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Hidden Images at mac.com Indicates New .Mac Features 41

Posted by pudge from the but-what-features-i-cannot-say dept.
brotherash writes "Here's an image that describes the new Address Book feature to be added to .Mac on Jan 7th. It is simply a screen shot of the upcoming web-based address book feature with 'coming Jan 7th stamped on it'." I can't tell what's going on in this image. It looks like a new UI for Address Book, but it also might have a .Mac icon in it. We'll find out next week, I guess.
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Hidden Images at mac.com Indicates New .Mac Features

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  • HAS to be web feature (Score:4, Insightful)

    by mutterer ( 519272 ) on Friday January 03, 2003 @07:05PM (#5010365) Homepage Journal
    If you look closely you'll notice that there are no close, collapse, maximize buttons anywhere on the window. This indicates that this isn't just a redesigned AddressBook.app, but a web-based address book, presumably for .Mac subscribers only.
    • Being that it is just a screen shot I don't know that it is enough to say this has to be web based. The elements look differant to me than the other .mac areas for email etc. The address area also looks quite a bit like a listview control and not necessarily html. Of course they could be giving the whole site a ui revamp to match what we see in this address book website.

      On the other hand it is hard to deny that the icon in the upper right hand corner looks just like the logout icon in this screenshot for the webmail. image [mac.com]

      Also, why would Apple put an image of a new Mac OS X feature on the mac.com site rather than the apple.com site. They resolve to the same address but are most certainly contained within differant directory structures. Or maybe it is both a new .mac web feature and a new new addressbook.app for .mac subscribers.

  • Hide In Plain Sight (Score:4, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 03, 2003 @07:07PM (#5010389)
    It's not hidden any more. It's on the .Mac front page [mac.com].
  • After reading that the iApps are going to most likely become pay for upgrade items. I am hoping that they will give the upgrades to the people that currently have .mac. I signed up on the hopefully not false promise that there was more coming for the people accepting the pay for it service of .mac.

    fingers crossed for Jan 7th

  • I Quiver in Expectation (Score:5, Funny)

    by NickFusion ( 456530 ) on Friday January 03, 2003 @07:12PM (#5010425) Homepage
    Imagine! A book...that you can put addresses in!

    This will revolutionize that "Interweb" thing all the kids are excited about.

    Do I smell...patent?

    (Sorry...news you can lose, IMHO)

    • Re:I Quiver in Expectation (Score:4, Interesting)

      by coolgeek ( 140561 ) on Saturday January 04, 2003 @05:07PM (#5015589) Homepage
      News you can lose...maybe. Except for this: when you enter a contact in your Palm, that contact info gets on all your computers (via iSync), acessible from all your applications, including your web address book for those situations when you're away from your own computers, and you've left the Palm at the office (or wherever).

      Sounds kind of like something I wish I had for a long time now...and please don't tell me Exchange is a *solution* for this.

      • Except for this: when you enter a contact in your Palm, that contact info gets on all your computers (via iSync), acessible from all your applications, including your web address book for those situations when you're away from your own computers, and you've left the Palm at the office (or wherever). Sounds kind of like something I wish I had for a long time now...and please don't tell me Exchange is a *solution* for this.

        No, but LDAP plus a little homework is.

  • How do people find these things? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by MacAndrew ( 463832 ) on Friday January 03, 2003 @07:13PM (#5010437) Homepage
    Was this image linked somewhere? Is this snooping?

    I'm not concerned -- I want to know how to do it!

  • If you were a .mac subscriber.... (Score:5, Informative)

    by neverkevin ( 601884 ) on Friday January 03, 2003 @07:24PM (#5010533) Homepage
    The you would have known that it is not a hidden image, it is on the members home screen with the text underneath:

    "Enjoy access to you key contact infomation anywhere. Your online .Mac Address Book will soon work with iSync so you can have all your key contact information, including addresses and phone numbers up to day. A great feature when you are on the road."

    Too bad i can already do this with my iPod.

    hmm by the choice of non-stories slashdot posts about Apple, it would be nice to have a Mac person working for slashdot. I'll volunteer :)

  • Rumour Engine starting up! (Score:4, Insightful)

    by 42 ( 31931 ) on Friday January 03, 2003 @07:47PM (#5010765) Homepage Journal
    I love how the rumour engine begins to start up just before MacWorld! This is one of the things that make MacWorld so fun. A MacWorld without these crazy rumours floating around just isn't the same. Hopefully we hear a few more doozies before the 7th!

  • Are you on crack? (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    That is not a hidden image. It is right on the .Mac homepage! And has been for the last couple days!
  • As pointed out the image isn't all that hidden.

    If it were, the apple legal team would be hot on the chase.
  • That sure as hell looks like it.

    maybe the addressbook app will be killed and the drawer added as a system service to apps that need to use the address book? I'd say that that sounds like apple's style to me.

  • Another image! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by brotherash ( 4278 ) on Saturday January 04, 2003 @01:33AM (#5012738)

    If you're feeling observant you will notice that the title of this article promises "images" but only delivers one. You will also note that my quote is a bit odd, claiming that the image "describes" the new feature when in fact it only gives a release date. This is because my quote has been heavily edited including a reference to this additional image [mac.com].

    The image that was posted by slashdot has been posted everywhere but this additional image (which describes the feature in slightly more detail and which clarifies "what's going on in this image") was the reason I submitted the story to slashdot to begin with.

    I guess Jakob was right - people don't READ on the web.

    -Shmuel

    • Syncing between computers in .Mac has been around for months. Also, the image refers to the beta version of iSync, while the final one was released already. When you made this comment:

      I guess Jakob was right - people don't READ on the web.

      were you referring to yourself?
  • Looks like some W. Sanchez work perhaps since he is now back at apple working w/ .mac? Figured since this whole thread is a bunch of shit I might point out something interesting.

  • Unrelated, but interesting (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Greedo ( 304385 ) on Sunday January 05, 2003 @12:59AM (#5017797) Homepage Journal
    I'm just installing Backup, and I notice at the end of the EULA/Read Me is the following:

    Portions of this Apple Software utilize the following copyrighted material, the use of which is hereby acknowledged.

    Daniel Stenberg (curl)
    Copyright (c) 2000 Daniel Stenberg, , et al.

    Just thought it kinda neat to see that Backup is based, in part on cURL.

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