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Using OS X
Mac OS Icon Your new desktop Desktop Icons With Mac OS X featuring numerous advances, it’s the job of the new Finder to ease your transition to the next level of computing. Navigating your Mac and the Internet has never been easier.
Sherlock Extreme Internet Mac OS X combines a host of powerful features and technologies — plus iTools, Sherlock and QuickTime TV — to give you more of what you want from the Internet. Mail Keep in touch The killer app of the Internet gets compelling new features and capabilities. It’s called Mail, and it’s a full-featured email application built from the ground up as an integral part of Mac OS X.
Core Technologies
Core OS Evolution revolution Under the appealing, easy-to-use interface is a rock-solid foundation — an industrial-strength core OS engineered for stability, reliability and phenomenal performance. Aqua Liquidity is good The Aqua interface brings your Mac to life with color, depth, translucence and fluid motion — and keeps you on top of things with continuous visual feedback.
Darwin Open Invitation The open source community helped bring you the core OS. Feel free to pitch in and contribute your programming talents. Quartz Sharper Graphics Based on the portable document format (PDF), Quartz delivers on-the-fly rendering, anti-aliasing and compositing of PostScript-strength graphics.

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Applications

Applications Apps for Mac OS X Check out the latest applications that are Built for Mac OS X and Classic compatible.
Web Authoring “Mac OS X is going to be one of the best platforms for doing Web development,” said Macromedia’s Tony Campitelli during Steve Jobs’ Seybold keynote.

Downloads

SETI@home SETI@home The search for intelligent life beyond Earth just got easier.
Audion Audion A single tool that bravely handles all your audio playing needs? Meet Audion.

Reaction

Apple’s OS X Looks Like a 10
“I think every Mac user should give OS X (pronounced OS Ten) a serious look. It incorporates several new technologies that will not only make your Mac run faster and more reliably but will simplify computing. Besides, it’s really cool — just what you’d expect from Apple … With OS X, Apple is actually leaping ahead of Linux and Windows…”

— Charles Haddad, BusinessWeek online

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