Any switcher will notice this, Apple OS X’s applications communicates with each other in an impressive way.

DEMO !
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2 more rumors on Leopard OS X:

1- A rumor based on Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announcement:

In fact, this week you’ll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developers Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS X

ZFS is a file system created by Sun Microsystems in November 2005 that offers better performance than the current file system. It is a 128-bit file system, which allows it to store 18 billion times more data than current 64-bit systems.

2- The second comes from Mac OS Rumors: “Leopard” will include a system-level “BitTorrent” filesharing client that can be user-customized to ‘donate’ upstream Internet bandwidth for things like pushing Software Update packages to Leopard users, delivering iTunes Store content, and just about any purpose to which Apple puts its bandwidth. …Rewards would include credit at the iTunes Store and the Apple Store as well as other affililated offers like free airtime minutes for Apple’s forthcoming “iPhone” and the like.”

Apple has made it clear that they will exhibit their next generation operating system Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard at WWDC next month. But some “Apple Rumors” sites have one more info for us…
Apple may be planning to introduce new iMacs at this year’s WWDC.

Previous reports indicated that Apple was preparing a black iMac following the success of the black iPods. The new machines are said so be housed in a much slimmer form factor, be faster, with larger displays and be ready for the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June.

WOW!!!

That was my first reaction when I launched it and opened Apple.com!
It displays the pages faster than ever, in this new release Camino uses OS X spell checker, RSS/Feed detector in the address bar (just like the small RSS button you see in Safari), pop up blocking has been improved, you can even block flash animations (which are really annoying sometimes), the application design is superb as always, Camino is still the “Native OS X Firefox”.

All Mac users have a “back up browser” because sometimes Safari just don’t display some pages correctly or is missing a plug in. Most of OS X are using Firefox, I did grab Camino!

If you want to see it in action download it here.

It’s a modded OS X very simple but very very nice!!!

As a fan of minimalism , all I can say is: “Less is More”.

IRC is one of the oldest Chat relay protocol and is still used by some communities (forum), there are a few IRC applications on OS X and most of them are shareware, the best (to me) is Conversation, it is free and it really looks like iChat (easy to use).

You can download it here: http://homepage.mac.com/philrobin/conversation/

I’ve picked some ideas from Apple Discussions forum about OS X Security, and here is my strategy:

1. no antivirus, no third parties firewalls (they can only cause problems) 
2. back up as often as i can
3. enabling built in firewall (read this)
4. + being protected by router’s firewall
5. hiding preview pan in Mail.app
6. disabling “open safe files” in Safari pref
7. don’t open unknown sender’s attachements
8. thanks Apple for the security update: they are WITH us (very good reactivity)
9. create a Good Quality Administator password, it don’t have to be written anywhere in your Mac (in any file), you can write it down on a sheet of paper or on your mobile phone (be sure not to loose them ) (do never loose it!!!!!!)
10. use another web browser like Firefox or Camino (which are Safer than Safari)

PS: i really can’t use another browser, i love Safari too much…