Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
You can combine Spaces with the Active Screen Corners feature, which triggers events when you move the pointer to a corner of the screen. For example, moving the pointer to the top right of the screen can show you all your desktops, while other corners can be used to hide all windows, call up the dashboard of widgets or enter Expose mode which shrinks down each window on the current desktop so you can see them all at once.
I started with an Active feature in every corner, but I found I was too often accidentally triggering the ones in the top corners. In the end I settled on Expose in the bottom left corner and Dashboard in the bottom right corner, although I still sometimes trigger them accidentally and I'd like to find a way to reduce the trigger sensitivity. Flicking down to the left to trigger Expose soon becomes second nature and it's a fantastic way to sift through multiple windows, especially on a small screen notebook.
While Leopard is quite impressive out of the box, I'd say there are still a few must-have add-ons for getting the most from it. Growl would be one of them, another would be StartupSound.prefPane which disables the MacBook's loud beep when it boots up (important if you like to work late at night). The other essential is a good usage meter for tracking you monthly downloads (important in Australia). On XP I was using UsageAgent but I've found some good Mac usage widgets at LemonJar.
Bloggers will find RapidoResizer a handy tool for quickly resizing images. I'm still evaluating good text editors for working on HTML and PHP files, but TextWrangler looks like it's what I'm after. If you want to use Apple's TextEdit to edit HTML, you need to dip into the preferences at tick "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files".
I'd also like a more powerful RSS reader than what Apple Mail offers, I was using FeedReader on XP. Something on the Mac that ties is with Growl would be good.
David Bass
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