assign screen corners) to perform this feature. Lots and ooohs and aaaahs from the audience. [13:23 ET]
Expose uses Quartz Extreme. [13:25 ET]
FileVault: secures a user's entire Home folder. [13:26 ET]
It encrypts and decrypts on-the-fly. [13:26 ET]
Mail to be optimized for Panther. [13:26 ET]
The new Mail app will be much faster, offer Safari rendering built-in, allows you to manage your mail by threads, and Addresses are now 'Objects' [13:28 ET]
Jobs demoes HTML emails. [13:28 ET]
Jobs demoes thread view in Mail. [13:29 ET]
IPSec-based VPN is built-in to Panther. [13:30 ET]
Built-in fax in Panther -- every print panel has a fax button. [13:30 ET]
'Pixlet' features a breakthrough new QuickTime codec with studio-grade quality -- 48 bits / pixel source data, no noticeable visual artifacts, no inter-frame compression. [13:31 ET]
Jobs demoes Pixlet by showing a Finding Nemo trailer. [13:33 ET]
Jobs shows Matrix Reloaded trailer. The quality is outstanding. [13:35 ET]
Preview: Jobs talks about PDF. [13:35 ET]
Apple has updated Preview to be the fastest PDF reader in the world. Jobs compares the render speed to Windows Acrobat 6 -- Acrobat gets trounced. [13:35 ET]
By the way, Jobs has a small camera hooked up to the top of his Cinema display. No mention of it yet however... [13:37 ET]
Scrolling a large PDF document is very fast in the new Preview. A search feature has also been added. [13:38 ET]
Preview offers on-the-fly postscript to PDF conversion. [13:39 ET]
Faster User Switching: there is now a menu in the corner to switch between multiple users on a machine. [13:40 ET]
The Fast Switch in awesome - loud applause from the crowd. The Desktop literally spins around to the new one, kind of like Keynote. [13:40 ET]
FontBook: handles professional font management. One button to install a new font. [13:42 ET]
Offers a nice preview feature and instant searching. This is built into Panther. [13:42 ET]
Jobs says he saved the best for last... iChat. [13:43 ET]
25% of Apple customers use it routinely. [13:43
10.1->10.2 was *not* a "minor" update by any stretch of the imagination, nor is 10.2->10.3 going to be a "minor" update (unless you call adding major features such as FileVault, an updated application suite, a font manager, iDisk syncing, a new appearance for the entire Finder, fast user switching, and a hundred other things "minor").
10.0->10.1, OTOH, *was* free.
Integrate Keynote and LaTeX
WTF? Speaking of Troll-spew...
Of course Apple makes it easy!
Write a Carbon app instead of a Cocoa app and it will run on every MacOS from 8.1 thru X. If you want your app to run on every mac every made, you build a classic "fat binary".
-- "At Microsoft, quality is job 1.1" -- PC Magazine, Nov. 1994
Get it here.
~Philly
My x86 PC does that trivially. It's a 2-year-old Athlon 1400. I record TV realtime in mpeg4 (2500kbit) and mp3 (160kbit) with 30-40% CPU to spare.
Jason.
Insanity is the last line of defence for the master diplomat. But you have to lay the groundwork early.
The iApps (iPhoto, iMovie, etc.) are scriptable using Applescript. For instance, there are scripts out there that hook iCal up with iTunes, so that iCal causes iTunes to start playing music at a given point in time.
You can run Applescripts from the command line
Applescript is anologous to VBA in the Windoze world, except that it is implemented at the OS level, rather than in each application. There's an API for programmers to hook up the Applescript engine to their code. AppleScript Studio, part of the developer tools, lets you create programs with a native Mac OS X interface, using AppleScript (instead of C++, Objective C or Java).
-- "At Microsoft, quality is job 1.1" -- PC Magazine, Nov. 1994
OK, let's be realistic. Mac OS X is a LOT more than just BSD. But the core of it, Darwin, is more based on BSD than any other part. So, I'll go to the Darwin page.
It mentions, right on this front page:
Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0, operating-system services based on 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), high-performance networking facilities, and support for multiple integrated file systems..
And if you go to the Darwin FAQ page. Quote:
The BSD community has been extremely supportive of Apple since we first approached NetBSD, FreeBSD, and others about doing a better job of sharing code. That happened even before we announced Darwin. Now we're pleased to have become an even more active participant in the community.
They don't link to the page, but they acknowledge the projects. Apple would prefer if you used Mac OS X over those other operating systems, because they are a corporation and they make money if you do so. However, there is no denying that the part of Mac OS X that is most heavily based on *BSD (Darwin) acknowledges it.
Random is the New Order.
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In case you haven't read month-old news, Microsoft announced it will no longer release standalone versions of Internet Explorer for old versions of Windows.
Slashdot: IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version
If that is not forcing you "to buy a new version of Windows to get the latest web browser," then what is?
sudo ipfw add deny ip from any to host_name
It may be possible to switch back in the preferences (themes) and there are plenty of themeing programs out there for OSX. It doesn't seem unreasonable to use one of them to return to your favorite style.
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In my experience as an amateur Cocoa developer, it's pretty common that the feature I really need just plain wasn't available until version foo.
For example, I need Open GL render-to-texture. The "documented" API wasn't available until 10.2.
I need Open GL copy-from-framebuffer-to-rectangle-texture. This was there in 10.2, but wasn't accelerated on ATI cards until 10.2.5. For my application, unaccelerated == unavailable.
So, there are very often cases where I am forced to just not run unless "system version >= foo"
In other cases, there is functionality that would be much easier to get at if I have version foo.
For example, I really want a disclosure triangle as a Cocoa control. It's not available as of 10.2.6. So do I roll my own, or require version foo?