Disco is software for burning disks that illustrates a new approach to interfaces: It smokes while it burns. If you blow into your computer's microphone, the smoke blows across your desktop. When ...

Editor’s Note: This the 10th profile in our ongoing series on the recently announced features slated for Mac OS X 10.5, the next major update to Apple’s operating system. Apple Core technologies—Core ...

How it works: Core Animation is a new framework in Leopard. This framework makes it easy for developers to harness the graphics power in OS X for their own applications. Using layers, a developer can ...

One of the more visually interesting parts of Apple's Leopard demo was the new Core Animation functionality, which joins existing Core Audio, Image and Video features and makes animating text, images, ...