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    eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard

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    October 26, 2007
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      1eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard

      1

      As with previous OS X releases, upgrading was as simple as popping in the new DVD, restarting and next, next, nexting my way through the installer application. I was annoyed, however, when Leopard required me to register anew after installation.

      2eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Authentication Prompts

      2

      Despite what Apple commercials suggest, Vista isnt the only OS with nanny-nag authentication dialogs. This pop-up was triggered by a file-moving operation.

      3eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – New-Look Dock

      3

      Leopards dock has undergone a minor face-lift.

      4eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Time Machine

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      OS Xs most promising new feature is an integrated backup system called Time Machine. I didnt have an external hard drive handy to devote solely to Time Machine, and I couldnt get the feature working with an NFS or Samba share–even with the aid of some

      5eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Quick Look

      5

      Leopard sports a file preview feature called Quick Look. For supported files, such as this MS Word document, Quick Look offers a peek inside–in this case, however, the fonts were practically too small to read.

      6eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – More Quick Look

      6

      For file types that OS X doesnt support, such as this Open Document formatted spreadsheet, Quick Look offers up a bit of metadata.

      7eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Useful Eye Candy

      7

      OS X sports a slick new Finder preview option for shuffling through folder contents.

      8eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Help Is More Helpful

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      I was pleased to find that Apple has added a search function to Leopards Help menu.

      9eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Help Is Less Helpful

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      I was annoyed to find that the Help window for which Id searched wouldnt allow other windows–such as the System Preferences dialog Id sought–to cycle to the front.

      10eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – OS X Gets Virtual Desktops

      10

      Long the province of Linux machines or of Windows and Mac systems with virtual desktop add-in software installed, virtual desktops are now native to OS X. I liked the way I could preallocate virtual desktops for my applications.

      11eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – DTrace for OS X

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      Suns powerful DTrace diagnostic feature now graces Apples OS. Here Im running a one-line DTrace recipe for listing open files and their host proce

      12eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – TextEdit Now Speaks ODF

      12

      I could open OpenDocument formatted files from within Leopards built-in text editor, TextEdit. The app also now supports Microsofts new DOCX format.

      13eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Tabbed Terminal

      13

      Leopards command-line application, Terminal, now sports a tabbed interface. Lack of tabbing in Tigers Terminal had prompted me to defect to the tab-savvy iTerm (as seen in the DTrace slide).

      14eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Advanced User Options

      14

      Leopards user account management interface now offers advanced options that indicate its Unix roots.

      15eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Spotlight Calculator

      15

      OS X users need look no further than Leopards Spotlight search box for their Pythagorean theorizing.

      16eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – Application Firewall

      16

      Leopard has picked up application-specific firewall functionality, although the feature doesnt appear to offer granularity beyond a blanket per-application permit/deny.

      17eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Apple Mac OS X Leopard – See More Slideshows Like This One

      17See more slideshows like this one!

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