Leopard

As switching from Windows to the Mac approaches national pastime status in the US, lots of new Mac owners are running into small speed bumps in the form of interface differences. The Wall Street Journal's inimitable technology columnist Walter Mossberg offers a helpful list of general tips to quickly acclimatize those jumping from Windows to Mac OS X (more specifically its latest version, 10.5 or "Leopard"). Take a read:

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The new update to Leopard, 10.5.2, lets you have it your way: the new-style Dock "stacks" that Leopard wrought, or the simpler Dock folders of Tiger (10.4) and earlier versions of OS X. Users everywhere are happy: this is the sort of choice that makes an interface great. (For more on using 10.5.2's Dock, see Getting to Know the New Stacks.)

However you like your Dock folders to behave when clicked, how about having folders whose contents change dynamically? This could be a folder that shows all files you've opened in the past three days, or all Apple Pages files, or all TextEdit files that contain "Project" in the title and are less than one month old.  Read more »

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