Blog . Jiboneus

Twice a year or so the Gods of design came down mount Apple and show us what they are working on. WWDC is one of such events. If you haven’t seen Steve Jobs’ keynote, watch it.

First of they announce the transition process is complete. All Macs are now powered by Intel chips. The new Mac Pro runs on two 64-bit Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processor. Two Dual-Core makes it a Quad-Core system. Together with a slick casing design that we all knew and love, I’m already drooling.

WWDC is always about the software, so as expected, Apple’s newest cat make an appearance. Thought it’s not ready yet but you can have a sneak peek at Leopard. 10 new feature was introduce, here are some of the feature I can’t wait to get my hands on.

I am in serious need of something like this. In short Time Machine is an automatic system backup software that backup everything. Backup software technology is not something new, but the interface that Time Machine has is just mind-blowing.

Right now I’m starting to use SVN, The Subversion Project (SVNX for the Aqua client interface) to archive all of the projects I’m working on. I could easily in a sense, go back in time to get previous version of files I’m working on or files I’ve accidentally deleted. SVN is build for collaboration, setup a SVN server and multiple programmers could work on one project at the same time. That however is not how I use it. I basically setup SVN to use locally just me committing my files.

Not really sure about the details of Time Machine, but based on what I saw on the presentation its just what I’m doing with SVN right now, but Time Machine backup everything. You can restore photos from your iPhoto, restore contacts in Address Book, but it’s how you do it that blows my mind. Just watch the QuickTime video and see it for yourself.

Although I’m not a heavy Dashboard user, but I do use it from time to time. Two new Dashboard related stuff Dashcode and WebClip was introduced.

Dashcode offers a built-in debugger and all the text editing features of a professional Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The editor also integrates with the debugger, so you can easily set and view breakpoints, and track your widget’s execution through the source code.

Having some experience playing around in creating widgets, I really like to try out Dashcode.

WebClip on the other hand is something I really looking forward to see on my Dashboard. Often I stumble upon a website and wish they had a little Dashboard Widgets for a certain part of the site. With WebClip anybody now could turn any part of any website into a widget. It is truly the ultimate Dashboard Widget.

Although this might not be an original or new revolutionary idea. I think I first saw this on mid 90s when I was playing around with Linux installing RedHat and stuff. You know what I mean. Still I think this would be useful when it’s implemented in OSX. Something I think I’ll be using a lot.

Overall, I’m really looking forward to Leopard.

Update: Guess what, someone saw the WebClip Dashboard widgets and figure out how it was done and go ahead to create one. Its more or less works just like what was shown by Apple. Get it here.

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