So as you probably read on about 225 sites yesterday, Apple announced an availability date for Leopard: Friday, October 26th at 6:00pm. But they also did something I don't recall them doing before, and that's revealing a number of fairly interesting yet not necessarily mainstream tips about the new OS. They put all of these things together on a special Leopard 300+ New Features page for everyone to peruse.
Now, some of what's there is relatively light -- for instance, the six new 10.5 screen savers count as six of the 300+ new features. Much of the rest of the features are just general tidbits of knowledge ("See files for what they really are. Leopard displays icons that are actual thumbnail previews of the documents themselves"), not actual hints. But buried amongst all the other stuff, there are some genuine tips. So the purpose of this very first Leopard hint is twofold:
- To link to Apple's 300+ features page, as it contains some good info.
- To request that you don't submit tips from that page. To save on possible duplication of effort from thousands of tipsters, I will pick some of the more interesting actual tips from that page and run them here once Leopard ships a week from Friday. That way, the rest of you can focus on finding the real hidden Leopard tips.
Leopard tips will be accepted prior to the official release of 10.5, but none will be published (other than this one, since it's based on information Apple themselves has made public) before 6:00pm west coast time (USA) on the 26th of October.
Signed, your happy-about-a-new-OS-release tipmaster;
-rob.

