Per la serie “a domanda rispondo” su it.comp.macintosh si chiede: “A una settimana da Leopard, quale è la tecnologia che più vi ingolosisce del nuovo OS e che vi convincerà all’upgrade?”
Ecco la mia lista ragionata, tratta dall’ elenco ufficiale di Apple delle 300 novità di Mac OS X 10, seguite da una breve nota di commento del sottoscritto:
Automator:
UI Recording and Playback
“Add even more capabilities to your workflows. Use a new action called Watch Me Do that lets you record a user action (like pressing a button or controlling an application without built-in Automator support) and replay as an action in a workflow.”
Ergo: torna (finalmente) il registratore di azioni?
Dashboard (…) :
Web Clip
“Clip out any portion of a web page and turn it into a Dashboard widget. Just click the new Web Clip icon in Safari and select the portion of the page you want, then click Add to see your Dashboard spring to life with a brand-new widget. The widget is “live” and will update as its page of origin does. You can even customize your widget’s frame.”
Ergo: Si riduce (forse) il gap tra le webapps e il desktop.
Finder:
Instant Screen Sharing from the Finder
“Start an interactive screen sharing session with other Macs on your network. Just select the Mac from your sidebar and (if authorized) you can see and control the Mac as if you were right in front of it. Change a system preference, publish an iPhoto library, or add a new playlist to iTunes.”
Ergo: formazione a distanza
iChat:
Screen Sharing
“Collaborate with a buddy via iChat. Work on a Keynote presentation together, surf the web as a team, or help each other with an iMovie project. iChat initiates the connection (asking permission first) with an audio chat so you can talk things through as you work or play. Trade views of each other’s desktops. Even drag files from one computer to the other.”
Ergo: formazione a distanza
Safari:
Movable Tabs
“Rearrange your tabs with just a drag and drop. Change the order in which they appear or separate them out by pulling them into a separate window.”
Ergo: riorganizzazione in sessioni e ambiti a posteriori.
Security:
Sandboxing
“Enjoy a higher level of protection. Sandboxing prevents hackers from hijacking applications to run their own code by making sure applications only do what they’re intended to do. It restricts an application’s file access, network access, and ability to launch other applications. Many Leopard applications — such as Bonjour, Quick Look, and the Spotlight indexer — are sandboxed so hackers can’t exploit them.”
Library Randomization
“Defend against attackers with no effort at all. One of the most common security breaches occurs when a hacker’s code calls a known memory address to have a system function execute malicious code. Leopard frustrates this plan by relocating system libraries to one of several thousand possible randomly assigned addresses.”
Ergo: un po’ più sicurezza “out of the box” (e meno corsa all’hardening?)
System:
Guest Log-In Accounts
“Allow anyone to surf the web and check email as a guest on your Mac. When they log out of the guest account, Mac OS X purges the account, removing any trace of their activity. So each time someone logs in as a guest, he or she gets a fresh, unused account.”
Ergo: più facile adottare ed usare il Mac in ambiti educationale e demo.
UNIX:
Wide Area Bonjour
“Access your Macs, at home or on the road, with a single consistent host name. Use this host name whether you’re behind a NAT gateway or hopping across DHCP servers.”
Ergo: vita più facile (spero) per più Mac dietro un router.
E per voi invece?