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Sneak Photos of WWDC Show iPhone, Leopard Banners

Reader Mark's brother just sent over this pic of an "OS X iPhone" banner found on the WWDC show floor in Moscone Center. You can't really tell much from the shot (no 3G iPhone leaked), but it does look like iPhone will be a big topic next Monday—something we've known for a while. Crunchgear also found these shots by Gernot on Flickr which also shows OS X Leopard. Check those shots out in the gallery.

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OQO Running OS X Leopard: The Smallest Mac in the World?

Forget the Psystar business—this Hackintosh is much more interesting. A member of the OQOTalk forum has demonstrated his OQO running a hacked version of Leopard. It takes over two minutes to load but it looks like it's all there, including such goodies as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, power management and sound. Check out the video to see a (blurry) demo of it in action from the dual-boot startup, including showing coverflow working in Finder and a Dashboard launch. More »

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It's Time V1.0 Brings Leopard Theme, Usable Dock to 5G iPod

Apparently, the It's Time hack provides iPod classic users with a proper Leopard theme, complete with a usable dock and other added OS X inspired fun stuff, including a Front Row-esque Now Playing screen and Finder-styled progress bars. We haven't confirmed this one ourselves and the images certainly are rendered, but if you're up to nothing, try this one out and let us know how it goes. [It's Time via iPod Wizard]


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Mac OS X 10.5.3 Test Builds Seeded to Developers

Apple's just released a OS X Leopard 10.5.3 update beta to developers, meaning that the patch is at least stable enough for widespread testing. Among the things being fixed are several memory leaks in CoreAnimation and iCal, but the final release won't be available until an estimated April or May. [Apple Insider]

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Time Machine Flux Capacitor Patch Lets You Back Up to Any Drive in Leopard

Apple's limitation on what kind of drives (directly attached drives) can be used as a Leopard Time Machine backup disk can be overcome with a small command line utility. More »

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Apple Already Testing Leopard 10.5.1?

According to AppleInsider, Apple is already passing around the first builds of the Mac OS X 10.5.1 update. More extensive software testing will begin next week. While we don't have any specifics on the fixes involved, there are a slew of minor problems you can see on message boards that could be addressed...probably only to create a new slew of minor problems. We'll see how long the update takes to reach users, but all in all, this looks to be pretty quick turnaround from Apple on their first—let's not use euphemisms—patch for OSX. [appleinsider]


question of the day

You Like Your Leopard?

Partly due to the Leopard's relatively incremental, evolutionary nature, I've had a surprisingly angst-free upgrade process. The Apple Support forums have been relatively quiet, save the now fixed BSOD issue. But that doesn't mean I believe everyone's experience has been so good. How's your Leopard experience been? [How To Comment]

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Apple Leopard Install BSOD Fix

That Apple OS X Leopard blue screen of death that shows up on install for some users? It's been isolated to have been caused by APE enhancement software, and Apple's got a fix. That didn't take long to solve at all. [Apple]

Fry's has $10 off Leopard today for anybody who's not keen on getting their $10 from Amazon. Pick it up at 6PM and you get to bypass the lines at Apple stores. [Fry's]

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Our Unabridged Apple OS X Leopard Test Notes (24 Hours and Counting...)

We've been testing Leopard for over a day now, on multiple machines, and here are our full test notes and screenshots. The impressions below spare you the typical rehashing of features which you can get from our past coverage or Apple's website, and are focused on the nitty gritty details you'd find if you spent a long time poking at the big cat yourself. More »

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Live Apple OS X Leopard Q&A Sesssion [Update: And We're Done, Thanks For Watching]

I'm going to stream Leopard live over Justin.tv right now. I'm busy reviewing it, so I won't be too active, but for the next few hours, if you have questions, email em to tips at giz, drop em in the comments, or hit up the JTV chatroom and I'll do my best to answer any questions I have and give you guys demos of what you're interested in seeing. And to be honest, I love the new OS.

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OS X Leopard Shows Networked PCs With BSOD Icons

It's still funny. Funny in that I want to cry kind of way. [Gadgetlab]

question of the day

Why Did OS X Leopard's iChat Lose the Star Wars R2D2 Video Effect?

The R2D2 iChat Video fx is not making it to final build, according to what Apple told us this morning. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy? I'm upset, but my girlfriend thanks you for saving her from hours of Princess Leia impressions over iChat. Drop your petition signatures / curses / cries / conspiracy theories in the comments.

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New Dev Leopard Build Has Google Talk, Finder Path View

The latest developer build of Leopard has a couple changes in the visual department that differentiates itself even from the WWDC build. Here are the notable changes: More »

Pre-Order OS X 10.5 Leopard (Raawwr!) On Amazon Leopard's October release date seems like as far as an eternity and a day to the OS X Geeks. But they can get their preorders in right now on Amazon.

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Speculation Smashed: No ZFS in Leopard

There was a reason ZFS wasn't named-checked as one of Leopard's 10 (not so) new features at WWDC 07—despite declarations by Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday Apple denied ZFS's presence in Leopard. Put another way by Brian Croll, senior director of product marketing for OS X: "ZFS is not happening." Ouch. More »

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Apple's Videos of Leopard and WWDC07 Keynote


Quick reminder: For those of you not at the keynote today, there are crystal clear explanations of all the new Leopard features over at Apple. More »

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What's Actually New In Leopard?

Steve Jobs covered ten points about Leopard today, but it wasn't all technically news. In fact, we could count just nine true news items to come from the keynote. Let's recap what's really new about Leopard, right here in easily-digestible form: More »