I installed Leopard on my laptop this morning. Pretty smooth sailing–I did a fresh backup of my hard drive and an erase-and-install of the new OS. This does mean I have to reinstall all my programs and files, but it reduces the chances of something going on. I have a lot of junk to dump from my computer, anyway. The only real problem I’ve had is getting my calendars from iCal to copy over to my laptop, but this is a problem with .Mac and not Leopard.

My new favorite thing in Leopard is Quick Look. It’s liable to become your new favorite thing, too. Now you can peek at a Word file, PowerPoint presentation, or video clip just by hitting the space bar–no double-click or slow startup time required! It works with many other file formats as well, and even works with e-mail attachments.

As far as the exciting things I mentioned yesterday, I’ve only had much time to experiment with RSS in Mail. Verdict: Should be a good introduction to RSS for first-timers, but people with more experience using RSS will probably want to stick with their favorite reader. In doing fresh installations of all my software, I grabbed the latest version of my reader of choice, NetNewsWire, and have fallen in love all over again. OK, maybe that’s going overboard–but version 3.0 is excellent.

Tags: leopard, mac, netnewswire, quick look, RSS