Leopard Sneak Peek
Apple have released a sneek peek at their upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 release, codenamed Leopard.
As part of their seemingly annual goal of lightening our wallets, this system upgrade adds a few new features and revamps a few older ones. Here's what's new…
- Time Machine is an automated backup system that regularly backs up everything on your Mac — music, photos, movies, documents, etc. You can even keep multiple snapshots so you can restore back to a particular point in time.
- Spaces allows you to organise windows and applications into sessions or virtual desktops that you can easily move between at a click.
- Mail brings in lots of new and fun stationary templates and also gets Notes and system-level To-Dos that can be accessed from any Mac or PC.
- iChat now lets you use video backdrops and iChat Theater lets you set up virtual slideshows or a Keynote presentation and you could use Photo Booth to create a video alter-ego.
- Dashboard adds new web-oriented widgets that let you clip web pages onto your Dashboard and you can now build your own widgets using DashCode.
- Spotlight gets a few new search options and also gets the ability to search across network mounted volumes.
- iCal goes multi-user and gets intergrated with Mail's To Dos.
Of course it's all now 64-bit processor compatible, has some new accessibility features and should be on the shelves by next Spring so get your credit card ready.
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