Did you find any features on Leopard that were surprisingly cool?

[projectMECCA]

Did you find any features you didnt think about before pre-Leopard but now love?


Personally, I have 2.

I love the new Dictionary with Wikipedia. It is now open all the time and I use it religiously. To me it has become the ultimate reference tool. I never dreamed of it being so cool and useful.

Another is the fact that i can scroll inactive windows. its just so functional and cool.

 

[overanalyzer]

I had obsessively read so much about Leopard that not much was a surprise, though I've been really happy with many features, especially Time Machine (already recovered my whole machine after a botched Boot Camp installation), Spaces, .Mac syncing of settings/Dock/Dashboard, web clipping, and some of the other well-hyped improvements.

One thing that was a sort of small but very pleasant surprise is the new Movies widget. I think it exemplifies what a widget should be - intuitive, quick, everything in one place. Really a great addition to the core Apple widgets...I'd love it if they ported it to the iPhone too.

EDIT: Scrolling inactive windows is really cool! I don't think I'd even noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out. Good to know my obsession wasn't completely total

 

[byakuya]

I also love the new dictionary.
Like the integration of wikipedia but more so that there is a Japanese dictionary and a Japanese thesaurus...
the new dictionary just rocks.

 

[paul.b.davis]

yeah, inactive scrolling is awesome for when you are working in one window and reading another...

especially so you don't have to keep cmd-tabbing or using expose

 

[admiraldennis]

Quicklook is really slick and I use it all the time.

 

[Makosuke]

Another is the fact that i can scroll inactive windows. its just so functional and cool.

This is totally the "money" feature for me. I discovered it accidentally the day I installed--I sort of reflexively TRY to do that periodically, except in Leopard it works. Pretty sure that's a standard feature on Windows (or is it only with some mouse drivers?), and MAN is it handy in some situations.

I also hadn't put the slightest bit of thought into Quicklook ("meh"), but it turned out I really love it--so nice for poking around media folders or "hey, check this out" for friends.

Ooh, Wikipedia-ized-Dictionary.app is nifty. Wikipedia without the clutter!

 

[nlivo]

screen sharing is really easy, quick and cool. Quick Look is great and Time Machine still very much has the "cool" factor all over it. Sometimes i just open it so i can scroll my mouse over the little timeline on the right side of the screen.

 

[arkitect]

Quick Look for me.

But I hate the opening screen. All that purple "space travel" imagery is so kitsch.

 

[sunfast]

Quick Look is awesome, scrolling inactive windows is really useful too. I like webclip and I think searching menus from the help menu is really useful.

And the new cat looks good too. Love the new massive icons - does anybody know where they are located in the system so I could have a browse?