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Mac OS X version 10.2 Jaguar contains over 150 new features and provides
significant enhancements to its modern, UNIX-based foundation. Referred to by its code name, Jaguar, Mac OS X v10.2 is a different breed of operating system. Jaguar combines the rock-solid reliability of UNIX with the ease of use of Macintosh. This version of Mac OS X is as innovative as the computers that run it. And whether you’re a Mac user who’s upgrading, a Windows user who’s looking at switching to the Mac or a UNIX user who loves the idea of using key applications like Microsoft Office on top of a state-of-the art BSD UNIX implementation, this is the OS for you.
Mac OS X v10.2 also features QuickTime 6, the next-generation multimedia standard with support for MPEG-4 video. Quartz Extreme, the hardware accelerated, fully composited graphics system, gives it souped-up 2D and 3D capabilities. Plus a significantly enhanced Finder with spring-loaded folders. Not to mention a host of features and capabilities that will impress hardcore Unix users, including a new client for X11. ![]() And it just keeps getting better. Jaguar’s revolutionary features have inspired a whole host of Macintosh products from Apple and third parties that incorporate its exciting new technologies, such as Rendezvous. This new networking standard lets you automatically create a network of applications, printers and other peripheral devices — without having to manually configure drivers or settings — all using the industry-standard IP networking protocol. Surf your local network without typing an address using Safari, Apple’s blazingly fast new Web browser. Of course, you can surf the rest of the Internet, too, at unheard of speeds. Or let Rendezvous find which of your friends or colleagues on your local network are available for an iChat, even if you don’t know their IM monikers. ![]() Now you can keep contact information for all your friends, family and colleagues, as well as calendar appointments and tasks synchronized across all the devices you own, from work to home. iSync, a free download, works with all the various devices in your life to update one as you add information to another. Use Address Book and iCal on your home Mac, then upload your data to your work machine via your .Mac account. iSync also copies your data to your iPod, Bluetooth-enabled cell phone or Palm OS-based device. And you’ll love that all programs in Mac OS X have access to your Address Book, so you don’t have to enter contacts multiple times, in Mail or iChat, for instance. ![]() iChat is the first client compatible with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), allowing instant messaging between .Mac members, AOL members and AIM users. With its engaging use of the Mac OS X Aqua interface, iChat provides a great new user experience, with dialog bubbles and buddy photos that present instant messages in a graphically conversational manner — and no annoying ads. You can send instant messages directly to friends, share your picture with friends by dragging it onto the icon next to your name in the buddy list (at which time it will show up automatically on all your friends’ buddy lists), and transfer photos, movies or other files by attaching them to your messages. Want to point friends to content on the Internet? You can do it by typing or pasting clickable links into your messages. You can even assign names to these links so your friends will see blue-highlighted words instead of long URLs. ![]() Mac OS X’ standards-based email program is designed to weed the junk mail out of your mailbox. The new spam-handling feature in Mail has a sophisticated language filter that uses adaptive latent semantic analysis to identify and nail junk mail messages. You can store messages on an IMAP server so you can access them from any computer, anywhere. You can create a signature with your contact information and a whimsical quote of the day that rotates randomly. You can customize your Mail toolbar with commands like Redirect, Flag or Bounce to Sender to include the functions you use most often. And you can watch QuickTime movies directly within Mail. Mail even tells you when buddies who’ve sent you email are online, giving you the option of turning email exchanges into real-time chats. |
Open at the Source The Darwin project coordinates contributions from thousands of programmers in the open source community. Through the open source model, Apple engineers and the open source community collaborate to create a better, faster and more reliable foundation for Mac OS X. Quartz Extreme Accelerated Graphics ![]() More about Quartz Extreme ![]() ![]() International Affair Mac OS X v10.2 comes with full Unicode support and thousands of dollars worth of high-quality fonts — including Japanese and Chinese — and supports non-Roman alphabets (like Arabic, Thai and Hebrew) via improved input and a new Unicode Character Palette. Your Rendezvous With Destiny ![]() More about Rendezvous ![]() Sounds Like You Really Need This ![]() |