Darren Watt

Just got Leopard installed on the MacBook. Everything seems generally ok, bit zippier (expected that with clean install), apart from it has a bug connecting to Windows Shares on the network. It connects to the server ok, but you can’t browse the contents - after a bit of googling, found lots of other people having this problem too, and the way to solve it is to connect to the shares by IP address rather than hostname, ie. Ctrl-K in Finder, then add smb://192.168.*.*/ with the correct IP address.

Features I’ve noticed so far..

• 3D Dock - Wow! No, makes no difference.
• Stacks - quite cool looking, but I don’t see it as particularly useful.
• Spaces - a good copy of a feature that unix has done since the dawn of time. Whenever I’ve tried to use multscreen stuff I forget about the other screens so it’s wasted on me. I’ll give it another try though.
• Photobooth - They’ve jazzed it up a bit so you can have animated or still ‘greenscreen’ type backdrops, which is fun for a few seconds. Will sell Mac’s in showrooms as before.
• iChat -Now supports Google Talk. About time. Need to have more of a play to see if it will replace Adium.
• Time Machine - They added System Restore. That’s it really, not really played with it but it looks like it will only back up to a volume rather than a network share. Can probably set up a virtual volume on the share and mount that, so will look into that later.

So that’s mainly it. Looks a bit prettier, and the apps I use all seem to work the same. Frontrow’s been updated to look like Apple TV, but I never use it because of the mediacentre, however it was quite handy when I was travelling.

Still no way of stopping iTunes determine gapless playback everytime you start it, only way to stop this seems to be letting it finish it’s business.