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In it accustoms it them keynote that it precedes the beginning of the WWDC, Worldwide Developers Conference di San Francisco, Steve Jobs has illustrated the main characteristics of the new operating system of apple, Mac OS X 10,5 Leopard.
In the course of the keynote of conference WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2007, Steve Jobs has introduced the most waited for operating system Mac OS X Leopard, or at least the one which was a version “near final” of the operating system owner of Apple, because its availability to the public will begin from the month of October, and meantime we are sure that the sviluppatori will have much job to make.

A lot other, but, has been already made: 300 new features, comprised a new Desktop and one new Dock with an unknown system of organization of the rows called Stacks, an modernized version of the Finder with Cover Flow and a system of sharing of the rows intuitivo, Quick Look, in order to see the content of the rows in preview without to open an appropriate application, Time Machine, particular arranges chronological of backup and restore, Spaces, iChat and Mail improve and dawn to you to you.

“Leopard is best release than Mac OS X at the moment, it exceeds Tiger, and it will expand the leadership of Mac OS X as one of more evoluti arranges operated you the world,” they have been the words of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, “We are sure that notri the customers, present and future, will love Leopard, and this will help the Mac to become more and more popular.”

We shortly examine some of the introduced characteristic new from Mac OS X Leopard.

Dock and Stacks
Numerous the aesthetic participations that have interested the desktop: it comes abandoned the style “brushed-metal” in favour of look a more materico, based on the gradient, the bar of the menù acquires the transparency, while the icone of the Dock they introduce gradevole reflected effect. The new style will extend to all the applications: muovendo one whichever window in the pressed ones of the Dock, will look at its glare on the surface of the panel.

It has not been only attended to the appearance, but sonostate introduced also more useful functions, like Stacks, that it concurs to rationalize the job space when many open documents are had. The customer will be able to collect more elements in one stack and to examine of the content in a successive moment: goodbye to the confusion of icone on the desktop!



Finder
The Finder has been completely riprogrammato with the added one of Cover Flow like system in order to be annoying quickly between the rows. It will be, therefore, possible to move between rows and cartelle with the same mechanism adopted from iTunes in order sliding the musical places setting some of the album. It is also present one new sidebar that it simplifies the organization of the rows on the Mac and allows to approach the resources stored on the computers of the net quickly, are they Mac or PC. Moreover, the customers of. Mac can use the function “Back to my Mac” in order to approach, through Internet, to the rows contained in theirs account.

An other innovation is the possibility to carry out some prestabilite searches (but it is also possible to create some of new). From the finder on the bar of the menù, it will be possible to carry out searches that, thanks to Spotlight di Leopard, they will be able to use operating booleani “and”, “or”, “not” and other symbols generically it uses you for rifinire the searches on the searchengines.



Quick Look
Quick Look is a new system in order to visualize the previews of the files. Its peculiarity resides in the possibility to leaf through a document, page for page or to reproduce a video. Quick Look supports the widest fan than form to you, images, rows of text, pdf, video, presentations, persinodocumenti of Microsoft Works and Excel.



Time Machine
The ability to return behind in the time in order to recover contained rows, photographies and digita cancels them to you, this is the virtue of Time Machine. After the simplest one setup, Time Machine will hold trace of whichever rows on the Mac and, in the event in which rows it comes inavvertitamente cancelled, it can be used Spotlight in order to return behind and restoring the rows. Time Machine works also from software of backup, concurring to carry out one copy of the own data on a hard disk external, a remote serveur or drive coupled to the AirPort Extreme base station.

Time Machine not only holds a copy of every rows present on the machine, but also of all the modifications that have been brought, so that it will be possible to return to the situation which day appeared in a data, in a sure moment. Time Machine is in a position to restoring single rows, entire cartelle or the system in its complex.



Spaces
The new version of Spaces maintains the Dock on the bottom of the desktop: cliccando on a icona in the Dock, Leopard door directly on the job space in which that application is contained. Gliutenti can personalize spaces through the panel Exposé & Spaces in the Preferences of system. Between the several options, it is possible also to assign one given application, as an example Safari or Keynote, to a data job space.



Mail
Mail is hour still easier to shape: enough to insert just account and own password and the program it will make all the rest. Functionalities have been new additions, like which it allows to create of notes, type post-it, or which concurs to record themselves always on hand to feed a RSS for having the last news. Through Spotlight a search in the email can be carried out, between the addresses and in whichever other thing has been created with Mail.

Leopard Mail, offers greater own possibilities to personalize the email with a set of 30 template premanifactured, and has one the greater integration with applications like Safari and iCal.



iChat
iChat video with the set of effects Photo Booth concurs to modify “on the fly” yours output. Moreover iChat it is in a position to distinguishing the background and to apply images in background, while the new function iChat Theater allows to show photo, video and presentations while it is chattando.



Leopard includes three new technologies in a position to drawing advantage from the most recent developments in the within of the processori: support native 64-bit, optimization of the multiple Cores and Core Animation, that it will help the sviluppatori to realize interfaces animated like those of Spaces.

The list of the characteristic new is still much long one, is limited here to remember Leopcard iCal, Web Clip in a position to enclosing in one widget for Dashboard practically whichever page web, Boot Camp and one new series of programming instruments. For a deepening we send back to the official page of Leopard.

Mac OS X 10,5 Leopard will be available to the public beginning from the month of October to a price suggested of 129$ for one single licence, and of 199$ for the multiple licence (for 5 customers) Mac OS X Leopard Family Pack.


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