Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system will include localization and multi-touch tools for developers, according to AppleInsider.
People familiar with the latest pre-release distributions of the next-gen OS say the software now includes the CoreLocation framework previously available via the iPhone SDK, which will allow Mac applications to identify the current latitude and longitude of the Macs on which they're running.
CoreLocation will utilize networking hardware to triangulate the computer's location similar to how the original iPhone emulated a true global positioning signal.
Meanwhile, those same people say that developers writing applications for Snow Leopard will also gain access to a new set of Cocoa-based programing interfaces for leveraging the multi-touch features of the latest MacBooks and MacBook Pros within their applications.
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People familiar with the latest pre-release distributions of the next-gen OS say the software now includes the CoreLocation framework previously available via the iPhone SDK, which will allow Mac applications to identify the current latitude and longitude of the Macs on which they're running.
CoreLocation will utilize networking hardware to triangulate the computer's location similar to how the original iPhone emulated a true global positioning signal.
Meanwhile, those same people say that developers writing applications for Snow Leopard will also gain access to a new set of Cocoa-based programing interfaces for leveraging the multi-touch features of the latest MacBooks and MacBook Pros within their applications.
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