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While early looks at Leopard have provided focus on the major features announced by Apple, the following minor features may prove to be interesting to day-to-day Mac users. Reports of the Leopard Developer's preview is that it is remarkably solid, and the user interface is more responsive ("snappier") than Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4).

Reports indicate that the Finder and Front Row are exactly the same as the Tiger versions, suggesting that unannounced improvements could be in store for them by Leopard's final release.

The following screenshots highlight new and interesting features:

iChat:

• iChat prefs - with auto transcript saving
• List of Buddies
• iChat File Transfers
• Emoticons
• User Profile

Safari:

• Bookmarks window
• Confirm - Safari warning for closing tabs
• Confirm #2 - Safari warning for losing Form data
• Safari Find - Find hilights words on the webpage
• Loading - optional small icon showing load progress. Usual blue progress bar by default.
• Window menu
• Bookmark Tabs

Spotlight:

• Spotlight Window
• Spotlight Menu
• Spotlight Quick Look.

Misc:

• Battery Meter.
• Dock Preferences - with addition of "Springing" option.
• Invoke expose in Spaces
• Finder Prefs - Grid spacing
• Preview - improved buttons
• Group Move in Spaces - hold command and drag a group of windows.
• Leopard Trash Window - now with Empty button
• Other Preference Panes: Time Machine Prefs, Spaces Prefs