Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

No matter what rampant rumors have been tossed around, we always knew there was going to be one main attraction to WWDC 2007: a feature-complete version of Leopard. Steve Jobs and co. didn’t disappoint, announcing 10 of the “300 new features of the OS.”

1. New Desktop – First off is the new desktop, featuring a new menu bar, a snazzed up dock and “Stacks” to help you keep your desktop clean. For instance, there’s a default Stack that collects all your downloads in one place on the dock.

2. New Finder – More on the aesthetics side, Apple is going with a unified look for apps, which nixes the brushed metal style and instead mimics the current iTunes theme — surprise, surprise. In fact, the new Finder looks and performs almost exactly like iTunes, all the way down to integrated Cover Flow for shuffling through your files. You can also save smart searches in the “playlists” side of the interface. On the back end of things, Leopard includes “Back to my Mac,” which keeps track of your home Mac’s IP address through various (and secure!) magicks, letting you browse your files remotely as if they were on a local network. Spotlight search also works over networks now, as expected.

3. Quick Look – Another new Finder integrated function, Quick Look lets you open up previews of most common document types without opening the respective app, and unsupported doc types can be added through extensions.

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There it is, the Apple store is down. You know what that means right? Goodies for you and yours when the keynote is over.

Update 1: Only the US and Canada stores are down.

Update 2: The site has a brand new look without any new gear.

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60 minutes to go. We take you through what to expect from Jobs.

Filed under: Cellphones, Displays

Nokia’s General Manager of Mobile Devices, Antti Vasara, had some interesting things to say in an interview with Sweden’s E24.SE this morning. Of course, the fact that the E90 ramp-up has begun is notable, especially if you happen to be reading this in Finland where the first shipments of the hotly anticipated communicator will rollout. However, what we found to be most enlightening is Nokia’s take on the recent trend towards high-end touchscreen displays — a la the LG Prada, HTC Touch, and Apple iPhone.

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

C’mon Google, you can’t seriously be upset that you can’t get your search engine integrated into every piece of software known to man, right? Actually, it appears that the search giant can indeed bust out the whiner card on occasion, and it has apparently done just that in regard to the Vista Search that’s built into Microsoft’s latest OS. Reportedly, Google accused Microsoft of “designing Vista to discourage users from running its indexing and search software,” and a company spokesman even went so far as to claim that Redmond’s current approach “violates its agreement with the government and hurts consumers.” Google’s gripes start to grow legs when you consider just how difficult it is to actually disable or modify Vista’s ingrained search tactics, and while Microsoft has supposedly stated that it is “committed to going the extra mile to resolve this issue,” there doesn’t look to be any timetables set for giving users the ability to choose just yet.

[Thanks, Dinraj P.]

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