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16:18 - Tiger changes its spots
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/tigerleak.html
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There have already been some leaked screenshots of Tiger, or Mac OS X 10.4... check this out:
Context-sensitive searching within System Preferences? And check out that soft-focus highlighting of matched items. Pretty slick. Yet I wonder just how useful this feature will be, if this leak is legit; UI improvements are supposed to be responses to difficulties people are having with finding their way through the system. If someone doesn't know that "DNS Servers" can be found in "Network", is he going to know the words to type in the search box to find it? Or is this feature simply an excuse to use yet another spasm-inducingly cool visual effect they've come up with? But either way, it's bound to be better than the Help Viewer, which still takes unconscionably long to launch if you mistakenly hit the Help button in a given app.
Also included in the leaked screenshots are a "Dashboard" that seems to replicate the functionality of the peerless Konfabulator—possibly a Sherlock/Watson debate in the making for the modern day? And there's also something called "Workflow", which looks like a GUI front-end to AppleScript app control. I'll bet a lot of people know AppleScript is there, but just don't have the patience to try to figure it out; this might be of major appeal to people like themus.
Oh, and more firewall options too, like "Stealth Mode" which simply drops all unsolicited incoming packets.
At least they haven't changed the name of "Screen Savers" again...
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Brian Tiemann
