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New Leopard screenshots [via]: I find Automator’s new interface less appealing than the current one (I actually felt brushed metal worked on that one), but I guess it’s more functional; and the addition of special, temporary, local-access-only guest accounts is awesome.

 

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More screenshots yet [via]: renaming a file now deselects the extension (Path Finder-style), or yet another example of how the only improvements to the Finder apply to the desktop — you know, considering how fucked up OS X 10.0’s file manager was, I’m getting a bit worried about how Leopard’s secret, brand new Finder will work.

 

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And a Leopard Safari video [via]. As I wrote when I saw the screenshots, I love their take on incremental search; I’m a bit… uh, weirded out by the way inline help search displays results. I mean… no doubt it’ll be quite functional and helpful and all, but it looks so… well… pink, for starters.

Actually — I think it looks Vistaish.

 

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You didn’t believe me when I wrote it (well, you didn’t read it, either), but maybe you’ll believe Gus Mueller (of VoodooPad fame):

10.5/Leopard is looking to be a solid update for developers. There’s lots of good stuff in there that is very compelling, and I imagine a lot of developers are going to find excuses to drop 10.4 support as soon as they can. […] Garbage Collection in objc looks like something I’ll be taking advantage of as soon as I can as well.

 

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CrunchGear:

Starting with Xcode 2.4, the OSX Universal binary format has been extended to support 32-bit and 64-bit for both PPC and Intel processors inside the same file, giving OSX quad universal binaries. Users don’t have to choose between processor architectures nor 32-bit or 64-bit processors, either at the OS or application layers, it’s all abstracted away from them - as it should be.

Quad universal binaries. Yay. Not. Those slimming programs that trim out unneeded versions from a universal binary are getting more and more appealing.

 

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Vertical PowerBook as an ebook reader. Will people stop abusing their laptops already? I vote to form a protection association that will remove the poor computer from those freaks’ hands. With extreme prejudice.