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| 10-30-07 / 11:09 PM : Leopard : record sales (cjed) |
| Since friday, 2 millions copies of Leopard have been sold, that is the best start of a MacOS version ever. |
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| 10-29-07 / 10:46 PM : ArsTechnica : Leopard review (cjed) |
| ArsTechnica now provides a full review of Leopard. On 17 pages are covered the following themes : the new look, the kernel enhancements, 64 bits, FS events, Core Animation, QuartzGL, Core UI, internals grab bag, the Finder, the Dock, Time Machine, performances, grab bag... That is new informations more suitable to understand the promises of MacOSX 10.5. Meanwhile we learn that some have succeeded running Leopard on standard PCs (with some limitations as usual). |
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| 10-28-07 / 06:26 PM : Language switch (cjed) |
| Language switch now allows again to be redirected towards the original page displayed (news detail, or news month browsing - with or without category filtering). Moreover the per category browse mode works again. |
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| 10-26-07 / 10:51 PM : Some new cool Leopard features (cjed) |
| Macrumors provides a compilation of feedbacks and articles on Leopard. Among these we learn that Leopard allows partitions numbering and resizing on the fly, without erasing data. On another hand Gete.net provides a video presentation of Leopard Server. |
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| 10-26-07 / 01:50 AM : FM Pulse : Halo ambiant (cjed) |
 This song uses 5 instruments from NI FM8 demo, and strings and bass drum played with SO Gold XP. The strings theme reminds in someway Halo ambience : FM8_Pulse |
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| 10-25-07 / 10:04 PM : Leopard reviews /multitouch keyboard (cjed) |
| First articles about Leopard are encouraging. Meanwhile Apple has filed a patent on multitouch keyboard. |
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| 10-24-07 / 10:29 PM : Apple results, reliability, green credentials (cjed) |
| Following the recent Apple financial results (stock at 185$, marketshare of 8 percents in US, two times more computers sold these last two years), we learn that macs are with IBM PC the most reliable computers. Furthermore thet may be far more green than what Greenpeace is saying. |
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| 10-23-07 / 11:00 PM : Security features in Leopard (cjed) |
 The site vulnerabililte.com gives details on new security features found in Leopard : ASLR, sandbox, automatic downloads verification, applications digital signature, 256 bits encryption (128 in Tiger). |
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| 10-23-07 / 10:56 PM : Leopard server : first look (cjed) |
| Macworld provides a presentation of Leopard server. |
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| 10-19-07 / 10:49 PM : Leopard guided tour / cool least known features (cjed) |
| Apple now provides a guided tour of Leopard. We can't really say it brings less new features than Tiger. In fact, besides the Time Machine top one feature/engineering exploit (like Spotlight was), there is a lot of cool least known features, and even some great surprises in terms of security (Library Randomization, that is ASLR, as in Vista). |
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| 10-18-07 / 09:55 PM : Leopard Server (cjed) |
 As Leopard client, MacOSX server has evolved in Leopard Server. As usual it brings the same new features as the client version (also in the look and feel), with aditionnal adminstration and servers tools. Among them we can find iCal server, Podcast producer, a wiki server, spotlight server, iChat server, client management, mails service, files sharing, directories, networking and VPN, OpenSSL, Apache 2, Ruby on Rails, Tomcat 5, and WebObjects 5.4, a 64 bits optimized Java VM (transparent symetric multiprocessing, that has been also present in the MacOSX client java VM since years).The full features list can be reached here At 459 euros the 10 clients licence and 929 the unlimited client licence, this server system is a great value compared to other solutions, and even more considering the included WebObjects. |
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| 10-18-07 / 07:59 PM : The 300 new Leopard features (cjed) |
| Apple now provides the full list of the 300 new Leopard features. Among the really completely new features (Time Machine, stacks, new Finder, Spaces), are enhancements/new features of existing application (for example the DVD Player has been revamped and among other changes brings a new adaptive deinterlacing system, based on video analysis. However it requires an 1,6 Ghz mac !) |
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| 10-18-07 / 07:47 PM : Time Machine really revolutionnary (cjed) |
| Cuk.ch provides a deep analysis of Time Machine, and explains why it is really revolutionnary. Apple succeeded to resolve well known very hard problematics. This article is derived from a very detailed presentation (4 pages) of Time Machine, provided by Apple Insider. We indeed remember Microsoft problems with WinFS (also database based filesystem), that had to be removed from Vista, that is such features are complex. We can read a thesis about an equivalent principle as Time Machine, even in a UI point of view (Time Machine navigation through timeline is however far more advanced). |
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| 10-17-07 / 10:44 PM : Soon a SDK for the iPhone (cjed) |
| Apple, through Steve Jobs, announced that an SDK for iPhone will be released february, 2008. The stated reason of the current limitation of web rich client (ajax) development is to prevent the device from virus. |
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| 10-16-07 / 10:55 PM : Leopard ships october, 26 (cjed) |
 Leopard will finally ship this october, 26, and will be priced 129$. Apple has put a count on its site. A Server version is also planned. |
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| 10-15-07 / 11:11 PM : Leopard performance on an old G4 (cjed) |
| As Leopard is reaching Golden Master status, ArsTechnica gives its thoughts about Leopard supposed performance on old G4s. It will probably the first OSX version to be slower than the previous, on a same machine basis.s |
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| 10-13-07 / 12:13 AM : iPod Touch review (cjed) |
| iGeneration provides a complete review of the ipod touch. |
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| 10-08-07 / 11:09 PM : Leopard Finder (cjed) |
| AppleInsider gives his point on modifications of the Finder concept introduced in Leopard. |
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| 10-08-07 / 11:07 PM : Apple stock : 170$ (cjed) |
| Apple stock reached a new record, at close to 170$, and objective is now upped to 225$. |
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| 10-06-07 / 12:02 AM : ZFS for OSX soon completed (cjed) |
| AppleInsider gives new informations on the state of ZFS development for OSX. Whereas Leopard will include limited support to ZFS (only read), there is now preview version of ZFS that manages write mode. |
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| 10-05-07 / 11:31 PM : iPhone : SDK soon open to third party (cjed) |
| Macnn reported that Apple is ready to open the iPhone development, that is they will allow third party developers to use Cocoa SDK instead of a development limited to web/ajax). But Apple will choose those company, in order to ensure the quality, and limit the concurrence with their applications. |
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| 10-02-07 / 08:53 PM : Naked Objects 3 : like WebObjects/DirectToWeb ? (cjed) |
| TSS provides an article about Naked Objects 3.0, a new framework that allows applications generation (rich client or flat HTML) from an object model. The announced particularity is that it doesn't use a controller object contrary to MVC frameworks (Struts, etc.) Actions are triggered directly and only on model objects (POJO). Well, it is funny, as it is presented as revolutionnary. And what about WebObject and its DirectToWeb generator ? It has been here from close to 15 years. And WO is far more rich (real components framework with a large UI components library that has been tested from a decade, and whose concepts inspired Tapestry) ! We can even read in this interesting interview at JSFCentral about Exadel/Ajax4JSF an honnest answer : M: Some would argue that WebObjects, Tapestry, and ASP.NET introduced component-oriented web development first. Do you think JSF offers anything different than these frameworks? MK: I wouldn't argue otherwise. I believe JSF builds on a lot of features from these frameworks such as component web development and Tapestry-like features with the Facelets extension. There are a few areas where JSF provides even more. For example, it's an open standard, which is very important Then WO would have had a sole problem, it wasn't standard. Well, neither Struts nor Hibernate followed specs at start (there is now JPA for Hibernate, in fact JPA spec took ideas from Hibernate...), they grew to de facto strandard... JSF also hides the controller, POJO attributes and methods are referenced directly in the JSF tags attributes (objects are injected through IOC). Then these two frameworks yet hide HTTP (they generate particular links when tags rendering occurs, in order to persist the components model on the server. In .NET it is somewhat the same, with a huge encoded string/HTTP parameter that drives the WebForms components state). |
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| 10-01-07 / 10:38 PM : iPhone Human Interface (cjed) |
| Apple provides the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines. For those who wouldn't know about Apple Guidelines (appeared in eighties...), they are recommandations for UI design : elements position and size, normed spaces, etc. That is all that is missing in Windows applications, and that played a high role in Apple success. For the iPhone the constraints are even more important, due to reduced view port, and so the guidelines can be even more useful. |
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| 10-01-07 / 10:32 PM : Boot Camp beta : expires as Leopard ships (cjed) |
| Apple announces that Boot Camp beta will expire at the end of the month, when Leopard ships. MacOSX 10.5 will include a more integrated version that allows to switch to Windows in the same manner users can switch sessions. |
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