Apple today released the much-anticipated Mac OS X 10.5.3 major bugfix update, which is available via Software Update or (my much preferred mode) as a standalone installer from Apple's Software Download site

Last weekend, something happened that I haven't experienced in a long time - I lost data on my Mac

Photoshop Elements 6 allows you to combine separate shots into horizontal or vertical panoramas using Elements 6's enhanced Photomerge Panorama feature based on Adobe's proprietary Photomerge to stitch together multiple photos panned across a scene into a single seamless panorama - automatically

Spaces, which allows you to group various open application windows into multiple work environments, ergo: "spaces," and then switch among them quickly and easily, is probably my favorite innovation in Leopard, but it has this maddening bug....

One of the more significant unheralded new features in OS X 10.5 Leopard is the ability to create new hard drive partitions or to expand or shrink existing ones without erasing the entire drive

If need to open and save Microsoft Word formatted documents and you're using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, you don't need any other Word-savvy software other than Leopard's bundled Text Edit program which these days warrants categorization as a full-fledged word processor

If you've noticed that I haven't been complaining as much about Leopard lately, that's because I've been finding less to complain about. The OS 10.5.2 update and companion Leopard Graphics Updater seem to have settled the operating system down substantially. That, and the release of WindowShade X 4.2b1 bringing windowshading to Leopard, has made me a much happier camper

Free Mac OS X options for a constantly-updated snapshot of temperature and weather conditions at the configured geographical location from a network of over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras

This is a huge development for those of us who have been waiting impatiently for restoration of WindowShade X support in Leopard. As a total windowshading junkie, I've found it a very long three months, although Leopard's Spaces feature has helped mitigate the pain somewhat

I got almost exactly one week of uptime after installing the OS 10.5.2 Update and Leopard Graphics Update Thursday before last, the longest I've ever gone without Spaces malfunctioning, and I was pretty much convinced that I could give Spaces a clean bill of health on that issue, but....

Not for everyone; how about you?

Qualcomm has posted a compatibility note for the no-longer-being-developed Eudora email client and OS X 10.5.2 Leopard