Not only does Leopard bring along a brand new Finder (review of that coming later this month), but the open and save panels have been updated to reflect the new changes. There is now a brand new sidebar in both panels that include the same new sidebar that you see in Finder, but the new open and save panels also include some new features that have not been seen thus far.
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Tags: features, files, Finder, flexibility, iLife, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, media, open, panels, review, save

Us Mac users may have teased Windows lovers because it took Microsoft 5 years in between the releases of Windows XP and Windows Vista, but now we’re a little guilty of lengthy releases too. Mac OS X Tiger was released on April 28, 2005, and now Mac OS X Leopard will be released on October 26, 2007. Exactly 2 and a half years, which is half of the length of the interim between XP and Vista.

In preparation for the upcoming release of Leopard, I will be doing a 5-part series on my blog this week taking a look back at everything that has happened over the last 130 weeks. I was originally going to make this a single article, but after getting so many ideas, I have decided to split it into five posts covering five different categories of events. If you have any additional ideas of significant things that have happened during the last 910 days, leave them in the comments. (Although note that I will be out of town for a portion of this week; I have this full series pre-scheduled.)

In this first part of the Tiger-to-Leopard series, I cover the significant events affecting Apple themselves since Tiger came out. Be sure to check out the other articles in the series.
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Tags: announcements, Apple, article, history, iLife, iPhone, iPod, iWork, Mac, Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger-to-Leopard

No, I’m not talking about the next season of new cars. For one thing, I wouldn’t call 95% of the cars out there “worth it”, mostly because their gas mileage would make any non-American laugh with their fingers pointing, and for another thing, I really don’t care about cars anyway. Nevertheless, yesterday, Apple released iLife and iWork ‘08 (along with some other new stuff, which aren’t the focus of this article), which Steve Jobs claims to be their biggest updates ever to both releases. But after spending a couple of hours today following the announcements through Engadget’s live coverage, rubbing my eyes all over the Apple.com website, watching demo videos and tutorials, and all that stuff, I’m ready to judge for myself if iLife and iWork ‘08 are really that substantial, and if they’re each worth their respective $80 upgrade price.
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Tags: 2008, announcements, Apple, documents, GarageBand, hardware, iDVD, iLife, iMac, iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb, iWork, Keynote, Mac, Microsoft Office, movies, Numbers, Pages, photos, podcasting, presentations, PreviewCast, Software, Special Event, spreadsheets, Steve Jobs, web design

Well, let’s face it. Tomorrow is a special event-style Steve Jobs keynote, and for like the first time since Apple has started doing these special events, they’re actually planning to talk about the Mac, instead of music. We didn’t do a PreviewCast this weekend because I was busy doing something else. But, I guess I shouldn’t let the day come without expressing some opinion of what I’d like to see be announced, particularly with the rumor websites going crazy again. You know what? I think I’m getting sick of rumor websites. Maybe I should stop subscribing to them. Oh wait, I’m a Mac podcaster. Damn.

Now, let’s get one thing clear: this is not a rumor list. The stuff that I’m talking about or speculating on here has absolutely no source backing it other than my wild imagination. I’m not even calling this rumors, I’m calling it a wishlist, because it’s stuff that I’d like to see (or not see) relating to the aging Mac lineup.
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Tags: announcements, Apple, iLife, iMac, iPhone, iWork, Mac, Mac mini, multi-touch, PreviewCast, Steve Jobs