Glimpse of Apples OS X 10.5 - Leopard in Patent Apps

post from "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed on 13 March 2006 04:37:00 PM. © "My Mac Blog" RSS Feed

From Hrmpf.com - Some Apple patents for Spotlight have recently surfaced and they show sides of the Finder we haven’t seen before.

Apple is expected to release the next version of OS X - 10.5 “Leopard” by the end of 2006 or early 2007. Little information has leaked about Leopard but rumours suggest that the Finder of OS X 10.5 (code named ‘Chardonnay’) is going to depend heavily on Spotlight (Apple’s metadata and search tool).

?Improvements to the Finder include:

• New Spotlight User Interface
• Hierarchical Nested “Smart Folders”
• (More) Human Readable Search Queries
• Better metadata creation- OCR, voice recognition, analysis of images etc

More details of the OS X Spotlight patents here
? 102309820_66e64e2a44_o ? 102309804_e05df1d547_o ? 102310035_be8cb1c5ec_o
102309915_cb12f38a91_o