Ok, let's put it on the table. I am a Mac person. While getting some hardware hooked up to one of the Macs in my office and doing a software update, I decided to preview what's new in Leopard. I can hardly wait. Here are some of the features that I am looking forward to:
-sharing desktops, movies, slideshows, etc in IChat. The cool backgrounds one can have while videochatting will be fun, too. We use Elluminate here at UAA for remote conferencing and teaching. One-on-one application sharing with Ichat will be a nice complement, although there may be bandwidth issues.
-fun stuff with Mail: stationery, direct link to IPhoto to drop pictures into mail messages. Maybe the to do list and notes will be useful.
-spaces: not unlike the virtual desktops that I used in Xwindow in my prior life. Several (looks like 4) desktops that you can run different applications in.
-time machine - a file recovery system
Of less immediate interest to me personally are the accessibily add-ons and the ical add-ons.
I'm looking forward to Leopard, all the same.
I co-exist here at the College of Education with many who are not fully using the functionality of MacOS X, however. I regularly show people how to use tabbed browsing in Safari and Firefox and expose people to Expose, for instance. I look forward to showing off spaces and some of the new Ichat features.
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