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Leopard's Little Known Sweet Sixteen Features

Leopard's Little Known Sweet Sixteen Features

by , 3:35 PM EDT, October 19th, 2007

Apple's marketing machine has been focusing on the major new features of Leopard like Time Machine, Spaces and the new Dock. However, Jon Henshaw has compiled a list of lesser known but very useful features that are included in Leopard.

Several of the notables ones are:

#1. TextEdit: "Take advantage of TextEdit support for the Word 2007 and OpenDocument formats for reading and writing."

#3. System preferences: "Get yourself a .Mac account and your System Preferences can stay in sync across all your Macs. No matter what Mac you use, you’ll feel right at home."

#4. Discreet Guest: "Allow anyone to surf the web and check email as a guest on your Mac. When they log out of the guest account, Mac OS X purges the account, removing any trace of their activity. So each time someone logs in as a guest, he or she gets a fresh, unused account."

#9. Self-tuning TCP. "Let Leopard adjust TCP buffer size automatically. Get optimum application performance, especially in high-bandwidth/high-latency environments."

#16. Yahoo Address Book Sync. "Synchronize Address Book on your Mac with your Yahoo! address book. Just enter your Yahoo! account information in Address Book preferences to get started."

The list suggests that in addition to major new features in Leopard, Apple has also spent its time in the last 2.5 years attending to the details that will make Mac life a lot easier and more productive.

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Close Name:Guest
Subject: Start your copiers

REDMOND!!!

Close Name:coaten Posts: 3071 Joined: 10 Oct 2001
Subject:

I'm getting more and more excited and enamored of Leopard as each day passes. Can't wait for the release.

Close Name:DaiMac Posts: 952 Joined: 29 Jun 2001
Subject: Wow

I didn't even know about #4, thats a really cool feature to have for public computers and people who just want to check email/sites at a friend's house. Prevents any embarassment if that person later checks their history, for any number of reasons.

#8 on the link is a pretty big deal as well, # 13-new Font functionality in the OS (guess they finally noticed what a need there was, what with Suitcase being a resource hogging POS and all), and of course building ARD-lite basically into the OS is a cool move.

Yeah, I get more excited about this by the day, can't wait.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: No Big Deal. Buy Vista!

Vista has been doing all of this for the past five years!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

Close Name:Intruder -   TMO Mac Specialist Posts: 3149 Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Subject: Re: No Big Deal. Buy Vista!

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Anonymous wrote:
Vista has been doing all of this for the past five years!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com


You forgot to finish the statement...


"...and then we ripped all of the features out before shipping because we couldn't make them work!"


Much better now.

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