Yes, as you all thought, its going to be the 26th! As soon as iAppblog gets a copy you can be sure we’ll review it.

Apple have also updated the Leopard website to detail all the new features of Leopard, you can see that site here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/

Leopard will see the introduction of Time Machine, an app that backs up your Mac and allows you to retrieve files from a previous backup. It also sees the introduction of improvements on the Desktop and Finder, which includes Cover Flow for finder. Two more of the major changes are the introduction of Spaces, which allows you to use multiple desktops on your Mac at one time, and Quick Look, which allows you to view, play and read files without opening them.

Rating: 4.5/5

General Info: All Macs need maintenance performed. Unlike cars, they usually need software maintenance like emptying caches, repairing permissions, changing logs, and more. Cocktail does all of these things and more. Unlike Onyx, Cocktail remembers your password for doing these maintenance operations so you don’t have to type it in every launch. Cocktail can also set some useful hidden preferences not in System Preferences. While it doesn’t have the sheer number of hidden preferences that MacPilot does, it does have many of the useful ones. A feature many non-Terminal users will enjoy is that Cocktail can force empty the Trash. For the true network geeks, there are a set of advanced options for, well, your network. In most places where hidden/advanced preferences are available is the option to set them back to the defaults, just in case you mess something up.

In the ?¢‚Ǩ?ìPilot?¢‚Ǩ¬ù tab are ways to run all maintenance tasks at once and schedule them to happen automatically. Scheduling is essential functionality for apps like Cocktail. Here’s where I wanted to see more options. The Scheduler only allows you to set the day of the week or every day for maintenance tasks. The Scheduler feature needs to have a little calendar to select specific days of the month; I could then schedule tasks for the end of every month. After scheduled tasks, you can chose to Restart, Shut Down, Sleep, Logout, or do nothing (quitting Cocktail is conspicuously missing). Also nice would be the option to automatically turn off the boot chime when scheduling a Restart. Yes, my Mac rebooting can wake me up. Cocktail features interfaces to Man (sounds a bit odd), and other UNIX commands. A really neat feature Cocktail has is the ability to save very detailed reports of your Mac as a plain text or XML file. Cocktail is the fastest and easiest app I’ve used to keep my Mac in tip-top shape. For $14.95, Cocktail is a great solution.

Retail Price: $14.95

Site: http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.php

Snapz Pro X has finally gone Universal. Snapz Pro X is the premier video screen capturing application. It allows you to record what’s going on in any part of your screen. The new version is also Leopard compatible and includes a few bug fixes and some enhancements.

You can find out more about Snapz Pro X 2.1.0 at http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/.

Rating: 4.5/5

General Info: Camino doesn’t aim to have every feature every other web browser has, it just aims to do the features it does have right. The Camino browser has one huge, virtually un-touted advantage over other Mac browsers: it’s not resource hungry. Camino has the fewest and shortest lasting of spinning beach balls on any browser on Mac. So what else does Camino get right? Session saving, the automatic saving of web pages left open during a quit or crash, is built in. Automatic RSS detection is also built in. Safari’s method is only slightly better than Camino’s. In Safari, you click the blue button to open the feed in your default RSS reader. In Camino, you have to chose between the types of feeds available. Also in Camino is automatic flash player blocking , spell checking, and ?¢‚Ǩ?ìopen new windows as tabs?¢‚Ǩ¬ù. Unfortunately, a nice feature planned for Camino didn’t make it into this release. This feature spawned at Google’s Summer of Code. Its the best way to manage tabs when they’re too many to show in the window. Little arrows would appear at the end of the tab bar to slide tabs in a certain direction until the one you wanted was visible. One feature that Camino needs, and most other browsers are coming out with, is drag-able tabs. Safari 3’s drag-able/tear-away tabs are just plain useful. Until Safari 3 comes out of beta in October, Camino looks to be one of the best Mac browsers on the market.

Retail Price: Free

Site: http://www.caminobrowser.org/

Apple has released a public beta of Safari 3. The biggest part of Safari 3 is that you can run it on a Windows XP or Vista computer.

?¢‚Ǩ?ìSafari is the fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for Mac and PC. Safari 3 Beta introduces new features to help you find your way and enjoy your time on the web.

Arrange your tabbed windows with just a drag and drop. Instantly and graphically locate any text on the current web page with the new find command.

Safari is also now available for Windows so you can continue to use your favorite browser even when you?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢re not using your Mac.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

The public beta is available for free download for mac or pc at http://apple.com/safari/.

iAppblog will have a full review of it in the near future.

This is the last release under the name of “Democracy Player”, soon to be Mira. Included in this mature beta are several new features. Among them, auto-updating (using Sparkle), “folder watching”, resume playback, better proxy support, improved performance, and more. Folder watching is a feature that automatically adds videos located in a specified folder to your collection. For more, go here.

New in this update is full DRM support. This means all songs purchased off of the iTunes Store will be analyzed and included in playlists generated by Tangerine!. Also new are some minor improvements with the organization of songs.

I posted earlier today that during Steve Jobs conversation with Walt Mossburg, he also mentioned that Apple would be shipping a Software Update that allows you to view YouTube videos on your Apple TV. It has a complete interface and takes advantage of all of YouTubes features.

Click Here to see a screenshot taken from Steve Job’s presentation showing the interface of the YouTube feature on the Apple TV.

Steve Jobs said that the update will come in mid June via a Software Update. It will be interesting to see how Apple delivers a software update to the Apple TV, and I wonder if it will be administered via iTunes. Steve Jobs also mentioned a search function, and i wonder how this will be done with the Apple TV, considering you only have a basic 5 button remote. Steve Jobs announced this, and many other updates at All Things Digital, today. You can watch a 10 minute highlight video by clicking here.

[prMac.com] Jumsoft, the leading developer of Apple Keynote themes and illustration add-ons, has released Keynote Themes 6.0, now with 35 professional-grade themes and up to 24 layout masters specifically designed for each theme.

Jumsoft more than doubles the number of themes standard in Apple’s Keynote, thus giving users double the assurance that they will find the perfect theme for their presentation—whether it be commercial or scientific, technical or legal, educational or simply entertational. This new version also instills users with a whole lot of confidence that not everyone else will be using the same theme.

It requires 3.0 or higher of Apple’s Keynote Application, which is a competitor to Microsoft’s PowerPoint. The set of themes is available for purchase at $45 on the Jumsof Website, which you can click here to visit.

This Press Release was brought to us by A Media Partner of ours, PRMac, which we released earlier this year that we have become a Media Partner of theirs, and we have a link under Media Partners on their site.

MacRumors just posted that according to several sources, Final Cut Studio 2 is now shipping. Apple previewed Final Cut Studio 2 at NAB in April. Final Cut Studio 2 includes Apples new color app, coincidentally called Color….

I can’t wait to get my hands on Final Cut Studio 2, and I will make sure to post my first looks once I get a chance to see it.