The latest build of Mac OS X 10.6 build 10a222 was released to developers earlier today.
The build which includes additions to Grand Central, the new architecture designed to make it easier for developers to make use of multiple processor cores.
Apple requests that testing be focused on Microsoft Exchange support.
Seed notes after the jump.
Seed notes removed at request of Apple legal.
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Simon Hollingshead
3rd December 2008, 23.33 pm
It’s nice to see progress and all these new additions, Apple is clearly hard at work. Shame it appears to be so early in development from all the known issues, Q1 looks less likely than ever.
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Adi
4th December 2008, 04.23 am
Ya by the looks of things, this won’t be out anytime soon. I even think it will be delayed to H2 09.
Adi
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mark palmos
4th December 2008, 13.04 pm
I can’t believe they are STILL not focussing on the so-called Finder.
After 18 months of OSX, I can honestly say Finder is abysmal compared to windows explorer on winxp.
You cannot cut and paste
You cannot copy a path from any folder and paste it into a File Open or an Import dialogue box to go to that place immediately
You cannot sort files first then folders or visa versa, they are sorted in one bunch, making it incredibly hard to drag and drop from one place to the next.
When you “find” something in “finder” you cannot sort the results by path!!!! unbelievable!!!!
i could go on, but all you have to do is try windows explorer to see some of the power finder is missing so badly.
Tx
Mark.
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Adi
4th December 2008, 14.34 pm
I agree with you mark 100%. The finder is years behind in terms of power features compared to win Explorer. It is easy to use for simple tasks by pple with relatively little experience with computer but for power users, it’s a drag.
Worse even is the mouse acceleration curve under OS X !! I remember using OS 7.5, OS 8 and the mouse wasn’t this bad.. i really don’t know why they dumbed down the mouse movement so much. As a result, i’m forced to use third party utilities like SteerMouse in order to get a more decent response out of my mouse.
Adi
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Tom
5th December 2008, 05.01 am
I totally agree. The finder really needs some better features. They could look at pathfinder to get some ideas. And the mouse acceleration is a huge problem for me too. Steermouse is ok but doesn’t fix things as well as an Apple rewrite of the mouse control panel would. They should make an advanced section that allows control over acceleration and speed much like in steermouse. They should also fix the side buttons on the mightymouse. I had to turn them off as they get activated by accident constantly.
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T2
8th December 2008, 09.01 am
You can cut and paste in Finder, hold down the command key while dragging from one location to another.
You guys are right though, still a way to go yet!
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frderi
11th December 2008, 11.07 am
@mark palmos
You’re missing the point. In the grander scheme of things, paths are deprecated. A directory structure is fine when you have 10s or 100s of documents to file, but it quickly becomes a terrible mess to manage when you have thousands or more.
The metaphor of the hierarchical directory structure was developed at a time when hard disks were much smaller and the amount of data on the disk was limited to a couple of applications and their mostly text based files.
Fast forward a couple of decades, and we have hard disks filled with ten thousands of pictures from your digital camera, thousands of music files, your digital library of movies, email messages and their attachments, your range of games and programs all available trough digital downloads, and all the files these applications might have generated. Our directory structures have exploded so drastically in the last 10 years that it becomes almost impossible to find something back on your computer. Find was implemented to fix this, but its quite limited. Hence the need for technologies like metadata and integration of smart folders in the Finder, which are little more than database queries on an index file.
Since the multitude of data is only going to grow in the future, I suspect file paths will become less and less relevant, and we will all find our data by issuing database-like queries on our desktop machines for file access.
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Allan
4th January 2009, 05.35 am
Does anyone know if tasks will sync with exchange?
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Raymond Cranfill
11th January 2009, 22.40 pm
Yes, the Finder drives me ape-shit too, and I am a loyal Mac OS X fan. One of my biggest gripes is the unresponsiveness of Finder (especially compared to Explorer in Windows) whenever a manipulation of large numbers of files are concerned, Emptying the Trash, renaming, moving, etc., involves considerable overhead on top of whatever limitations are imposed by the hard drive mechanism. I get especially annoyed by the SBBD whenever I try and make a right-click application choice or file choice. I have numerous external hard drives and the Finder feels compelled to spin up and search every single drive. It also provides no sure-fire way to keep these selfsame disks from spinning down.
@frderi, paths may be deprecated, but until Apple provides a quick, efficient, fool proof implimentation of an SQL-type file system, I’ll keeo my hierarchies, nested folders and paths. I am a scientists and have no trouble organizing, remembering and recoverying my data and files from hierarchical path-based file system. (And no, Spotlight doesn’t even come close! It’s such a resource hog and so uncustomizable, that I just turn it off).
I seriously doubt Apple will do anything further with Finder in 10.6 and probably won’t feel compelled to provide a major overhaul (akin to the much ballyhooed Microsoft WinFS) until it transitions to version 11, and that’s probably four or five years down the line.
Sigh……
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Jan
26th February 2009, 21.58 pm
I hope they remove those dreaded mouse acceleration curves. Either make them work, or take it all out. I’m using USB Overdrive X to disable mouse acceleration because when it’s on I feel I work at 50% of my normal efficiency, constantly tense my wrists and get a high blood pressure.
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Coigioupe
16th June 2009, 01.24 am
Дизайн у Вас интересный, я вот тоже для блога искал - стала прикручивать, а все посты куда то делись. Эээх… буду писать заново
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kixRaizexia
1st July 2009, 04.44 am
А как на вашу рсс-ленту подписаться? что то не пойму
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