Apple Leopard OS X Family Pack Features |
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Desktop. A Neat Place To Work. |
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| Just one look at the desktop in MacOS X Leopard says you've arrived someplace new. From the menu bar to the stunning new Dock, Leopard is designed to help you enjoy the time at your computer, and help you get more out of it. Does your desktop ever get cluttered? You're hardly alone. So you'll love one of the most useful new features in Leopard: Stacks. A stack is a Dock item that gives you fast access to a folder of files. When you click a stack, the files within spring from the Dock in a fan or a grid, depending on the number of items (or the preference you set). Leopard starts off with two premade stacks: one for downloads and the other for documents. The Downloads stack automatically captures files downloaded from Safari, Mail, and iChat, and the Documents stack is a great place to keep things like presentations, spreadsheets, and word processing files. You can create as many stacks as you wish simply by dragging folders to the right side of your Dock. Pretty neat. The new desktop has a semitransparent menu bar and a reflective 3D Dock that perfectly frame your desktop picture, whether you use one of the beautiful included images or cutomize it with a favorite from your iPhoto library. The Dock has a bright active-application signal, and the look of Leopard extends to all applications. Every window has a consistent design theme, and active applications are even more distinct, casting deeper shadows. |
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Finder. Give Your Files The Rock Star Treatment. |
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| Now browsing the files on your Mac is as easy as browsing music in iTunes. That's the idea behind the new Finder in Leopard. You can access everything on your system by flipping through your files using Cover Flow or by clicking items in an iTunes-style sidebar. Now you can actually see your files in the Finder, not just icons, but as they really look. Using Cover Flow, you can flip through your documents as easily as you flip through album art in iTunes. Cover Flow displays each file as a large preview of its first page, and you can click through multipage documents or play movies. Leopard brings new power to your old friend, the sidebar. Items are grouped into categories: places, devices, shared computers, and searches, just like the Source list in iTunes. So with a single click, you're on your way to finding what you need. Combine Cover Flow with Spotlight and you've got one amazingly powerful search tool. Just type your keywords in Spotlight or specify search criteria, then browse through the search results using Cover Flow. You can easily save your searches for future use. Or use the prebuilt searches in the sidebar, such as Yesterday or All Images. You'll soon be doing less searching and more finding. With shared computers automatically displayed in the sidebar, you can find files on any Mac or PC on your network. You can even use Spotlight and Cover Flow when you search another Mac. But here's where things get really interesting. When you click a connected Mac, you can use screen sharing (if authorized, of course), which lets you do anything you could do if you were sitting in front of that computer. Change a system preference, publish an iPhoto album, or add a new playlist to iTunes. Ever wish you could get something from your Mac when you were thousands of miles from home? It's nearly impossible, considering your home Internet provider frequently changes your computer's Internet address, and your router or wireless base station disguises things further. With Leopard and a .Mac account, it's not only possible, it's simple. Back to My Mac keeps an up-to-the-minute record of all your computers' addresses on a .Mac server. So when you're on the road, you'll see your .Mac-registered comptuers in the Shared section of your Finder sidebar, just as they'd appear at home. They're protected from any eyes but yours. And you can even browse their contents using Cover Flow in the Finder. From the Finder or the menu bar, Spotlight in Leopard lets you search for more specific sets of things. Uses Boolean logic to narrow search results by entering AND, OR, or NOT in a search request. Search for exact phrases using quotation marks, or search for items by dates or ranges using > and < symbols. And now you can even use Spotlight to perform simple calculations. Just enter numbers and operators, then hit Return. Very handy. |
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Quick Look. Look Before You Launch. |
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| Using Quick Look in Leopard, you can view the contents of a file without even opening it. Flip through multipage documents. Watch full-screen video. See entire Keynote presentations. With a single click. 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 multipage documents and video, without opening them. 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. 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 content. Then restore with a click. |
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Time Machine. A Giant Leap Backward. |
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| 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. 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. 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. 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 Resotre 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. 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. 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 for every backup performed on that Mac. Time Machine uses a standard file system to store all of its information. Nothing hidden anywhere. 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. 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. 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. |
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Mail. Think Outside the Inbox. |
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| 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. Mail for Leopard features more than 30 professionally designed stationery templates that make a virtual keepsake out of every email you send. From 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 the 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. Ever email yourself a reminder that gets lost in your inbox? Mail lets you wirte handy notes you can access from anywhere. 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. Forget manually adding a new item to your to-do list every time an email hits your inbox. 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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iChat. Not Being There is Half The Fun. |
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| 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. 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. 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. Why wait for a darkened room or a projector to present vacation photos or Keynote slides? 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 your hosting, while your buddy looks on. In fact, you can show any file on your system that works with Quick Look. 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 on your buddy's, and 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. 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. |
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Spaces. Room For Everything. |
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| You do a lot on your Mac. So how do you keep order when projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to group your application windows and banish clutter completely. Leopard gives you a space for everything and makes it easy to switch between your spaces. Start by simply clicking the Spaces icon in the Dock. You'll be prompted to turn on the Spaces feature. Then you can organize your spaces in practically no time. Create a space for work. Create a space for play. Organize each space just the way you want it. Simply open an application in a space or drag a window from one space to another in the bird's-eye view. It's that easy to organize and reorganize. Want to reorder your spaces? Just shift a space and every window in it comes along for the ride. Moving from space to space is easy. When you're in the bird's-eye view, 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 the application is open. 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 assign an application to always open in a specific space, if that's more convenient, so you'll always know where, say, Safari or Keynote is. |
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Safari. Still The World's Best Web Browser. |
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| 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. 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. What does all that mean to you? Less time loading pages and more time enjoying them. 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. 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. 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. 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. You can also turn any web page into a Dashboard widget. Your Web Clip widget is "live" and will update as frequently as the page from which it came. 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-encryption when accessing secure sites such as your bank or an online store, so you can transmit account and payment information with confidence. |
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Parental Contols. Safety First. |
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| 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. 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. 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). 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. |
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Boot Camp. Run Windows On Your Mac. |
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| 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. Boot Camp supports the most popular 32-bit release of Windows XP and Windows Vista. When you use either operating system on your Mac, your Windows application 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. 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. When you install Windows using Boot Camp, you won't need to search the Internet for drivers to 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). 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. If you're already working with Boot Camp Beta, you're practically finished before you start. All you need are some new drivers. To install them, simply start up your Mac in Windows and update the drivers from the Leopard DVD. |
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Included With Purchase |
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| DVD containing Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, printed and electronic documentation. |
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