“Many functions in Mac OS X are only exposed to the user via System Preferences, so as you might guess, a lot of new things in Leopard show up there. Among them are a few of the ‘secret new features’ that have never been previously announced in demonstrations of Leopard, laying to rest the hopes of certain critics that Steve Jobs somehow failed to deliver upon his assurance that the new system would deliver a variety of other new features Apple was keeping under wraps so that competitors wouldn’t copy them before they were released,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
McLean covers:
• The Origins of System Preferences
• Control Panel Evolution
• Control Panel Items
• The Control Strip
• Control Panel Overload
• NeXTSTEP Preferences
• Mac OS X System Preferences
• New in Leopard: System Preferences
• .Mac Settings
• Accounts Settings
• Parental Controls
• Other New Settings
• Bluetooth Controls
• Sharing Controls
• Desktop Controls
• Network Controls
• System Cleanup
McLean takes a look at the origins of System Preferences and what’s new in Mac OS X Leopard in the full article here.