To coincide with the recent WWDC conference and Steve Job’s keynote speech, the Leopard website has been updated. The site features a run down of some of the forthcoming features, which include:
- A more 3D based Dock.
- A new Finder, it is pretty much based on the iTunes layout.
- Stacks - This feature stacks multiple folders on top of each other when in the Dock.
- Quick Look - Provides a live preview of the document.
- Spaces - Allows you to switch between workspaces.
- Boot Camp - Installed as default.
- Dynamic Widget Creation - Allows you to create on the fly widgets based on a website’s content.
- Spotlight - Will have the ability to search Macs and PCs on your local network.
- .Mac - The spotlight search is going to extend to Macs outside of your local network.
- iChat - Is set to get a massive facelift on Leopard.
- Time Machine - Back up and recovery software which uses Spotlight and Quick Look.
The keynote speech is available to stream (quicktime of course), it is quite long but worth the watch. I have watched the first hour of the speech which touched on EA Sports and ID Games coming to Mac and of course demonstrated Leopard to the 5000+ audience.
Below is a shorter promtional video which demonstrates some of the above features of Leopard
One thing I didn’t like about the Keynote speech was Apple’s snobbery at Windows again. The opening video footage featured ‘PC’ from the ‘I’m a PC, I’m a Mac’ advert trying to pass himself off as Steve Jobs. PC stated that he is quiting Apple and shutting down the whole company. While the footage was fairly funny it wasn’t really required to be shown to the audience. Below is a cam recording of the footage.
Okay, back to Leopard. It looks amazing. Roll on October. 
The stand out features for me include, the dynamic widget creation, workspace and stacks. The Widget feature allows you to highlight any area in a webpage and then ‘grab’ the contents of that area and turns that area into a widget. It’s basically like dynamic RSS. It’s a really imaginative addition. The upgrade to Leopard from Tiger will cost approx <€150. Roll on October.
Other discussions of WDMC 2007
June 13th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Check out the video on the new features: http://thenewsroom.com/details/396062
June 13th, 2007 at 6:15 am
I wonder how the games will run on the mac. I think mac is quite an expensive platform to use for gaming.. PERHAPS ! Now that EA creates games for MAC (with the underlying UNIX platform) it is possible to port games to other platforms aswell
June 13th, 2007 at 8:29 am
I was thinking the same thing. It’s a shame the guys from EA and ID didn’t mention if they were going to develop for UNIX. If you’re going to do it for Mac, why not do it for UNIX as well?
Thanks for the link JMS