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Mar 06, 09 - 12:37 pm Comment from: JAYGEE

I see the images have been moved because of Apple's legal team.

Mar 06, 09 - 12:56 pm Comment from: Ampar

"Cocoa-based Desktop"

Not to be outdone, MS now has secret plans for a marshmallow-based desktop for Windows 7.

It's layers of unnecessary complexity will be s'more gui than ever.

Note also this sentence from the article, in reference to how close this is to "final candidate" stage: "Several months of work are believed to remain."

So, it sounds like around October for Snow Leopard, which would put it about 2 years after the release of Leopard.

BWAHAHA! Brilliant, Ampar!

I can't wait to get my hands on Snow Leopard so I can get videos for it up on Woopid

I feel like I just did "regular" Leopard!

Screenshots???

HOPEFULLY they fixed Quicktime Players atrocious video quality. Playback under Windows XP using Power DVD on the same MacPro was better.

it would awesome that when <font color="blue">Mac OSX Snow Leopard</font> comes. I can't wait.

Incorrect.

I expect to purchase a Mac Pro Quad in May. There's a new article on MDN that predicts a June 8 release for SL. I'm presently handling 450 meg files on a MDD Windtunnel. . . . I wonder if I'll see improved performance.

Mar 06, 09 - 03:09 pm Comment from: Wingsy

I don't understand Apple's plan for Quicktime. If Apple wants to tout h.264 and the .mov format as the latest & greatest and in so doing trounce anything.wmv into the sand, they should consider Quicktime among one of their top priorities. So what if it can efficiently and gloriously display that h.264 movie in a bazillion pixels up & down, if it can't play much of anything else then not many are going to be using it. Most Windows users that I've heard from have the opinion that QT on Windows stinks. While they may very well be biased, one of their main complaints is that it won't play very many formats. That's my #1 complaint as well. I don't want to have to first TRY to play something in QT, then go TRY to play it in VLC, or MPlayer, or go search high and low all over the net for a codec that works with the latest QT version. I want my video player to play whatever I feed it. If Apple wants people to use it then Apple needs to include the codecs for everything under the sun, even if it means they have to write it themselves.

Now, who got me started on Quicktime?

@ Wingsy

I agree with you.

Try Perian ( http://www.perian,org ), adds all those missing codecs to QuickTime. I've now stopped using VLC altogether. This makes Frontrow usable again (QuickTime was a real handicap without Perian).

Mar 06, 09 - 04:23 pm Comment from: Predrag

Legitimate content out there is (for the most part) easily playable in QuickTime. However, all the stuff on rapidshare, torrent, limewire and such, ends up dumped there by pimple-faced teens using Windows and hacked-together dvix, 3vix, xvid and god knows which other codecs. They are all windows-based, and are cobbled together to wrap the video into AVI or WMV wrapper, making it (seemingly) easily playable in WMP, and unplayable in QT.

As soon as you step outside of the shady area of shared files, QT works well across platforms.

What about quicktime pro? every time they "up grade it" i lay out more bucks and get less functionality or anything fancy i want to do with it is hidden in that marshmallow ampar is talking about

Maybe I missed something here. . . But where were QuickTime 8 and 9? Did Apple catch the Microsoft Numbering virus?

Mar 06, 09 - 05:16 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Sharing this on mulitiple Snow Leopard stories

(and without the advantage of 'instant spell' for multiple posts)




Yea, Yea, whoopie diddle - a Nice Feature


But ONLY if able to adjust finder search results window options

To include MORE than just " Name / Kind / Last Opened "

THAT has been a Serious Joke™ with 10.5


Good Grief

Since OS 8 or 9

All the way through 10.4

We've been able to configure a finder search result window

Same as ANY finder window


Apple, please bring back a previous "feature" as we "advance"

I want to get this frown off my face







BC

Mar 06, 09 - 06:16 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

"I want to get this frown off my face"

Uh, I think that's a glare. Or maybe a scowl. Whatever, quit!

It scares me.

Mar 06, 09 - 06:24 pm Comment from: Cubert

What do they mean by "Cocoa Desktop"? Do they mean a cocoa-based Finder (which we already know about) or do they mean a new default desktop picture?

Mar 06, 09 - 06:25 pm Comment from: Cubert

BC Kelly,
Stop stretching out the forum page. Go easy on the return key.

Mar 06, 09 - 08:09 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

HeyCubert.Howyoubeen?Thoughtwehadallthatsortedoutyearsagoandeveryoneunderstoodhowitcanmakereadingsomethingeasiertoread.AndMDNdoesn'tmindany'stretching'sinceitgivesthemmorespacetopostads.Later,BC

Mar 06, 09 - 08:11 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Whoa, did I discover a glitch or what ?

Mar 06, 09 - 08:54 pm Comment from: Ampar

"What do they mean by 'Cocoa Desktop'?"

You'll go cuckoo for the puff piece reviews?

Mar 07, 09 - 02:28 pm Comment from: coolfactor

BC Kelly

The extra line breaks do not make the text easier to read. They make it hard

since

it

interrupts

the natural

flow

of

reading.

Mar 07, 09 - 04:37 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

coolfactor

Please, define "natural flow"

(as e e cummings orthographically rolls over in his grave)

AND

Thank You, but I'll write the way I write

However, in the future, I'll try to write slower so you can keep up






BC

Mar 07, 09 - 05:05 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Please, define "natural flow"

It's what men lose as they age.

It's replaced by unnatural dribble.

Mar 07, 09 - 07:26 pm Comment from: ron

john75. Good job on Woopid. Very clear instructions. Thanks.