Most of us would have already read about the big features - Time Machine, Quick Look, Boot Camp, Spaces etc. There are however, plenty of other smaller features that I really like in Leopard. Some of them are:defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES killall Dock
- Folder view options ("Show View Options" Cmd-J) now allows you to configure grid spacing which can help you move your icons closer together. Any one else thinks that Apple's default spacing between icons is too wide?
- Disk Utility can now resize partitions (without data loss) graphically. You could do this via the command line but just being able to click and drag is just soooo much nicer.
- Sharing folders over SMB is much easier now with the new Sharing options in the System Preferences. Just add the folder you want to share, hit the "Options" button and check SMB (and AFP and FTP if you like). I used SharePoints earlier for this same job -- not needed anymore.
- Expose works across Spaces. Try having a lot of windows open across many spaces. Hit F8 and then F9. Voila!
- Leopard comes with gcc 4, apache 2, php 5 and ruby 1.8. All the latest stuff built-in is more than welcome for developers.
- Web Clip in Safari (scissor icon in the toolbar) is really fun, easy and useful. Very hard to get all those is one feature.
- Terminal now has tabs and other new features. Bye bye, iTerm!
- Quick Look is awesome. Space bar, you're reading -- another space bar hit and its gone! It doesn't even keep focus, so you can use the arrow keys on the Finder window behind and the previews keep changing.
- Preview can now add remove pages from a PDF file with total ease. Just drag and drop to add and move pages.