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The 9A241 build of APPLE.MAC.OSX.LEOPARD .V10.5.WWDC.PREVIEW-OSX appeared on ftp servers towards the end of last week, before showing up on several BitTorrent sites.

Several blogs have begun posting details of the next version of OS X that were not revealed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs last week, although the 'top secret' new features that Jobs

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is keeping under wraps appear safe for now.

AeroXperience, a website for Microsoft Windows Vista developers, has listed the improvements it claims to have seen, although its 'world exclusive' includes information readily available on the Apple website.

Nonetheless, among the features it claims to have seen are a resolution-independent user interface that will let users zoom into and out of the display without changing the resolution settings, a new Automator interface supporting action recording, workflow variables and embedding workflows in other applications, system-wide grammar checking, support for copying and pasting multiple selections, system-level raw image support, the ability to create shared accounts and a new RSS publishing and subscription framework.