Leopard Upgrade

Posted on 30th Dec 2007

So, I took the plunge and upgraded to Leopard while I had time to occupy over Christmas. Probably could’ve found something higher on my todo list really, but an impulse grabbed me when I was in the Apple store, and that was that.

So, opinions. A mixed blessing really. User interface elements are a lot nicer, particularly the new reflective dock (which seems to be a bit controversial round the web). There’s also a neat little hidden trick for putting spacers in the dock, a problem I had to hack around in Tiger by placing “fake” apps in the dock which threw up errors on accidental clicks.

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