Sorry folks, but try as hard as I might, I was unable to get my hands on an external hard drive or on any friends who have a Leopard laptop with an external hard drive that has Time Machine set up. I even postponed the Leopard Feature Presentation on Time Machine to be the penultimate post for the month of November in the hopes that I could use it before then! Therefore, I have not been able to get my hands on Time Machine, and therefore, I cannot honestly review it. I could regurgitate how it works, but what’s the point of doing that? We ALL know how it works! I want to talk about my opinions based on using it, and how can I do that unless I get a chance to use it.

Therefore, although it’s kind of awkward, this post shall serve as an IOU. I promise, at my earliest possible convenience, to update this post with a full-fledged Leopard Feature Presentation for Time Machine as soon as I have been able to set it up, use it, and feel like I’ve worn out my back up lights. So, whenever that is, I will finish up the last little bit of this blog series. I promise.

Feature Satisfaction Rating: *insert random repetitive excusing explanation here*

Be sure to check out the other articles in the Leopard Feature Presentation, occurring throughout the month of November here on Webmacster87.info.

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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

It’s probably unreasonable for me to be so conceited as to think that my blog serieses (what’s the plural of “series”?) are spectator sports, but if there was speculation around this Leopard Feature Presentation, I bet that the odds would be pretty good that I would review Quick Look, well, rather quickly. A simple feature it may be, and it may make some people wonder about the purpose of it, but indeed, it is a handy new feature that opens up a glimpse to powerful potential.
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Tags: features, innovation, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, potential, preview, Quick Look, review, simple