Leopard hidden gems

Steve showed us a lot during the keynote, but the new redesigned Apple website holds some hidden gems. We dug in the unified web deliciousness of apple.com and brought back these jewels:

Finder:
1) Screen sharing: remote control of another mac, right from the Finder.
"By clicking on a connected Mac, you can see and control that computer (if authorized, of course) as if you were sitting in front of it. "



2) Fine control over file and computer sharing: setting on a per user and per folder basis. Screen sharing, Remote login, Remote Management.



3) Advanced Search in Spotlight:
"From the Finder or the menu bar, Spotlight in Leopard lets you search for more specific sets of things. Use Boolean logic to narrow search results by entering “and,” “or,” or “not” into a search request. You can also search for exact phrases (using quotation marks), dates, ranges (using greater than [>] and less than [<] symbols), absolute dates, and simple calculations."

Time Machine : encryption.
"Encrypt backup data. Turn on encryption to store your backup securely."

Boot Camp: easier reboots.
"Leopard brings a quicker way to switch between Mac OS X and Windows: Just choose the new Apple menu item “Restart in Windows.” Your Mac goes into “safe sleep” so that when you return, you’ll be right where you were. It’s much faster than restarting the computer each time. Likewise, a “Restart in Mac OS X” menu item in the Boot Camp System Tray in Windows makes for a faster return to Mac OS X. With Windows hibernation enabled, you can pick up where you left off."

Security: application sandboxing.
"Sandboxing helps ensure that applications do only what they’re intended to by restricting which files they can access, whether they can talk to the network, and whether they can be used to launch other applications. Helper applications in Leopard — including the network time daemon and the Spotlight indexer — are sandboxed to guard against attackers."

.Mac: on top of a welcome overhaul in the perfs of .Mac, cf the "Back to my Mac" feature, .Mac offers dashboard widgets synching.

Safari: text field resizing
"Safari lets you resize text fields on any website, just by grabbing the corner of the field. Resize a field and the web page reflows to make room."