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Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard to pack many significant features

“Released in April 2005, Mac OS X version 10.4 (known as Tiger) introduced the Spotlight integrated desktop search feature, a new Dashboard that popularized widget use, an updated Safari Web browser, and more,” TechRepublic’s Erik Ecke reports.

Now, Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is just around the corner.

Ecke reports, “Featuring more than 300 updates and improvements, the new ‘Leopard’ release packs several significant enhancements. In addition to including a new Time Machine automated backup utility, the updated operating system boasts Spotlight search capability across multiple systems, the Front Row and Photo Booth applications introduced with Tiger on Intel-powered systems, virtual desktop ‘Spaces’ that enable users to maintain multiple desktop with specific applications running simultaneously, the addition of RSS, stationery and other new features to Mail, and much more.”

Eckel takes a deeper look at some of the many new features and enhancements Apple is putting into Mac OS X Leopard, including:
• Boot Camp
• Desktop enhancements
• Finder
• Front Row
• iCal
• iChat
• Mail
• Quick Look
• Parental Controls
• Photo Booth
• Safari 3.0
• Stacks
• Spaces
• Spotlight
• Time Machine
• Universal Access

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