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Leopard 10.5.2 update adds DVD sharing, better Stacks, translucent Menu bar and remote backup!

Jan 17, 2008 | Comment | Tags: apple, links

DVD/CD Sharing, as seen on the new Macbook Air
I can’t believe I didn’t think to test this: Time Machine can also use a disk connected to your Airport Extreme as a backup location, hooray!

Yes, the Extreme is named Express. Force of habit of calling it that for years, sorry.
Time Machine drop down in menubar
Hey, look - Time Machine can backup to a network drive again!
Translucent Menu bar option in Desktop Preferences
Better Stacks options, including List, Folder and Grid views

‘Folder’ shows the icon as, well, a Folder and ‘Stack’ shows the most recent documents icon.

This one is for commenter #14…

The 10.5.2 release of Leopard is expected to be released at any time.

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unixphreak 02/11/2008 09:35 PM 1 point
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was just wondering if the remote install mac os x application in the utilities folder can install the mac os to any computer besides the macbook air?

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Adam 02/09/2008 03:16 PM 1 point
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Anyone been able to verify Time Machine support for network drives? MacRumors is saying it ain’t necessarily so …

I can back up to any other Leopard machine with a 2nd attached disk with 10.5.1. Not sure if that is what you mean, but I can share a drive on the network for multiple machines.

This is a known issue. See this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messag...

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Tom T 01/30/2008 09:15 PM 1 point
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Anyone been able to verify Time Machine support for network drives? MacRumors is saying it ain’t necessarily so …

I can back up to any other Leopard machine with a 2nd attached disk with 10.5.1. Not sure if that is what you mean, but I can share a drive on the network for multiple machines.

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bob 01/30/2008 06:07 AM 1 point
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i hope they fix the bugs with safari 3.0 how it keeps quiting

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brandon 01/28/2008 12:57 AM 1 point
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i hope they fix the bugs in earlier leopard, safari crashing rather than focus on eyecandy

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webomatica 01/26/2008 03:58 PM 1 point
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Nice - stacks definitely needs work.

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Dennis G. Dahl 01/25/2008 09:57 AM 1 point
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I wish I could set the translucency of various Finder components somewhat similar to adjusting the properties of WindowzXP themes.

Better yet I’d like to see working continuously updated themes available for OSX, especially a LCARS theme.

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ScottMac 01/23/2008 08:23 AM 1 point
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Anyone been able to verify Time Machine support for network drives? MacRumors is saying it ain’t necessarily so …

Please see the second and fourth screenshots, above.

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Thavith 01/23/2008 08:02 AM 1 point
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Look forward to this!
But I *love* the translucent menu bar, still highly visible text (maybe not for old people though, but then OS X fonts are probably too small anyway), and aesthetically blends better into the desktop.

Hi, Jan. Speak for yourself. At 76 I may well have better eyesight than you do, and have no problem with even smaller fonts.
The trouble with a transparent menu bar is that I put up my own Desktop pictures, some of which have dark areas under the menu bar. Try reading a black font on a black background. That’s when a more opaque menu bar is appreciated.

I just tried dark photos, light photos, solid colours, black, white, grey, greens, blues...

It really didn't seem to make any difference what colour the photo was or what was on the desktop... Maybe there is a combination that doesn't work with the transparent menubar, but I haven't found it yet...

Having said that, I guess it's good we will have the option to turn that off, I hope they give us the option to remove the 3D dock. I already have that turned off, but it would be nice if that was "official" too...

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Johnny Appleseed 01/23/2008 07:33 AM 1 point
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Anyone been able to verify Time Machine support for network drives? MacRumors is saying it ain't necessarily so ...

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Dano 01/23/2008 01:49 AM 1 point
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I can't wait for this to be released, I cant deal with stacks they are so poorly thought out.

Cant wait, 10.5.2. Yeahhhh ! ! ! !

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Rich 01/23/2008 12:42 AM 1 point
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Well i have d/l 9C20 build of Leopard and i don't have the transparent menu bar option... I'm running a Mac Pro 2x2 Ghz Dual Intel Xeon... I don't know if the option is for older macs or not but i don't the option not since 9c6 have i had it

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Thunk Different 01/22/2008 11:29 PM 1 point
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ohhh yeeaaaaaa!

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adi 01/22/2008 09:22 PM 1 point
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is there a screenshot when the menubar is not translucent?
Thanks

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BillD 01/22/2008 08:38 PM 1 point
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Look forward to this!
But I *love* the translucent menu bar, still highly visible text (maybe not for old people though, but then OS X fonts are probably too small anyway), and aesthetically blends better into the desktop.

Hi, Jan. Speak for yourself. At 76 I may well have better eyesight than you do, and have no problem with even smaller fonts. :-)

The trouble with a transparent menu bar is that I put up my own Desktop pictures, some of which have dark areas under the menu bar. Try reading a black font on a black background. That's when a more opaque menu bar is appreciated.

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