One of Leopard’s “big new features” is a feature for those .Mac members who got suckered into spending $100/year for Apple’s suite of services which probably are only worth about $50/year, if that much. It has to do with the Finder’s improved sharing features (file sharing, screen sharing, etc.), and it’s called Back to My Mac.
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Tags: Back to My Mac, file sharing, Finder, iDisk, internet, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac, Mac OS X Leopard, network, review, Screen Sharing

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

Similar to how the primary feature of Leopard has been Time Machine, the primary feature of Tiger was Spotlight. You could say that Spotlight was the spotlight feature of Tiger. However, it turned out to not be as revolutionary as was promised. It was slow, the prioritizing of files seemed weird to many people, and it didn’t accept various advanced searches that power users may have been used to on platforms such as Google. Well, Leopard brings along some improvements to Spotlight, but are they enough for me to start really using it? Or do some of the “enhancements” actually make it seem not quite as good as before?
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Tags: Finder, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, options, review, search, settings, Spotlight

One of those TOP SECRET features in Leopard that Apple was to chicken to share with the world in 2006 was the new Finder, although when you look at it, you kind of wonder why. In short, Leopard’s Finder represents Apple’s love of its own iTunes, and represents the iTunes interface more than anything else–maybe a little too much. Although the Finder as a whole does feel a bit more mature and more polished, it still feels like it falls short of where it could have been. Nevertheless, despite one or two strange features, the Finder still feels like a modern file browser, and while it’s no Path Finder, it remains probably the most accessible, easiest to understand, and easiest to navigate application. And, thank goodness, it still retains the same application icon. Continue reading »

Tags: Cover Flow, features, files, Finder, icons, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, navigation, review, sidebar

Not only does Leopard bring along a brand new Finder (review of that coming later this month), but the open and save panels have been updated to reflect the new changes. There is now a brand new sidebar in both panels that include the same new sidebar that you see in Finder, but the new open and save panels also include some new features that have not been seen thus far.
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Tags: features, files, Finder, flexibility, iLife, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, media, open, panels, review, save