The Leopard draws near!

7th August 2006

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Steve Jobs made some exciting announcements today at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s conference, and although I wasn’t there to hear or see it– what I’ve seen so far online has my heart beating quite a bit faster!

For some time now, I have wanted the ability to application-share via a desktop videoconference– and the new version of iChat in Leopard delivers. According to the Leopard iChat intro movie on the Apple website, the latest iteration of iChat will support collaborative desktop screensharing as well as presentation support in what Apple is calling “iChat Theater.” The possibilities here for virtual conference presentations are quite exciting. I can’t wait to give this a try. (If you have an upcoming conference and are looking for a virtual presenter, please contact me!)

For more features of Leopard, check out the entire Apple Leopard “sneak peek” website.

Apple also announced, at last, that Intel-based processors have come to the PowerMac lineup. Hopefully this will get the prominent pro-app developers like Adobe, who still haven’t shipped Intel versions of major products like PhotoShop, to speed up their development timeline!

Jobs’ keynote is available online as an archived, streaming video– but reportedly because of exceptional demand it was unavailable when I tried to play it this evening.
Thanks to my mac-guru cousin, Devin Henley, for these links!

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1 On August 8th, 2006, Robert said:

I was actually a little underwhelmed by the announcements yesterday. It seems like most of what Jobs had to announce amounted to nothing more than eye candy (backgrounds for iChat, HTML “stationery” for email, etc.).

The to-do list linking in iCal looks promising, although it’ll probably mean I have to totally revamp the way I do to-do lists once this is out. “Spaces” (virtual desktops) will be nice, but I think that could (should) have been included way before now; this is a standard feature in Linux distros. Possibly the most useful thing I saw was the sort of pseudo-screencasting capabilities that iChat will have; only question there is whether non-Mac computers will be able to play along with it.

The Mac Pro looks pretty sweet, but at that price I’m not holding my breath for one unless I can find a good grant for it!