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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Screenshots?

Images Removed at the Request of Apple Legal


With WWDC just days away, the first Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) information and screenshots appears to have been leaked. According to unconfirmed sources, Apple will reportedly provide developers with a Mac OS X 10.4 Preview copy at WWDC on Monday. These screenshots provided reportedly come from this upcoming developer preview.

(Of note, the screenshots come from a previously unconfirmed source, and as a result may spark the usual debates of legitimacy -- though on casual inspection, do appear real ( removed )

Overall Mac OS X 10.4 is said to not hold any dramatic changes from Mac OS X 10.3.

The preview is labeled "Version 10.4 Pre-release" (removed) and build number 8A162 ( removed ).

A new version of Safari (v2.0) is bundled with the release and offers at least two new features. These include support for RSS news feeds as well as a new "Private Browsing" mode. Private Browsing allows users to browse without keeping a history of pages viewed.

System Preferences (removed) has been tweaked yet again, with the addition of an iTunes-like search function on the top right ( removed ) which hilights relevant control panels in real time. As the search gets narrowed ( removed ) so do the control panels that are hilighted.

In addition, Apple has added new security features to their firewall, most significantly a Stealth Mode ( removed ) which should "Ensures that any uninvited traffic receives no response -- not even an acknowledgement that your computer exists."

Perhaps the most dramatic change, however, is the inclusion of a new Expose feature called Dashboard ( removed ). Dashboard appears to be a Gadget/Widget based utility which provides users with a quick access (invoked by user-specified function key) to frequently used tools/applications. The tools available to users in the Tiger build include Address Book, Calculator, Calendar, iTunes, Stickies and World Clock. The tools provided however, are heavily themed with un-Mac OS X-like styles. It's assumed that developers will be able to provide additional "Gadgets".

Confirmation or invalidation of these images should come at WWDC next week.

Thanks to Gary Niger and Ron Delsner of GNAA for providing the information in this article.

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100 months ago
Dashboard kinda looks fake to me... We'll see though

I just can't imagine Apple making such hideous "widgets"
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100 months ago
I think this is a good start. I hope Apple blows us away on Monday with much, much more.
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100 months ago
so, yeah.... unconfirmed.. but a whole lot of trouble to fake.. dashboard appears very un-Apple... at least the styles do. The concept seems cool.

arn
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100 months ago
interesting. i like the system prefs search box. sometimes i forget where to find certain obscure things
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100 months ago
Screenshots look "Ghostly". I like it. And private browsing sounds very cool. Not to say that I need to cover my tracks.
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100 months ago
The dashboard looks very similar to Konfabulator. I hope Apple let's 3rd party developers add more than the basics.
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100 months ago
I think the fellas over at Konfabulator are gonna be unhappy with this whole Gadget-based Dashboard idea, if it's true. I wasn't totally impressed by the inconsistencies of the Gadgets... too much like play toys.

We'll see come Tuesday's keynote.

P.S. Doesn't Longhorn have a Dashboard? Haha, way to beat them to the punch!
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100 months ago
Is it just me or does "Dashboard" look a little too familiar? Konfabulator, anyone?

(Beaten to it!)

And searching GNAA on Google yields this page. Somehow I think this is not the GNAA I was looking for.


irmongoose
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100 months ago

Screenshots look "Ghostly". I like it. And private browsing sounds very cool. Not to say that I need to cover my tracks.


The PDF downloads to whereever you have PDFs go...
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100 months ago
Okay, at first I was a bit confused why we'd need a Search box on System Preferences. Now, Windows's Control Panel needs that feature! But then taking a closer look, you can search for terms *inside* a Preference Pane, as shown in the second screenshot.. that is cool!
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