You can hear but no longer see the person you are chatting with you can display only one desktop at a time. With permission, you can remotely control a buddy's computer desktop to collaborate on a project. Choices include a rollercoaster and the Eiffel Tower.Ī feature dubbed iChat Theater lets you display files during the video conference, including photo slide shows with music and presentations. You also can digitally superimpose a chat background with pictures or videos. These can make your face twirl or stretch or appear as if it were shot through an X-ray or thermal camera.
The fun part comes from dozens of Photo Booth special effects. Really slick video conferencing through iChat has been part of OS X for several years. For security reasons, you can make sure specified files do not get backed up. You can use Time Machine to restore your entire Mac or to migrate files and settings onto a brand-new machine. Once the space on your hard drive is exhausted, the oldest weekly incremental backup will be deleted. Daily backups are kept for 30 days and replaced by weekly backups. Time Machine captures hourly backups up to the past 24 hours. I received an "unable to complete backup" error message before I was successfully able to complete the job overnight. It took many hours, and at least one hiccup, to back up a packed iMac. Or you can use Spotlight search to find where and when a file last existed. You can move the mouse along a visual timeline to land on a specific date. You can see what the same inbox looked like days or weeks ago, to restore any missing e-mail.
Say you're peering at your inbox through Time Machine. From then on, recovering lost files is - thanks to beautiful special effects - like flying back in time. The Time Machine feature automatically backs up your computer on an (optional) external hard drive. Apple says Leopard has more than 300 new features in all. Leopard was pre-installed on an iMac that Apple provided for testing. I migrated to Leopard from the last OS X version, Tiger, without pain on a MacBook laptop and my own iMac desktop there's mercifully none of the software driver and other hassles associated with a Windows operating system upgrade. And at year's end, Boot Camp will no longer be available as a free beta program to people who don't upgrade to Leopard you're fine if you already installed Boot Camp. You'll still have to buy a copy of Windows.Īlso, Boot Camp still doesn't let you run the two operating systems simultaneously.
Moreover, people who need Windows at least some of the time can take stock in the fact that Boot Camp is included in Leopard Boot Camp is the Apple program that lets anyone with an Intel-based Mac run Windows XP or Windows Vista.
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