As was pointed out by another TSer in a different thread, if you email the NYTimes article to yourself, you get a link that is readable by non-members.
Here's the link for
non-members.I get an additonal newsletter from NYT and David Pogue had additional features he discussed:
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* Most keyboard shortcuts are already consistent from
program to program on the Mac, but there are exceptions; the
Hide All Windows command in Photoshop, for example, should
be Command-H like most other Mac programs, not Option-
Command-H. Fortunately, using the new Keyboard control
panel, you can easily change any keystroke in any program.
You can also make up a new keyboard shortcut for menu
commands that doesn't have them. I've already found this
simple feature useful over and over again.
* Preview (Mac OS X's graphics and PDF reader) has always
been good at converting graphics files into other formats.
But now it open raw PostScript or EPS files. The result: you
can now use any inkjet printer as, in effect, a PostScript
printer--at 10 percent of the price of a laser printer--and
even share it on your office network.
* Disk Utility, Mac OS X's disk-repair and disk-copying
program, introduces a useful new feature: Its new Restore
tab can make a perfect copy of a disk, and replicate it on
another hard drive. You might find this useful when, for
example, you want to make an exact copy of your old Mac's
hard drive on your new one. (You can erase the destination
disk in the process, if you like, or just add to what's
there.)
* Bluetooth is everywhere, better integrated than ever. You
can shoot a file through the air to a fellow PowerBook
owner, or even a Windows laptop lugger, with just a couple
of clicks; check your email using the Bluetooth cellphone in
your pocket as a wireless antenna; or dial the phone using
the Mac OS X address book.
* Panther introduces a very handy new key combination:
Shift-Option-@cmd-Escape. It force quits the frontmost
program, no questions asked. That's good to know when, for
example, the frontmost program has frozen, especially when
it's a full-screen program like Apple's Keynote slide-show
software that covers up the Apple menu (so you can't get to
the usual Force Quit command).
* Shared folders on Windows PC's on your home network show
up right on the Mac's screen, ready to open and use. (The
opposite is true, too: You can make your Mac's files show up
in the PC's Network Neighborhood.) You can also use shared
printers that are connected to your PC, and, as always, CD's
and DVD's you burn on the Mac play in Windows too.
* In corporations, Mac OS X's Mail program can tap into an
Exchange server, Macs can be integrated into an Active
Directory database, and Macs can connect remotely to
corporate networks using Virtual Private Networking.
* Apple's iPhoto program is nicely integrated. When you want
to change your desktop wallpaper, for example, your entire
digital photo collection is available for the choosing. Same
thing when you're choosing a screen saver: You can pick any
one of your "albums" to become an animated, smoothly
zooming, cross-fading slide show. (Little do enchanted
onlookers realize that this same screen saver can, if you
like, be protected by your password, so that sneaky
interlopers can't see what you've been working on.)
As I noted in the review, some Mac fans are annoyed with
having to pay $130 for each annual Mac OS X update.
Of course, they don't HAVE to do anything. It's up to Apple
to make each upgrade so juicy, nobody can resist--and if you
ask me, Panther nails it.
Note: I wonder if that Disk Utility feature will do basically what Carbon Copy Cloner does but with fewer options?
