Zengobi's Blog: Getting excited about Leopard!

Getting excited about Leopard!

Monday, October 22, 2007

Okay. I have to admit I've felt a bit underwhelmed about Leopard the past few months.

But, after watching the guided tour and reading the huge list of 300 features I now feel that, while Leopard doesn't have any big feature I'm really jonesing (well, perhaps Time Machine), I am super-thrilled with a ton of the little features.

Things like Back to My Mac, stacks, smarter DVD player, iChat screen sharing, much improved iCal, Mail's forward multiple messages as attachment, Photo Booth burst mode & backdrops, all the new security features, Spotlight searching across multiple Macs, iLife media browser in all Open panels, scrolling non-active windows, system-wide grammar checker, tabbed Terminal, all the Xcode 3 features, plus....

Heck, I think I'm excited about most of these 300 "little" features! Is it Friday yet? :-)

4 Comments:

Hi George,

Quick question for you. Has anyone been reporting problems with running 3.2 under the leopard betas? I've been looking at the most recent beta of leopard and it looks like Curio dies on startup. Are you guys planning an update, or will we have to upgrade?

Thanks

By Anonymous, at 5:47 PM
Curio 3 supports Panther and Tiger, but, as you noticed, does not run under Leopard (ironically the library modules we had to link to for Panther means it cannot work under Leopard).

On the other hand, Curio 4 supports Tiger and runs just fine under Leopard (since we don't have to link to Panther-compatible libraries anymore). So, if you are thinking about moving up to Leopard, you should also look into upgrading to Curio 4.

By George, at 6:29 PM
That's a shame. I just bought 3.2 a few months ago, and had decided to wait another version before upgrading, because the 4.0 feature set just didn't strike me as all that compelling. Leopard I'll be upgrading to, but upgrading curio will just have to wait. Bummer.

You should seriously considering changing that and working in an updater for version 3, since you were selling it up until just a couple months ago.

By Anonymous, at 9:59 AM
We're going to support Curio 3 on Leopard!

See this blog posting for more details.

By George, at 2:26 PM