User manual

AppleSauce

November 2003

Contents

The latest from Apple

New features...

A Mac OS 10.3 Panther overview

Frank Wade

pple released the long-awaited major update to Mac

OS X for sale to Australian customers on Saturday 25

October. This overview is based on rumour, hearsay,

magazine articles and Web reports, as it was prepared

before the software was publicly available. Hopefully,

many of the features will be demonstrated at SAAUC’s

November meeting.

Apple claims “Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther continues

the rapid pace of innovation with industry leading appli-

cations and core technologies that redefine the desktop

operating system, and Mac OS X Server version 10.3

combines the latest open source technologies with

Apple’s industry-leading manageability and ease of use.

“Mac OS X Panther includes more than 150 new features

including a new Finder, a revolutionary way of instantly

getting to the windows on your desktop called Exposé,

and high quality video conferencing with iChat AV.”

Other enhancements include new contextual menus,

more power to Apple’s Mail application, integrated fax-

ing into the OS, and added font management.

Finder

The most widely used part of Mac OS is the Finder. In

Panther, Apple has updated the Finder and added some

OS 9-like functionality.

The new Finder has the brushed-metal look of iTunes

and iPhoto. All available volumes (including iDisks) are

visible in the Places sidebar on the left of the Finder win-

dow, and you can move custom files and folders to the

lower part of the window, a nice addition for those who

miss OS 9’s Apple menu. Redesigned Save dialog boxes

also take advantage of Panther’s improved Finder inter-

face.