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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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 @Jonathan "Most of us have worked...Submitted by Angel (not verified) on August 7, 2006 - 4:23pm.
@Jonathan “Most of us have worked out a back-up system anyway, so it seems kind of obsolete.” Actually, most people do not backup, as was pointed out during the keynote. I think Time Machine will come in handy for many average consumers. As far as the todos within Mail…I use Entourage for the simple fact that it allows me to instantly create a todo from an email. That’s one of the features of Outlook that I absolutely must have since a lot of my action items derive from an email. » POSTED IN:
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