Archive for October, 2007

Logitech Driver Kills Leopards

Anyone like myself who has either upgraded or is about to upgrade to Leopard who also uses a Logitech Mouse should be aware that there appears to be significant issues with the software provided by Logitech. The Logitech Control Center software seems to be the cause of system hangs being experienced by a number of users including myself.

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Out of the box Leopard provides a few neat effects that use the new Alpha channel capabilities of iChat and PhotoBooth to put you in front of the Eiffel Tower or on a Roller Coaster, but it also provides an open mechanism for adding your own effects. Only 3 days after the release a number of clever alternative effects are already circulating on Mac Forums and a few of these are listed below for your pleasure.

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Much has been made of the new features of Leopard and countless pages have already been posted with in depth analysis of Time Machine, Spaces, the 3D Dock. What you may not have spotted is an article covering some of the not so obvious new additions to Leopard. From my use over the last couple of days these are the ones I have come across so far.

1. Spotlight Now Performs As Well As Dedicated Application Launchers

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So its finally Leopard day and I am up and running with the latest big cat from Cupertino. First impressions are very good and so far I am in general agreement with the reviews published today. Performance seems subjectively better than Tiger, but that could be down to the clean install. The new UI is nice, although I am generally disappointed with the folder icons in Finder which seem a little bland and uninteresting. I guess I can always replace with my preferred icon set in the future if it bothers me to much.

Coverflow in the Finder and Quicklook are very impressive and will certainly be useful tools, Spaces is slick and easy to use, I havent got to Time Machine yet thought this is one of the features I am most interested in, hopefully I will get an external drive hooked up and configured later this evening.

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Looking at the Apple Store it appears that Leopard may well not be landing on door steps this Friday. As of 6pm on 24th my copy of Leopard is still showing as Not Yet Shipping and an estimated Shipping date of 26th. So it looks like delivery is likely to be early next week ( 28th-29th ? )

Has anyone seen their order status change to Shipped ? It will be interesting to see whether there will be a lot of disappointed Mac fans this weekend.

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