Monday, December 16, 2002

ColorSync technology ensures that the representation of color remains true and consistent from input capture devices, displays and printers. Like so many technologies in Mac OS X, it is based on established industry standards and provides benefits for professionals and consumers alike. In Jaguar, we include the ColorSync Utility that allows you to see and manage all of the profiles installed on your system. You can view the Lab plots for each of the spaces and can assign any profile of your choice to an installed scanner, camera, display, printer or proofer.   [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 1:28:33 AM

Addressbook Menus & Special Actions: There's a lot to discuss about the new Address Book in Jaguar. To start, in no particular order are the action menus that you can activate over any field on a person or companies contact entry. Just move the mouse over one of the fields and you should notice a coll roll-over effect that tells you that you can click to activate commands appproriate to the field you are clicking. For example, in the screen shot, I'm clicking on a mac.com email address so the commands let you send an email, visit the .Mac Home Page, open the Public folder of the users iDisk or start an iChat conversation.       [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 1:27:13 AM

Address Book: The Address Book application in Jaguar lets you treat contacts as people or companies. When you chose to view a card as a company, the company name is promoted to be the most prominent (i.e. first, large and bold) in the card view and uses that name in list view too. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 1:25:36 AM

There are lots of great things to say about Fonts in Mac OS X and Jaguar specifically. I think I'll dedicate this week of posts to everything related to fonts, fonts and more fonts. First up on the font installation front - folders of fonts! Instead of being forced to have all of your font files located directly in your fonts folder, you can now group and organize your fonts in folders. (repost)   [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 1:23:13 AM

Jaguar Fonts! The system font panel is a very flexible user interface for selecting and managing collection of fonts. Whenever I demo this to even seasoned Mac OS X users, they are blown away by the flexibility. All Cocoa applications use the font panel implicitly and with the Jaguar release, Carbon applications can add it to their feature set. Here's a series of screen shots that show the flexibility of the panel. This is the font panel in it's "typical" form. In a simple floating panel, you can browse fonts in collections, families, type face and size.   You can also preview fonts as well. Choose 'Show Preview' in the Extras... popup.   Many people don't realize that you can slide the preview panel up and down. There's a hot zone near the bottom of the preview. A new feature in Jaguar. Notice how the selection list and the slider are active at the same time in this view? Go to the Extras... menu and choose Edit Sizes'. There, you will find a check box to enable these controls. The font panel can also be made to be really simple. Simply by reszing the window, user interface elements will get smaller and when you reach a certain threshold, the window will simplify itself. For example, here, the Collections list has been dropped because the width of the window is reduced. Reduce the height of the window (again, by resizing it) and notice how the scrolling lists turn magically in to popups! (repost) [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog] 1:21:26 AM

TiVo to allow Network Connectivity at last: TiVo has announced a service that will allow TiVos to talk to the Net and play MP3s from your computer and other such cool stuff. 12:50:35 AM

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