Two small Leopard improvements that I love
Apple has touted the release of Leopard by boasting that it includes 300 new features over Tiger, the previous version of the OS. There are however two tiny little improvements that were not talked about anywhere and have answered my prayers by making it even easer to use by polishing the Mail and Finder application.
Dock unread count for all mailboxes
In Tiger only mail in the inbox caused the Mail icon to show the number of new messages. In Leopard you can now choose this or show new mail for all mailboxes. This is great because if you have mail rules set up to automatically move specific messages from the inbox to another mailbox the Tiger version would not indicate that a new message had arrived. With Leopard this is all fixed.
Set the default Open With program for file types
This was another bug bear in Tiger, basically if you wanted java files to be open in Textedit as opposed to Xcode you had a problem. The solution was to download a preferences plug-in and then wade through all the options and change the appropriate ones. This is not longer the case. Simply command click and select get info and in there you can now set the default program.
To very small changes that have made my upgrade, also they were not documented any ware.
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