10 things I like about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Apple, Mac
I’ve been playing with Leopard since day 1, and I’ve come to love some features (and loathe others, but that’s stuff for another article). Here’s the list, in no special order:
- Quickview – astonishingly useful, and fast. I don’t know how I’ve managed to go this far without it
- The new search feature in Safari – it mimicks what Firefox has been doing for a long time, but the yellow popuppy highlighting sold me to it.
- The new iChat – if Mac OS X had a wider audience, this would be the most used program in the world. I already figure hordes of teenagers sharing their desktops and slideshows. I also envision script kiddies taking control of your desktop
- Garbage collection in Objective C 2.0 – ‘nuff said.
- Rubygems shipped by default – the first thing I did after installing Leopard was: sudo gem install rails—include-dependencies
- The new finder – I wasn’t expecting big improvements here, but it is much snappier now, and the new search feature are blazing fast, and, believe it or not, I quite like coverflow view.
- The way folders behave in the dock – I put my dock on the bottom just to have springing files out of folders.
- Webclips – suddenly the dashboard has become a much more used feature.
- The new window chrome (and most of all the improved shadows on the foreground window) – modern looks for modern operating systems
- Spaces – now I feel like I’m using a Unix environment