Yet more Fun with Leo

Lesser-known but fscking impressive things about Leopard

1. Empty the trash "securely" also empties "in use" files that are often a pain to get rid of. Windows Media Player for Mac (R.I.P.) used to be the biggest PITA in this category.

2. Bluetooth file exchange looks looks like a ftp client on steroids. NICE.

3. RSS feeds. Safari in Tiger handled them well, Now Mac Mail can get your RSS feeds. I subscribe to numerous tech, political and culture feeds, so I read them in Mail instead of a dedicated RSS app or browser. Safari is a decent browser, I use it all the time for work because it is the only browser supported on the webapps I use there. These apps simply do not work with Firefox. Now I have a non work reason to use Safari: to bookmark RSS feeds for Mail.

4. TextEdit can read .odt files. "ODT" is "open document format," a standards-based alternative to Microsoft's "xdoc." Xdoc is a next-generation XML document file format that Microsoft debuted in the latest version of Office. ODT files are the native output format for OpenOffice or NeoOffice. Neo is the "Cocoa" native port of the X.11- driven Mac and Unix versions of OpenOffice. This beats the hell out of "install X.11 and the broken as hell version of OpenOffice and hope that Rosetta (the Mac OS X runtime PPC to Intel software emulator used on all Intel Macs) does not hose you.

5. A default guest account. This account self-destructs once logged out of. This means all downloads, bookmarks, caches all go bye bye at logout unless saved on something like a thumb drive. Now I can let others use my Macs assured that if they download something, it will go away when they log out.