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From Apple & Macfixit.com :

During this morning’s WWDC keynote presentation, Apple previewed Mac OS X 10.4, which will ship in the first half of 2005 at a price of $129 (US).

Among the 150 new features are:

Spotlight, a new function that provides file and content searches;
Safari RSS, a new version of Apple’s web browser that incorporates instant access to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) data feeds on the web;
Dashboard, a manager for “Widgets” that perform various small tasks; and
iChat, instant messaging client with multi-person audio and video conferencing in a 3D interface.

Among the other enhancements in Mac OS X 10.4, as listed in Apple’s press release, are:
• Core Image and Core Video provide the foundation for new image and video processing applications
• QuickTime support for the next-generation MPEG-4 video codec H.264 which provides scalability across the entire bandwidth spectrum,.
• Native 64-bit processes for database, engineering and scientific applications to take advantage of the increased performance
• Automator, which automates simple, complex, or repetitive tasks without requiring the user to write scripts
• improved Windows networking compatibility

See http://stream.apple.akadns.net/ to see how Jobs showed off these new features!

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Great news folks. You can now chat with your PC folk using iChatAV v2.1 beta and AOL Instant Messenger v5.5.

Let the fun begin

PC World Article
Forbes.com Article

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Wow.. talk about copycat. There is now a 3rd party windoze app that does the same thing expose does in Panther. It’s called: WinExpose.

They’ve even copied the settings window. “Gee.. haven’t I seen that settings layout somewhere before? hmm…”

But I guess people know a good feature when they see one, and expose is a real time saver

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