Opening files is so 2006.
So
you're flipping through files in the Finder. But you're looking for
something specific and you don't have time to open lots of files to
find it. Enter Quick Look. It gives you a sneak peek of entire files -
even multiple-page documents and video - without opening them.
See everything.
Quick
Look works with nearly every file on your system, including images,
text files, PDF documents, movies, Keynote presentations, Mail
attachments, and Microsoft Word and Excel files. Just tap the Space bar
to see a file in Quick Look, or click the Quick Look icon in the Finder
window (if it's not there already, add it by selecting Customize
Toolbar from the View menu in the Finder). Then click the arrow icon to
see the same file full screen - even video as it plays.
A Quick Look back in time.
You
can use Quick Look to your advantage when you're searching for files in
Time Machine. Once Time Machine locates the file you're looking for,
use Quick Look to verify its contents. Then restore with a click.
Time Machine. A giant leap backward.
Time
Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that's built right into
Mac OS X. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac -
digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you
ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything.
Set it, then forget it.
To
start using Time Machine, all you have to do is connect an external
drive (sold separately) to your Mac. You're asked if you want it to be
your backup drive, and if you say yes, Time Machine takes care of
everything else. Automatically. In the background. You'll never have to
worry about backing up again.
Back up everything.
Time
Machine backs up your system files, applications, accounts,
preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time
Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only
keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked
on a given day - so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.
Go back in time.
Enter
the Time Machine browser in search of your long-lost files and you see
exactly how your computer looked on the dates you're browsing. Select a
specific date, let Time Machine find your most recent changes, or do a
Spotlight search to find exactly what you're looking for. Use Quick
Look to verify the file's contents if you wish. Then click Restore and
Time Machine brings it back to the present. Time Machine restores
individual files, complete folders, iPhoto libraries, and Address Book
contacts. You can even use Time Machine to restore your entire computer
if need be.
How Time Machine works.
Beneath
the hood, Time Machine is every bit as remarkable as it is on the
outside. It's based on stable and secure Mac OS X core technologies
(like the HFS+ file system), automatically tracks file changes, and is
aware of file system permissions and user access privileges. Bottom
line: It's working with more information than other backup utilities
and doesn't need to bother you for input.
Pick a disk. Any disk.
You
can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive
connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can
also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing,
Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices.
Back up the whole family.
The
moment you choose a Time Machine drive, a single folder is created on
the drive. Inside this folder is a subfolder for each Mac being backed
up. (Yes, multiple Mac systems can share the same backup drive.) And
within each subfolder is another list of folders - one for every backup
performed on that Mac. Time Machine uses a standard file system to
store all of its information. Nothing hidden anywhere.
Anatomy of a backup.
For
the initial backup, Time Machine copies the entire contents of the
computer to your backup drive. It copies every file exactly (without
compression), skipping caches and other files that aren't required to
restore your Mac to its original state. Following the initial backup,
Time Machine makes only incremental backups - copying just the files
that have changed since the previous backup. Time Machine creates links
to any unchanged files, so when you travel back in time you see the
entire contents of your Mac on a given day.
Timing is everything.
Every
hour, every day, an incremental backup of your Mac is made
automatically as long as your backup drive is attached to your Mac.
Time Machine saves the Time Machine iconhourly backups for the past 24
hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for
everything older than a month. Only files created and then deleted
before the next hourly backup will not be included in the long term.
Put another way: You're well covered
Working on your schedule.
Say
Time Machine is in the middle of a backup and you want to shut down
your Mac or put it to sleep. Who wins? Like you have to ask. Time
Machine simply stops the backup process and remembers where it is. It
automatically resumes when your Mac is active again.
Back up only what you need.
By
default, Time Machine backs up everything on your Mac. But if you want
to exclude certain files, that's easy enough. Just go to Time Machine
preferences and check Time Machine backup window "Skip system files" or
specify folders you wish to skip. You can also delete a single file or
folder that you've been backing up - and delete it from all of your
backups going back in time.
Backing up to a full disk.
One
day, no matter how large your backup drive is, it will run out of
space. And Time Machine has an action plan. It alerts you that it will
start deleting previous backups, oldest first. Before it deletes any
backup, Time Machine copies files that might be needed to fully restore
your disk for every remaining backup. (Moral of the story: The larger
the drive, the farther back in time you can back up.)
Migration with style.
To
make setting up a new Mac even simpler, Time Machine shares its data
with other Mac utilities. Use Migration Assistant to copy portions of
any Time Time Machine finder iconMachine backup to a new Mac, or select
"Restore System from Time Machine" in the Leopard DVD Utilities menu.
Choose any date recorded in Time Machine to set up your new Mac exactly
as your previous Mac was on that date
Ready when you are.
When
your mobile Mac is connected to your backup drive, Time Machine works
as you'd expect. When it isn't connected, Time Machine also works as
you'd expect. It keeps track of which files have changed since the last
backup and backs them up to your backup drive the next time you
connect. On any Mac, if Time Machine is unable to perform a backup,
that's duly noted in its preferences pane.
Mail. Think outside the inbox.
Leopard
transforms email into personalized stationery. Notes you can access
anywhere. To-dos that change as your errands do. For everything you do
with email--and some things you haven't thought of yet--there's Mail.
Sincerely yours.
Mail
for Leopard features more than 30 professionally designed stationery
templates that make a virtual keepsake out of every email you send.
Mail StationaryFrom invitations to birthday greetings, stationery
templates feature coordinated layouts, fonts, colors, and drag-and-drop
photo placement from your iPhoto library - everything to help you get
your point across. You can even create personalized templates. Messages
created with stationery in Mail use standard HTML that can be read by
popular webmail services and email programs on both Mac computers and PCs.
Noteworthy indeed.
Ever
email yourself a reminder that gets lost in your inbox? Mail lets you
write handy notes you can access from anywhere.Mail Notes Brainstorm
ideas, jot down meeting notes, scribble a phone number - notes can
include graphics, colored text, and attachments. Group notes into
folders or create Smart Mailboxes that group them for you. Since your
notes folder acts like an email mailbox, you can retrieve notes from
any Mac or PC using an IMAP mail service like .Mac or AOL.
Much ado about to-dos.
Forget
manually adding a new item to your to-do list every time an email hits
your inbox. Mail Tasks Simply highlight text in an email, then click
the To Do button to create a to-do from a message. Include a due date,
set an alarm, or assign priorities. Every to-do includes a link to the
original email or note, and to-dos automatically appear in iCal,
complete with any changes you make. And since to-dos are stored with
your email (when using an IMAP mail service), you can access them from
Mail on any Mac.
Spotlight on Mail.
With
smarter relevance ranking in Spotlight, you'll find the right email at
the top of the search results list. Everything you create in Leopard
Mail - to-dos, notes, and, of course, email messages - appears in a
Spotlight search of your system.
Stop the presses.
Subscribe
to an RSS feed in Mail and you'll know the moment an article or blog
post hits the wire. Even better, you can choose to have new articles
appear in your inbox alongside your latest email messages. Sorting your
news is easy, too. Use Smart Mailboxes to organize incoming news
articles according to search terms that pique your interest. Mail
shares its unread RSS feed count with Safari, so your reading list
always stays in sync.
Data, detected.
Say
you get an email invitation to dinner. What if Mail recognized the
address of the restaurant and let you map directions on the web? Or let
you click once to add the date to your iCal calendar? With Leopard, it
does. Mail even recognizes relative dates ("let's meet next Tuesday")
and keywords ("dinner tomorrow"), so you can act on information rather
than enter it.
Setup made simple.
Now you
can set up a new Mail account in one easy step. Just enter your current
email address and password and let Mail do the rest. Mail works with
the most popular email providers, like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL
Mail, automatically configuring those cryptic server settings for you
iChat. Not being there is half the fun.
Filled
with cool new features, iChat turns any video chat into an event. Video
backdrops, Photo Booth effects, photo slideshows, Keynote
presentations, even movies on your Mac - you can share it all using
iChat.
Chat from anywhere (or just look like it).
With
the new video backdrops built into iChat, you can make it look like
you're chatting from the Eiffel Tower, under the sea, or from the moon.
You can also create your own custom backdrops by dragging a picture or
video from iPhoto or the Finder into the video effects window.
Backdrops even show up on the screens of buddies who don't have Leopard.
Chat for effect.
Transform
your video chats using new Photo Booth effects. Add kapow! to a chat
with the comic book effect. Get twisted with twirl. Soften your image
with glow. Just choose an effect and your video changes instantly.
Show off (without showing up).
Why
wait for a darkened room and a projector to present vacation photos or
Keynote slides? iChat Theater Now you can do it all remotely, right in
iChat. Put on a photo slideshow, click through a Keynote presentation,
or play a movie - in full screen, accompanied by a video feed of you
hosting - while your buddy looks on. In fact, you can show any file on
your system that works with Quick Look.
Share and share alike.
Thanks
to iChat screen sharing, you and your buddy can observe and control a
single desktop with iChat, making it a cinch to collaborate with a
colleague, browse the web with a friend, or pick plane seats with your
spouse. Share your own desktop or your buddy's - you both have control
at all times. And iChat automatically initiates an audio chat when you
start a screen sharing session, so you can talk things through while
you're at it.
Chatting for the record.
Now
you can save your audio and video chats for posterity with iChat
recording. Before recording starts, iChat notifies your buddies and
asks for their permission to record. When you're done chatting, iChat
stores your audio chats as AAC files and video chats as MPEG-4 files so
you can play them in iTunes or QuickTime. Share them with colleagues,
friends, and family or sync them to your iPod and play on the go.
Crystal-clear audio.
iChat
uses the AAC-LD audio codec to deliver the clearest possible sound
during audio chats. A wideband codec that samples a full range of vocal
frequencies, AAC-LD sounds great with any voice.
Still the best for text.
Text messaging also gets a boost in Leopard, thanks to these additions:
AIM to please.
iChat
works with AIM, the largest instant messaging community in the U.S. You
and your buddies can be either AIM or .Mac users. Text, audio, and
video chat whether your buddies use a Mac or a PC. Sign in with your
AIM account, and all your buddies appear in your iChat buddy list.
Spaces. Room for everything.
You
do a lot on your Mac. So what happens when projects pile up? Easy. Use
Spaces to group your windows and banish clutter completely. Leopard
gives you a Space for everything and puts everything in its Space.
Rearrange the rooms.
Create
a Space for work. Create a Space for play. Organize each Space the way
you want it just by dragging in windows. Keep all your work projects in
one Space and that fun flick you made in iMovie in another. Create a
communication Space for iChat and Mail. You can even rearrange your
Spaces with drag-and-drop ease--shift a Space and every window in it
comes along for the ride.
Make yourself at home.
Moving
from Space to Space is easy. Get a bird's-eye view and select the Space
you want or toggle between Spaces using the arrow keys. Even the Dock
is down with Spaces: When you click a Dock icon, Leopard whisks you to
the Space (or Spaces) where you have that application open.
Pick your patterns.
Configure
your Spaces by visiting the Expose Spaces pane in System Preferences.
Add rows and columns until you have all the real estate you need.
Arrange your Spaces as you see fit, then choose the function keys you
want to control them. You can also assign applications to specific
Spaces, so you'll always know where, say, Safari or Keynote is.
Safari. Still the world's best web browser.
Now
your favorite web browser is also the fastest on the Mac. With page
load speeds that outperform every other major browser on the Mac,
Safari for Leopard also introduces a few new features to the mix.
Browse like the wind.
The
fastest web browser today, Safari loads and draws pages up to 3 times
faster than Firefox 2 and up to 5.5 times faster than Opera 9. And it
executes JavaScript up to 2.7 times faster than Firefox 2 and up to 2.6
times faster than Opera 9.1 What does all that mean for you? Less time
loading pages and more time enjoying them.
Find inline.
Type
a word into the new Find banner below the Bookmarks Bar, and Safari
shows you the number of matches and brightly highlights matching terms
while dimming the rest of the page. So you can view and browse every
instance - in an instant.
Pick up the tabs.
With
tabbed browsing in Safari, you can open and switch between multiple web
pages in a single window. Drag and drop your tabs to rearrange them,
open one in a new browser window, or merge all your current windows
into one tabbed window. Safari resizes each tab depending on the number
you have open. You can bookmark a set of tabs or revert to the tabs
that were open when you last closed or quit Safari.
PDFs at your service.
The
new PDF controls in Safari let you zoom in and out, save a PDF file, or
open one in Preview - all from the comfort of your browser.
Resize at will.
Maybe
the text field you're typing in is a bit too small to read. Or maybe
you just have a lot to say. Either way, Safari lets you resize text
fields on any website, just by grabbing the corner of the field. Resize
a field and the web page reflows to make room.
Clip it.
Now
you can turn any web page into a Dashboard widget. Click the Web Clip
button next to the address field in Safari and select exactly what you
want your new widget to display. Then click Add, and Safari sends your
Web Clip widget to Dashboard, where you can view it alongside your
other widgets. You can even customize its border using built-in styles
on the back of the widget. Your Web Clip widget is "live" and will
update as frequently as the page from which it came.
Surf securely.
Safari
protects your personal information when you surf the web on a shared or
public Mac. Go ahead - check your bank account and .Mac email at the
library or shop for birthday presents on the family Mac. Safari also
uses strong 128-bit encryption when accessing secure sites such as your
bank or an online store, so you can transmit account and payment
information with confidence.
Parental Controls. Safety first.
As
a parent, you want your kids to have a safe and happy experience on the
computer. Leopard keeps an eye out even when you can't. With a simple
setup, you can manage, monitor, and control the time your kids spend on
the Mac, the sites they visit, and the people they chat with.
A safer Internet.
Using
the same technology that keeps your inbox free of junk mail, a new
content filter in Leopard takes a quick peek at websites before they
load and tries to determine if they're suitable for kids. If not,
Leopard blocks them from view. Of course, you can override this filter
by creating lists of specific websites you want - or don't want - your
children to see.
Bedtime and time limits.
Many
kids would sit at the computer for days if you let them. Fortunately,
Leopard makes it easier to set the rules. Just enter bedtime and time
limits for using the Mac, specifying different times for weekdays and
weekends if you wish. Parents happy, kids happy (relatively).
Under log and key.
With
Leopard, your Mac logs your kids' activities to help you keep them from
communicating with people they shouldn't be. The log keeps track of
websites your kids have visited, applications they've used, and people
they've chatted with. It's the perfect way to make sure your children
stay safe online. You can access the parental controls and monitor logs
remotely from any Mac on the network.
Boot Camp. Run Windows on your Mac.
Leopard
is the world's most advanced operating system. So advanced, it even
lets you run Windows if there's a PC application you need to use. Just
get a copy of Windows and start up Boot Camp, now included with
Leopard. Setup is simple and straightforward - just as you'd expect
with a Mac.
Run Windows at native speed.
Boot
Camp supports the most popular 32-bit releases of Windows XP and
Windows Vista. When you use either operating system on your Mac, your
Windows applications will run at native speed. Windows applications
have full access to multiple processors and multiple cores, accelerated
3D graphics, and high-speed connections like USB, FireWire, Wi-Fi, and
Gigabit Ethernet.
Ready, setup, go.
When
you're ready for Windows, the Boot Camp Assistant sets up your hard
drive for you. It leaves all your Mac data in place while it creates a
separate partition on your drive for Windows, and then begins the
installation process. Boot Camp includes a PDF setup guide, so you can
refer to it as you go.
Drivers galore.
When
you install Windows using Boot Camp, you won't need to search the
Internet for drivers or burn a disc. After you run Boot Camp, simply
insert the Leopard DVD to install the necessary drivers. Everything you
need to make your Mac work with Windows is right there. When you use a
Windows application, you'll have full access to unique Mac features
(iSight, Apple Remote, trackpad, specific keyboard keys, keyboard
backlighting) and connectivity (wired and wireless).
Choose your OS.
After
you've installed Windows using Boot Camp, you can start up your Mac
using either operating system. Simply hold down the Option key when you
power up and choose one or the other.
Already running Boot Camp? Even easier.
If
you're already working with Boot Camp Beta, you're practically finished
before you start. All you need is some new drivers. To install them,
simply start up your Mac in Windows and update the drivers from the
Leopard DVD.
System Requirements
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