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Apple Mail has been given a major overhaul in Leopard. One of this applications new features is the ability to create to do’s inside of a mail message. This new feature fits into my workflow brilliantly.

“Leopard Tip: How to create Mail To Dos from messages” is a good how to article from ars technica

The article Microsoft buys Facebook slice in the Seattle Times describes the details of the interesting move by Microsoft.

Microsoft is paying top dollar to outbid its chief rival for a key piece of online-advertising real estate: leading social-networking site Facebook.

Trinity makes a last second comeback with about 30 laterals. This has to be the best finish to a D III game ever.

You can watch the video at ESPN.

While waiting for my copy of Leopard to arrive by snail mail I have been reading everything I can find about the new OS X online. This of course is to quell the urge to run to the nearest apple store and buy another copy. Macworld’s Leopard Review was the last article I read about the new OS X last night.The Pros

• Easy backup tools
• major improvements in included applications
• addresses numerous shortcomings from previous OS versions
• improved security and networking functions

I have just finished the change from my own personal rails blogging app to Wordpress. I am sad to see the old system go but am excited to try out all the new bells and whistles.

The article “Leopard” over at DaringFireball.net is a nice over view of the new OS X Leopard.

My nutshell take is this: I’ve been using Leopard full-time for about three months, and there’s no question it’s a worthy update. Is 10.5.0 truly ready for production use, or would most users be better off waiting for 10.5.1? We’ll see. No one ever got hurt by waiting a week or two to install a new OS. But there’s no question that most of the new features and changes in Leopard are winners. There are some turds, too, but the ratio of improvements-to-regressions is pretty high by my score.

OS X Leopard is out!!! Engadget has been collecting impressions of the new OS in their article “All about Leopard: gallery, apps, impressions”

Install was pretty painless. A few clicks and you’re off. It took just under an hour (58 minutes, to be exact) to do its thing, despite the installer claiming it would be a 3-4 hour upgrade for our stock MacBook Pro.

For old school users: installing the barebones OS onto a G4 Power Mac’s freshly formated disk took just 20 minutes.

The install chewed up a good 3.3GB of space on top of what was already there. Apple recommends a solid 9GB, so be prepared if you’re constantly low on space like us.

This is a pretty cool portfolio site http://www.mariusroosendaal.com/I got this link from my buddy Joe

MacRumors.com has some new screen shots of the Dock in OSX Leopard. They look pretty sweet, much better than the shelf on it side look.

Apple’s Gold Master (Retail) version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has at least one visual tweak over the developer seeds. It appears Apple has listened to user feedback about the visual inconsistency with dock items appearing on a 3d shelf on the Left and Right side of the screen

I love the Vimeo login page. The clouds in the background move, how cool is that. Vimeo is a video sharing site like youTube but it allows you to share videos with only the people that you want to share them with. It kind of makes me think of Pownce for videos.