Leopord review pt 2: “Compliment Sandwich”
Keeping it short and sweet this time: + is good, - is…not so good.
[+]The Dictionary application has been improved (Yates, this one’s for you). The Dictionary interface has been updated with tabs for searching dictionary, thesaurus, Apple.com, and…Wikipedia! Now you can get correct spellings, definitions and all the encyclopedic information you’ve ever wanted in one app. Use it with Quicksilver and keep Wiki at your fingertips.
[-]Connecting to SMB shares…still trying to figure this one out, as are many other users. Sometimes the share is read-only, sometimes not. Sometimes you get a kernel panic just by browsing an SMB share. Apple’s 10.5.1 update for Leopard “addresses an issue in which Microsoft Windows shared folders may be read-only when connected via SMB,” but I don’t think they’ve got it figured out just yet either. I don’t know why they changed Networking in 10.5, it was perfect in 10.4.
[-]Wide reports of poor wireless performance, but thankfully I’ve not experienced it <knock on wood>. I believe this was also fixed with the 10.5.1 update. I did learn a geeky little trick with Airport in 10.5: Alt+click the Airport icon in your menu bar to see the MAC address, channel, and transmit rate of your wireless connection.
[+]Quick View. Click a file, press cmd+y or the space bar and OS X displays the file without opening any application. Wonder what that PDF is on your desktop? Click. Spacebar. Blam! Quick View lets you read the entire document, and you can adjust to full screen. It’s quickly becoming my preferred way for reading PDFs. Quick View works with all files, and plays especially nice with PDFs, Word/Excel/PowerPoint files, and images.