[Flickr via The Crunch - Thanks Mark and Mark's brother!]

Currently the video resolution is pinned at 800 x 480 and there're difficulties with wwan, but work is continuing to overcome this.

Is this the smallest Mac in the world? Very probably, and pretty amusing given that OQO was founded by some ex-Apple employees. [OQOTalk]

All it does is make Leopard show unsupported drives as a supported drive for Time Machine, but Apple most likely removed support for these drives for reasons such as data loss or data corruption, so be careful if you're going to try this. Just head on over to 9to5Mac and download their aptly named Flux Capacitor automator script and you'll be on your way to network backups in no time. Or, you can just wait for Apple's official release that's sure to come soon. [9to5Mac via MacRumors]

Finder
—Translucent menu bar is cool, rounded edges on menus
—Mirrored bottom dock is hard to see icons on, but it is pretty. Apps reflect off the dock. I prefer the side mounted launcher, but Stacks get crippled this way, disabling the fan mode.
—The active window gets a larger drop shadow for emphasis.
—Stacks are very limited in use. Long file names and largefile numbers render the grid useless, but icons thumbnails are good, and it's useful for folders with small numbers of files.
—Automatic mode shows the arc for fewer files and the grid for more than a few.
—Sidebar nice way to browse you sources, ala iTunes or WINDOWS VISTA/XP
—Sidebar also has smart folders for files you'v used today yesterday and past week, and all images, movies, and docs
—Finding all sorts of files on my computer, like digital camera movies, that were lost in iphoto.

Quick Look
—Super prepreview.
—Toggled on and off with spacebar.
—While on, you can continue browsing by hitting left and right arrows. Ultra useful.
—Works for video, pdf, photos, documents.
Cover Flow
—Useful for images and videos as an inline Quick Look that shows you files ahead and behind the one you have selected.
—I found that using two fingers to scroll sideways in Cover Flow on a MacBook Pro was hinky at best.
Time Machine
—Backs up your entire hard drive first, which takes a good couple hours. Let it run overnight.
—You can still use the drive as a regular drive.
—If you insert a store bought drive, you will have to reformat it for Mac OS Extended before Time Machine automatically prompts you to back up
—There's a way to use Time Machine to swap your own hard drive in your Mac: you can mirror everything to the external drive, then swap out the drive in your Mac. Boot the Mac with Leopard DVD, and then select a Time Machine restore from the outboard hard drive. Haven't tested this, but I believe it will work.
—Time Machine requires a back up drive that is larger, indeed far larger, than your computer's drive.
—The rule of thumb is at least 2:1
—If the drive is too small to mirror your whole drive, you can select things to leave out of it
—When you are in the System Pref Time Machine pane, you won't see a "Backup Now" function.
—If you make changes——switch TM disks or change your backup options——a new backup will start within two minutes. But if you want to do a real "Backup Now" you have to go to the Dock, and CTRL—click the Time Machine icon. That's where the Backup Now option is.

Mail
—Notes and iphone sync, stored on imap
—Not too crazy about stationary. I just send plain emails, sorry dudes.
—To Do from any text in an email, which is stored on imap (and synced to ical's list instantly)
—RSS reader good for the casual user (Syncs with Safari's RSS Reader)
—Data scraper for addresses to be added to address book, etc. Click on a phone number or address and a drop down comes to direct you to google maps or to add it to the address book. Very very cool
—But Data scraper is hit or miss ——I tried it on a message from person A that was forwarded by person B, it confused the two, and tried to create an entry with B's name and e—mail, but with A's phone number
—Also, so far I am frustrated by the Smart Mailbox features in Mail. Trying to make a smart RSS filter that looks at 20 feeds and picks relevant news based on a search criteria, but so far I can only get it to do either all of my mail and all of my RSS, or one given RSS source. Too big a net, or too small. Maybe I'm just missing something.

Spaces
—Too bad icons don't change between desktops. This is more to manage apps, but when you change spaces and the desktop icons stays the same, it's not as cool.
—Wish I could use a giant wallpaper between all spaces.
—Show image of the spaces menu, which makes it easy to know which desktop you are on.
—A lot easier than swapping windows on expose, which is also fast, but two extra steps
—Goign to setup a photoshop space
—Max of 4x4 spaces, for 16 total.
—Can bind applications to a space.
—Can jump between a Space with arrow keys or number keys.
—Trigger Space by clicking on the icon on the dock or hitting a master hot key brings up all of the spaces. You can do expose here, or drag apps between space.
—You can also click on an app and switch to a space using a hotkey and it'll drag the app with you.

iChat
—iChat windows can be aggregated into a list with the names on the side. Text excerpts from new windows pop up over each person's name.
—You can share files by dragging them into the video window, or display them over the video window using iChat Theater.
—Music and video and images work, but images never show album art.
—DRM files cannot be streamed, and you can transfer them but of course they won't play unless the other machine has permissions. iPhoto has a special relationship with iChat so you can run through albums.
—Oh and playing music or video introduces a feedback loop as it streams the line signal and then the audio comes out all the machine speakers and back into the mic.
—Video effects (also in photobooth) use 85% of a 2GHz machine's CPU. Is this acceptable? Maybe, since it is a real time greenscreening effect.
—Make your own backdrops with avis and photos (Seems to like even big files, anything quicktime will play). Doesnt' work well under low light.
—sms forwarding has its own command from the menuis more clear (some peopl eknew to do this by using +10digitphnumber before
—Media sharing, ichat theater—— anything you can show off using quick look can be shared over iChat in a large window next to your small text. Good for presenting stuff and showing movie clips, but bad for doc sharing —— its not like they can remote control your desktop (at least not in ichat) (TEST RES and what you can read, and refresh of video)
—iChat recording sticks a 320 x 240 MPEG—4 video in iTunes under iChat Chats, titled, "Video Chat with NAME"
—Photo Booth has the same effects as ichat, and you can save single shots, videos, and even a burst of 4 that go into a tiled grid or can be animated as a gif. Also, since the iSight captures in mirror, it has an autoflip mode that reverses each shot tyou take automatically.

Screen sharing
—Best way to find your friends for screen sharing is by iChat, of course. (So you can avoid typing in IP addresses)
—Screen sharing activates voice. Big note comes up saying you are sharing, but there is no way to terminate from the host's.
—Uses VNC tech, so you can also connect to windows machines and vice versa.

Address book,
—why can't I sync with my google contacts? (only does yahoo)
—Thank god for mapping function —— goes to google

Dashboard Webclip
—Wish you could zoom in or out, everything is 100% of what it would be in safari.
—Movie widget is fantastic. Why did they wait til leopard to ship it? Uses Fandango.

Preview
—I love that you can resize, rotate, and crop images here. Makes sense to add more functionality to preview since quick look is so good at previewing.
Front row
—No Youtube
—Finding shared iTunes sources took a little while.

Back To My Mac
—Quite simply, back to my mac is most useful for screen sharing and file sharing. Same thing you can do on a LAN, but .Mac acts as a DNS server, so you can find your machines where ever they are, without typing in IP addresses.
—.Mac account needed, but you should be able to screen share using an IP address and VNC protocol.

• Google Talk support in iChat
• Full path view in Finder
• iPhone-like System Preferences icon

[ThinkSecret]

The smarter move: Put 128 dollars in a bank account now, and let it accrue $2 in interest. Bam! Two-dollar discount on Leopard when it ships. (No, I'm not a financial adviser.) –Brian Lam
Amazon OS X Page [via MacMerc]

But if you read into it and consider InfoWeek's note, "upon further questioning, Croll would only confirm that Apple had never said ZFS would be a part of Leopard," in conjunction with the fact that it was Sun's CEO making the slip, not some random peon, it seems fairly likely that something Sunny was cooking in the Apple kitchen. It's not like they're down and out in any case—Apple's probably already kicking around stuff for 10.6 – Matt Buchanan

Apple Says No Sun File System For Leopard [InformationWeek]

[Updated]

"ZFS is not the default file system for Leopard. We are exploring it as a file system option for high-end storage systems with really large storage. As a result, we have included ZFS — a read-only copy of ZFS — in Leopard."

Desktop
Finder
Quick Look
Time Machine
Spaces

The WWDC Keynote – Ben Longo

WWDC Keynote Liveblog [Gizmodo]

•There's a new Desktop, with a dock and menu bars that adjust to your background.

•Stacks are like folders but they let you see items in a bundle, and when you click on them, they pop up.

•Network View shows computers (Macs and Windows) and their files as if they were residing on your own machine.

•Back to My Mac: .Mac knows all your IP addresses of your computers, so you can use .Mac to communicate over the net.

•Cover Flow comes to OS X, giving you that same liquid movement to all your documents that you have with your album covers now in iTunes.

•Quick Look lets you view Excel, PDFs and Word documents without having to launch an application. You can use it in the Finder and in browse-intensive apps like Time Machine.

•Leopard is now entirely 64-bit, but you can still run 32-bit applications on it.

•iChat has new effects, including the R2D2 hologram that, only a few hours public, is now world famous.

•Safari 3 finally shows up on Windows XP and Vista. Some people are saying it's a lot faster. – Charlie White

Wired has a piece on core animation, the developer animation suite that will make regular apps sparkle.

Also, Computerworld is predicting an alliance between Apple and Google to incorporate some of Google's web apps into .Mac. That should make loyal users of the stagnant .Mac platform happy. Or at least content enough to keep shelling out for that @mac.com address.

Here's our wishlist.

• Tight integration with iPhone. There's going to be iTunes and iPhoto integration for sure, but let's get some stuff like proximity detection, auto-file system syncing, auto-syncing of Mail, Safari, and even remote control of your Mac from your phone over Wi-Fi. Heck, why not make it a super fancy remote when you're watching AppleTV or FrontRow.

• A better Finder. Better known as FTFF. For something that integral to everyday usage, that thing sucks.

• Native Windows apps like Parallels. How about Apple just buys Parallels and integrates their development right into the OS? That'd be something.

Those are the big three. How about you? What would you like to see in Leopard? – Jason Chen

If you really care, head on over to ZFS's homepage or wikipedia's comparison of file systems and see for yourself. Don't blame us if you get fired for falling asleep at work. – Jason Chen

ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard [Macrumors]

We'll be there in full force to cover the entire keynote as usual. And if you're there, stop by and say hello. – Jason Chen

Update: Apparently developers will get a beta, not the feature complete beta.

The official word from Apple is that it's actually 1.5 hours long. That is, 10:00am to 11:30am PST on Monday, June 11th. The WWDC schedule that showed a 3 hour keynote? That was we call a typographical error which has already been updated.

So, what are they going to talk about for 1.5 hours? –Brian Lam

Apple's WWDC Keynote Clocks in at 3 Hours - Lots of iPhone Talk? [Gizmodo]

That pretty much shitcans the idea that it would be released during the week of June 11th, at WWDC, as a thin CNet rumor claimed, and as well, I'd hoped.

This isn't set in stone, but the timing for the iPhone in "late June" is our moving target. Only the reality distortion field can save us now.–Brian Lam

Apple Delays Leopard [Boingboing]
iPhone [Gizmodo]

Apple's going to be focusing on Leopard, media content delivery, immersion track for new developers, developer tools, and whatever else they usually focus on there. So don't get your hopes up. Those enthralled guys (NO GURLS ALOUD!) are all developers. – Jason Chen

WWDC Agenda [Apple via News.com]

UPDATE: Apple claims that the images are their property, so they've come on down. But only because they were so damn sweet about it.

–Travis Hudson

[via Baby Got Mac. Thanks, Scott.]

Also Macrumors.com is claiming that this will be linked to the rumored iPhone Call Ahead feature. Interesting.– Brian Lam

Leopard iChat Answering Machine [MacRumors]

How Expose Works With Spaces in Mac OS X Leopard [Crunchgear]

Hop on over to get a detailed look. – Jason Chen

Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista side by side [Lifehacker]

– Brian Lam

Fake Leopard Screenshot Contest Winners [ Via Phill Ryu ]

This could be some useful functionality with iPod theft on the rise every day. There is probably only one way to prevent iPod theft that I am considering—until Leopard is released, of course. Just get the iPod permanently embedded into your body. You carry it around all hours of the day anyway, why not just get it surgically attached? Leopard, which is tentatively named, will make its formal debut at WWDC on August 7. – Travis Hudson

VoIP features expected in Apple's Leopard [AppleInsider]