Apple announcements of Panther, G5 machines, and enhancements

Apple announcements today at WWDC. Panther, the successor to Jaguar, looks like they are rendering windows in the brushed aluminum look. Also, they've got a persistant left hand "Places" column where you can access drives and store favorite locations.

You'll be able to switch views in the primary content area like you can now with list, icon and horizontal tree view. Nice, they've brought back color labels for tagging files.

Exposé helps manage windows by tiling them and giving you a way to cycle through them by rollover, which enlarges them, switch to a mode where you can tab through windows by app, and hide all windows to reveal the desktop. These are handy.

Fast user switching, faster than xp. security enhancements to iDisk, called iVault.

No new powerbooks announced. Fast G5s in August. iSight, cool firewire camera, nice quality video. iChat AV, we'll see how this compares to MSN Msgr 6. Too bad they can't work together yet. And the Safari 1.0 download. Some nice stuff.

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