I didn't see any Mac vs PC ads.
Several in 2006 at least https://www.applearchive.org/2006
Unofficial Apple Archive
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#92I cannot see any of the videos.
For all the videos, I get this on a black background:
Sorry
Because of its privacy settings,
this video cannot be played here.
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#93My first contribution to a feature: https://www.applearchive.org/1999-feed/apple-special-event-o... at 13:24 A rather one-off thing, never ported to Mac OS X, but we had fun developing it.
Whoa, really cool!
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#94My own little moment of fame: WWDC June 8, 2009, Keynote, 21 minutes and 22 seconds in: Bertrand Serlet says (about improvements to Preview): "We have added lots of little touches. The one I like...we have added a little bit of AI to actually infer the selection" My colleague and I (we co-developed the "little bit of AI") never saw this comment (and the applause) live: we were still lining up outside of Moscone West.…
I remember this being introduced, and thought ‘that’s cool’. I use that function in Preview most days so - thank you.
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#95I cannot see any of the videos. For all the videos, I get this on a black background: Sorry Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here. What is that? Anybody else seeing this?
I'm seeing the same thing. All the embedded vimeo videos were either deleted or made private.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
the original osx pinstripe look is pretty hideous, and the faux glossy emboss look hasn't aged well either https://images.techhive.com/images/article/2016/01/mac-os-x-...
We have gained so much along the way (I.e. fast computing), but we’ve lost a lot as well - computers are nowhere near as friendly/stylish.
Great point. I think part of this is that computers are now so ubiquitous, there is less call for making them approachable to people who are not using them.
Personally I like the friendly stylings of old which were empathetic to users' needs. Computers these days seem to take themselves too seriously, and we've lost a bit of the fun as a result.
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#97I've been using OS X since 2010, but in that time I never used the Dashboard. I didn't see any point. A couple weeks ago, I watched the keynote of Steve Jobs introducing Tiger, and when he demo'd the Dashboard, I had this moment of dawning realization: "Oh, so that's what you're supposed to use that for. That is... actually completely brilliant. Yes. I want that. Now." I'm now using the Dashboard quite heavily. It's…
what's it for? i never used it when it was around.
There were several widgets I used a lot - a fab BBC radio widget rage let me listen to radio channels (bring up the UI instantly and then dismiss) same for a widget that controlled my MAMP servers and a web clipping of a page showing the status of various systems I monitored
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#98My own little moment of fame: WWDC June 8, 2009, Keynote, 21 minutes and 22 seconds in: Bertrand Serlet says (about improvements to Preview): "We have added lots of little touches. The one I like...we have added a little bit of AI to actually infer the selection" My colleague and I (we co-developed the "little bit of AI") never saw this comment (and the applause) live: we were still lining up outside of Moscone West.…
> BTW, the AI we added did not use neural nets or deep learning. So proper old-school AI then? Perl and regexes?
We took a rule-based approach, coupled with some heavy-duty statistics.
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#99I've been using OS X since 2010, but in that time I never used the Dashboard. I didn't see any point. A couple weeks ago, I watched the keynote of Steve Jobs introducing Tiger, and when he demo'd the Dashboard, I had this moment of dawning realization: "Oh, so that's what you're supposed to use that for. That is... actually completely brilliant. Yes. I want that. Now." I'm now using the Dashboard quite heavily. It's…
what's it for? i never used it when it was around.
So, worth noting, I'm sure I saw plenty of these explanations over the years, and it still took watching Steve Jobs's demo before I "got" it.
But: it's a workspace for quick glances that don't take you out of the flow of what you're working on. If you've ever kept a paper notepad, or a calculator, or a small tablet on your desk for reference while using your computer, Dashboard is that, but even better because it can be activated and deactivated more quickly than physically looking down at your desk.
(Make sure the Dashboard is set "As Overlay" if you're ever on a system that has it. Modern-ish macOS defaults to "As Space", which reeks of a setting created by people who didn't actually use the Dashboard.)
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
That must be an amazing feeling! Is this a feature that's still in macOS today? Can I see it in action?
Yup, just open Preview for an image (possibly other documents as well e.g., PDF), go into “markup” mode, and begin to draw with the pen or pencil. Preview will try to “perfect” your drawn check mark, X, straight line, curved line, etc.
That's a different "smart" feature -- the one mentioned has to do with guessing where the selected text continues (when it goes on to a different column, text box, etc).
PDFs are more "baked" layouts rather than high level semantic markup, so it's not easy to automatically determine this. The AI is probably a set of heuristics.