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Mac OS X v10.2 is loaded with over 150 compelling new features — like an instant messaging client that’s compatible with AOL’s, an enhanced Mail application that lets you filter out junk mail, an address book that’s an activity center for all your contacts, and a full-featured search engine so useful that you’ll soon feel lost without it. 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.
Your rendezvous with destinyAnd 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. 
Never lose contactNow 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. 
You’ll have lots to chat aboutiChat 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. 
The junk stops hereMac 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.  Sherlock gets the picture Your personal search detective has had a radical makeover, and now comes with whole new levels of functionality. In addition to locating hard-to-find information wherever it hides or resides on the Internet, Sherlock 3 delivers the latest news, up-to-the-minute flight status information and stock prices, as well as addresses, maps and driving directions to the places you need to go. Need to track shipments? Sherlock follows them for you. |
Welcome Windows users Jaguar makes it a snap for Windows users to switch to the Mac by providing point-and-click Windows file sharing so it’s easy to connect to Windows servers and PCs. And there’s great news for business customers: Jaguar comes with Active Directory interoperability, and with a PPTP-based virtual private network (VPN) client that allows Mac users to connect remotely to Windows corporate networks.
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
Mac OS X v10.2 uses the PowerPC G4 Velocity Engine to speed 2D graphics (especially noticeable in dual processor Power Mac G4 systems), and unleashes Quartz Extreme — a breakthrough combination of OpenGL and today’s advanced graphics cards — to accelerate the compositing of 2D, 3D and QuickTime content to enrich your user experience. 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. Sounds like you really need this 
Jaguar features new audio technologies that enable your Mac to support high-resolution, multi-channel audio found in DVDs and 3D game audio. Jaguar includes multi-channel I/O, high-resolution audio handling (24/192 and beyond), new MIDI capabilities and DSP and virtual instrument plug-ins. All of this, combined with the lowest audio throughput latency of any computer operating system, makes Mac OS X v10.2 the ultimate operating system for audio pros.
Professional-grade developer toolsA complete suite of developer tools are included with every copy of Jaguar, empowering Java, C and AppleScript developers to do their best work on the Macintosh platform. UNIX and Linux developers may wish to try X11 for Mac OS X. |
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