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August 8, 2006

Favorite announcements from WWDC

Favorite stuff to come out of WWDC:

• Improved Spotlight in Leopard; sounds like it will go from "shows potential but sucks" to "totally indispensable tool that enables you to do amazing stuff really quickly".
• Spaces: Exposé is good but Exposé plus Spaces will be even better. Combine all this with the already great built-in application switcher and the Dock and you have a system which is incredibly easy to move around and be productive in.
• Time Machine (I strongly suspect that this is built on ZFS). I do daily backups anyway, but this is still cool.
• Intel kernel sources available in full and Xcode 3.0 (so, we've got our hands on 2.4 already but nothing overwhelming there).
• Objective-C 2.0 with garbage collection and "syntax improvements" (wonder what they are).
• Display prices have dropped massively.
• The new Mac Pros: I'll be trying to save money for one of these before Leopard ships. The performance of my iMac is great; the performance of the new machines must be stunning.

And finally:

• Mighty Mouse Wireless (OK, this one was announced before WWDC).

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Posted by wincent at August 8, 2006 3:49 PM