New Help Center in Leopard

[yogi]

Just a small thing I noticed when watching the webcast again,

the Help featre of applciations has been simplified. If you click the help button of an app in the menubar, it opens a spotlight-style text field to enter your question. Pretty nice.

 

[cwa107]

I definitely noticed a lot more Spotlight integration while Steve was demoing different features. Very nice to see.

 

[DavisCollins]

Yeah, I noticed that when he was showing off the new Menu Bar. I think it could be promising.

EDIT: I attached some pictures of the new help menu for the people that didn't catch it when they watched the keynote. And for the people that want to see it for themselves, it is shown in the video at 00:19:35.

 

[yogi]

I'm wondering how well the networking will work in Leopard. Right now I'm having serious problems with conencting to my mom's (windows) computer and I don't seem to be able to solve it. I can browse the mac from her computer fine, but I can't access her computer... And I'm not great at Windows NEtwork configuration... forgot how it works. Any help?

 

[cwa107]

I'm wondering how well the networking will work in Leopard. Right now I'm having serious problems with conencting to my mom's (windows) computer and I don't seem to be able to solve it. I can browse the mac from her computer fine, but I can't access her computer... And I'm not great at Windows NEtwork configuration... forgot how it works. Any help?

Have you tried installing Bonjour on her machine?

 

[DavisCollins]

Have you tried installing Bonjour on her machine?

I'm pretty sure that only installs a Bonjour Printer Utility. Or at least that is all I noticed when I was trying to network my Mac with our Windows computer. Nothing worked because I have an ancient Dell Wireless Router.

 

[cwa107]

I'm pretty sure that only installs a Bonjour Printer Utility. Or at least that is all I noticed when I was trying to network my Mac with our Windows computer. Nothing worked because I have an ancient Dell Wireless Router.

Indeed, but it also assists in discovery of machines which can be problematic on small networks where NetBIOS can be obscured by security software.

 

[yogi]

She doesn't have any security stuff installed. Mom's sleeping right now, and I have my French Oral FInals tomorrow, so I'll get to it when I can. Maybe I've just messed up permissions on that PC.

I keep getting an error on connection here at the iMac "some data could not be read on smb://computername"...

BTW, just lol'd as I opened Finder and was kind of surprised at how it looks. I expected it to look like the Leopard release. I think I've gotten used to it already...