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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

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

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.

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

Vienna is an awesome news reader. Don’t let the ugly website put you off, it has all the features that I am looking for in a news reader and unlike Net News Wire or News Fire its free!

Apple has updated the Mac OS X Section of there website. It now includes a list of the 300+ new features that will be included with Leopard. It is definitely worth taking a look at.

My favorites on the list are still “Spaces” that will provide multiple desktops without needing to use a third party application and “Stacks” which are new way to organize files in the dock. I am hoping that “Stacks” will help keep my desktop a little bit cleaner.

http://blog.jagregory.com/2006/05/15/javascript-console-in-safari

This is a nice quick tip that I found to enable the JavaScript debug menu in Safari.

Apple looks to increase the market share of the Safari web browser by offering it to Windows users. If enough people make the switch to Safari maybe more sites will launch with JavaScript support for Safari. Having more compatibility is a good thing for everyone.

You can download the new Safari at http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

iTunes 7.2 is available for download and offers support for “iTunes Plus”, the new DRM free tracks sell for $1.29. I am glad to see that at least one of the major label record companies is catching on to the idea that DRM makes using their product difficult.