July 17th
Mac OS X 10.5 just came out, but I’ll wait until 10.5.1 thank you very much. I’ve read a couple reviews now, and there are many many awesome things: from redone networking preferences, to an updated Objective C runtime, to FSEvents and actual use of the file system based metadata. Best for anyone that I support: trivial backups. I’m not sure I totally like the way they did it, but it is so unimaginably easy that anyone who loses data from a disk failure on 10.5 gets no sympathy from me. But even with all this coolness, my favorite feature is super lame. Accurate date on the calendar program icon when it is not running. It isn’t July 17th anymore! Quote from ars technica:
“Apple has finally submitted to adding what must be quite a hack to get the iCal application icon to show the correct date on its Dock icon, even when the application is not running.” Quite a hack indeed.