On Apple’s 300+ Leopard Features List, iChat earns the recognition of having the most new features in the list–24 to be exact. Although iChat 4 includes a nice series of new features for the AV crowd and some other new ideas, is the new iChat any better at just plain, old-fashioned text chatting? I spent a couple of weeks with iChat to find out.
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Tags: Adium, AIM, audio, chat, Chax, collaboration, features, Google Talk, iChat, iChat Theater, Jabber, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac, Mac OS X Leopard, preview, Quick Look, recording, review, Screen Sharing, sharing, text, Video

Apple Remote Desktop is an app that has been around for awhile that provided the ability for an administrator to share and manage the screens of other computers on the network. However, while ARD was great for someone who was an administrator on a vast network of many client computers in order to manage them all, what about someone who just wanted to look at something on their other computer, or someone who wanted to quickly help out a family member on another network? Apple Remote Desktop just isn’t suited, aimed, or priced for something as incidental as that. However, Leopard brings along a brand new Screen Sharing solution to the table, so how well does it work?
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Tags: Back to My Mac, collaboration, features, Finder, iChat, internet, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, network, Remote Desktop, review, Screen Sharing

SubEthaEdit by TheCodingMonkeys has to be my favorite text editor on the Mac (which is one reason why I love Coda, because it has the Subetha Engine built right in). Not only is it a very nice, bloat-free text editor with powerful capabilities for syntax highlighting, etc., SubEthaEdit is the first and the best tool for multi-user document collaboration. Yep, even before Google Documents existed, SubEthaEdit was there. Although with Leopard coming out, which now has screen sharing capability built-into iChat, the specialness of an application like SEE may seem diminished, but it’s still going to be a great tool for those Mac users who don’t upgrade to Leopard right away.

SubEthaEdit 3.0 was released today, and it brings along some nice new features. Although the new version is completely compatible with Tiger, it also packs a number of Leopard features, including being fully Quick Look-compatible, making it possible to view SubEthaEdit documents in Finder Cover Flow, Quick Look, and share them in iChat Theater (albeit read-only). SEE 3.0 can also save files in a special “SubEthaEdit Text” format which retains data such as changes by different collaborators and who collaborated on what, etc. It also has a better view for tracking one’s connections, and a statistics window to view various stats on who has contributed what, etc.

They have a movie detailing all the new features in SubEthaEdit 3.0, although it’s a little hard to understand the guy, it’s still an interesting watch. My congrats to the TheCodingMonkeys and hats off for designing such excellent software.

Tags: application, collaboration, Connections, editing, Mac OS X Leopard, sharing, Software, SubEthaEdit, text, TheCodingMonkeys