It’s Wednesday, which means that the release of Mac OS X Leopard is now less than 60 hours away! Today, I continue with part 3 of my award-winning Tiger-to-Leopard series (well, okay, it hasn’t really won anything, yet), where I take a look at everything that has happened during the 130-week interim between the releases of Mac OS X Tiger and Mac OS X Leopard. Today, I begin my focus on the Web 2.0, which has grown and matured exponentially since early 2005. Now, don’t get confused with the whole “part within a part thing,” but since I have quite a bit of Web 2.0 coverage to, well, cover, I’ll be stretching my Web 2.0 TTL coverage over today and tomorrow. Shall we take a look? (And yes, I promise that this post won’t be the laundry list you saw yesterday.)
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When I said that I would be devoting this week on Webmacster87.info to coverage of the Mac OS X Leopard release, I wasn’t kidding. Just to help you keep whetting up your appetites excitement for that tasty shiny new cat, here’s a few stories on Leopard that I’ve found via Digg.

Mac OS X Leopard 9A581’s Dock Visual Tweaks
Remember all those people who were complaining about the “3-D” Dock looking really weird on the left/right sides? The latest build of Leopard apparently has a brand new, unique 2-D Dock that still has a Leopard refresh, but doesn’t look as geeky. Personally, I didn’t have that big of a problem with the 3-D Docks on either side, I thought that they looked okay. I’d still like to know how well the new Dock works with hiding on…

16 Coolest New Features In Mac OS X 10.5 That You Didn’t Know About
Well, if you’d read 300 New Features thoroughly, you’d know about these, but these are some cool Leopard features that didn’t get the prominent placement on the Leopard site or in the guided tour.

Apple Answers Leopard Questions
This Apple interview that Gizmodo did doesn’t reveal very much new stuff, but is still a bit of an interesting read.

Now I’m off to find out if iLife ‘06 will be Leopard-compatible and to dream about roast Leopard with barbecue sauce and a side of deep-fried pickle hearts…

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Just because Paul Thurrott posts a review of the iPhone that actually makes some legitimate complaints, TUAW has to go and bash him, claiming he “spins a genuinely innovative feature into a mark against a product.” The folks in the comments, however, rightly defend Paul, because all that he’s done is actually made an OBJECTIVE review of the iPhone.

By now, I think that it would be a well-known fact that even though the iPhone is revolutionary, it still has plenty of flaws. Paul Thurrott is completely correct in claiming that most people who review the iPhone deliberately overlook these flaws, and bravo to him for actually criticizing some of the weak aspects of the phone. Even then, as TUAW says in their own words, the review is mostly positive on Paul Thurrott’s part. It’s this kind of post by David Chartier that shows just how much of an Apple fanboy TUAW is and their inability to report from an objective point of view, and this really looks bad on them, as can be evidenced by the overwhelming number of comments to the post that are supporting Paul Thurrott.

Shame on you, TUAW. Shame on you.

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