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pdr 02-14-2007 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jonjonc (Post 358052)
What do you call a fish that's missing an eye?

I don't know. What?:eek:

eValuone 02-18-2007 05:54 PM

Osxcelot!

eValuone.

tlarkin 02-19-2007 12:51 PM

well then there could also be this version of OS X

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Th...s-l-poster.jpg

Fastfwd 02-19-2007 01:57 PM

Frankly all I would want them to do is to put more stuff in so the average user can just use his computer right away without needing more downloads/buy more software.

The only thing really good about Leopard is the time thing and I'm not sure I'm going to use it all that much. Spaces is cute but we've seen this within windows graphics drivers in the past, nothing new to the OS.

What I would enjoy a lot:
- Integrated solution to move DVDs to front row and the iPod(handbrake,lostify,divx codec)
- Make neooffice part of the OS
- Something like super-duper
- Include an archiver that can deal with passwords

that's pretty much it for me.

ThreeDee 02-19-2007 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fastfwd (Post 359465)
- Make neooffice part of the OS

I hear TextEdit will have support for odt documents...

MBHockey 02-19-2007 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zalister (Post 358215)
Does it bug anyone else that all the OSX's thus far are named after muscular sly animals that could probably kill you in a heartbeat?

No...I actually love it :D

chabig 02-19-2007 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zalister (Post 357952)
I am hoping that with the advent of OSXI they'll start using primate names, that way we can have OSXI.2 Baboon, or OSXI.4 Gorilla.

You're too late, Baboon is already reserved by Microsoft for an upcoming version of Windows--in honor of their CEO Steve "Monkey Boy" Balmer.

ThreeDee 02-19-2007 10:04 PM

wayofftopic: That's your 1300th post!

VegasMac 02-19-2007 11:10 PM

Way Way off topic...This is my 59th Post! I have no idea why I'm mentioning this, but it's true.

eValuone 02-20-2007 12:29 PM

Hope 3D's right about TextEdit support for odt.
 
ThreeDee,

We just started using OOo to do .doc and .xls (.ods) analogues on our C2DPro.

Works great and fast too!

Say bye-bye to M$!

We use TE a lot for spell checking large scanned texts. Soon we'll be trying to export HTML, for first time, from TE to web.

If we could do that with OOo formats that would be useful. (Yes, we realize OOo exports HTML...)

eValuone.

tommaso 02-27-2007 09:34 PM

Actually, lion should have already been used, because tigers are the biggest of the pantheras.
And, since we've already used Puma, we can't use Cougar; they're the same thing.

tlarkin 02-27-2007 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by eValuone (Post 359713)
ThreeDee,

We just started using OOo to do .doc and .xls (.ods) analogues on our C2DPro.

Works great and fast too!

Say bye-bye to M$!

We use TE a lot for spell checking large scanned texts. Soon we'll be trying to export HTML, for first time, from TE to web.

If we could do that with OOo formats that would be useful. (Yes, we realize OOo exports HTML...)

eValuone.


You do know that office 2007 totally changed the format structure of their documents right? They are all XML documents now, and have an x at the end of the file extension. So a word document looks like this now, documentname.docx. Adding in this feature will basically make a lot of third party stuff completely compatible with office considering just about everything supports XML.

Jay Carr 02-28-2007 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tommaso (Post 361861)
Actually, lion should have already been used, because tigers are the biggest of the pantheras.
And, since we've already used Puma, we can't use Cougar; they're the same thing.

Ah, come on. No need to be so technical! I wonder though, are there any bigger cats in panteras that might be extinct?

teejaysplace24 10-19-2007 01:48 PM

Good Kitty: Bad Kitty
 
I love how all the OS 10.6 predictions center around the name of the product, rather than any of it's actual features. I suppose that speaks to how happy most OS X users already are. Can you honestly see this happening on a Windows forum? (Windows: Lonestar? Windows: Dairy State? Windows: Pacific Rim?)

Anyway, though I can't think of any new features myself, my vote is for Cougar. Whatever cat (or bird, or fish, or amoeba) they pick, I'm certain it won't be Lynx. I dunno if anyone's noticed, but "Lynx" (links) the cat is spelt identically to "Lynx" (linix) the operating system. It would be pretty much like releasing Mac OS X: Vista. Confusing much?

sk8nerd 10-19-2007 04:26 PM

Haha, 10.6 Couger would try to pick up on young Mac users. Or maybe it they should wait til 10.9 for Couger :)

styrafome 10-19-2007 05:06 PM

Mac OS X "Lolcat"

schneb 10-19-2007 05:27 PM

OS 10.6 Bill the Cat
 
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BrentT 10-23-2007 07:36 PM

Mr. Bigglesworth

http://www.fortunecity.com/bennyhill...gglesworth.jpg

Felix_MC 10-23-2007 08:27 PM

or.. Mac OS FeliX (the cat :p)
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare.../001-felix.gif

Anti 10-24-2007 12:13 AM

Come on, Lynx would have to be the most badass name out there for 10.6. But maybe Apple will ditch X at 10.5? Seeing as some of their products never made it that far (Mac OS 9.2 is as far as the 9 series got).


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