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Stop freaking out about Cocoa Finder and apps in Snow Leopard
Attention everyone who is excited about the new Finder in Snow Leopard; it isn’t new, it will look pretty much the same, and you really won’t notice a difference. John Gruber put it best on Daring Fireball: Cocoa is just an API. It is not some sort of magic technology where you just sprinkle a more »
Hot Cocoa for the Snow Leopard (new rumors!)
It’s just a few days after the end of the our last batch of Apple rumors, but we wouldn’t be Apple fans if we let the silence continue much longer. AppleInsider has brought some new rumors about Snow Leopard and a possible code rewrite for the Finder.
People familiar with matter say the Finder, which currently stands as one of the oldest Carbon-based applications in the Mac OS portfolio, has been completely re-written in the company’s native object-oriented application program environment called Cocoa.
Adobe porting Java SWT to Cocoa Touch
Former Apple Senior Software Engineer Scott Kovatch, now Adobe’s Senior Computer Scientist, announced Tuesday at WWDC that he will be heading up a project within Adobe to help port Java SWT from Carbon to a Cocoa interface. Although work on the project has already started, Kovatch sated he will not join the group full time more »
Mac OS X v10.6 is Intel-only, and that makes sense
Despite the screenshots we saw yesterday showing Universal applications running under the purported Mac OS X 10.6, LogicielMac today surfaced a screenshot of the 10.6 developer build’s accompanying PDF, which shows support for Intel only. Keeping in mind that this is just a developer build and it is still far from finished, the Intel-only stipulation more »
First 10.6 screenshots appear; looks just Like 10.5
Orchard Spy has released a few screenshots of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and while they look the same as Leopard, (Leopard looked like Tiger once, too) they do tell us some preliminary things about the new OS, and we’ll tell you after the break.
Mac OS X 10.6 confirmed: Snow Leopard
Mac OS X 10.6 is Snow Leopard. While only mentioned once at the WWDC keynote, it was enough to let us make some very safe assumptions. Snow Leopard, as evidenced by its name, is a bigger than usual incremental update. Here’s what I’m expecting. Snow Leopard will have some visual tweaks. The only way this more »
