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The things I like best about Leopard's new features

Well, the published ones anyway:

All the AppleScript fixes. Unicode support, better Property List handling, Updated Language Guide, better Folder Actions, better way to target applications, all of it
Automator: UI Recording and Playback and the CL Utility. The former, because even though it tends to create tortured syntax at the script level, it is useful to a lot of people, and the latter because it's nice for sysadmins....and that's what I am!
Dashcode: Because JavaScript is a "real" language, and deserves a solid IDE.
Desktop: Spring-Loaded folders in the Dock...there at last, there at last, great god almighty, there at last!
Finder: Screen sharing built in and the Path bar. The former, because it was stupid to NOT have this, and the latter, because knowing where you are is really quite important.
iCal: All of it. How silly was it for Apple to not have a solid, multiuser calendaring client up to now?
iChat: Crap, there's so many of them. Screen Sharing, Recording, Multiple Logins, Animated Buddy icons, Watch for my Name, Tabbed Chat, better file xfers...mmmm....sweet, sweet feature set improvements.
Networking: The new Airport menu items should rock. It's about time they stole something useful from WIndows, like ease of identifying secured networks.
Preview: PDF repagination, better annotation...Adobe may be getting competition for once.
Printing: Kerberized Printing! SQUEE! Location-Aware printing? SQUEE²!
Quick Look: Oh.Hell.Yeah.
Safari: Better Tabs, yay, better find, yay, better build - in PDF support, yay. Now, if its JavaScript is better much, that will be cool
Security: Tagging Downloaded Applications - if the implementation is good, this will rock. Improved Smart Card features - Always good. Library Randomization - Vista had it first, but it's still a good idea. Windows SMB Packet Signing - Many, many sysadmins are happy as hell about this.
TextEdit: ODF and Word 2007 support - sure, why not
UNIX: Officially "UNIX", improved automounts, Dtrace, Wide Area Bonjour, Kerberized NFS? SWEET!

I'll take a look at Server...um, later.

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Well, the published ones anyway:

All the AppleScript fixes. Unicode support, better Property List handling, Updated Language Guide, better Folder Actions, better way to target applications, all of it
Automator: UI Recording and Playback and the CL Utility. The former, because even though it tends to create tortured syntax at the script level, it is useful to a lot of people, and the latter because it's nice for sysadmins....and that's what I am!
Dashcode: Because JavaScript is a \"real\" language, and deserves a solid IDE.
Desktop: Spring-Loaded folders in the Dock...there at last, there at last, great god almighty, there at last!
Finder: Screen sharing built in and the Path bar. The former, because it was stupid to NOT have this, and the latter, because knowing where you are is really quite important.
iCal: All of it. How silly was it for Apple to not have a solid, multiuser calendaring client up to now?
iChat: Crap, there's so many of them. Screen Sharing, Recording, Multiple Logins, Animated Buddy icons, Watch for my Name, Tabbed Chat, better file xfers...mmmm....sweet, sweet feature set improvements.
Networking: The new Airport menu items should rock. It's about time they stole something useful from WIndows, like ease of identifying secured networks.
Preview: PDF repagination, better annotation...Adobe may be getting competition for once.
Printing: Kerberized Printing! SQUEE! Location-Aware printing? SQUEE²!
Quick Look: Oh.Hell.Yeah.
Safari: Better Tabs, yay, better find, yay, better build - in PDF support, yay. Now, if its JavaScript is better much, that will be cool
Security: Tagging Downloaded Applications - if the implementation is good, this will rock. Improved Smart Card features - Always good. Library Randomization - Vista had it first, but it's still a good idea. Windows SMB Packet Signing - Many, many sysadmins are happy as hell about this.
TextEdit: ODF and Word 2007 support - sure, why not
UNIX: Officially \"UNIX\", improved automounts, Dtrace, Wide Area Bonjour, Kerberized NFS? SWEET!

\n\nI'll take a look at Server...um, later.