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Open Thread: Leopard Preview
Merlin Mann | Aug 7 2006
Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek Like most of you, I'm keeping an eye on today's previewed features of the upcoming "Leopard" (OS X 10.5) release. Looks like some interesting ideas -- many of which, as usual, seem inspired by existing third-party products. I think I'm most intrigued so far by the idea of "to-do" functionality from within Mail.app (thanks for the tip, Matt); let's hope that also means I can deep link to a given email from my iCal task list. I also welcome the concept of built-in email templates -- although I'm kind of bummed that they seem more focused on execrable 1999-style HTML emails than on the kind of functional time-savers found in the peerless MailTemplate. To be honest, on first blush -- and I'm sure there's much more to come by the time of release -- this feels a bit cute and a little light on really revolutionary stuff (the long overdue promise of something like Time Machine notwithstanding). Stuff like (yet. more.) iLife integration is handy enough for the notional Swithcher and Grandpa Joe, but in general I guess I'm hoping for some serious power-user improvements to the core functionality. Maybe that's just me. What do you think? What's "Yeah!" and what's "Meh?" Anybody else holding out hope for some really deep Finder rewriting and more functional iCal updates? Other coverage55 Comments
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 I'm curious why so many...Submitted by Tim (not verified) on August 7, 2006 - 5:19pm.
I'm curious why so many are going off on the Finder now, disappointed that any changes/improvements to it were not shown off today. I'm quite pleased with the state it's currently in. However, since it seems that there were no apparent changes shown today in it, that means it is likely going to get a huge facelift in Leopard. Also, regarding Time Machine... I was really impressed on all fronts. It looks like a super-easy backup method for novices yet still has a lot of power to it. The address book demo on the website really impressed me as there have been several times when I was sure I had an address and found out I no longer did. If there were two features I'd liked to have seen today it would have been a replacement of the Tiger-style Mail interface and Steve using Spotlight to find a document by it's filename. I would have stood up and cheered for that one. » POSTED IN:
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