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- First major reviews of Leopard hit the streets: NYT, WSJ and USAToday
Filed under: Leopard
The big three geekmeisters have been released from their embargoes and the first Leopard newspaper reviews are out tonight. Uncle Walt even favored us with a cheery video rundown that appears to have been filmed in his rumpus room. A brief summary:
- David Pogue from the New York Times: "powerful, polished and carefully conceived." The respected Mac writer gives big points to Time Machine and Quick Look, while skeptically eyeing some lesser additions to the list of 300 (Danish localization?).
- Edward Baig at USAToday: "Apple's operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically... Leopard is one cool cat." Baig gives a pretty comprehensive rundown on new Leopard features and notes some hiccups with Back to my Mac vs. network firewalls.
- Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and allthingsd.com: "Evolutionary, not revolutionary... I think it's better than Vista." The headline says it all: Faster, Easier than Vista. Walt took the time to go through scores of features and even do some startup timing tests with a Vaio (the Mac came out well ahead). He also noted a couple of neat features, such as Google Talk support in iChat and instant access to shared folders on Windows machines.
[E]very piece of software and hardware I tried on two Leopard-equipped Macs - a loaned laptop from Apple and my own upgraded iMac - worked fine, exhibiting none of the compatibility problems that continue to plague Vista. My old Hewlett-Packard inkjet printer, for which Vista lacks the proper software, worked instantly in Leopard, even over the network. And, unlike with Vista, it was able to print on both sides of the page. I popped my old Verizon cellphone modem card into the test Leopard laptop and it worked, too, with no software installation or tweaking.
Your mileage will almost certainly vary.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/first-major-reviews-of-leopard-hit-the-streets-nyt-wsj-and-usa/#comments - David Pogue from the New York Times: "powerful, polished and carefully conceived." The respected Mac writer gives big points to Time Machine and Quick Look, while skeptically eyeing some lesser additions to the list of 300 (Danish localization?).
- Apple launches iPhone Dev Center
Filed under: Internet Tools, Apple, Developer, iPhone
Today Apple added a new section to the Apple Developer Connection: the iPhone Dev Center. Now, before you get any fancy ideas that Apple is shipping an iPhone SDK a little early, this Dev Center is aimed square at making it easy to create web apps for the iPhone, and web apps only, at least for the moment.
Sample code, tips, tricks, and video from Apple's recent iPhone Tech Talks are all gathered together to make the life of an iPhone developer a little easier.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/apple-launches-iphone-dev-center/#comments - Photo of the Leopard Retail DVD
Filed under: Cult of Mac, Apple, Leopard
Only two more sleeps left until we can get our hands on Leopard, Apple's latest version of OS X. The good folks at Hardmac.com have managed to snap some pictures of the retail version of Leopard, just in case you can't wait any longer.
Ah, you know we're getting close when we post a link to a picture of a DVD.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/photo-of-the-leopard-retail-dvd/#comments - MacLive Expo hits London
Filed under: Other Events, TUAW Business, Apple
"A Mac Expo. In London?" I hear our American readers cry. Yes, it's true. There's Mac shows this side of the pond too, didn't you know. As it happens, TUAW will be paying a visit to the MacLive Expo London which runs from October 25th - tomorrow - through til Saturday October 27th. Coinciding with the launch of Leopard (how convenient) there's a plethora of seminars, hands-on sessions, theatres and the show floor itself to enjoy.
If you're paying the Expo a visit on Friday, it might be worth noting that instead of competing with rush-hour London (not to mention an indubitable crowd at the Regent Street Apple Store), you can pick up a copy of Leopard at the show. Organisers have chosen to extend the show's hours until 6.30pm (Friday only) to allow visitors to pick the new OS from resellers who will be on the show floor.
The MacLive Expo is being held at the National Hall, Kensington Olympia, London. See you there!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/maclive-expo-hits-london/#comments - Google Desktop updated for Leopard
Filed under: Software, Software Update, Leopard
Not content with providing us Gmail users with the much-craved IMAP access, Google has announced an update to their Desktop search product designed to make it purr with OS X Leopard. Advice from the Googlers is that 'you should install this Desktop update before upgrading from Tiger to Leopard to ensure that Desktop works properly on Leopard."
All of Google's other Mac products (Earth, SketchUp, Notifier and Picasa Web Albums Uploader) apparently work just fine with Leopard. Google Desktop for Mac, true to form, remains a beta.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/google-desktop-updated-for-leopard/#comments - Apple Stores to give away Leopard T-shirts
Filed under: Retail, Apple, Leopard
On their standard Retail page, Apple has announced its retail stores will be open from 6:00pm to 10:00pm this Friday (an extra hour for many stores) to celebrate the "Leopard World Premiere." There will be "live demos" and the chance to "test drive" Leopard, presumably on the in-store systems. Best of all, Apple is giving away "a special edition Leopard T-shirt" to the first 500 "guests."
So how many of you are planning to be in line to snag one of those shirts?Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/apple-stores-to-give-away-leopard-t-shirts/#comments - GimmieSomeTune 4.0 is available
Earlier this week, Eternal Storms Software updated GimmieSomeTune, their iTunes utility (we've looked at GimmieSomeTune before). It grabs lyrics and cover art, plus adds new hotkey options, interacts with last.fm, supports remote control and more. Changes in version 4.0 include:
- lyricwiki.org and lyricsdownload.com added as lyrics sources
- last.fm and remote control support
- Album ratings
- New comments field
- Leopard-ready
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/gimmiesometune-4-0-is-available/#comments - Apple most valuable computer maker in the world
Filed under: Apple Financial, Apple
We've been talking a lot about Apple's remarkably strong 4th quarter results here on TUAW, but with the recent gains Apple passed an important milestone. Apple has a larger market capitalization than IBM, meaning simply that Apple is now the most valuable computer hardware maker in the world. Let me say that again: Apple is, as of this writing, trading above $185 per share giving it a market cap of $161b, compared to IBM at $153b, HP at $133b and Dell at a measly $65b. When you put it that way it seems almost preposterous, but the numbers are what they are. Of course, all the standard provisos about market cap apply, but nonetheless I'm sure they're savoring this in Cupertino.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/apple-most-valuable-computer-maker-in-the-world/#comments - SubEthaEdit version 3.0
Filed under: Software
SubEthaEdit is probably the original collaborative text editor on the Mac allowing multiple folks to work on a document at the same time over a local network or the internet. Now TheCodingMonkeys have released version 3.0 with a new custom file format that "stores collaboration metadata and history with QuickLook support." This means that you can save and resume a collaboration session and keep all the metadata about who did what, etc. There are a variety of other additions and fixes, not least of which is "improved Leopard compatibility."
SubEthaEdit is €29 (~$41) and a demo is available (educational pricing also available).
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/subethaedit-version-3-0/#comments - Transmission .90 released
Filed under: Software, Internet, Software Update
Transmission - the open source, lightweight BitTorrent client that is the closest alternative to uTorrent that us Mac users can get - has just released version .90.
New features added in this update include:
- Encryption support (finally!), with an option to ignore unencrypted peers
- The ability to ban peers that send too much bad data
- Reporting only downloaded and verified good data to the tracker
- Improved BitTorrent compliance and more
For OS X users, specific updates include:
A per-torrent action menu, optimizations to decrease memory usage, and general changes/updates to the interface to make managing files easier and to provide users with more options.
Note: Users upgrading from version .72 or earlier will lose any data from uncompleted downloads, so please beware and either move your torrents to another program or finish downloads before installing the upgrade.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/transmission-90-released/#comments - TUAW Talkcast #11 -- Fun with Mike & Dave
Filed under: Podcasts
Catching up on the podcast posting backlog; the MP3 version of the 10/14 show is up now. You can download the show directly, see it in our RSS or iTunes feeds, or stream it from Talkshoe.
Show #12, from this past Sunday 10/21, will be posted tomorrow. Our next show -- lucky #13 -- will be Sunday night at a special 10pm start time, with a free-for-all call-in as we all enjoy the first 48 hours of Leopard.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/tuaw-talkcast-11-fun-with-mike-and-dave/#comments - Leopard, 'a beautiful upgrade' says Tom Yager
Filed under: Leopard
Tom calls Leopard 'a beautiful upgrade,' and in no uncertain terms lauds it as the best OS choice out there. He goes as far as saying that Leopard is more important than the iPhone, which I actually agree with. Read the full post to get even more excited about Friday.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/leopard-a-beautiful-upgrade-says-tom-yager/#comments - Colin McRae Rally due out Friday
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, Leopard
Ian of Feral Interactive kindly dropped us a note that Colin McRae Rally for the Mac has gotten a release date: this Friday, October 26th. I'm not sure if he's aware that he's got a little bit of competition that day (because, as we all know, Dan in Real Life is releasing on Friday, too-- what? Leopard?), but then again, maybe the big OS release will give a little boost to the latest rally racing game, PC editions of which have been reviewed pretty well so far.
And if you don't trust reviews for other systems (probably a good idea), worry not-- we're told a demo is imminent, so you'll be able to try the game out for yourself. Find out more about the game itself over on the minisite. Apparently the game features more than 30 cars, 300 tracks in nine locations around the globe, and realistic physics and handling. Throw in a few muddy curves, and you've got a recipe for a fun Saturday night.
On a sad note, the release was actually set for earlier this year, but was delayed due to the accidental death of the series' namesake. Very sorry to hear it-- fortunately, the legendary racer's legacy lives on in his memory and phenomenal racing career history.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/colin-mcrae-rally-due-out-friday/#comments - Guitar Hero tracks on iTunes
Filed under: Gaming, Multimedia, iTunes
Looking to get caught up on your favorite Guitar Hero music before the game finally comes to the Mac in a week? You're in luck, our sister site Xbox 360 Fanboy reports that Activision, who now owns the GH franchise, has released the master tracks of Guitar Hero 1, 2 and 3 as "Guitar Hero Essentials," available right now on iTunes.
Very awesome. Of course, listening to "More Than a Feeling," "Killing in the Name," or "Heart Shaped Box" isn't nearly as fun as actually playing it with the guitar, but until they release Guitar Hero for the iPhone you'll have to settle for listening to the downloaded tracks. Each game has its own playlist, and there's even extra playlists from Slash and Steve Jones to get you in the mood.
Rock on! Of course, we'll probably be a little too busy with Leopard at release to really get the thrash on right away, but after we get our Stacks and Spaces set up, it's time to shred!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/guitar-hero-tracks-on-itunes/#comments - iPhone apps through iTunes?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, iTunes, Steve Jobs, Developer, iPhone
Here's another thing you may have heard on last week's talkcast (which again, I'm told, is this close to being edited and posted): we were talking, of course, about the new iPhone/iPod touch SDK, and knocking around ideas for how Apple might implement apps on the iPhone. Someone in the Talkshoe channel suggested something exactly like this suggestion, sent to us by reader Thomas. They'd like to see apps distributed through iTunes, just like podcasts. Choose which apps you want (submitted by their creators to Apple), dock the iPhone, and voila, apps on the iPhone.
Not really a new idea, and it is pretty obvious in its implementation (I had the same idea about games for the Mac a while back). I'd love to see it happen. But the problem, of course, is just how open Steve wants to (or can be) with the iPhone SDK. I really doubt we're going to see something freely distributed, and I know for sure that we probably won't see anything that anyone can place unsigned content on. I'd love to see a quick, easy way for anyone to simply publish apps for the iPhone, but from what I've heard, there are so many security holes in the system right now that that's not really a possibility.
Jobs clearly wants to fix things (if his iPhone SDK note is to be taken honestly), but unless Apple starts plugging holes fast, I don't see it happening. More likely, I'd see a few trusted developers given SDKs, and asked to create applications of their own which might then be listed on iTunes, for sale or download. Other developers could probably apply, but Apple will likely try to keep control over the whole thing, pulling an application off of iTunes (and possibly even the iPhones themselves) when a problem is discovered.
It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out. As I said, it would be great to see apps on the iPhone from anywhere and everywhere, but the concern we're hearing is that security is far from tight, and Apple is watching its back as closely as it can.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/iphone-apps-through-itunes/#comments - Upgrade roadmap from Panic covers Leopard compatibility
Filed under: Software, Leopard
I know we aren't supposed to play favorites when it comes to Mac developers -- remember, we're all basically on the same team here -- but I have to admit to a slight geek crush on Cabel Sasser. Sure, he & the rest of the Panic crew code a pretty mean FTP client and a well-regarded multitasker for Web development, but that's just business: if any other Mac hacker could compose the world's most hilarious musical about video game bugs, well, I'd be a fan of theirs too.
Cabel, thoughtful dude that he is, posted a status update for Panic's applications and Leopard compatibility that runs down what works and what doesn't come Friday night. Most of the Panic apps will continue to work in Leopard, some with minor issues (Transmit) and some just fine (Coda); the one major exception is system icon tweak tool CandyBar 2, which unsurprisingly is not yet compatible with the new Leopard "big icon" format. The good news for CandyBar fans is that version 3, with full Leopard goodness, will be available by the end of November.
As other Mac developers announce Leopard compatibility info (like RealMac did earlier for Rapidweaver), we'll be sure to let you know. (Pssst. Developers -- over here! Be sure to let us know when you update your apps for Leopard, and we'll pass it along.)Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/24/upgrade-roadmap-from-panic-covers-leopard-compatibility/#comments - Boot Camp beta pages gone from Apple.com
Filed under: Leopard
It's not a surprise; the Boot Camp beta support pages are now gone from apple.com/bootcamp, and that link is now redirecting to the feature page for Boot Camp in Leopard. While the beta is technically expiring on Friday, that shouldn't cause any problems for existing Boot Camp setups (and MacNN points out you can still download the beta if you need it).
In case you pick up a copy of Leopard but aren't ready to install it on all your machines yet, you can still leverage the release drivers for BC; according to Apple's page, upgrading your existing Boot Camp install is as simple as installing the new Windows drivers directly from the 10.5 DVD.
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