Comments on: Thoughts on Leopard

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:00:34 +0000

@jeff – there is Safari Adblock: http://safariadblock.sourceforge.net/

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:25:42 +0000

I want to use Safari…but I can’t live without Flashblock for FF! too many blinking ads averywhere! Is there a Safari equivalent?

By: Chris Marshall

Chris Marshall — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:29:28 +0000

Is it me or has a lot of the ‘buzz’ died down? You know what, I hardly use any of the new features like Spaces, and I find the download folder in the dock a real pain.

All in all a lot of hype????

By: luca

luca — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:33:44 +0000

QuickLook would have been great for Mail.app. I don’t like having the preview pane always open, so pressing the space bar on a message and getting QuickLook opened with a preview of the email would be fantastic.

By: Allyn

Allyn — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:11:37 +0000

Paul – Nice write up. I recently (last week) converted to Mac and Leopard – glad I did. Learned some new things here and found couple of cool apps – thanks!

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:19:51 +0000

Like Leopard too, although I had add those nice transparent drawer icons which I noticed on TUAW earlier this week, makes the stacks much more useful.

One big criticism I have noticed is that the Finder is starting to behave like Windows, ie when you open an application it jumps to the front, or if you hide certain applications and then quit one, the hidden application comes out of hiding. This happens all the time with Firefox, it just refuses to stay hidden, pops up after any Finder or app exit. Extremely annoying.

So I think Apple need to ensure that the Finder behaves like previous version of OS X.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:48:25 +0000

@Mike: Thanks for the Safari Stand plug-in suggestion- I don’t really want to use any Application Enhancers. My main problem has been with Newsfire, and I think its because I didn’t set the options up properly!

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:57:34 +0000

Paul, if you have some time it would be great to see a post of the new spotlight vs. quicksilver with the pros and cons of each. Your statement “Spotlight is pretty slick, so much so that Iâ€™m thinking about ditching QuickSilver for Spotlight as I only really use it as an app launcher anyways.” is pretty strong and I am sure many would be opposed to getting rid of a such a great app.

Love to hear your thoughts…

By: nathan

nathan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:23:59 +0000

I’m definitely on 1.6.4 and 10.5.1

By: Sharvil

Sharvil — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:58:35 +0000

@nathan:

Try upgrading OS X to 10.5.1 and pukka to 1.6.4

By: nathan

nathan — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:25:41 +0000

I just installed pukka on my fresh install of leopard. All it does is crash after being open for 1min. Did you have this problem?

By: Sharvil

Sharvil — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:22:40 +0000

Leopard is fast period.
And I use a 3 year old powerbook 12″ g4 (although I have maxed out on upgrades).

By: Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:11:13 +0000

@Adam: Safari Stand plug-in will open new window links in a tab. Works great for me.

By: Kelmon

Kelmon — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:07:16 +0000

This a gratuitious “have a look at my review” comment but I invite you to take a look at the review that I wrote for Aelon at http://www.aelon.net/2007/11/mac-os-x-105-leopard-a-spotty-release/ – in this review I’m not as positive. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a heck of a lot to like in Leopard but there’s some aspects of it that drive me nuts. Seriously, I want to love Spaces but some of the things that it does drives me absolutely nuts, like suddenly changing your Space for no reason or changing you to another Space when the application you are switching to has a window open in your current Space. It’s a stylish implementation of virtual desktops but it’s a function that needs a reasonable amount of work still.

The Spotlight, Cover Flow and Quick Look combination is the stand out function of this release.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:03:05 +0000

@Crystal: Previously mentioned, Derek Punsalan’s Mail + Gmail IMAP tutorial, (http://5thirtyone.com/archives/862) fixed a lot of my problems. That said, Mail has been crashing, and suggested that it might be the Growl plugin causing it.

My main issue is Time Machine locking up whenever I run iChat or Skype- I think its’ something to do with the video, I’ll try doing an Time Machine update running Photobooth when I get home and see what happens.

By: Ben Lilley

Ben Lilley — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:38:40 +0000

Considering getting rid of QuickSilver? Is the new finder really that great? Maybe I just use QS in a weird way.. I don’t have any items in my dock at all. I use QS exclusively to open folders and applications.

It was part of an experiment to 1) see if I could go without the dock and 2) stop me getting a sore wrist using the mouse.

By: Chris Meisenzahl

Chris Meisenzahl — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:31:26 +0000

I am thrilled that Safari 3 now works w/ Google Docs!

By: greg hickman

greg hickman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:40:14 +0000

Paul, I don’t get the craze with cover flow in the finder either. I don’t see why it’s that valuable…maybe someone can elaborate on how they find it useful. Spaces is the JAM! It has totally revolutionized my workflow. I wrote about how I configured mine via the below link if anyone is interested:

http://www.toonice4tv.com/2007/10/22/mac-os-x-leopard-spaces/

Quick view looks great. I actually haven’t started using it much yet but I’ll give it a whirl. Thanks and great post!

By: Crystal Bradley

Crystal Bradley — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:05:43 +0000

Overall I’m very satisfied with Leopard. However, there are a couple of things that I’ve taken issue with. When moving around spaces you have to click the application window to start working. This irks me when I only have one application running in that space. Seems like it should just select it automatically. My other beef is Mail. I’m not sure if Mail is the problem or Gmail IMAP is the issue. Mail continually goes offline and the only way I can get it back online is by going to my network preferences and disabling my ethernet connection for a few seconds. Things usually come back up after doing that but will go offline again. The other mail issue is that partially messages are showing up in my sent messages folder in Gmail even though I haven’t sent the message. I finally got so fed up that I’m using the gmail interface for all of my mail needs. If anyone has insight on this issue please do share.

By: Justin Cady

Justin Cady — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:29:15 +0000

Safari is stupid fast, and Arabesque is the greatest screensaver in history. Oh yeah, and all that other stuff too.

Leopard is great, but I agree when I first started using it I felt like I was in Tiger. Maybe that is just an example of a smooth OS transition that actually added features to make things better than reinvent the wheel.

By: Dr Fence

Dr Fence — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:16:43 +0000

Safari sounds cool, I’ll have to check that out. I too was waiting for spaces, it’s very useful.

I myself was quite happy with the upgrade despite initially losing my airport config and my printer. Yesterday that opinion changed when 10.5.1 trashed the main user’s setup. I couldn’t even launch any programs or use the apple menu. I only have 1 third party app installed, menumeters.

I luckily have a Super Duper backup and it was bootable however it’s not 100% leopard compitable YET. For those looking for a backup solution note that Time Machine is NOT a bootable copy, you have to first boot via the OS/X cd … not fun.

By: GuillaumeB

GuillaumeB — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:29:23 +0000

@Dimitry: Well you know in fact I did not really find a real use for Spaces but when I started o configure it and add certain programs in specified Space then it becomes really interesting. iTunes for example can play music in the background and not clutter my main desktop…etc

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By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:14:14 +0000

Hey. I am also excited about getting my new Macbook. One question. If I plug in my 20″ Apple Cinema Display and still use the Macbooks screen, how does the Spaces Application work?

Without having used this new software, I can totally imagine how useful the features are that you stated.

Let’s have a look at it, next week I can tell more.

By: Dimitry

Dimitry — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:16:50 +0000

Couldn’t agree more about Safari 3. Love the speed and only stick with FF for development reason (mostly just at work).

I actually love Stacks and find myself not even using Spaces are at all. I guess they’re just something to get used to, but being on dual monitors, I have plenty of room for everything.

Annoyance: Safari search is great, but I hate the the search bar is at the top.. I rarely ever see it. Confuses me.