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Spring loaded folders in the Dock!!

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Wow, I saw the springing control, but I didn't even realize it was for the dock.  Yay, happy times indeed.

ScifiterX wrote:

iCal Account Preferences

Does anyone suppose this means we can finally publish to something besides .Mac?

Well that does answer my question in a roundabout way.

You need to be running the latest Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard release for a version of iCal supporting CalDAV.

That's cool. Hopefully we'll also see alternate publishing options on some other stuff as well.

Yeah, Your original edit time and my post time were the same.

Mr. T wrote:

Donkey Butter wrote:

Aqua OS X wrote:

Apple Insider is also claiming resolution independence will also be a feature... but I don't see anything to support that claim.

That would be a -huge- feature, as well as something developers would need to know about ASAP.

okay a lot of folks are talking about this and I don't get it.  why is this so great/neat/important?

For a couple of reasons.  First, screen resolutions (in terms of pixels per inch) are constantly increasing and everything looks smaller than it used to, especially on some of the extra-sharp lapop screens (not necessarily Apple-made).  This is especially annoying since my school (as many other institutions) runs its LCDs in below-native resolutions for exactly this reason (and we all know how much non-native sucks on LCDs).  Secondly, I'm tired of explaining to people who use on-screen rulers in their apps why an inch on the screen isn't really an inch.  This of course applies to fonts as well.

Yup. It's mainly to deal with ever increasing monitor PPI.

Scalable interfaces will undoubtedly be the next big step for display technology. Even if it seems like a relatively simple concept, it's going to have a big impact on applications, the web, etc. Everything is going to need to be scalable eventually. Buttons, icons, websites, etc.

Aqua OS X wrote:

Mr. T wrote:

Donkey Butter wrote:

okay a lot of folks are talking about this and I don't get it.  why is this so great/neat/important?

For a couple of reasons.  First, screen resolutions (in terms of pixels per inch) are constantly increasing and everything looks smaller than it used to, especially on some of the extra-sharp lapop screens (not necessarily Apple-made).  This is especially annoying since my school (as many other institutions) runs its LCDs in below-native resolutions for exactly this reason (and we all know how much non-native sucks on LCDs).  Secondly, I'm tired of explaining to people who use on-screen rulers in their apps why an inch on the screen isn't really an inch.  This of course applies to fonts as well.

Yup. It's mainly to deal with ever increasing monitor PPI.

Scalable interfaces will undoubtedly be the next big step for display technology. Even if it seems like a relatively simple concept, it's going to have a big impact on applications, the web, etc. Everything is going to need to be scalable eventually. Buttons, icons, websites, etc.

Resolution independent GUIs will be a God Send to people with less than perfect eyes. That is the reason why I am sitting in from of a 22 inch CRT rather than a LCD. I am quite far sighted and while I dont require magnification to let me see screen elements properly the way LCDs display at significantly less than 1:1 makes using them head ache city. I need a display on which an inch displays as an inch, not 3/4s of an inch. I can have that with a CRT. I cannot with an LCD.
Not that I am suffering. The gorgeous 22 inch Mitsubishi Diamond Pro I have cost me a small fraction of what a high quality 20 inch LCD would have, so its all good so far.

barrfid_od wrote:

Kind of a n00b question, but the spring loaded folders thingy, is where u hold a fold over a foler and the folder in which has the folder over it opens...right?

Exactly.

haha jp

Holy cow! That is quite possibly awesome as awesome can get.

Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:

iCal in Leopard

First Subheading wrote:

hether you�ve got an activities calendar or a work schedule, your friends, family, and colleagues can participate in managing the group�s events, thanks to support for the CalDAV standard in iCal.

Just for clarification, do you need to run iCal Server in order to use the CalDAV group publishing?  Or can you do that without buying Server?

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