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For my money, Time Machine is the greatest feature Apple introduced with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and one of the niftiest OS X features ever. Boasting always-on backups of every version of every important item on your Mac, it's the first computer backup system to grant zero-effort peace of mind to every Mac owner with typical backup needs.  Read more »

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 »