Oct 20
The Little Gems of Leopard
Topic: apple, code, general|
There are 300 reasons to upgrade to Leopard (Vista 2.0) - including the venerable Time Machine. Most of them are big and well publicized. But here a list of 7 little-known gems that is going to make me super-love Leopard.
- Automator - UI Recording and Playback
“Use a new action called Watch Me Do that lets you record a user action…and replay as an action in a workflow.” -
Finder - Path Bar
“Just choose Show Path Bar from the View menu and the path is visible at the bottom of the Finder window. You can also drag files to any location in the Path Bar.” -
iChat - Tabbed Chat
“Consolidate your chat windows into a single tabbed window.” -
Imaging - Enhanced Wireless Capture
“Wirelessly import images from many 802.11-enabled digital cameras and Bluetooth devices.” aka the iPhone. -
Photo Booth - Video Recording
“Use Photo Booth to make movie clips.” -
Spotlight - Dictionary Definitions in Spotlight
“Quickly find the definition of any word by entering it in the Spotlight search field.” -
Terminal - Tabbed Windows
“Keep multiple Terminal sessions going in a single, tabbed window.”
November 4th, 2007 at 18:09
[...] The new Dashcode tool in Leopard is pretty nifty. I created a very useful RSS widget for the comments on “theWhole > sum(parts)” in 60 seconds. No kidding. The tool is packaged with a slew of templates for various kinds of widget and is definitely a surprising little gem. [...]