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WWDC Video Highlights: Five Clips from the Preview Demo for Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”

Published August 15th, 2006

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I finally got around to watching all of the WWDC Keynote presentation from last week and culled a few movies from it that I thought others might enjoy. Like any long meeting—even one with Steve Jobs presiding—there are boring points or just moments of less importance than others. The five clips I’m including here are not necessarily the five most significant features of Tiger, but they’re the five I personally found most interesting.
If you’ve seen the QuickTime movies on Apple’s website, let me tell you… you ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Here’s a bit more up-close and personal look at some of the really cool things coming in Leopard. (Note: These videoclips are cut from Apple’s streaming video. What you see here is streaming directly from the Keynote video posted on apple.com. Another bit of QuickTime magic.)
 time machine (4:38)  spaces (0:33)
Here’s hoping Apple finally makes a working Virtual Desktop implementation available to Mac OS X users! The attempts up to now just can’t cut it.
Simply the greatest news for end-users from any computer company since Spotlight.
 ichat (5:30)
I don’t even iChat myself, but this is a really amusing clip! I can imagine a lot of people will get a lot of pleasure out of this upgrade.
 dashcode (1:40)
As a widgetpreneur, I can’t wait to get my hands on Dashcode! I love Widgetarium, which Dashcode duplicates, but Dashcode will even do visual HTML and CSS! Plus drag and drop widget components… can’t resist it.
 webclip (4:26)
One Mac developer has already tried to duplicate Webclip… and mostly, he succeeds! Still, leave it to Apple to think of this for us. Nice demo here.

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