Mail is getting some major enhancements in Leopard, said Jobs. VoiceOver has been overhauled, according to Jobs, who also demonstrated dramatically improved text-to-speech technology. Braille support is being added, along with closed captioning support in QuickTime. All of it was created live, using Core Animation.Īpple is improving Leopard’s universal access, for users with physical disabilities, said Jobs. “You define a start state, a goal state and possibly keyframes in between.”įorestall demonstrated Core Animation by creating a demo using iTunes album art flipping around that is similar to Apple’s recent iTunes television ad, showing a city being built of album art then funneling into an iPod. Using Core Animation, developers can create a “Scene” comprising layers, which can contain text, images, video or OpenGL content. With it, you can “dramatically increase the product value of your application,” said Forestall. The demo gods didn’t smile on Forestall unequivocally, however: His demo crashed.Ĭore Animation is the sixth major bullet point for Leopard revealed to developers at WWDC. It’s also something that will be open to third-party developers. In addition to the Finder, it can work with other applications, such as Address Book. Double clicking on the file shows a preview clicking the Restore button brings that file back to your Mac. Sliding the timeline reveals your machine as it was - one, two or more days ago, flying you through finder windows so you can find the document you’re working with. What’s more, and the reason it’s called Time Machine, is that it gives you version control, so you can recover specifically saved versions of files as well.įorestall demonstrated Time Machine as an application resident in the Dock that displays your timeline. If your hard drive dies, you can buy a new hard drive, put it in your machine, and be right back where you were.”įorestall said that Time Machine supports hard drives and servers, and will automatically configure a hard drive for back up once plugged in. We back up everything…that means we can restore everything. “If you change a file, that file is backed up. “Time Machine” automatically backs up your Mac, said Forestall. He pointed to estimates that only about four percent of users are utilizing automated software for backing up important files - only a quarter of users back up in any way whatsoever on a regular basis. Forestall explains that it was developed to help users back up effortlessly. “Time Machine” is Apple’s second major feature for Leopard. It still has the registry at its core, and it has this well-loved feature that’s called activation.” But underneath it all, it’s still Windows,” said Serlet. “You may think I took the Windows logo and embedded a nice Aqua bubble on top, but no. Serlet opened with a salvo aimed straight at Microsoft, showing a series of screenshots comparing Tiger with Microsoft’s forthcoming operating system, Vista. Next up on stage was Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Bertrand Serlet. You guys have done a phenomenal job in 210 days getting your applications shipping Universal.” “All of us at Apple would like to say, thank you guys. There are now more than 3,000 Universal applications, said Jobs. Under the hood, this was 86 million lines of source code that was ported to run on an entirely different architecture with zero hiccups. Jobs called the transition to Intel-compatible operating system software “not easy, but they made it look really easy.
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