WWDC 2006
August 12th, 2006
- Not so stingy with the RAM in the Pro models! I want one.
- Who will be the first to use the Time Machine APIs to create a web browser history?
- Regarding the interface of virtual desktops Spaces, Mac Murrett created a switcher called Workspaces that worked like Exposé for desktops several years ago, though it only runs on 10.3.x. I used several tools in an attempt to capture how it looks, but they all captured only the active workspace, not the tiled view of the four available.
- Hip-hop producers should make sure they save an old version of Mac OS X for voice sampling. Alex is too realistic for their purposes.
- Interface Builder 3 will make my life easier if I can create prototypes with animation and such.
- The iChat background compositing feature is one that many will use once or twice, then abandon when they realize how useless it is. Everyone but your annoying friend. You know the one.
- The metadata editing capabilities of 10.5 have not been publicly detailed, but they are the one thing I’m really looking for. I want to be able to USE all the metadata Spotlight already supports. Of late I’ve been using Desk Lamp to assign keywords (TAGS, BITCHES!), ratings (out of five stars), and project titles to files and folders. Desk Lamp is still early in development and not all that stable, but it is the only tool I know of that exposes this metadata that is otherwise inaccessible (unless you get down and dirty with the command-line or a hex editor). The hierarchical filesystem must die.
you forgot about the fact that the new graphics engine for leopard is resolution independent now. hip hip hurrah!
Thanks for blogging (and using) Desk Lamp. Please let me know what you would like to see in the next release. Currently the scheduled items include better editing of the tags in the info view, including comments and attribute meta-type support so that Desk Lamp can recognize an email address or date and perform some useful action (go to a date in iCal, show an Address Book entry for a person, propertly format file-sizes vs content durations and so on).
Send me an email and I’ll comp you a license!