I’ve been using the latest version of Apple’s OS X operating system, Leopard, for around three days now and I am quite sure that this is the best operating system I have ever used. It is beautiful to look at, packed with awesome new functionality and actually runs faster on my aging G4 Powerbook than its predecessor, Tiger did.

But Apple has also built some humor into the new operating system. The Finder application in Leopard is just amazing. It has been updated with a new sidebar that makes browsing around your computer and attached resources really easy, as well as the ability to flip through your files with Cover Flow – a visual navigation tool that you really have to see to appreciate. If you aren’t sure of the contents of a file, in Cover Flow mode you can actually see its contents in an icon, or hold down space in any view and a window will jump up displaying the contents of the file.
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This website looks a bit dodgy under Internet Explorer 7. God knows why – I’m trying to figure it out at the moment, but I don’t have much time available. I had it working and looking perfect in IE 6, Firefox and, my new favourite browser, Safari. But alas, with the release of Vista and IE 7, Microsoft have hurled a spanner into the works.
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