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

Well, my Leopard Feature Presentation didn’t get off to a positive start yesterday when I blasted Leopard’s so-called New Desktop. But today, I’m going to take things to a more positive note by looking at one of the new Leopard features that I’m very happy to see: the new Help menu and Help Viewer.
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Tags: accessiblity, Apple, features, Help, Help Viewer, Leopard Feature Presentation, Mac OS X Leopard, Macs, menu, review, search, switchers