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33 Things New in Leopard...
and How You’ll Use Them

Who is this book for?

You just started with Leopard. You’re going to start with Leopard soon. You’re not sure when you’re going to move to Leopard. But you want to know more about it.

Book Intro

You haven’t been able to escape the hype. Well, maybe hype isn’t fair, since that implies something that’s overdone. (Well, maybe for some details, it is fair!) Still, you’ve heard about Time Machine, and Spaces, and all sorts of things. But when (if) you think about the details... you’re left wondering... How does it work? How will I use it? Will it make much of a difference in my day-to-day Mac work (or play)?

Time Machine looks cool when you see it on the Apple website. But how do you set it up, where are the backups stored—and how the heck do you really retrieve the things that you need? (Hey, did anyone tell you that you can use it to retrieve things that you threw away last month, even though you already emptied the Trash a few times since then? Oh, and that you need a separate hard drive to store the backups?) I’ll tell you about that, and more.

Spaces... is that really virtual desktops? (No.) Quick Look: You’ve read about it, but, wow!, wait til you read more about it. Stacks in the Dock. A better, faster Spotlight.

But those are only the big things. You’ll want to know about the other interface changes: the improvements to Open/Save dialogs and the Print dialog, and new options for Finder windows. And there are nifty new features in system applications like Mail, iCal, Safari, and Preview.

This book doesn’t cover everything that’s new in Leopard; it’s a tour of the highlights, some big, some small, and some downright tiny. It’s doesn’t have step-by-step instructions for using each item, but it does go into more detail than most magazine-type articles that list a bunch of new features and leave you wondering... “Yeah, but how will I use this?”

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Major New Features
1. Spaces
2. Time Machine
3. Quick Look

The Dock
4. Stacks
4.1 Finder Icon: New Commands

Finder Windows
5. The New Sidebar
5.1 New Button(s) on the Toolbar
5.2 Network Server Sign-on
6. The Path Bar
6.1 Drag-Scrolling
7. General Changes to Window View Options
8. Icon  View Arrangements
8.1 Adjustable Grids for Icon Views
9. Column View Changes
10. The New Cover Flow View

New Finder Commands
11. Deselect All
11.1 Go to the Desktop
11.2 Selecting Icon Names

Spotlight and Searching
12. New Ways to Search
12.1 Metadata Attributes
12.2 Find Things by Name
13. Application Launching

Open/Save Dialogs
14. The Active Sidebar
15. Icon View
15.1 Set Views for Specific Windows
16. Expanded Searches in Open Dialogs
16.1 Media Category
16.2 Quick-Expand Columns

Print Dialog
17. Easier-Access Print Options
18. Page-Through Preview

Fonts and Font Book
19. Automatic Font Activation
20. Print Font Samples
21.1 Preview a Font without Font Book
21.2 New Fonts

Miscellaneous
21. The Guest Account
22. The Help System
23. Screen Sharing
24. Parental Controls

Mail
25. Data Detectors
25.1 Stationery
25.2 Formatted Lists
26. Notes & To-Do’s
27. RSS Feeds

Safari
28. More Tab Power
29. Web-Clip Widgets
30. New PDF Controls
31. New Find Functionality

Preview
32. Selection Tools
33. Annotations

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