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giga said:
Yah, I'll get it to you tomorrow.
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Could I get a copy too? I like some of your walls.

just got it installed. pretty freaking sweet so far. Spaces is freaking awesome. Is there something like that for windows? It would be huge at work
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You can use the XP Powertoy that creates 4 virtual desktops. I think MSFT kind of hacked it together though, I've heard it doesn't work that great.

Man I was going to hold off on Leopard for a little bit but you guys are tempting me now. Saturday upgrade is in order!
 
giga said:
I'm dead out of HDD space so no time machine as of yet. Preview still has its uses though. (resizing, cropping, zoom, etc).

For fast previews of files, Quick Look prevails. :) It does a lot more than just presentations, images, and pdfs. (.m files, .html, .php, ichat transcripts all worked perfectly with quick look)


Yah, I'll get it to you tomorrow.
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How do you go about resizing images in preview?

Edit: I was looking for resize in the menus, its labeled something more fool proof :lol
 
Timan said:
How do you go about resizing images in preview?

Edit: I was looking for resize in the menus, its labeled something more fool proof :lol
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:p

Anyhow, I finally got my network shares to work. I had to manually enter the IP in the Connect to Server box: smb://192.168.2.2 (change to whatever the IP you want to connect to)

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6174105.html

^ Make sure to change the Vista security settings and have smb enabled on your mac.
 
I finally was able to get my airport disk to work, but not showing up in time machine. BLAH! just spent an hour backing up too.
 
Timan said:
I finally was able to get my airport disk to work, but not showing up in time machine. BLAH! just spent an hour backing up too.
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You sure time machine supports airport disks?

Pick a disk. Any disk.

You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
 
I've been using the naughty copy since last night (Don't worry copyright fans, my boxed copy is on the way from Amazon). For your refernce I've got an iMac Core Duo (the first Intel machine from Jan 2006) with 2GB of RAM. Users with PowerPC machines may find their mileage varies.

It's amazing. It's so much faster than Tiger it's untrue. I know you get a speed-up coming from a bloated year-old install to a fresh system, but even compared to a clean Tiger, this is something special. Safari seems to have gotten a rocket up it's arse. I can now have several tabs full of rich multimedia content open without it grinding to a rather embarrassing crawl. Long overdue, but welcome!

And Mail. Jesus Christ. Mail is just blisteringly fast. Even with an inbox with about a billion messages in it. Amazing. Just waiting for my Gmail cluster to go IMAP and then the fun really begins!

And that's the first thing that hits you. Everything is just crazy-fast. Launching Dashboard gives you instantly usable and synced widgets. Before I found it easier to just use Safari or an app rather than launch widgets and wait for them to start working and sync their info from the web, but I can actually see this becoming a useful feature now.

And as giga has touched upon, the coverflow and quicklook are absolutely indispensable. It's already seriously changing the way I do things. The ability to just quickly open up a PDF or see an image without having to open up a program is amazing. Not that you'd mind having to open Preview because it opens almost instantly, but to keep all of your workflow in Finder and not having to use any extra helper apps is really something special and long overdue.

It's not all good though. The new dock really bugs me for some reason. I think it's because it seems to take up more space than it used to. It's purely psychological though. Because the icons "rise off" of the dock, it feels like they are encroaching your workspace, especially as a maximised window won't fill the space behind them. It's not really taking up any more space - you're just lacking the grey background that would be the barrier for a maximised window - but it feels horrible. Plus the new "light" notification to show an open app doesn't work very well with light wallpapers.

Oh and BOMArchiveHelper still supports the same paltry number of formats it always did. Although it does extract them about 27billion times faster!

OS X Leopard is absolutely essential, especially if you have an Intel Mac (I really can't say how your experience will be if you've only got a PPC or a small amount of RAM or a weak GPU). The only truly annoying thing about it is how most of the improvements should have been in OS X from the start or at least in Tiger. OS X has always been, in my eyes, the best OS out there in terms of features but there were some real fundamental things letting it down - the slowness of window resizing or the sluggishness of the browser, for example - but it's all fixed here.

Irritating that I have to pay £85 for that, but anyone with a Mac owes it to themselves and their productivity to get this update and anyone in the market for a Mac shouldn't even hesitate about buying now. Seriously, my 21 month old iMac just flies now. I can't imagine what a current iMac or Mac Pro would do with this. I'm guessing it'll open files and launch apps before you've even thought about touching your mouse.
 
giga said:
You sure time machine supports airport disks?

Pick a disk. Any disk.

You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
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It did support it, the LAST beta seed supported it perfectly.

btw are you mr giga from neowin? :P
 
Burai said:
Oh and BOMArchiveHelper still supports the same paltry number of formats it always did. Although it does extract them about 27billion times faster!
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Use this instead. It's excellent.

Leopard's on the way and should be here tomorrow :D
 
Any way to get rid of the HIDEOUS translucent menu bar yet?

Other then this fugly menu (and the fact that amsn is crashing now), the OS kicks ass.
 
Black_Mamba said:
Any way to get rid of the HIDEOUS translucent menu bar yet?

Other then this fugly menu (and the fact that amsn is crashing now), the OS kicks ass.
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I'm certain when the translucent menu bar was revealed that people were saying you could toggle the menu bar back to it's normal, non-see through state. Check out system preferences. Honestly, I think it looks somewhat ugly and would like a toggle option myself.
 
giga said:
So. You can select more than one item and quick look to slideshow/scroll or even go into index mode.

My walls folder:

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For those who wanted the walls

http://download.yousendit.com/77535D2C6F587928
 
I don't know if this has been posted in the thread already, but note that if you got the free overnight shipping for Apple for Leopard, you have to sign for the package or it won't be delivered. If you can't be at home to pick it up, then you can go to Apple's site once you get your tracking number and print a FedEx Shipment Release Authorization--this has to be filled out and attached to your front door before 8 a.m. tomorrow.
 
I have 3 friends with Macs and they figured out a way to save money in getting Leopard. Apparently, if you buy 5 copies, you get a discount. So if they split the cost between 3 people, they're paying 72 bucks for their own copy.

My question is---Shouldn't my 3 friends just buy 1 copy and share it? Or is that really bad? DRM stuff?
 
Fatalah said:
I have 3 friends with Macs and they figured out a way to save money in getting Leopard. Apparently, if you buy 5 copies, you get a discount. So if they split the cost between 3 people, they're paying 72 bucks for their own copy.

My question is---Shouldn't they just buy 1 copy and share it? Or is that really bad? DRM stuff?
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Two words:

Honor System.
 
are those rounded menus part of the new gui? looks great.
 
Fatalah said:
So Apple doesn't care?
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Like he said, honors system. Not to mention, if you're using their OS, you bought their hardware and that's where they make all their money.
 
Wow, after messing with the searching within menus, spotlight even searches your bookmarks/history right there in less than a second! :O

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Phobophile said:
Like he said, honors system. Not to mention, if you're using their OS, you bought their hardware and that's where they make all their money.
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Is anyone here splitting the cost of the OS with a friend?
 
ckohler said:
Cool. I was hoping you could do that. Quicklook makes Preview pretty much a useless app now. Are you using Time Machine? If so, can you screencap some of the advanced Time Machine settings?
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Nah, once you've used both for a while you will find Preview still has a number of uses, one of which is the ability to quickly trim out part of a PSD or EPS file and save it as some other format.
 
Futureman said:
I'm certain when the translucent menu bar was revealed that people were saying you could toggle the menu bar back to it's normal, non-see through state. Check out system preferences. Honestly, I think it looks somewhat ugly and would like a toggle option myself.
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You can't. :(
 
NekoFever said:
Use this instead. It's excellent.

Leopard's on the way and should be here tomorrow :D
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I am. I would have just preferred for Apple to have taken the need for additional software away.
 
typo said:
Again, you're lucky. My university's computer retailer is still selling it at $115.
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My university sells it for $0. Ha.

But I had to wait 2 weeks after release for the computer center to get Tiger in last time. Better not be any longer than that. I keep checking their website to see if they post any info on Leopard.
 
I wonder if anyone will manage to hack it to run on a G3.

I've got a 900 MHz iBook G3 that I'd love to try it on... if it's remotely possible.
 
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