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  • kevin_4e
    If you’re looking for one more way to customize your Mac, try Fenêtres Volante’s Mac OS X beta screen saver. It works just like a normal screen saver by taking all of your open windows and revolving them around your background in a black open space...If you’ve got a Video iPod and are a frequent viewer of YouTube, let PodTube or TubeSock encode YouTube videos onto your iPod. PodTube is available at no charge but the higher end TubeSock is a US$15 application...If you have found your MacBook’s or Mac Mini’s internal HD too small, check out OWC’s 160GB replacement drive...Apple’s Fifth Avenue Store seemed to impress most of us, but how does the upcoming Boston Store compare?
     
    Ever been annoyed with a Mac? Feel free to discuss all your Mac OS X annoyances in the latest Great Debate...Now that it’s been confirmed that Leopard has been leaked, catch up on the latest news on where to find The_Big_Cat and any questions regarding Leopard...This week’s featured blog is Simania’s OSx86 Artwork Blog. Here you can find all of Simania_NL’s latest artwork and graphic designs...Finally, we’ve all seen the very popular Numa Numa Dance, and most of us have seen the
    , but what does it look like when you ?
  • Swad

    Leopard development disk leaked

    By Swad, in OSx86,

    Redmond, start your copiers… er… DVD burners.
     
    We received word yesterday that the developer’s preview of OS X Leopard is making its way through the depths of those internet "tubes."
     
    The “scene” release, called APPLE.MAC.OSX.LEOPARD.V10.5.WWDC.PREVIEW-OSX, is reported to be build 9A241, the same that was handed out at this week’s WWDC.
     
    From the .nfo:


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    ::Information::
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    WWDC Preview?
    This is a copy of the preview install demonstrated on the 7th of Aug (couple of days ago) at Worldwide Developers Conference. Final is due in spring 2007, apparently, but so far it looks pretty good. Our sources have confirmed that this is a legitimate release, in contrast to several other earlier “leaks” that were later proven to be hoaxes. Sources indicate that this 4.3 gig release was released to several private ftp servers yesterday and has only begun appearing on various torrent sites. Developments on the leak have been followed in this thread.
     
    Stay tuned... more info as we have it...
     
    Digg this story!
  • Swad
    Our good friend grabberslasher, that crazy cat who's always got something going on, posted a list over at AeroXperience of Leopard features that didn't make the keynote. They’re both interesting and exciting – here's hoping they make the final cut. No, not that “Final Cut”.
    Leopard will feature resolution-independent user interface and there are several functions to get the current scaling factor and apply it to pixel measurements. It is a good idea to use vector controls and buttons (PDF will work fine) or to have multiple sized resources, similar to Mac OS X icon design, so you can scale to the nearest size for the required resolution.
    Automator includes a new user interface and allows things such as action recording, workflow variables and embedding workflows in other applications.
    Time Machine has an API that allows developers to exclude unimportant files from a backup set which improves backup performance and reduces space needed for a backup.
    Carbon, the set of APIs built upon Classic MacOS and used by most 3rd party high-profile Mac OS X applications, now allows Cocoa views to be embedded into the application. This could provide applications like Photoshop and Microsoft Office access to advanced functions previously only available to Cocoa applications.
    Complete 64-Bit support for Intel and PowerPC through all frameworks excluding QuickTime C, QuickDraw, Sound Manager, Code Fragment Manager, Language Analysis Manager and QuickTime Musical Instruments. These modules are deprecated and one should use the modern equivalents instead.
    Core Animation allows layers to be used as backing stores for a view, windows to use explicit animations when resizing (can be three dimensional, akin to the Time Machine view). Any view can now be put into fullscreen mode and a CoreImage transition effect can be used. Using Core Animation you can create anything including GPU-accelerated Front Row-style user interfaces without having to write OpenGL code. A Core Animation layer can include OpenGL content, Core Image and Core Video filter effects and Quartz/Cocoa drawing content, like views and windows.
    Quicktime 7.1 is included, and the underlying QTKit framework is greatly improved. There is improved correction for nonsquare pixels, use of the clean aperture which is the "user-displayable region of video that does not contain transition artifacts caused by the encoding process", support for aperture mode dimensions, improved pitch and rate control for audio and a number of developer improvements, like QuickTime capture from sources like cameras and microphones, full screen recording or QuickTime stream recording. Live content from a capture can be broadcast as a stream over the network. Sounds good to me. How about you?
  • cavemonkey50
    Today, Adobe has released the final version of their Universal Flash Player 9. The new version numbered 9,0,20,0 is compatible with both Intel and PowerPC Macs. Oddly enough, Adobe is still offering a PowerPC only version, however it appears to be an earlier build.
     
    I expect Apple to push the new Flash Player out with their next OS update, but if you want to be on the cutting edge, you can download the stable player now.
  • Swad
    Good news for all you AOE fans (or for Mac gamers in general) - MacSoft announced today that they'll be shipping Age of Empires III late next month.


    The sequel to MacSoft’s second best-selling title ever, and the latest release in the 18-million unit “Age of Empires” series, “Age of Empires III” for Macintosh is scheduled to be available by the end of September, 2006 as a Universal Binary that can be operated natively either on Apple’s Intel-based or PowerPC Macintosh computers.
     
    “Age of Empires III” picks up where “Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings®” left off, as players become one of eight European powers exploring, colonizing, and conquering the New World. Featuring amazing 3D graphics, remarkable Ageia® PhysX® technology, and an innovative Home City feature that lets players “level-up” their evolving home city to strengthen their economy, technology, and military, “Age of Empires III” for Macintosh sets many new standards for real-time strategy games. I've been an AoE fan since the beginning so I'll be looking forward to this release.
     
    Another reason I'll be supporting this release is to show Mac game makers that there really is a growing market for universal games. Hopefully the release of a great game like Age of Empires III will reinforce that point.
  • Swad

    Will Leopard support the G3?

    By Swad, in OSx86,

    If you've poked around Apple's "Leopard Sneak Peek - 64-Bit" page, it's quite likely that these words stood out to you:


    From G3 to Xeon, from MacBook to Xserve, there is just one Leopard. Those words aren't there now. For a reason unbeknown to we lonely consumers, the line was erased.
     
    This means at least one of two things. First, Leopard won't be supporting the G3 (the only doubtful one of the bunch). This is certainly possible, given the age of the G3. Whether it's plausible remains to be seen.
     
    There is a second explanation, however, that comes from Macenstein:


    The line “From G3 to Xeon, from MacBook to Xserve, there is just one Leopard.” is technically inaccurate. There are TWO Leopards; consumery Leopard, and Leopard Server. And in theory you are supposed to run Leopard Server on the Xserve they mention in that same line as well. So while I do not doubt that Leopard will either run grudgingly (or not at all) on a G3, we have no official word yet from Apple. It could just be a poorly worded sentence that Apple’s marketing guys eventually caught.
    "Consumery," indeed.
  • Swad
    Parallels released a new beta today with better support for USB devices and, can you believe it, all the keys on the keyboard! This beta has absolutely nothing - and we mean nothing - to do with the yesterday's announcement of VMware for Mac.
     
    They're also working on some great features for future editions of their virtualization software. In what sounds deceptively like an interview with one of Santa's reindeer, MacWorld enlightens us thusly:


    Rudolph also pointed to further improvements in Parallels Desktop for Mac, including what’s described as “a groundbreaking new user interface that will make running Windows on a Mac easier and more productive than ever before;” new security and management tools; the ability to burn CDs and DVDs inside virtual machines and a new Server for Mac OS X product.
     
    What’s more, Parallels Desktop for Mac will see “fast 3D graphics support,” presumably to help cater to gamers who want to run Windows games without having to reboot their machine using Boot Camp and a separate Windows partition. Also planned is support for Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Vista, the major update to Windows Microsoft has planned for the first calendar quarter of 2007. Begun, the VM wars have.
  • Swad
    It would have been easy to miss all the great new stuff for developers during the hubub of the keynote. Even though it is a developer conference.
     
    Anyway, Apple released Xcode 2.4 yesterday to developers at WWDC. It doesn't appear to be available on ADC, but should be shortly.
     
    Secondly, Apple announced Xcode 3.0 during the Keynote yesterday which promises to bring many improvements to the IDE.


    So compelling, Apple wrote Xcode 3.0 itself using it. [ Editor's note: Talk about recursive.] Enjoy modern garbage collection, syntax enhancements, runtime performance improvements, and 64-bit support. At your own pace, since it’s backwards compatible with existing Objective-C source. Write applications more quickly with fewer bugs using Objective-C in Xcode 3.0. I'll let you check out the sneak peak for more info, but 3.0 also promises to bring an improved Interface Builder, "snapshots," and whole bunch of other goodness.
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