"The Finder permissions editor. It's now possible to edit file permissions just by selecting Show Info on a selected file in the Finder."

That's in Tiger.

Take a look:

http://i16.tinypic.com/6o4unw1.png

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1: Non Active Scrollable Windows!!
2: iCal icon displaying the correct date always
3: Mail - ability to intelligently add ical dates from within emails
4: Many more little things that I can't think of :)

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Grid spacing in the finder, now my icons aren't ridiculously spaced out.

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Command-I to get info of selected item in spotlight results.

Though I'd be happier if they added Quick Look.

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I love the Expose feature for shutting down my iMac screen. I've been waiting for about 2 Years...

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What's the menu item in the top left of your menubar?

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These aren't "little" things but, they aren't really advertised all that much.
- Apache 2
- Ruby on Rails

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Little thing: Mail status shown by default and without a separate window.

Also, not having to know the google server settings to use gmail. Just know the username and password.

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The get info window has a scroll bar now. I'm pretty sure it didn't in Tiger.

The tool to screenshot part of the screen (cmd+shift+4) has a coordinates.

Option+click on Bluetooth or Airport menubar icons for extra info.

Show all windows (F10) while in Spaces view

There's way too many of these little tweaks to remember so I guess I'm done.

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Rounded menu corners
Gradients in the menus
Showing which wireless networks are encrypted
iChat chats grouped into one window
New folder icons
Gigantic application icons (you can zoom WAY in)
Unified interface
New help menus (actually useful now)
Clean spotlight icon
Space theme
Shiny black apple icon in the corner
Glowy blue dots in the dock (I'm sorry, I like them)
Way improved dictionary
Slick new terminal

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- a much, much faster synchronisation of IMAP servers with Mail.app
- the network mount bug you mentioned above
- no more "file in use" error messages while trying to move/copy a file from a folder when already moving/copying a file
- Safari returns to the last viewed tab if you close a tab
- Finder: "Always open in list view"

And a lot, lot more... the .4->.5 step is bigger and better than .2->.3 or .3->.4 - which I'd never had thought.

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12. Spotlight searches your web caches so if I'm looking for a page I opened last week, Spotlight finds it for me. I don't remember Tiger doing that.

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1) Renaming a file will select the entire filename without selecting the file extension (ripped from Vista, can't argue a good thing)
2) The new 2D dock (obtained using the Terminal command). The white light indicators are much nicer than the triangles, and the white border makes it actually feel like something docked to the bottom of the screen, rather than just sitting there.
3) No rounded corners in the menu bar. Again, it actually feels like it's just part of the interface rather than lying on the desktop.
4) Increased contrast between active and inactive windows.
5) Tabbed terminal and bash v.3. I had no idea how much I missed gnome-terminal but this is doing a pretty sweet job.

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preview.app now allows you to add pictures/pdfs to pdf-documents and change the order of the pages within.

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I've only had Leopard installed for one day because I was in the middle of a project at work however... Ejecting a partitioned hard drive will ask you if you'd like to eject individual volumes. Tiger would just eject them all.

check the pic

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to elaborate on #15, preview is great now, after 5 years on mac i'm finally using it as my default pdf viewer. NO MORE DRAWER!!! YAY

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Did Mail do this in Tiger?

Right click a mail item in the spam folder to delete it. It doesn't display in the preview pane of the Mail window. So there's no risk of a web linked image in the mail "phoning home" to the spammer.

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The think I like most was one I didn't think I would. I find I flick between cover-flow and column view having hardly every used anything other than column view since it became an option (and a mac user for longer than I care to admit!).

That plus quick-look has become invaluable, incredibly quickly for me.

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OoPs!! I've only had Leopard installed for one day because I was in the middle of a project at work however... Ejecting a partitioned hard drive will ask you if you'd like to eject individual volumes. Tiger would just eject them all.

check the pic
http://clients.fonsecafoto.com/pics/pic3.png

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