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Open Thread: Leopard Preview
Merlin Mann | Aug 7 2006
Apple - Apple - Mac OS X - Leopard Sneak Peek Like most of you, I'm keeping an eye on today's previewed features of the upcoming "Leopard" (OS X 10.5) release. Looks like some interesting ideas -- many of which, as usual, seem inspired by existing third-party products. I think I'm most intrigued so far by the idea of "to-do" functionality from within Mail.app (thanks for the tip, Matt); let's hope that also means I can deep link to a given email from my iCal task list. I also welcome the concept of built-in email templates -- although I'm kind of bummed that they seem more focused on execrable 1999-style HTML emails than on the kind of functional time-savers found in the peerless MailTemplate. To be honest, on first blush -- and I'm sure there's much more to come by the time of release -- this feels a bit cute and a little light on really revolutionary stuff (the long overdue promise of something like Time Machine notwithstanding). Stuff like (yet. more.) iLife integration is handy enough for the notional Swithcher and Grandpa Joe, but in general I guess I'm hoping for some serious power-user improvements to the core functionality. Maybe that's just me. What do you think? What's "Yeah!" and what's "Meh?" Anybody else holding out hope for some really deep Finder rewriting and more functional iCal updates? Other coverage55 Comments
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 The problem with having a...Submitted by iMatt (not verified) on August 7, 2006 - 11:11am.
The problem with having a mature OS (as Apple now has w/ OS X) is that it's...mature. And incremental improvements just seem so...incremental. Still, I like Spaces, and the Spotlight improvements, and some of the bells & whistles in iChat, like iChat theater. I'm thrilled to see tighter Mail/iCal functionality and integration, though I admit that I was hoping for an all-in-one Entourage-style app with that Apple touch. And as for the Finder, can someone explain to me what's so awful about it? I hear a lot of folks saying that it needs to be revamped and rethought, but I don't quite get why. That said, I've been wading deeper into Quicksilver for months now and don't use it much! » POSTED IN:
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