Apps Rendered Redundant by Leopard

[j/k/Andy]

really,

That is only half the job what about outgoing.

Your right, from the Little Snitch site:

Little Snitch handles only outgoing network connections on all network interfaces (Airport, ppp, network cards, ...)
Little Snitch intercepts and delays an application network access until you decide to allow or deny the request or handles the request based on an already defined rule.
Incoming connections can be blocked with the Mac OS X built in firewall.


Sounds like the new firewall will let you pick which apps can receive traffic, but will not stop them from sending traffic out, bummer.

 

[Luis]

What about Quicksilver (gasp!)? Is Spotlight so good now, that we don't need Quicksilver anymore?

No, definately no

Wikipedia widget due to built-in Dictionary function, and Dash Clipping (replaced by WebClip)...

Not only will the wikipedia widget be deemed useless but along with that a lot of widgets thanks to webclip

 

[Me1000]

Ill be glad to replace NetNews Wire with Mail.app if it lets me sync my rss feeds to my iPhone (even if the new feed items are mailed to me)

Other than that probably nothing else from my system!

 

[Fuchal]

Try Burn (http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/) instead of Toast. It's free and amazing.

 

[sunfast]

iBackup will no longer be required (though the developer reckons it will be!)

 

[atari1356]

What about Quicksilver (gasp!)? Is Spotlight so good now, that we don't need Quicksilver anymore?

I remember Steve (or maybe it was Phil Schiller?) at one point said that they were going to update spotlight so that you could launch apps instantly after just typing a couple of letters (as fast as Quicksilver).

I haven't heard anything about whether they actually did it or not though... it will be interesting to see if Spotlight is much faster than it is in Tiger.

 

[netnothing]

I remember Steve (or maybe it was Phil Schiller?) at one point said that they were going to update spotlight so that you could launch apps instantly after just typing a couple of letters (as fast as Quicksilver).

I haven't heard anything about whether they actually did it or not though... it will be interesting to see if Spotlight is much faster than it is in Tiger.

That is mentioned in this article from Apple Insider here:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/19/road_to_mac_os_x_leopard_dashboard_spotlight_and_the_desktop.html&page=4

We'll have to see how well it works.

-Kevin