Saturday 29 September 2007

Features of Leopard... 300 of them listed... PART I

I'm gonna break down the NEW features of Leopard that I know of to date... [thanks to MacRumours, Apple.com/macosx/leopard, and other sources.]

1. New Welcome Screen with new music!
2. Boot Camp
3. New Dock: 3D
4. Stacks
5. Cover Flow in finder
6. Redesigned sidebar in Finder
7. Translucent Top bar
8. Spotlight: Search your entire network
9. Back To My Mac
10. Quick Look in Finder
11. Time Machine
12. Spaces
13. Stationaries in Mail
14. Notes in Mail
15. iChat: Show Keynote Presentations
16. Remote Desktop thingy in iChat
17. Video Background efx in iChat
18. PhotoBooth Efx in iChat
19. PhotoBooth built in
20. Front Row: More Apple-TV-ish
21. Front Row: gets its own icon in Apps folder and dock
22. iTunes: New Visualisers
23. iCal: Event Drop box [place media stuff in ur appointments]
24. iCal: CalDev support
25. iCal: Room Service
26. iCal Sidebar- like iTunes again.
27. Dashboard WebClips
28. Dashboard Templates
29. Widgets Sync on .Mac
30. Movie Widget in Dashboard: buy tix, watch trailers
31. Safari 3.0 :PDF control
32. Safari 3.0: moveable tabs
33. Safari 3.0: resize stuff
34. Parental Control: Time Limits
35. other enhancements to Parental Control
36. DVD Player: Make Video snippets!
37. Dynamic Chaptering Thumbnails
38. Zooming feature: Remove Letterboxes!
39. Alex: New voice.
40. VoiceOver: Supports Jap & Chinese!
41. lots of other enhancements in Universal Access
42. Core Animation: New Dev tool
43. Full 64-Bit OS
44. Networked Computers appear in SideBar of Finder...
45. Larger, higher-res icons
46. WiFi: see which networks are password protected, thanks to a lock icon.
47. Screen Savers: new ones!
48. Monotonised Look... no more varying OS X windows...
49. Active window more obvious...
50. Preview.App: add text and annotations!
51. Search built in to Preview!
52. Bookmarks in Preview.
53. Safari parses out search results
54. preview other tabs [like previewing other windows in vista!]

and more...

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