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Reader Survey: Leopard the (good) little things

Okay, we've all had a chance to play around with Leopard for a while, so I thought it was now a good time to take a step back and ask: what are the little things that you really like about Leopard? I'm not talking about the headline new features: Time Machine, Quick Look, etc. Rather, I'm interested in the little features that make Leopard a bit better than Tiger.

I want to focus on the good for this post. We'll get to the niggling Leopard annoyances in a separate post. To get us started I thought I'd throw out a few of my favorites. Remember these are not the best or most important new features in Leopard, just little things that make me glad I upgraded.
  • The Finder permissions editor. The permissions editing interface is updated and improved.
  • The Print sheet. The full print sheet with integrated preview is nicer than Tiger's
  • The network mount bug seems finally to be fixed. It used to be the case that if you lost connection to a network mount OS X could freeze up. Leopard handles this problem much more graciously.
  • The spotlight calculator. Need to do a quick calculation? Just invoke Spotlight and type in the equation.
So there are a few to get you started. What are your favorite, but often overlooked, little features in Leopard?
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