Leopard is already looking like a huge step forward from Tiger, and Steve has only unveiled 10 features so far, with many more top secret features yet to come. How’s Leopard going to change the way you work?

Virtual Desktops With Spaces

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We all wish we could be using one of Apple’s 30” Cinema Displays but in reality it’s not going to happen. With Apple’s latest Leopard innovation you can take advantage and enjoy your small MacBook or iMac’s display as much as the 30” Cinema, minus the sore neck.

Create up to 16 virtual desktops and switch between them at a press of a button. This will be very handy for those multi-taskers who are constantly emailing and browsing the web, while chatting and editing photos in Aperture. You’ll now be able to create three separate desktops for these tasks. One for Mail and Safari, one for iChat and Adium, and one for Aperture.

This should speed up your workflow and keep your workspace visually clean and un-cluttered.

Backing Up With Time Machine

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I dont think I need to cover the main features of Time Machine because we all know what it is already, if not, the best way to learn is to watch Apple’s demonstration video here.

How’s Time Machine going to change the way we work? For starters, we are never going to lose a file again, by accidental deletion or by a hard-drive failure. Backing up will be made as simple as, well, doing nothing, and the 4% of regular people who backup will shoot up before we can blink.

Time Machine is going to save people a lot of stress from the normal backing up routines which become tiring. You wont even have to think about backing up, Leopard will do that for you. The only time you’ll need to think about it is when you lose a file, which you will be able to get back with a click of the mouse.

Organization With Mail

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I’ve been pretty disappointed with Apple’s lack of an organization application in Tiger. How hard would it have been to implement something into iCal from the start? The main thing is, we are getting a brand new system wide notes and to-to organizer based in Mail, which will be able to be accessed from all applications, making Mail your true “one stop shop” for getting yourself sorted on your Mac.

With Leopard a Notes & To-Do tab will reside in Mail’s sidebar, allowing you to easily, and quickly keep tab on things you need to remember and do. In turn, this will keep you on target to get the things you need to get done finished, and will save you the embarrassment of forgetting an important date or meeting.

Business With iChat

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When your wanting to show a Keynote presentation to a fellow student or business partner you usually have to either be next to them, or burn the keynote to a disk, mail it to them, and wait…You get no instant feedback on how they liked/disliked it, and it doesn’t feel very “personal”.

iChat Theatre is going to change that, and much more.

You can start a video conference with a buddy, then begin a keynote presentation, or an iPhoto slideshow which will be played off to the side of the video chat. It’ll just be like your presenting this to them in the same room. This will be great for business people who are often on the go, and for families to show off holiday photos to their friends on the other side of the world..or fence.

Another wonderful addition to iChat which will make collaboration a breeze is “Remote Control”. You will be able to simply take control of another buddy’s computer directly through iChat, allowing you to work on podcasts, websites, or troubleshoot problems without any hassle. And if that cant get any better, iChat will automatically initiate a voice chat when you enable this feature so you can both chat and collaborate like no other before.

Dashboard

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Forget checking multiple comic strips, eBay auctions, and status lists each and every day with the brand new enhanced Dashboard.

Simple create a “web clipping” widget at the click of a button, and make pieces of these web pages into widgets for quick and easy access.

The brand new Dashboard will save you even more time then Tiger’s Dashboard did, you’ll be smothered with by free time before you even know it.