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Horoscope for Wednesday, October 31
October 31, 2007 by dinofond.
Dear dino,
Here is your horoscope
for Wednesday, October 31:
See if you can find a way to keep your heart from ruling your world today. You can cede more authority to it tomorrow, but for now, it might launch you in a new direction that’s not in your best interests.
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Oh man that’s tough for Halloween, ok heart just go away for a day 0_o
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Dear Father I love you
October 30, 2007 by dinofond.
Dear Dad,
I cant tell you how much I miss you. I was looking at the college radio station website where I attend school and it made me think of you. You so loved college radio, I wonder if they play the old radio shows you adored. Only the Shadow knows. I’m taking audio engineering up there dad, all done on a computer. I never forgot the extravagant expensive computer you bought me on my 35th birthday, you bought it for me to do music production. There was so much to learn I was a bit overwhelmed for many years there running back to my tape machines, but I am working hard to conquer that difficult learning curve. I’m continuing to improve my skills and I’m grateful you heard something in those silly computer tunes I did years ago, it helps to inspire me.
I always miss you so in the Fall, I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the memory of us raking all those ash trees leaves when I was a boy. I feel like I have a hole in my heart that the cold Fall wind whistles through, where my living love for you once resided. It’s so empty without you here. Some days I don’t know what to do with myself, the urge just to hear your voice telling me you love me is something I cant seem to get over in this life. I guess that must mean you were a great father doesn’t it, you were, you overcame obstacles like no one I have ever known of in life. I miss you, I miss your love and companionship, mostly I just miss hanging out and hearing what you have to say. Your loving wisdom was the best gift of all, and wise you were in life my lovely father. I am so grateful to be your son.
Rest in Peace,
Your Son Dino
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Sixx A.M.
October 29, 2007 by dinofond.
I bought the Sixx A.M. CD which is the rock opra-ish sound track that goes with the Book The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx of Motley Crew. The book is an autobiographical account of Nikki Sixx’s Journal from about Christmas 1986 to about the same time 1987. In his insane cocaine and heroin crazed world he kept a detailed journal, the book is the actual written account plus commentary from friends, colleges and band mates sharing there perception watching him go through it….. from the outside looking in so to speak.
Now, I have to say I haven’t purchased the book yet only the album, but I’m so completely truly blown away. I haven’t stopped listening to it in a week, I’m hooked. I did read the first book the Dirt which is a precursor to the Heroin Diaries. Wow this is no Motley Crue CD, this is a piece of art. Nothing like what you would expect from Nikki Sixx, maybe from Pete Townsend or even Pink Floyd. It’s really a great album, and I say that because the sound track to the Heroin Diaries is a full experience from beginning to end. Much Like Tommy and the wall, yeah I said the wall, it’s that good. Nothing like that is released these days with maybe the exception of American Idiot years ago. Check it:
Preview on itunes or myspace.com/sixxam
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Another reason why apple can be a cool company (even though itunes support is for teh sux!)
October 27, 2007 by dinofond.
I’m not sure if people realize this but all the apple commercials that you see on Television are done right at the apple campus in Cupertino CA, using apple computers right out of the box. Heres a great story, it’s about an apple user who loves his apple products enough to make his own commercial on his Mac and release it on you tube. Read on….
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Apple Fan Goes From YouTube to Prime Time
After Apple fanatic Nick Haley posted his homemade iPod Touch commercial to YouTube last month, a few ad execs at the Cupertino based company saw it. But rather than send him a cease-and-desist letter, they bought his ad, flew him out to Los Angeles to reshoot it in high def, and will be broadcasting it during the World Series this weekend. THAT’S how you love your customers, people!
For all you aspiring video makers out there, a couple of lessons from Haley’s story:
* Music selection is everything. Haley’s video uses a track from a Brazilian band, CSS, called “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex.” Not only do the lyrics sound like they were written by an iPod fetishist, the song has the perfect YouTube trifecta: pounding beat + accented female singer + constant references to sex.
* You don’t need high production values. Heck, you don’t even need a camera. Haley assembled his clip in a day from video clips taken from Apple’s website, the NY Times reports.
* Lavishing uncritical love upon a company’s products is a far better way to get them to pay attention than, say, sending them a bunch of suggestions in a letter.
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horoscope for Saturday, October 27:
October 27, 2007 by dinofond.
Dear dino,
Here is your horoscope
for Saturday, October 27:
Life is a little weird today — even for you! It’s not like things are terrible, but you might be the only one in your family who knows how to deal with it. Your good ideas save the day, once again.
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You know I think I will choose to keep my good ideas to myself, no ones listening anyway.
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FEMA scolded for staging phony news conference
October 27, 2007 by dinofond.
Look, the Nazi’s got caught spreading propaganda, They do it all day every day people get a fucking clue sheep!
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By Associated Press | October 27, 2007
WASHINGTON - The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in Southern California.
The agency, much criticized for its response after Hurricane Katrina more than two years ago, arranged to have FEMA employees play the part of independent reporters Tuesday and ask questions of Vice Admiral Harvey E. Johnson, the agency’s deputy director.
The questions were predictably soft and gratuitous.
“I’m very happy with FEMA’s response,” Johnson said in reply to one query from an agency employee. The Washington Post first reported on the fake news conference yesterday.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said it was not appropriate that the questions were posed by agency staff members instead of reporters. FEMA was responsible for the “error in judgment,” she said, adding that the White House did not know about it beforehand and did not condone it.
“FEMA has issued an apology, saying that they had an error in judgment when they were attempting to get out a lot of information to reporters, who were asking for answers to a variety of questions in regard to the wildfires in California,” Perino said. “It’s not something I would have condoned. And they - I’m sure - will not do it again.”
She said the agency was just trying to provide information to the public, through the news media, because there were so many questions.
“I don’t think that there was any mal-intent,” Perino said. “It was just a bad way to handle it, and they know that.”
FEMA gave reporters only 15 minutes’ notice about Tuesday’s news conference. No reporter attended the news conference in person, agency spokesman Aaron Walker said. The agency made available an 800 number so reporters could call in and listen to the news conference, but not ask questions.
With no reporters on hand and an agency video camera providing a feed carried live by some TV networks, FEMA employees posed questions for Johnson that included: “Are you happy with FEMA’s response so far?”
Johnson also said the agency had the benefit of “good leadership” and other factors, “none of which were present at Katrina.” FEMA’s administrator during Katrina, Michael Brown, resigned amid criticism over his handling of the disaster.
FEMA is reviewing its press procedures and will make changes to ensure they are “straightforward and transparent,” Johnson said yesterday.
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Verizon to Pay Customers a nothing $1 Million
October 26, 2007 by dinofond.
In a $1 million settlement, Verizon is reimbursing customers who had their broadband service disconnected.
Brad Reed, Network World
Verizon has agreed to pay US$1 million to settle an investigation of the company’s alleged deceptive marketing practices conducted by the New York Attorney General’s office.
The settlement, which was announced Wednesday by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, requires Verizon to reimburse $1 million to customers that the attorney general contends wrongfully had their broadband service disconnected. Verizon must also halt the “deceptive marketing” of its broadband services, Cuomo said.
At the heart of the attorney general’s investigation were Verizon’s advertisements that promised consumers “unlimited” broadband for its NationalAccess and BroadbandAccess services. A nine-month investigation by the attorney general found, however, that both plans were anything but unlimited.
In particular, the attorney general noted that the terms of service for Verizon’s “unlimited” actually barred users from performing such high-bandwidth activities as downloading movies or playing video games online. When users were deemed to be “excessively using” their services, the attorney general said, they were cut off from service and unable to obtain refunds. The attorney general also said that these restrictions on high usage were not “clearly and explicitly disclosed” to customers.
Jim Gerace, Verizon’s vice president of corporate communications, posted a message on the company’s public policy blog saying that Verizon had voluntarily agreed to change the language it uses to market both NationalAccess and BroadbandAccess. To demonstrate how the company’s marketing has changed, Gerace posted a link to one of its older ads, which promised consumers “unlimited broadband access” for Internet browsing, e-mail and Internet access. The newer ad, by contrast, promises only “broadband access” for those services.
“We are pleased to have cooperated with the New York Attorney General, and to have voluntarily reached this agreement,” said the company in a statement. “At Verizon Wireless, we are committed to providing clear advertising for our products and services, and we began updating advertising for our NationalAccess and BroadbandAccess data plans earlier this spring.”
For more information about enterprise networking, go to NetworkWorld. Story copyright 2007 Network World Inc. All rights reserved.
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GMAIL now supports IMAP
October 24, 2007 by dinofond.
Google today released IMAP support for Gmail. Now Gmail will sink will all mobile devices W00t! I hear that iphone nipping at my heals day and night. Although I will have to crack mine due to the fact i wont use a phone company that suppresses free speech band or otherwise ever, fuck AT&T! PEARL JAM FOREVER! I saw a cracked iphone on Craig’s List today and thought man….. I really need one since I work in on the road all day long. I need the Google map functionality, sink with .mac and phone itself, it would be slick to have in the field, make my life much easier and my road time more time and cost effective.
There is no question in my mind Google did this because of the iphone and it’s huge success. To not have the Google brand of email together with it’s mobile device map functionally would be something really dumb like having only one phone carrier. Google doesn’t seem to procure dumb decisions, I wish apple could take a clue from Google, they certainly need one.
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New BFD 2 Screen Shots
October 24, 2007 by dinofond.
When Fxpansion announced the new version of BFD at AES I was pleased. The old interface is lousy at best and there’s a major pro tools bug to boot. Yesterday FX release a few screen shots, although they are small you can see the great improvements.
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Beta Monkey Music has released Drum Werks Volume IX
October 24, 2007 by dinofond.
Beta Monkey Music has released Drum Werks Volume IX, a powerful collection of slow and mid-tempo acoustic rock drum loops. As the newest addition to Beta Monkey’s versatile Drum Werks line of drum loops and samples, Drum Werks IX offers nearly 600 acoustic drum loops and samples in comprehensive “Groove Sets”, from moody 60 BPM vibes through power rock stomping at 90 BPM. The Drum Werks IX Power Rock Collection is a complete groove sample package for all rock musicians looking to write powerful rock tracks in the slower tempos.
For anyone writing rock and related rock genres, Beta Monkey’s Drum Werks Volume IX: Power Rock aims to provide:
* Cohesive Sounds and Versatile Loops: All grooves, groove variations, fills, and one shot loops are taken from a single recording session and are sonically-matched. Users can mix and match all tempos, feels, and styles found on Drum Werks IX.
* Comprehensive Groove Folders: 60, 70, 80, and 90 BPM Groove Sets. Straight-ahead grooves, cross-stick patterns, tom grooves and abundant fill choices throughout each groove folder.
* Complete Drum/Cymbal Sample Set: Multi-velocity samples of all the drums and cymbals recorded are included. All elements of the venerable Yamaha Recording Custom set, along with a maple Craviotto snare were sampled; all cymbals (Zildjian ride, hihats, crashes) are included as well.
* More than Just Drum Loops: In addition to hundreds of powerful drum loops, the disc features intro figures, buzz rolls, endings, cymbal swells and chokes and more. All the finishing touches and “little” things vital to realistic drum tracks.
* High-End Production: Recorded in a world-class recording studio.
Drum Werks IX: Power Rock offers 488 (638 MB) drum loops and 92 (73 MB) matching multi-velocity drum and cymbal samples total. 16 and 24 bit “acidized” WAV, APPLE LOOPS/AIFF and REX2 formats are available for use in all audio software applications and DAWs.
Free previews of Drum Werks Volume IX: Power Rock are available exclusively from Beta Monkey Music with same-day worldwide shipping and instant download purchase options available for $29.99.
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From the BBC - Unexpected growth’ in CO2 found
October 23, 2007 by dinofond.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere have risen 35% faster than expected since 2000, says a study.
International scientists found that inefficiency in the use of fossil fuels increased levels of CO2 by 17%.
The other 18% came from a decline in the natural ability of land and oceans to soak up CO2 from the atmosphere.
About half of emissions from human activity are absorbed by natural “sinks” but the efficiency of these sinks has fallen, the study suggests.
The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was carried out by the Global Carbon Project, the University of East Anglia, UK, and the British Antarctic Survey.
It found that improvements in the carbon intensity of the global economy have stalled since 2000, leading to an unexpected jump in atmospheric CO2.
“In addition to the growth of global population and wealth, we now know that significant contributions to the growth of atmospheric CO2 arise from the slow-down of natural sinks and the halt to improvements in the carbon intensity of wealth production,” said the study’s lead author, Dr Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project.
Global sink
The weakening of the Earth’s ability to cope with greenhouse gases is thought to be a result of changing wind patterns over seas and droughts on land.
“The decline in global sink efficiency suggests that stabilisation of atmospheric CO2 is even more difficult to achieve than previously thought,” said report co-author Dr Corinne Le Quere of the British Antarctic Survey.
“We found that nearly half of the decline in the efficiency of the ocean CO2 sink is due to the intensification of the winds in the Southern Ocean.”
The declining power of the seas to soak up industrial pollution is not only being recorded in the southern hemisphere, however.
According to a separate 10-year study published recently, the effect is also being seen in the North Atlantic.
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Apple 2.2 Million Computers in it’s third quarter
October 23, 2007 by dinofond.
Apple has released it’s 3rd quarter earnings to it’s stockholders. The overall sales of the company in every hardware category is up in double digits from last year. 2.2 million PC’s firmly put it into third place behind HP and dell burring Gateway and Compaq. That almost 8 million PC’s in 9 months, Apple is absolutely a part of the dawning of the age of Aquarius (all the ones I know use them). ipod sales were up an astounding 17% from the same period last year and the ipone has sold 1.3 million units since launch. It’s no wonder Apple INC. closed today @ $174.36 at 37 times expected 2008 profit.
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Mona “the hammer” Shaw gets my Vote!
October 22, 2007 by dinofond.
By Neely Tucker
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Sometimes truly American virtues arise in outlaws who — by dint of heroic but questionable endeavors — display the mettle of the national character.
Today we have none other than 75-year-old Mona “The Hammer” Shaw, who took the aforementioned implement to her local Comcast office to settle a score, and boy, did she! This was after the company had scheduled installation of its much ballyhooed “Triple Play” service, which combines phone, cable and Internet services, in Shaw’s brick home in suburban Bristow, Va. But Shaw said they failed to show up on the appointed day, Monday, Aug. 13. They came two days later but left with the job half-done. On Friday morning, they cut off all service.
So on that Friday, Mona Shaw and her husband, Don, went to the call center office in Manassas, Va., to complain.
Let’s pick it up, mid-action, according to Shaw: Mona demands to speak to a manager. A customer service representative says someone will be right with them. Directs them to a bench, outside. (Remember, it’s mid-August.) Mona and Don sit.
Tick, tick, tick, goes the clock. Sit, sit, sit, go Mona and Don…..For. Two. Hours.
And then — this is the best part — the customer rep leans out the door and says the manager has left for the day. Thanks for coming!
The insulting idea was that, as Shaw puts it, “they thought just because we’re old enough to get Social Security that we lack both brains and backbone.” So, after stewing over it all weekend, on the following Monday, she went downstairs, got Don’s claw hammer and said, “C’mon, honey, we’re going to Comcast.” Did you try to stop her, Mr. Shaw? “Oh no, no,” he says.
Hammer time: Shaw storms in the company’s office. BAM! She whacks the keyboard of the customer service rep. BAM! Down goes the monitor. BAM! She totals the telephone. People scatter, scream, cops show up, and what does she do? POW! A parting shot to the phone! “They cuffed me right then,” she says. Her take on Comcast: “What a bunch of sub-moronic imbeciles.”
Who among us has not longed for a hammer in this age of incompetent “customer service representatives,” of installation people who tell you they’ll grace you with their presence between 12 and 3, only never to show? And when someone finally does arrive, he’ll tell you he brought the wrong part? And there is nothing you can do. Until there! On the horizon! It’s Hammer Woman, avenger of oppressed cable subscribers everywhere!
“I scared the tar out of some people, at least,” she says. “It had never occurred to me to take a hammer to a phone company before, but I was just so upset. . . . After I hit the keyboard, I turned to this blonde who had been there the previous Friday, the one who told me to wait for the manager, and I said, ‘Now do I have your attention?’ ” Shaw received a three-month suspended sentence for disorderly conduct, a $345 fine for restitution and a yearlong restraining order barring her from the Comcast office.
“Truly a unique and inappropriate situation,” says Beth Bacha, a vice president for Comcast. She says company policy forbids disclosure of clients’ records but did say their files note that the service record wasn’t exactly what Shaw has indicated. Besides, “nothing justifies this sort of dangerous behavior.”
Mona Shaw does finally have phone service. With Verizon.
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Redmond…. Get your copiers ready!
October 20, 2007 by dinofond.
Look at the pre-release of Windows 7 (next in line after vista) they just keep copying OS X, it’s pathetic. most of the screen shots are toward the end of this presentation.
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Ok so the last post is long…. maybe just watch this
October 20, 2007 by dinofond.
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Leopard, I know it’s old news but…..
October 20, 2007 by dinofond.
Here’s a loose outline of the over 300 new features:
Google Map Addresses
View a detailed map of any address in Address Book. Just hold down the Control key while clicking any address and select “Map of” and Safari will show you its location in Google Maps.
# Address Book
# Synchronize with Yahoo!
Synchronize Address Book on your Mac with your Yahoo! address book. Just enter your Yahoo! account information in Address Book preferences to get started.
AppleScript
# Full Unicode Support for AppleScript
Combine strings from multiple languages, now that all text is fully Unicode.
# Scripting Bridge for Objective-C
Query and control applications with integrated AppleScript support using other languages such as Ruby, Python, and Objective-C — thanks to the new Scripting Bridge architecture.
# Enhanced Application Object Model
Easily create scripts that are both generic and portable, now that script statements can target applications by name, bundle identifier, creator code, or POSIX path. New application properties can be used to determine if an application is running and whether it is frontmost.
# Read/Write Property Lists
Create and edit Mac OS X property lists. Support is built into Leopard.
# Applescript Scriptable System Preferences & Applications
Do more with AppleScript. A number of system preferences in Leopard are now scriptable, including the Dock, Security, Exposé, Accounts, and Networking — as well as a number of features in iChat.
# Updated Language Guide
Have examples and constructs of the AppleScript language at your fingertips. AppleScript Language Guide, updated for Leopard, is the essential guide for scripters and developers.
# Descriptive Error Messages
Determine the cause of script errors more easily with improved descriptive error reporting.
# Updated Folder Action Support
Enjoy greater reliability with folder actions, which are triggered by the file system instead of the Finder. Folder actions now have their own server, and each folder action now runs its own copy of the new Folder Actions Dispatcher application.
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Automator
# Automator Starting Points
Start creating workflows more easily than ever. Starting Points automatically displays a sheet in new workflow windows, from which you choose categories representing the things you want to do. Then select options from contextual pop-up menus.
# Improved Automator Interface
Quickly create and edit workflows with new interface improvements. Choose actions from category groups, custom groups, and smart groups, view results of actions inline, view the workflow log with a single click, and access iLife content with the iLife media picker.
# UI Recording and Playback
Add even more capabilities to your workflows. Use a new action called Watch Me Do that lets you record a user action (like pressing a button or controlling an application without built-in Automator support) and replay as an action in a workflow.
# Recording screen in Automator Command-Line Utility for Automator
Gain access to other languages for running Automator workflows, as well as the ability to set the initial value of variables contained in the targeted workflow.
# Workflow Variables
Automate more productively by creating workflows that can store and retrieve data during execution. Workflow Variables let you use the same information at different steps of the workflow, giving you added functionality and flexibility.
# Workflow Looping
Repeat a workflow for a specified number of times or a specified time duration. No more need to save as an iCal plug-in or use the Automator Loop Utility.
# New Automator Actions
Create more useful Automator workflows with actions for RSS feeds, iSight camera video snapshots, PDF manipulation, and much more.
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Boot Camp
# Boot Camp
Run Windows XP and Windows Vista on your Mac at native speed with full compatibility. (Windows not included.)
# Boot Camp Assistant
Install Windows without affecting your existing files. Boot Camp Assistant carves out the necessary disk space required by Windows automatically.
# Copy Files Between Mac OS X and Windows
Copy, open, modify, or delete files in Mac OS X that you saved to your Windows partition. Leopard understands the Windows FAT32 disk format.
# Restore to Mac-Only Partition
Easily delete Windows and restore the disk space being used by the Windows partition back to Mac OS X.
# Microsoft WHQL-Certified Windows Drivers
Enjoy the unique hardware features of your Mac including the iSight camera, trackpad scrolling, keyboard backlighting, and volume keys using fully compatible Windows drivers.
# Automatic PC Key Remapping
Use whatever keyboard you wish. Boot Camp automatically detects Apple keyboards and remaps PC key commands to appropriate keys.
# Convenient Boot Camp Task Bar Shortcut
Use the Windows task bar to restart your Mac into Mac OS X, change Boot Camp settings, and access Boot Camp-specific help.
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Dashboard
# Web Clipping image Web Clip
Clip out any portion of a web page and turn it into a Dashboard widget. Just click the new Web Clip icon in Safari and select the portion of the page you want, then click Add to see your Dashboard spring to life with a brand-new widget. The widget is “live” and will update as its page of origin does. You can even customize your widget’s frame.
# Dashboard Movies widget Movies Widget in Dashboard
Watch movie trailers right in Dashboard, then click to buy tickets. A cool new movie widget puts movies and showtimes just a click away.
# Sync Dashboard Widget Settings with .Mac
Use widgets the same way on all your computers. Just sync Dashboard to your .Mac account and the settings for your widgets can follow you from Mac to Mac.
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Dashcode
# Dashcode IDE
Quickly design, code, and deploy your Dashboard widget. Dashcode is a completely integrated development environment.
# Code Snippets
Drag and drop commonly used blocks of source code into your project, giving you a head start implementing your custom widget.
# Widget UI Layout Canvas
Drag and drop components from an included library of GUI controls to assemble a working widget that looks the same during design and runtime. No artistic ability required.
# Instant-On JavaScript Debugger
Keep your development time creative, productive, and rewarding without interruption with Dashcode’s instant-on JavaScript debugger.
# Advanced Source Code Editor
Be more productive with professional features such as syntax highlighting for CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, as well as Code Sense code completion.
# Automatic Packaging and Deployment
Deploy your widget in one click. Dashcode organizes all the files that make up your widget, including images, stylesheets, and JavaScript. Adding new files is handled automatically by the project manager.
# Widget Templates
Hit the ground running by choosing one of Dashcode’s included templates, each a fully functioning widget ready for customization. No need to write any code.
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Desktop
# New Look
Enjoy an elegant, distinctive new look across the entire system. The semitransparent menu bar and reflective Dock frame your desktop picture. The active application window stands out with a deeper drop shadow and a distinctive toolbar color. One look at Leopard and you’ll know you’re in for something special.
# Stacks
Organize files in a neat stack on the Dock. One click and the stack springs open, revealing items in an elegant arc or an at-a-glance grid.
# Downloads Stack
Find your downloads quickly in one dedicated stack. Downloads from Safari, iChat, and Mail are automatically saved to the Downloads stack. Say goodbye to desktop clutter.
# Sorting Stacks
Order the files in your stacks any way you wish: by filename, date added, date modified, date created, or file type. Just Control-click the stack and pick an order.
# .Mac Sync for Dock Items
Make your Dock look the same on all the Macs you use. Change the Dock on one and it will automatically be updated on the others.
# Spring-Loaded Dock
Items in the Dock are spring-loaded. Just drag a file, hover over any application in the Dock, and press the Space bar — the application opens instantly. For example, to add a picture to your iPhoto library, just drag the image file and hover over the iPhoto icon in the Dock. Press the Space bar, and once iPhoto opens, you can drag the image into your iPhoto library. If you drag a file and hover over a stack, pressing the Space bar opens a Finder window showing the contents of the stack.
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Dictionary
# Dictionary image Wikipedia in Dictionary
Harness the power of Wikipedia when you’re connected to the Internet — it’s built right into Dictionary. You get a great Mac OS X user interface with super-fast searching and beautifully laid out-results.
# Apple Dictionary
Get to know your Mac even better. A dictionary of Apple terms is built into Dictionary.
# Front and Back Matter
Access a wealth of content found in the front and back matter for the New Oxford American Dictionary, such as grammar, spelling, and pronunciation guides. Or access reference materials such as the chemical elements, weights and measure, and conversions.
# Japanese-English Dictionary
Translate English to Japanese and vice versa. This capability is now built into the Leopard Dictionary.
# Japanese Language Support
In Leopard, the Dictionary application supports the Japanese language right out of the box, with an industry-leading Japanese dictionary and thesaurus provided by Shogakukan. The dictionary contains over 200,000 words with rich descriptions and examples, and the thesaurus contains 25,000 words covering 6,000 categories.
Translation in Dictionary
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DVD Player
# Improved Full-Screen Interface
Enjoy DVD Player’s dramatic new full-screen interface, which puts all your DVD’s features right at your fingertips. Mouse over the top or bottom regions to access onscreen semitransparent displays for a wealth of controls and settings.
# Image Bar
With the new Image Bar in DVD Player, you can watch a movie in full-screen mode and still have access to all your chapters and bookmarks. Just hover at the top of the screen and jump to a chapter, bookmark, or video clip of your choice.
# Time Slider
Go exactly where you want to be in your DVD. Use your mouse to scrub forward or backward in the new Time Slider, or choose a specific point in the movie to start playing.
# Auto Zoom
Fill the whole screen with a movie in DVD Player. Just turn on Video Zoom and click Auto Zoom to remove your media’s pillarbox or letterboxing.
# Chapter Thumbnails
See dynamically generated thumbnail images representing each chapter of a DVD. You can even create your own chapter thumbnails as you watch, using any frame from the movie.
# Time Skip
Skip ahead or skip back five seconds to replay that moment you missed or just see something one more time.
# Scratched Disc Recovery
Smoothly play back even DVDs that may be damaged. New technology in Leopard can locate and avoid scratched areas of the disc.
# Float Above Other Applications
Watch a DVD while working in another application. Leopard DVD Player lets you keep your movie at the front of your desktop no matter what else you need to do.
# Parental Control
Protect children and other users from inappropriate content by requiring authorization to play movies.
# Video Quality Improvements
Enjoy even higher-quality video with Adaptive Video Analyzation technology that applies deinterlacing and inverse 3:2 pulldown on demand.
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Finder
# New Sidebar
Use the sidebar to do even more. Now items are grouped into categories (places, devices, shared computers, and searches) just like the Source list in iTunes. Start finding what you want with a single click.
# Cover Flow
Flip through your files in the Finder just like you flip through your album art in iTunes. Cover Flow displays the first page of every document. You can also click through multipage documents and play movies.
# Back to My Mac
Connect to any of your Mac computers at home from any Mac on the Internet. Your home computers appear in the shared section of the sidebar. Just click and you’re in.
# Screen Sharing image Instant Screen Sharing from the Finder
Start an interactive screen sharing session with other Macs on your network. Just select the Mac from your sidebar and (if authorized) you can see and control the Mac as if you were right in front of it. Change a system preference, publish an iPhoto library, or add a new playlist to iTunes.
# Icon Preview
See files for what they really are. Leopard displays icons that are actual thumbnail previews of the documents themselves.
# Path Bar
See the path of a file when you view it in the Finder. Just choose Show Path Bar from the View menu and the path is visible at the bottom of the Finder window. You can also drag files to any location in the Path Bar.
# New Folder of Options
Take control your view options. Adjust the grid spacing to move icons closer together or further apart for the currently viewed folder, or with one click make this view the default for all your folders.
# Folder Sharing
Turn any folder on your Mac into a shared folder. You can share any folder in your home directory from the Sharing system preference. You can customize access privileges and even authorize specific contacts in your Address Book.
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Fonts
# Fonts Printable Font Book
Print out comprehensive previews of your fonts, including sample text in varying sizes or all available glyphs. Just select fonts in Font Book, choose Print from the File menu, and select any of the three built-in report types.
# Language Collection
Quickly access the fonts you use most often. Fonts are grouped according to your default language preference.
# System Font Protection
Never worry about accidentally deleting a system font. Leopard will warn you when you’re about to perform an action that will remove a required font.
# New Fonts
Use new built-in fonts such as Arial Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, Papyrus Condensed, and Wingdings.
# Font Auto-Activation
Automatically activate fonts as you need them. When an application requests an installed font that’s currently disabled, Leopard activates that font and keeps it active until the requesting application quits.
# Braille Support
Take advantage of new Braille support for VoiceOver with Apple Braille Regular, Apple Braille Outline, and Apple Braille Pinpoint fonts.
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Front Row
# Front Row
Sit back and enjoy all of your digital media full screen on your Mac with Front Row. Now built in to Mac OS X Leopard.
# AppleTV like interface
Sit back and be amazed. Front Row works just like Apple TV. You control it from a distance using the elegant six-button Apple Remote that came with your Mac. Simple menus, elegant transitions, and beautiful content previews make your digital media shine.
# DVD Playback in Front Row
Front Row works like Apple TV so you can enjoy all of your digital media on your Mac using the ultra simple Apple Remote. Front Row in Leopard includes playback of DVD movies as well. Just pop in a DVD and enjoy.
# Streaming iTunes Content
Enjoy your iTunes library — and more. Front Row lets you play iTunes content located on other Macs and PCs in your house.
# Movie Previews
Watch previews of Hollywood blockbusters directly from Front Row.
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Graphics
# Core Animation
Create incredible animated user experiences in your applications, combining 2D graphics, OpenGL rendering, and video.
# Updated OpenGL
Run even the most up-to-date OpenGL-based applications that take the most of the latest technologies.
# New Core Image Filters
Take advantage of over 20 new Core Image filters built right into Leopard, including Disc Blur, Linear Bump, Comic Effect, Hexagonal Pixellate, and Spot Color.
# Multicore Enhanced
Get optimum performance from Core Image, Core Animation, and OpenGL, all tuned to tap the power of your Mac’s multicore processor.
# EXIF Color Space Support
Enjoy improved color reproduction of digital photos, as ColorSync now recognizes the EXIF sRGB information embedded in image files by many popular digital cameras.
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iCal
# Improved iCal Interface
Enjoy a cleaner look that gets out of your way so you can focus on your calendars. The new iCal toolbar has the Leopard look, running across the top of the application window. The search bar is where you’d expect it, in the upper right corner.
# Inline Editing in iCal
Effortlessly add attendees or change an event’s time directly on the event itself. The new Inline Inspector window appears when you double-click any event, making it faster and easier to change details on the fly.
# Event Dropbox
Share the information you need for a successful meeting. Simply drag photos, video, or any kind of document into an event. Send email invitations to attendees and your attachments go along for the ride.
# CalDAV Group Scheduling
Schedule a meeting with colleagues, check availability, and book conference rooms when using iCal with a compatible CalDAV server like iCal Server.
# Auto Pick
Find the earliest time that everyone is available for your meeting — with a single click.
# Availability Window
Check availabilities before you invite people to a meeting and find the best time for everyone. If your calendar is administered through a CalDAV server, just click Show Availability to open the Availability window.
# Delegation
Put a colleague or assistant in charge of your calendar if you’re out of the office.
# Offline Calendaring
View your calendar, modify events, and queue invitations even when you don’t have Internet access. iCal syncs your changes the next time you get online.
# Office Hours
Specify your working hours for a given week so that others know when you’re available for meetings.
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Reserve meeting rooms and equipment as you create your meeting invitations. If your calendar is administered through a CalDAV server, iCal automatically displays availabilities when you add a room or resource to your meeting.
# Default Alarms
Have iCal automatically create an alarm for each event that you create.
# Turn Off All Alarms
Disable alarms for all your events with a single preference setting.
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iChat
# Photo Booth Effects
Transform your video chats using new Photo Booth effects. Choose among the dozens of effects built right into iChat — distortions such as Squeeze, Stretch, and Bulge, or other video effects like Sepia, Glow, and X-Ray.
# iChat effects Backdrop Effects
Drag an Apple-designed backdrop or your own photo or video into the video preview window to create an effect that will fool your buddies into thinking you’re chatting from your living room, the beach, or the moon.
# Screen Sharing
Collaborate with a buddy via iChat. Work on a Keynote presentation together, surf the web as a team, or help each other with an iMovie project. iChat initiates the connection (asking permission first) with an audio chat so you can talk things through as you work or play. Trade views of each other’s desktops. Even drag files from one computer to the other.
# New Message Views
See chats in new ways. In addition to the balloon and text-based views, Boxes allow you to view your chats as rectangular boxes stacked on top of one another. Compact view shrinks the text and buddy icon so you can see more text in your chat window.
# Custom Buddy List Order
Customize the order of your buddy list with a drag and drop if you have groups enabled in your buddy list.
# Disable Alerts
Turn off alerts for a particular chat by disabling “Use Alerts in this iChat” in the View menu. This is especially useful when you’re in a busy chat room.
# AppleScript Alert
Automate iChat tasks using scripts. Use scripts to check the status of a buddy, select menu items, or set iChat properties.
# Recording
Save your audio and video chats for posterity with iChat recording. iChat asks your buddies for recording permission before the chat starts, then stores completed audio chats as AAC files and video chats as MPEG-4 files — so you can share with others or sync to your iPod.
# Multiple Logins
In Leopard, iChat allows you to log in to all your chat accounts simultaneously, whether you use .Mac, AOL, Google Talk, or Jabber.
# Invisibility
Change your status to “invisible” in iChat, and you won’t be seen by anyone. But you can still see the status of anyone on your buddy list.
# AAC-LD Codec
Enjoy crystal-clear audio with AAC-LD compression technology. It combines the advantages of perceptual audio coding with low delay that’s optimal for real-time audio and video conferences.
# Animated Buddy Icons
Use an animated buddy icon in iChat. Select any animated GIF, or better yet, create one yourself using Photo Booth.
# Persistent Chat Windows
Pick up right where you left off by choosing to have iChat remember open chat windows and their contents even if you quit and restart.
# iChat Theater iChat Theatre
Show nearly any file on your system through an iChat video conference. Put on an entire photo slideshow, click through a Keynote presentation, play a movie, and more — in full screen, accompanied by a video feed of you hosting.
# More Smileys
Have fun with the cool new collection of smileys built into iChat.
# Watch for My Name…
Receive an alert when someone calls your name in a group chat. And never miss a comment directed to you.
# Clear Transcript
Immediately clear the conversation in your iChat window. Just select the iChat conversation you want to clear, then choose Clear Transcript from the Edit menu. If iChat is saving your chat transcripts, your subsequent chats will be saved to a new file.
# SMS Forwarding
Register for AOL’s Mobile Forwarding service and receive instant messages on your phone when you’re away from your computer.
# Tabbed Chat iChat tabs
Consolidate your chat windows into a single tabbed window. Each chat is represented by a tab on the left side of the iChat window. Turning on tabbed chats is as easy as selecting “Collect chats into a single window” in iChat preferences.
# File Transfer Manager
Manage your transferred files in one central place. Monitor transfer progress, locate transferred files in the Finder and open them, directly from the File Transfer Manager.
# Hide Local Video
Remove the picture-in-picture view from your iChat video conference if you prefer not seeing yourself in the chat. Just select Hide Local Video from the Video menu.
# iChat Hot Key
Bring your iChat window to the front anytime with a dedicated keyboard shortcut.
# Auto-Start iChat
Set your iChat status to Available the moment your computer starts up. In iChat preferences, select “At user login, set my status to Available.”
# Set Default IM Application
Set your default instant messaging application from within iChat.
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Imaging
# Improved Tethered Camera Support
Control your camera directly from Image Capture, allowing you to take pictures and download them in a single, convenient step. More camera models from Canon and Nikon are now supported.
# Enhanced Wireless Capture
Wirelessly import images from many 802.11-enabled digital cameras and Bluetooth devices.
# Network Scanning Support
Take advantage of new Bonjour-based network scanners. Leopard leads the way with the technology required to allow scanning over a network.
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Instruments
# Analysis Templates
Select one of the built-in Instruments templates to perform specific analysis tasks, or choose your own collection of instruments and save your layout as a custom template you can use again later.
# Record and Replay
Record your application user interface events to easily create an ad-hoc test harness you can replay over and over.
# Create Instruments with DTrace
Monitor system activity from high-level application behavior down to the operating system kernel, all thanks to the power of DTrace and the instrument builder.
# Visual Analysis
Improve the performance of your applications by viewing the relationships between UI events and performance metrics such as CPU load, network and file activity, and memory usage.
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International
# Russian Localization
Mac OS X Leopard is fully localized in the Russian language.
# Polish Localization
Mac OS X Leopard is fully localized in Polish.
# Portuguese (Portugal) Localization
Mac OS X Leopard is fully localized in Iberian (Portugal) Portuguese.
# Enhanced International Font Support
Enjoy enhanced support for international fonts. Several fonts have improved Russian and Polish support; the Korean system font now supports the full set of modern Hangul; there are two new fonts in Tibetan; all built-in Arabic fonts now support Persian; and Leopard supports three additional Arabic-based scripts in Geeza Pro, Uyghur, Kurdish, and Jawi.
# JIS2004 Support
Leopard is fully compliant with the JIS2004 standard, as UI elements in all applications are rendered using JIS2004 characters by default.
# Expanded Font Set in Japanese
Put updated Japanese fonts to work. The included Japanese font families, Hiragino Gothic and Hiragino Mincho, are considered among the most beautiful of Japanese fonts, and they now support Hyogaiji, the new standard for Japanese character sets defined by the National Language Council and Japan Industry Standards.
# Spotlight Language Support
Enjoy even more language support with Spotlight. A new Chinese tokenizer intelligently parses the search characters to factor in their relationship and meaning with one another, ensuring the most relevant results. Spotlight also has improved support for German and Thai and faster indexing in Japanese.
# Expanded Keyboard Support
Take advantage of over fifteen new international keyboard layouts, including Tibetan, Kazakh, and Persian-QWERTY.
# New Input Methods
Take advantage of new input methods for Chinese, Arabic, and Japanese languages. Leopard also offers two new input methods for Chinese — Pinyin and Zhuyin. Enable the Input menu in the International pane of System Preferences to bring up Character Palettes for several languages. Advanced predictive input for Japanese guesses characters based on context, with improved accuracy in Leopard. And localized help is provided for all of the CJK input methods, including English.
# Russian Spell Checker
# Danish Spell Checker
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Mail
# Stationery
Choose from more than 30 professionally designed stationery templates that make a virtual keepsake out of every email you send. Templates feature coordinated layouts, fonts, colors, and drag-and-drop photo placement. Stationery uses standard HTML that can be read by popular email programs for Mac and PC.
# Stationary in Mail Forward as Attachment
Forward an email as an attachment instead of an inline message. Select the message or group of messages you’d like to forward and choose “Forward as Attachment” from the Message menu. You can also drag and drop Mail messages into applications like iChat and they’ll be sent as attachments.
# Duplicate a Smart Mailbox
Make a Smart Mailbox work even harder. Duplicate it if you want to access your Smart Mailbox from more than one Smart Mailbox folder or if you want to create a similar Smart Mailbox with slightly different criteria. Just hold down the Control key, click the Smart Mailbox you’d like to duplicate, and select Duplicate.
# To-Dos To Dos in Mail
Create to-do items directly from email messages or notes in Mail. Simply highlight text in an email, then click the To Do button to create a to-do from a message.
# RSS
Subscribe to an RSS feed in Mail and you’ll know the moment an article or blog post hits the wire. Even better, you can choose to have new articles appear in your inbox.
# Data Detectors
Act on information in Mail immediately. Mail automatically detects text fragments like appointments and addresses, and lets you choose smart actions with a click: create a new contact, map an address, or create an iCal event.
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# Improved Search
Find the right email at the top of the search results list, thanks to smarter relevance ranking in Spotlight. And everything you create in Mail — to-dos, notes, and, of course, email messages — appears in a Spotlight search of your system.
# Rich Formatting Options
Add style and layout to your email messages with richer formatting in Mail, such as bulleted and numbered lists, indentations, and background colors.
# Photo Browser
Quickly and easily browse your entire iPhoto library to find the photo you need for your message.
# Custom Stationery
Create your own stationery templates with graphics and attachments and reuse them to your heart’s content.
# Simple Setup image Simple Mail Setup
Automatically configure new email accounts. Just enter your email address and password. Mail knows the email settings for 30 leading email providers, including Yahoo!, AOL, Gmail, Verizon, AT&T, British Telecom, and Comcast.
# Safari RSS Integration
Add news feeds to Mail directly from Safari. If you’ve already read an article in Safari, it will show up as read in Mail.
# .Mac Sync for Notes
Access notes from anywhere, including your other computers, by syncing them with your .Mac account.
# Notes in Mail Notes
Write handy notes you can access from anywhere — including graphics, colored text, and attachments. Group notes into folders or create Smart Mailboxes that automatically group them. Your notes folder acts like an email mailbox, so you can retrieve notes from any Mac or PC.
# Archive Mailbox
Create an archive of your mailbox to back up important messages or to transfer your mail to another computer.
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Networking
# New AirPort Menu
Get a clearer picture of your surrounding networks in the AirPort menu. Secure wireless networks are identified by a lock icon.
# Self-Tuning TCP
Let Leopard adjust TCP buffer size automatically. Get optimum application performance, especially in high-bandwidth/high-latency environments.
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Parental Controls
# Simple Account Setup
Enable parental controls for any account and create a safe environment for your child to work, play, and communicate on the Mac.
# Time limit controls Time Limits and Bedtimes
Control exactly how much time your children spend with the computer each day. Limit total daily usage and define hours the computer can or can’t be used (set differently for weekdays and weekends). Built-in flexibility allows you to make adjustments on the fly as schedules and schoolwork change.
# Dynamic Web Filter
Protect your children from websites with unsuitable content. Apple technology automatically trys to detect inappropriate content and prevents those web pages from appearing. You can override the filter by identifying sites you wish to explicitly allow or disallow certain websites.
# Activity Logging
Keep an eye on your children’s computer activities. Leopard logs websites visited and applications used. It also maintains a list of people who have chatted with your child using iChat and a transcript of each text chat session.
# Remote Control & Monitoring
Easily set up and monitor parental controls on your child’s Mac from any Mac on your home network.
# Web Filter Overrides
Override the dynamic web content filter to allow your children to view certain blocked sites or prevent them from viewing sites that normally aren’t blocked by the filter.
# Wikipedia Content Filter
Limit access to profanity in Wikipedia.
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Photo Booth
# Control Effects
Enjoy more control over some of the Photo Booth built-in video effects. Change the focus of the distortion with a click of the mouse. If you see a slider in live video, you can adjust distortion level as well.
# Backdrops
Replace the background of your scene with a picture or video, making you appear somewhere you aren’t. Photo Booth includes photo and video backdrops that you can use, but feel free to use your own.
# Proof Sheets
Select one of several proof sheets to use when printing a snapshot using Photo Booth’s built-in print layouts. Just choose the proof sheet in the Print dialog.
# Video Recording
Use Photo Booth to make movie clips. Capture those precious moments and send them to your friends in an email message. You can even choose a frame from your movie to use as your account picture or iChat buddy icon.
# Photobooth image Photo Booth with Burst Mode
Capture multiple shots during a brief moment in time with Photo Booth Burst. Four successive shots are taken and presented in a unique four-up layout that’s completely interactive.
# Slideshow
Show off your Photo Booth pictures by viewing a full-screen slideshow. You can even view your photos as an index sheet so you can see them all at once.
# Export Movies
Export your four-up photos or movie clips as an animated GIF to use on your website. Or use it as an animated iChat buddy icon.
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Preview
# New User Interface for Preview
Enjoy powerful new features wrapped in a simple and elegant user interface — striking the perfect balance between simplicity and capability.
# Smooth Zoom and Scroll
Smoothly zoom and scroll through even the largest image files. Preview uses the power of Core Animation.
# Preview notes Improved PDF Annotations
Take advantage of new PDF annotations in Preview. Add Stickies-style notes and links to websites or other pages within the PDF. Mark important areas in ovals or rectangles and highlight text. All annotations are saved with the PDF so you can share them with others.
# Relevancy Ranked PDF Search
Harness the power of Spotlight. Preview now uses Spotlight to perform relevancy ranked searches on PDF documents, making it easier to find what you’re looking for.
# Personalized Annotations
Facilitate collaboration by automatically including your name in annotations.
# Improved Color Adjustment
Enhance your image files using several Core Image-powered adjustments for easy control over color, exposure, and sharpness. The semitransparent control panel is reorganized for ease of use and now includes Tint control.
# More Image Manipulation Options
Edit your images in Preview. Crop, rotate, resize, and save images in a range of image formats. Selection tools make it a snap to cut and paste images from Preview directly into other applications.
# Instant Alpha Background Removal
Easily remove the background from an image, leaving just the subject. Simply select Instant Alpha from the Tool Select button on the toolbar and click and drag in the area of the background you wish to remove. You can also use the Extract Shape tool to select a specific area of the image to keep, automatically excluding the rest.
# More Image Printing Options
Enjoy more printing options in Preview. Print several different images on a single sheet of paper. Or print multiple copies of the same image to cut out and share with friends.
# Auto Levels
See the best picture. Preview will intelligently analyze your image and apply the appropriate white and black level corrections.
# Preview PDF Editing image PDF Manipulation in Preview
Re-create your PDF as you like. Move individual pages around, or remove pages altogether. You can even combine PDFs with a simple drag and drop.
# Batch Image Operations
Save time when rotating or resizing a group of images in Preview. Just click the thumbnails in the sidebar and you can change multiple images simultaneously.
# Send Images to iPhoto or Aperture
File away your photos directly from Preview. Use Preview to inspect an image, then send it to your iPhoto or Aperture library in one click.
# GPS Metadata Support
Get real information from your photos. If your image has embedded GPS metadata, Preview will show you exactly where that perfect photo was taken. Open the Image inspector and select GPS. Preview pinpoints the location where you took the photo on a world map. From there you can even open the GPS location in Google Maps.
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Printing
# Simplified Printing
Get the best-quality printouts with the least effort. The Print dialog is preconfigured for the most common print settings, while powerful presets optimize your settings without cluttering the screen with unused options. For most documents, simply click Print to produce great output.
# Quick Print Preview
Get a live preview of your document in the Print dialog so you know how it will look before you print it.
# Printer Support
Just plug in your USB printer and you’re ready to print. Leopard now supports over 2,000 of the most popular models from vendors including Canon, Epson, HP, Lexmark, and more.
# Authenticated Printing
Manage printer access with the Kerberos network authentication protocol.
# Location-Aware Printing
Print in multiple locations with ease. Leopard detects when you’ve changed locations. So as you move your Mac between work, school, and home, Mac OS X figures out which printer to use and sets it as the default printer. You can choose another printer whenever you want.
# Enhanced Precision Printing
Get the best quality from select Canon and Epson printers. Leopard can use enhanced numerical precision to unlock the printing potential of pro-level color ink jet printers, using up to 16bits per color channel.
# CUPS v1.3
Tap the power of CUPS v1.3. It gives Mac OS X Leopard powerful print job spooling capabilities and enables CUPS-based printer driver development.
# Printer Drivers via Software Update
Make sure you always have the latest printer drivers. Download directly to your system using the familiar capabilities of Software Update.
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Quick Look
# Quick Look
Look inside any document without launching an application. Use Quick Look with documents, images, songs, and movies and get a large-size preview of the file. Flip through multipage documents, preview movies, even add images to iPhoto. You can use Quick Look in Finder, Mail, and Time Machine.
# Full Screen Preview
Preview files full screen.
# Multi-select
Quickly preview multiple files at once in a light table view or individually with slideshow controls.
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Safari
# Fastest Web Browser
Browse briskly. Safari is the fastest web browser on any platform.
# Enhanced Find Searching in Safari
Instantly and graphically locate any text on the current web page. Safari highlights every instance of the word you’re searching for and even dims the rest of the page so you can focus on the results of your find.
# Movable Tabs
Rearrange your tabs with just a drag and drop. Change the order in which they appear or separate them out by pulling them into a separate window.
# Pull Tab into New Window
Separate a tab into its own window with a simple drag and drop.
# Easily Create Tabbed Bookmarks
Set a bookmark for an entire set of tabs so that you can view them later, all at once.
# Merge All Windows
Combine all your open browser windows into one single, tabbed window.
# Full History Search
Easily find web pages you have visited. Safari indexes all of the text in websites that you browse. Even weeks later, Safari will be able to find a web page that matches your search.
# Reopen Windows
Go back to a set of windows you were viewing after closing them or even after quitting Safari.
# Resizable Text Fields
Resize any text field to the size you want because the original design was too small or you just have a lot to say. The contents of the web page will reflow to make room for the resized text field.
# Preview Controls for PDFs
Gain new control over PDFs you see on the web. With Preview controls built into Safari, you can zoom in and out, navigate PDF pages with the sidebar, even open the PDF in a separate Preview window.
# Remove History Items Periodically
Choose the time interval at which you’d like your browsing history to be automatically deleted.
# Desktop Picture
Turn any photo you find on the web into your Desktop Picture with one click.
# Warning Before Closing Tabbed Window
Have Safari warn you before closing a window with multiple tabs, just in case you meant to close a single tab.
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Screen Savers
# Arabesque Screen Saver
Fill your screen with a multicolored, never-ending work of Arabesque art with the new Arabesque screen saver.
# Shell Screen Saver
Enjoy the display of colorful shell patterns with the Shell screen saver.
# Word of the Day Screen Saver
Expand your vocabulary with the Word of the Day screen saver. Each day the screen saver will offer up five new words for you to learn.
# Clock Overlay on any Screen Saver
Keep track of the time on any screen saver by overlaying a digital clock. Just select the “Show with clock” option in the Desktop & Screen Saver pane of System Preferences.
# Collage for Picture Screen Savers
Make an amazing screen saver collage. Choose any picture screen saver or one of your iPhoto albums, and watch as the images gently fall on your desktop, one at a time, to form a stunning collage.
# Mosaic Display for Picture Screen Savers
Create a screen saver mosaic. Choose any picture screen saver or one of your iPhoto albums and Leopard will turn it into a beautiful mosaic on the fly.
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Security
# Tagging Downloaded Applications
Protect yourself from potential threats. Any application downloaded to your Mac is tagged. Before it runs for the first time, the system asks for your consent — telling you when it was downloaded, what application was used to download it, and, if applicable, what URL it came from.
# Signed Applications
Feel safe with your applications. A digital signature on an application verifies its identity and ensures its integrity. All applications shipped with Leopard are signed by Apple, and third-party software developers can also sign their applications.
# Application-Based Firewall
Gain more control over the built-in firewall. Specify the behavior of specific applications to either allow or block incoming connections.
# Stronger Encryption for Disk Images
Give your data even more security. Disk Utility now allows you to create encrypted disk images using 256-bit AES encryption.
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# Enhanced VPN Client Compatibility
Connect to a broader range of VPN clients. Leopard supports Cisco Group Filtering as well as DHCP over PPP, which allows you to dynamically acquire additional configuration options such as static routes and search domains.
# Sharing and Collaboration Configuration
Share any folder on your Mac by setting it up as a shared folder in the Get Info window or in the Sharing pane of System Preferences. You can also create and edit access control lists, share with individuals in your network directory, or contacts in Address Book.
# Sandboxing
Enjoy a higher level of protection. Sandboxing prevents hackers from hijacking applications to run their own code by making sure applications only do what they’re intended to do. It restricts an application’s file access, network access, and ability to launch other applications. Many Leopard applications — such as Bonjour, Quick Look, and the Spotlight indexer — are sandboxed so hackers can’t exploit them.
# Multiple User Certificates
Have more flexibility in choosing a digital certificate for encrypting email messages. With support for multiple user certificates, you can use the Keychain application to associate your certificates with various email addresses.
# Enhanced Smart Card Capabilities
Let your smart card do more. Now you can use a smart card to unlock FileVault volumes and your keychain, and configure your Mac to lock the screen when a smart card is removed. Leopard supports the PIV standard for Federal employees and contractors.
# Library Randomization
Defend against attackers with no effort at all. One of the most common security breaches occurs when a hacker’s code calls a known memory address to have a system function execute malicious code. Leopard frustrates this plan by relocating system libraries to one of several thousand possible randomly assigned addresses.
# Windows SMB Packet Signing
Enjoy improved compatibility and security with Windows-based servers.
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Spaces
# Spaces
Organize your activities into separate spaces and easily switch from one to another. Make a space for work or play. Choose from a number of convenient options that make moving from space to space fast and easy.
# Bird’s-Eye View
View all of your spaces onscreen at the same time. With a drag and drop you can move an application window from one space to another or reorder your spaces.
# Add and Remove Spaces
Easily add or remove spaces in the Spaces pane of System Preferences.
# Application Binding
Assign an application to a specific space. Anytime you run that application, it will open in its assigned space.
# Bump Over to Adjacent Space
Move a window to another space by dragging it to the edge of your screen. Spaces will switch to the new space and take your window with it.
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Spotlight
# Search Shared Macs
Search any Mac on your network. Use Spotlight to find files just like you do on your Mac — by name, contents, or even metadata. You can search any connected Mac with Personal File Sharing enabled or a file server that’s sharing its files.
# Advanced Searches
Use a richer search vocabulary. The Spotlight search field now supports Boolean logic with AND/NOT/OR and parenthesis syntax. Search category labels such as “author” or “width.” Use ranges in your search including “greater than” and “less than.” Spotlight also understands quoted phrases and dates.
# Dictionary Definitions in Spotlight
Quickly find the definition of any word by entering it in the Spotlight search field.
# Calculations in Spotlight
Find answers fast. Just activate Spotlight and type in a simple or sophisticated equation, and Spotlight will instantly show you the result. Enjoy support for over 40 functions ranging from simple math to logarithms to trigonometry.
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Launch applications quicker. The Spotlight default item is now the Top Hit, so if you search for an application, all you have to do is press Return to launch it.
# Web History Search
Search your recently visited web pages with Spotlight. Spotlight indexes the names of the websites you have visited as well as the content in the sites themselves. Search any attribute of a recently visited web page and you can go right back to it in Safari.
# Search by Filename
Find files faster. If you know the filename you’re looking for, narrow your search results so that Spotlight searches only filenames.
# Search System Files
Use Spotlight to search system files.
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System
# Icon Mode in Open and Save Panels
View your files as icons in the Open and Save panels, just as you would in the Finder.
# iLife Media Browser in Open Panel
Access iLife content from any Mac OS X application. Now the iLife Media Browser is integrated into the Open panel.
# Live Partition Resizing in Disk Utility
You may be able to gain disk space without losing data. If a volume is running out of space, simply delete the volume that comes after it on the disk and move the volume’s end point into the freed space.
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Enjoy more helpful Help. A new search field in the Help menu displays all relevant menu items in the active application. Highlight one and Leopard opens the menu and highlights the command.
# Guest Log-In Accounts
Allow anyone to surf the web and check email as a guest on your Mac. When they log out of the guest account, Mac OS X purges the account, removing any trace of their activity. So each time someone logs in as a guest, he or she gets a fresh, unused account.
# Grammar Check
Let your grammar set a shining example. A built-in English language grammar checker helps ensure that you don’t make errors in grammar.
# Scroll Non-Active Windows
Scroll any open window, even if it’s not active. Simply position your mouse over the target window and scroll.
# Empty Trash Button
Empty the Trash from the Trash itself with the Empty Trash button.
# Eject All Partitions
Enjoy greater flexibility when ejecting a partitioned USB or FireWire volume. You can eject just one of the volumes or all the volumes at once.
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System Preferences
# New Parental Controls Preferences
Configure all aspects of parental controls — content filters, curfews, and remote control — in one central place.
# Improved Network Preferences Interface
Enjoy a simpler, more elegant view of your network preferences. Network status and configuration details are combined into a single, easy-to-understand view.
# .Mac Sync for System Preferences
Get yourself a .Mac account and your System Preferences can stay in sync across all your Macs. No matter what Mac you use, you’ll feel right at home.
# Advanced Account Options
Make changes to the user ID, login shell, and home directory for any account. Just hold down the Control key and click an account in the Accounts pane of System Preferences.
# Hot Corner for Sleep Display
Get more use out of those hot corners. In addition to launching Exposé or starting a screen saver, you can now use hot corners to put your display to sleep.
# Mouse Controls for Exposé
Control Exposé with any button on your mouse. Specify the mouse controls in the Exposé and Spaces pane in System Preferences.
# Mouse Controls for Dashboard
Launch your Dashboard widgets with any button on your mouse. Specify the mouse controls in the Exposé and Spaces pane in System Preferences.
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Terminal
# Improved International Support
Get more out of Terminal. The Core Text API for text layout reduces setup time and makes Terminal behave flawlessly for international users, with an increased character set.
# Inspector
Enjoy convenient access to window information, display settings, and advanced options with the Inspector window.
# Merge All Windows
Combine all your open Terminal windows into a single window with multiple tabs.
# Movable Tabs
Rearrange your tabs with just a drag and drop. Change the order in which they appear or separate them out by pulling them into a separate window.
# Profiles
Save the window settings and shell configurations to a profile that you can reuse later.
# Pull Tab into New Window
Separate a tab into its own window with a simple drag and drop.
# Tabbed Windows
Keep multiple Terminal sessions going in a single, tabbed window.
# Adjusting Window Settings
Customize the look and feel of Terminal with new window settings. You can set the background color, text color, and opacity of your windows.
# Workspaces
Save the configuration of all your open windows as a workspace. The location, window settings, and shell configurations of multiple windows can then be recalled instantly.
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Text Edit
# Autosave
Ensure that your edits aren’t lost. Have TextEdit automatically save copies of your document at a specified time interval.
# OpenDocument and Word 2007 Formats
Take advantage of TextEdit support for the Word 2007 and OpenDocument formats for reading and writing.
# Smart Links
Have TextEdit automatically turn Internet addresses in your document into clickable links.
# Select Line Panel
Jump to a specific line in your document if you know its number. Or jump forward or backward by a specified number of lines.
# Print Header and Footer
Print page numbers, the date, and the document title on each page of a TextEdit document.
# Smart Quotes
Make your document look more professional with curly (“smart”) quotes. TextEdit can automatically substitute smart quotation marks for straight quotation marks as you type.
# Smart Copy and Paste
Preserve proper spacing around copied text.
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Time Machine
# Back Up Everything
Automatic backup, built right into your Mac. Never worry about losing a file again. Time Machine stores an up-to-date copy of all your Mac’s files on an external hard drive, personal file sharing volume, or Mac OS X Server. That includes system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents.
# Automatic Backup
Enjoy effortless setup. The first time you attach an external drive to your Mac, Time Machine asks if you’d like to use that drive as your backup. Say yes and Time Machine takes care of everything else. Automatically. In the background. You’ll never have to worry about backing up again.
# Go Back In Time
See what your computer looked like in the past. Select a specific date and let Time Machine find your most recent changes, or do a Spotlight search to find exactly the file you’re looking for. Once you do, click Restore and Time Machine brings it back to the present.
# Automatic Stop and Resume
Never skip a beat. If your Time Machine backup is interrupted — because you took your portable on the road or put your Mac to sleep — Time Machine will simply stop backing up. When you reconnect to your backup drive again, TIme Machine automatically picks up where it left off.
# Do Not Back Up List
Be selective. By default, Time Machine backs up your entire system. But you can also select items to exclude from a Time Machine backup to save space on your backup disk.
# Browse Other Time Machine Disks
Browse other Time Machine disks with your Mac. Just plug in the drive and your Mac will recognize the Time Machine backup volume, even if it has backed up a different Mac.
# Migration Assistant Support
Migrate easier. Move individual users and folders from an existing Time Machine backup to set up new systems with ease. Then just start up the new Mac and you’ll be right where you left off on the previous one.
# Manual Backup
Create a new incremental backup at any time. Hold down the Control key and click the Time Machine icon in the Dock.
# Quick Look Before Restoring
Quickly preview your files before you restore them to make sure those documents are really the ones you want.
# Restore Your Mac
Restore everything on your Mac. Time Machine will put all the files right back where the originals were — as if nothing ever happened. You can even restore your files to set up a brand-new Mac.
# Preserve Access Privileges
Back up the entire system and all users at once, while maintaining the access privileges associated with your files.
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Universal Access
# Alex — A New Voice
Give yourself a new voice. Meet Alex — a new English male voice that uses advanced, patented Apple technologies to deliver natural breathing and intonation, even at fast speaking rates.
# Plug-and-Play Refreshable Braille Display Support
Quickly set up popular, refreshable Braille displays. VoiceOver detects and configures as soon as you plug them in. No additional software or setup is required.
# Braille Output During OS Installation
For the first time ever on a desktop computer, you can use a Braille display while installing or upgrading your operating system.
# The Braille Panel
See a virtual Braille display — a visual representation of VoiceOver Braille output onscreen along with an English text translation.
# Customizable Braille Display Input Keys
Customize a Braille display more easily than ever before. Just choose a VoiceOver command, then press and hold the input keys. A tone sounds to let you know the command has been assigned successfully.
# Contracted and Non-Contracted Braille
Output Braille in standard contracted format or non-contracted “computer Braille.” VoiceOver automatically converts contracted Braille under the cursor so it’s easier to edit, then contracts it again when the cursor moves.
# NumPad Commander
Control VoiceOver using only the numeric keypad just like JAWS and Windows-Eyes. This makes it easier for screen reader users to switch from a PC to a Mac and provides easy access to your favorite VoiceOver commands.
# Portable VoiceOver Preferences
Instantly reconfigure your VoiceOver preferences. Just plug in a flash drive containing your preferences and Leopard instantly reconfigures to work and act just like your Mac — without leaving a trace when you leave.
# Faster Web and Page Navigation
Quickly navigate long documents or web pages. Jump to key elements like headers, tables, and links and by text attributes like underlining, bold, italics, and color — even text phrases.
# Hot Spots
Monitor up to ten different areas onscreen and be alerted when there’s a change. Then jump directly to any hot spot to investigate or take action.
# Drag-and-Drop Support
Use drag-and-drop actions by keyboard only, in accessible applications.
# Integrated Interactive Tutorial
Learn VoiceOver unassisted in a safe environment. A built-in tutorial lets you practice as you learn.
# Misspelled Word Detection
Hear when a word is misspelled while reading text. Choose a tone or a spoken description.
# Positional Audio Effects
Benefit from many new sound effects in VoiceOver. Audio cues provide an improved sense of location.
# Highlight by Word or Sentence
Set the VoiceOver cursor to highlight each word or sentence being read as it is spoken.
# New VoiceOver Utility
Customize VoiceOver more easily. A new VoiceOver Utility layout includes many new options and preferences for customizing VoiceOver.
# Improved Application Accessibility
Do more with VoiceOver. Bundled Leopard applications and utilities have been enhanced for improved accessibility.
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UNIX
# UNIX® Certification
Mac OS X is now a fully certified UNIX operating system, conforming to both the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3) and POSIX 1003.1. Deploy Leopard in environments that demand full UNIX conformance and enjoy expanded support for open standards popular in the UNIX community such as the OASIS Open Document Format (ODF) or ECMA’s Office XML.
# DTrace
Monitor virtually any aspect of your application with DTrace, integrated into the Darwin kernel. Ruby, Python, and Perl have also been extended to support DTrace, providing unprecedented access for monitoring the performance characteristics of those languages.
# Cocoa Bridges
Use Ruby and Python as first-class languages for building Cocoa applications, thanks to Objective-C bridges as well as full Xcode and Interface Builder support.
# AutoFS
Automatically mount and dismount network filesystems on separate threads to improve responsiveness and reliability.
# Wide Area Bonjour
Access your Macs, at home or on the road, with a single consistent host name. Use this host name whether you’re behind a NAT gateway or hopping across DHCP servers.
# Kerberized NFS
Securely connect NFS clients and servers using MIT’s Kerberos, rather than trusting system-reported IDs.
# Directory Utility
Graphically manage all local and remote directory entries and services in one place. You don’t have to rely on complicated command-line operations.
# Streaming IO
Set up high-bandwidth data transfers in your applications, without having to worry about different hardware architectures and optimal caching strategies.
# Multicore Optimized
Take full advantage of modern architectures with multiple processor cores with improved scheduling, memory management, and processor affinity algorithms.
# Scripting Bridge
Use Objective-C, Ruby, and Python programs to automate Mac applications. The new Scripting Bridge enables them to easily generate AppleEvents using a concise, AppleScript-like syntax.
# Ruby on Rails
Work in a developer’s dreamland. Leopard is the perfect platform for Ruby on Rails development, with Rails, Mongrel, and Capistrano built in.
# 64-Bit Applications
Make use of all your existing devices. Leopard is the first mainstream operating system to completely and seamlessly support both 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same platform.
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Xcode 3
# Code Focus
Easily visualize your code’s structure as you type with a unique highlighting effect, or use your mouse to select a code block to fold out of the way.
# Improved Performance Editor
Get work done quickly with the improved editor in Xcode with snappier searching and the ability to load large files at least four times faster.
# Instant-On Debugging
Eliminate the jarring transition from coding to testing with the instant-on debugger, moving smoothly from writing your code to running to pausing at any point to start debugging.
# Interface Builder with Animations
Create powerful user interfaces and add great effects to your applications.
# Message Bubbles
View your build errors, breakpoint definitions, and debug values right alongside the relevant source code.
# Objective-C 2.0
Take advantage of Objective-C 2.0 — easier to read, faster to code, and more secure than ever.
# Organizer Window
Develop your next project more easily, regardless of language and without a project. Just drag a folder into the Xcode Organizer window and click Build.
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