ZFS is in, ZFS is out… OK, so now we know that ZFS file system support is in Mac OS X Leopard. The read/write support was just seeded to developers according to reports online and no one but complete nerds will notice unless Apple makes it the default file system. The WWDC build of Leopard still has journaled HFS+ as the default file system.

Man oh man, nothing like writing about file systems early in the morning to start the day.

ZFS Read/Write Developer Beta for Leopard [MacRumors]

The WWDC build of Leopard is all over the Internet and judging by the numerous, illicitly obtained screenshots and video walkthroughs, you can tell it’s still a little rough around the edges. Apple will look to rectify this in the next several months, finishing up development in early September. The Leopard development roadmap has allegedly leaked online, so we can give you a month-by-month breakdown of what’s scheduled to happen.

By early July, Apple will have ironed out Airport, UI, API and Dev Tools issues, to be proceeded by the final, feature-complete build in August. Then Apple will focus on quashing the remaining bugs before the whole project goes gold several weeks later. That puts Apple on track for a late October release for its newest operating system.

Mac OS X Leopard internal roadmap revealed [MacosXrumors via Mac Rumors]

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Like many of you, I’ve chosen to refrain from downloading the leaked Leopard Beta because I’d rather wait for the full-fledged version to be released before pirating it. (DISCLAIMER: We do not endorse piracy!) Anyways, the demo given at WWDC just didn’t whet my appetite and I’m sure most of you will agree. But someone leaked a handful of OS X 10.5 videos. I hope these aren’t taken down before you get a chance to sink your teeth into them.
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It looks like the WWDC beta of Leopard was leaked onto the Oink BitTorrent Web site. (I’m not about to download it, though, that’s for sure.) Here’s a screen shot. And another. And another. That last one made me laugh. Oops!

Nobody’s completely downloaded the 6GB file yet, but the site’s forum is red hot with activity and the file already has 205 comments. Choice lines about the leak in recent days have included “this is f*#$ing ridiculous. i want leopard, and i want it now. hurry, before some heads start to roll” and “Please do not talk about this torrent file outside of OINK.”

Someone should notify Apple.

The WWDC build of Leopard still hasn’t leaked onto the Internet (aside from, perhaps, some super-private BitTorrent trackers), but Wired has a mini-review of the beta. Keeping in mind that Leopard isn’t scheduled to come out until October, Wired basically gave it the Thumbs Up. The brightest spot seems to be the new Finder, which makes browsing around your file system easier. The iTunes-derived Cover Flow view, believe it or not, makes browsing around your files fun. To me, this is fun, but whatever…

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Apple appears to have used its goons to prevent the unauthorized leak of the newest Mac OS X Leopard beta, build 9A466. Jerks. Someone posted the beta onto the Oink BitTorrent site on Thursday and within six hours “ninjas got to [him].” Users on various Internet sites have taken that to mean that Apple’s lawyers had contacted the leaker, forcing him to kill the torrent. That we don’t know for sure, though.

It’s not surprising, really, seeing as though Apple sued Tiger leakers during that operating system’s beta period. What all this means is that if you’re waiting for the beta to leak (which is illegal, by the way), you’re going to be waiting a little while longer than you might be used to. One site, MacMate.org, seems to know something that the rest of don’t, however…

Source: Usenet, shady forums, etc.

If you spent your time yesterday under a rock (lol1) you would have missed Steve Jobs’ keynote. (Good thing, too, because it stunk.) But, for your viewing pleasure, Apple just posted the whole dog and pony show on its Web site. Relive great moments like, uh, when the EA guy comes out in his pajamas and describes Need For Speed: Carbon as a “car game” and when some application crashed right in the middle of His Steveness speaking.

WWDC 2007 Keynote Address [Apple]

Because Jobs’ keynote stunk to high heaven yesterday, this dude is going to cash in. A simple black t-shirt with the incredibly apt phrase “Worst. Keynote. Ever!” scrawled across the front. Just under $20 will land you a convenient, if not entirely played out, method of registering your disgust with WWDC 2007.

Product Page [MacMerc.com]

Earlier today, during his WWDC 07 Keynote address, Steve Jobs said that the iPhone would be released on June 29, which “is 18 days from now. At, uh, 6PM.” This was said to a chuckle. I’m afraid he was joking, folks. He seemed very “off the prompter” when he said it, as a light-hearted aside.

Look for the iPhone to be available when your local AT&T or Apple store opens its doors, whatever time that might be. And don’t line up, it’s not Star Wars or something.

“It turns out we were almost all wrong.” A concerned public servant once said about the existence of illicit weapons in a certain Middle Eastern country. That same quote now applies to Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2007, where nearly every single rumor that circulated around the Internet was completely wrong. No new iMacs; no new iPods; the 17-inch iMac and Mac mini are still for sale; nothing.

These rampant and apparently baseless rumors are beginning to hurt Apple’s image, methinks.

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Now that WWDC is over, it’s time to check out the aftermath.

We grabbed Safari and were hit, quite unsurprisingly, with some initial errors. Considering Safari for Windows is still in its beta release, most of these problems will eventually be ironed out.
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Ummm…WTF?!? Looks like the Apple site was tweaked with a nice new design, but nothing new in the Apple Store. Is anyone else left with a sense of nothingness from the keynote? We’ll have to take solace in the Safari 3 Public Beta. Woohoo…more like boohoo. *Cries in the corner*

Note: During Steve Jobs’ WWDC 2007 Keynote, this post will act as a static front page for CrunchGear. The rest of the site is accessible via direct link. Once the keynote is over, we will revert to to standard format.

Matt is in place and ready to rock and roll.

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From 1 to 5 PM EST, Mophie will take 50% off of everything on their online store. What does Mophie sell? They have the Bevy, for one, that odd little Shuffle case with the bottle opener on it. It’s pretty good of them to honor us Mac geeks like that. Check them out.

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Jack… there’s another island.

Our own Matt Hickey is now entering the building with the rest of the Macinworld at the Moscone Center. As his reports stream in, we will turn off the main page and show only our WWDC 2007 page during the conference. Once the conference is over, we’ll switch back to the regular format and post the coverage to another dynamic page. If this plan backfires and our server explodes, we’ll probably go to a full HTML page for the duration. Just don’t be surprised or scared. Daddy still loves you.

Oh. My. God. His holiness’ keynote is less than four hours away and I can barely contain myself. This supposed keynote outline comes from a German site and we have no idea whether or not it’s true. Will there be anymore iPhone details revealed? Will Leopard be the star of the show? A new iMac perhaps? Well, if this “leaked keynote” is any indication of the things to come then we’re in for a wild ride, but I think that a demo of “iPhone@home” really throws a monkey wrench into it. The countdown begins.
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Just a note to you, sports fans. Yours truly will be live blogging the Steve Jobs keynote on Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. PST right here on this nice blog of ours. We’ve got some pretty dope tools to make it a fun day, so we hope you’ll join us.

His Steveness will most likely be talking about secrets. For weeks we’ve been speculating and guessing about what secrets lay behind the iPhone. And we’ve been trying in vain to divine what’s ahead for Leopard. On Monday, we’re likely to find out both.

Other blogs (*koffgizgadgetenmodokoff*) might give you the play by play, but we’re different. Look for my expert analysis as well as signs of my cutting wit. That means you can expect jokes about that criminal Paris mixed in with my geekgasms of joy.

We’ll see you here on Monday, friends. You don’t want to miss this. Seriously.

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Some of our regular readers may recall a stupid and irresponsible rumor we started right here on this blog, that being the idea, based on a slip by an Apple PR type, that future Macs might shortly ship with Vista pre-installed as a dual-boot option for Leopard. The idea isn’t just to run Windows, but to run Windows apps in the Mac OS. Many of you scoffed at the idea, and we even thought it bogus ourselves.

Then a coworker showed me the Unity in VMware Fusion video above, and you can see just such things happening. We’re not saying Leopard’s going to ship with this type of scenario, but it certainly does stoke the fire and add food for thought, and other metaphors.