If you learn anything cool about upcoming features in Leopard, tell us about them here. We're talking about bona-fide NTFS support, hidden features, etc. Anything and everything cool.

We're always looking for new info and you can help us find it!

I found the new Automator GUI, the Grid editing options for the desktop, the 'Clean Desktop' option on the desktop very surprising. I just posted this on digg:

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Exposé is now a fully fledged app, and seems more fluent to me.

not a new features or anything but things some people might like to know about leopard so far, on intel based macs two finger clicking no longer works, bummer i love that feature why apple why!!! also ejecting a disk image via the eject button on finder does not work also option clicking to eject does not work you must drag the image/removable volume to the trash. also adium may not launch solved by using the latest 1.0 beta, shapeshifter installs but does not work, dont try it; itll bork your install. candybar works somewhat, after initial launch and changing the default system icons, candybar will not stay open, it will ask to update won't find any and you have to quit the app. Spaces you can bind apps to desktops however if you close an app window or minimize it and click the app icon in dock it will bring the window to the current desktop being worked on and no the binded one.

What do you mean. "Exposé is now a fully fledged app, and seems more fluent to me."

Thanks for the info guys! Keep it coming!

Spaces and Expose work hand in hand, i.e. if you have launched spaces and launch expose while in spaces all apps show!! just as they would with a single desktop. very nice = ) if you have more then one finder window open on multiple desktops in spaces keep hitting finder in the dock and it cycles through the windows.

I've learned a couple of things:

--Leopard now has a battery health meter. When you click on your powerlevel, it shows what your battery is at. Mine just shows poor

--Safari has a new 'find text on page' feature, which is ridiculously cool! There is a vid of it working floating around. And of course, the help menus too.

--Safari's bookmarklets are more limited than before - don't know if it is a size limit, or functionality limit (haven't investigated yet). For example, bookmarklets generated from http://labs.zarate.org/passwd/ need the "smaller" IE/Opera version, and NOT the "Safari" version. On Tiger, the Safari version still works.

--Time Machine needs an alternate drive/partition, besides the boot drive.

--There is a new trackpad driver, which renders some software like SideTrack and iScroll useless. Bummer for my pre-2005 powerbook

I have a Macbook and there is currently no trackpad right click.

if you click on the iCal widget you can get a third "panel" that shows events for the day

I have learned, that my images I posted earlier have been removed. Can I post my new images / video here? I hope it's no Legal hassle... I just don't want my hard work deleted again, so I am just asking now .

Well, do it quick so I can see, just incase what you post does get deleted. :-)

I have learned that Photo Booth 2.0 has better Mail / iPhoto integration, and added ability to record animations, of still frames. See video.

Noticed in the Desktop Background setting u can select a photoalbum from iPhoto and set it to change the background every x mins and also randomize the order. duno if this was there before but i just noticed it and its pretty sweet built in.

a very useful thing is the fact that spotlight now finds apps... dont need to go lookin to the applications folder any more. cmd-space and start typin the name and it comes up.

also aMsn works fine for me.

biggest anoyance is no 2 finger tap for right click on th macbook. have to ctrl-click all the time.....

Spotlight always found apps...

ahh touche..... guess i never tried it before...

couple more anoyances.. sometimes Bluetooth is turned on but i cannot turn it off (greyed out). it also dosent remeber the state it was in on shutdown because its always turned on when i boot. but thats not really of n e consequence in this early of a preview.

Couple of things I noted over on the MacRumors forums:


If your battery is pretty much dead, like mine is, you get a exclamation mark next to the battery icon:

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Also, I don't know if this was in Tiger, but I never saw it. I haven't seen it mentioned elsewhere either, though I haven't looked too hard. You can no have a guest account that doesn't require a login, but gets wiped after they logout.

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Eehh.... I don't like that at all.

Don't like which or what? The guest account is a great idea, so long as it isn't too restrictive, or too lenient in what it lets them access. The exclamation mark gets a tad annoying, since there's no way I'm paying £80 for a new battery this close to a total system upgrade.

This link has some nice features shown, like the new Finder / Dock differences. Small, but noticable, and the Finder Dock-click is amazingly cool - now I don't want to live without it anymore :/.

Thanks for the pics Kazuran, they're great!

Pages sort of works on Leopard...what I mean by this is that scrolling does not work.

I've not used leopard yet but I have noticed from all the screenshots that brushed metal is dead.....except from finder?

This, by process of elimination means that the new finder has yet to be updated and thus must have something quite cool that Microsoft does not.

Install the Xcode tools and enjoy the new Quartz Composer, with a huge amount of cool example compositions. "Xray" is nice too.

Folders that you place in the dock are finally spring loaded. Like OS9, when you would put open folders down at the bottom of your screen. There is even a setting for the spring action.

Can you explain/screenshot what you mean by spring loaded i don't get it?

A2DP support! Not sure if it was included in Tiger, but it is in Leopard. There is a file called A2DP agent in Core services.
Perhaps this is to use with the next iPod's or iPhone's headphones??

Since I already posted this on another forum, I might as well just copy it over:

Spring loaded= When you drag a file to a folder in the dock, it springs open. When you release the file, it closes automatically. So if you have a file that needs to go deeper into the folder structure, you can hold the file on the next folder within that folder in the dock, and so on.

Currently in Tiger, if you drag a file to a folder, you just let it go. It doesn't spring open and the file is place in that first folder only.

The prefs for it are in the dock prefs area.

Be careful with what OpenGL apps you run.

Also, you can rearrange tabs in Safari.

The Mighty Mouse driver is bundled with the system, so no installing stuff off the disk that came with the mouse!
I have a wireless mighty mouse btw

you can drag tabs around in safari

not only do folders spring open in the dock, but applications do too.  drag a file over a dock application and it will either start up or bring it's windows to the front.

Safari now saves the full text of each website you visit in ~/library/caches/metadata/safari/ and spotlight searches turns up results from there and your bookmarks, very nice.

Quicklook can preview websites as well as pics, videos, pdf, text, almost anything.  just select a file in the spotlight search window and hit space. hitting space again dismisses it.

Spotlight shows icon previews of movies now that are playable.

neither of the new preview modes work in finder, which is a big disappointment.

you can sort column views just like list view, but only from the views window and it applies to all windows and columns.

the backround dimming in expose is much darker now, on my machine almost black.  

Windows in spaces can be made sticky so they appear on all desktops.  I have adium set to "Below other windows" and the buddy list shows on all desktops.

Spaces don't wrap around, so if you go to the right most desktop, hitting ctrl-right arrow just beeps.

Spaces is very quick, even on my old 1Ghz eMac with radeon 7500, but time machine is horribly slow, almost unusable on it.

Time machine is Opt-out, just like Spotlight, so if you have a single deeply nested directory that you want to back up, you can't just tell Time Machine to back that one up, you have to exclude all the other directories in that tree.

tabs in safari can be dragged off the tab bar to another window, or to the desktop to make a new window.

the developer mode still works in expose, but they disabled dragging any widgets to the desktop without it.

I did have one very strange error.  After a restart, my user library folder was completely reset, all the files disappeared and were back to the files that were there when i first installed.  Not sure if it was time machine related or not, but very disconcerting.  

other than that leopard has run pretty smoothly.

oh, and brushed metal is still around, finder, safari, quicktime, hopefully they get updated from the secret stash too.

The number of things that are "liquid metal" vs. "brushed metal" is easily 3 - 1.

But still, we do have pinstriping on all background items on EVERYTHING.

On another note, it would seem that Mail does not let you edit the stationary in any way besides the text itself. Many of the image files in them are locked, and can not be unlocked through the Mail Composer. 

I would think that this functionality would exist in iWeb, but I only have iLife 05 and have not upgraded it. 

Also, I learned that under no circumstances should you use Andrew Escobar's Frontrow Enabler under Leopard (Non-IR Machines still cant use), as it will irreperably screw up EVERY aspect of your system.

Think probably will not be able to back up your data kind of screwage...

It looks like localization works completely now.

Specifically, now in the International section of System Preferences, I can set EVERYTHING to Arabic!
Now, that is impressive that we have an OS that actually works with Right-to-Left input and work immediately across the board.

Either way, it is much better than Microsoft's Arabic implementation, in which you only have a few menu options translated, even in Vista.

While folders are still named the same thing, it looks like they will work with Arabic characters for filenames and paths, including changing /Users to /‏المستخدم

The only problem that I have run into is that the Text-to-Speech system 100% does not work with Non-latin languages.
(Think crash)

Apple is set to take a major chunk of the non-english speakers or multilanguage users with this enhancement!

مبروك, ‏تهنئة 

Quicktime is 7.2, not sure if someone has noticed this before though Click to view attachment

I mentioned this elsewhere, but it is worth mentioning here...

DVD Player got an update - now 5.0

Plus, under Help -> Supported Features, it lists HD Support.

Sorry, Kazuran - I didn't see your post until now. Images and videos are fine. We just had to close the other thread since Apple tends to prosecute those who share files (or facilitate their sharing).

The button on Safari 3 that opens a page as a widget in Dashboard is absolutely brilliant.

The "Purchase Replacement battery" option in the battery drop down is an interesting cross-sell opportunity.  Wonder how many more of these there are?
The airport icon drop down doesn't seem to have a "Purchase Replacement Airport Express... your's is 13 months old and out of warranty". 

Hey, first post.  Im sorry, but I absolutely love this website!  Its so cool and it accepts the Leopard "beta testers"

Anyways, in case noone noticed, most of the utilities have been updated to high versions, some to "10.5"  Also when you do shift + option + 4 to do the selection grab, there is now a gridcount next to your cursor.

Cooool. Hadn't noticed that one.

And in case no one has pointed it out yet, the new Help menu rocks. You can also use Spaces + Exposé by hitting F9 and then F8, you'll be able to see all of your open windows at once and drag them around the desktops. Leopard also has a lot of multithreading, and runs much faster than Tiger on my Mac. Also Preview has a lot of cool new stuff, got rid of drawers, can now resize images with a very Photoshop-like sheet, has an inspector, and when zooming in PDFs you get a "smooth" zoom. The Calendar Widget now shows appointments in iCal, as it did in the Tiger beta. Maybe they keep this feature just for developers, and they'll will pull it in the final release. Who knows.

Oh, and Exposé, Spaces, Dashboard and Time Machine aren't "full-fledged apps", the puppets sitting in your Applications folder are just launchers. The first 3 all live in Dock.app and Time Machine lives in Finder.app.

Nobody is going to talk about iChat?
Aside from the Unified Toolbar look iChat now uses a Safari-like windows to list all your file trasnfers.

Also, when you send a file to somebody a badge showing the progress of the file transfer in a Mail-esque way appears

I´ve been running Leopard for a day now and everything´s going pretty good. Apps work just fine, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quicksilver, iTunes, Quicktime, etc.

I´ve only found two annoying problems; it looks like I´m unable to scroll in Pages which sucks and I can´t close windows in Safari, other than that it works flawlessy...

Overall it´s been a good experience, the system feels smoother by the way. I won´t go back to Tiger unless I need to.

I have the pages issue too, and I've been forced to go back to Tiger for a while to only check my email (and to fix a little issue with referencing my iTunes Library in Leopard to the songs on the Tiger partition).

Safari has a new Reset Safari dialog with the option to customize which settings to reset.

Screen Capture displaying position in terms of pixel (apple shift 4)

Window Capture (cmd+shift+4, space, click on a window) now includes the shadow of the window on the shot too.

Holding Command when dragging windows between Spaces when it's zoomed out drags all windows of that app.

Moksha, now that is one nice catch.
I have found that X11 now supports XGL over SSH when you enable a nested session on the destination system on your VC-# (does not work in Tiger).

Sure, it takes some real hacking to get working right (both sides), however WINDOW DEFORMATIONS now work!

(Some of you may call it Defications because warping windows while you are trying to work may seem like a complete waste of time and resources, but try saying that when you are typing a URL into Firefox and your auto-completion/select box below your address bar starts rippling with each new option added. It really turns some heads!)

You can even use the XGL equivilant to Expose' for all of your X11 windows, and it even pulls windows from other Spaces Desktops when you go CTRL-F8 (Remapped from Normal F8 on remote system through Compiz-Setup to not conflict with my Powerbook's F8 for spaces).

Disk Utility offre maintenant tout un tas d'options pour la création d'un image de disque sans avoir a passer par la ligne de commande

Not a big deal but Photobooth uses a different color profile in the newer one. That means you cant make your old pictures work with the new photobooth