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Apple OS X Leopard Sneak Peek
Yesterday Apple gave us a preview of OS X Leopard, their next operating system. I still can’t believe they’ve made 4-5 major OS releases in the time Microsoft did one or so lousy releases. COMON MICROSOFT!!!

If you missed out on watching live feeds of what was going on in WWDC, well I would check out this site and watch the videos.

As I mentioned in my previous article, OS X Leopard looks amazing. I really cannot wait to get my hands on a developer copy or when the final version comes out. The new features and additions to already wonderful programs is going to be excellent. They’re going to make easy work, even easier.

Time Machine: At first I thought this was not such a good idea since you would be taking up a lot space, but this is wrong. Time Machine backups everything the first time and then it will only backup changed files after. Of course if you continue adding music, movies, photos…etc it’ll make your backup size larger, but it sounds great to me. The ease of use in Time Machines doesn’t look like it could get any easier, you find the date in which your file does exist, hit restore and you’re done! One really cool thing I found in Time Machine was not only can you backup to an external hard drive, but also a server, finally my Xserve can get some real usage!

Mail: I’ve always liked Mail and how well it integrates with other OS X applications. Now, they’re adding even more to Mail, stationery, To-Do lists and Notes! Now when someone tells me something in an email I can quickly create a note about it and jot down the important things from the email, or I can create a to-do list and have it also show up in iCal. I am always getting tasks from people in their emails to me, and now the ability to write down notes and make a to-do right in one application is great. Last but not least, stationery! I am still a little worried about how this will look since there are many different email programs out there and it might look funky for some people, although I assume when both parties are using Apple Mail it’s going to look fine (just worried about sending to Windows people). I just wish Apple Mail was like his now, it looks so cool!!

iChat: iChat’s improvements have come in a professional and fun way! Let’s start with the fun! First off you can add in backgrounds when doing a video chat. Essentially that makes it look like you’re standing in-front of a busy street corner or out on a hot beach! If that wasn’t enough Apple has integrated the silliness of PhotoBooth into iChat video, now you can show your friends all the weird and funny faces you can make in real-time! iChat is really a great piece of software that has made audio and video conferencing very easy, but Apple didn’t stop there. The new iChat will allows users to collaborate and work together much easier. Now you can share screens and work on projects together, or even show a co-worker a Keynote presentation, or picture slideshow through iChat. Apple definitely gets an A+ for the new iChat!

Spaces: One of the last thing I want to cover that I thought was major and a feature I love and use is the ability to have multiple desktops. Currently I use a little 3rd party application called VirtueDesktops which allows me to have multiple desktops so i can spread out my work. If you’re still a little confused, check out the Spaces video. Now this virtual desktop feature is going to be right in OS X Leopard, no more extra programs and not to mention its going to be better then VirtueDesktops! One thing I found to be very cool with Spaces is that you can show all the spaces in one screen and then move applications from one space to another and even re-arrage the space order!!

OS X Leopard…it’s really going to stomp on Windows Vista, not that OS X Tiger didn’t, but it’s really going to convince people to switch if they already haven’t. Tons of new and cool features, software additions that are really going to make tasks easier, and digital life management better.