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Leopard’s Preview “a superstar”

Preview, says Bob Levitus (chron.com) has “always been a gem. But in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, it’s turned into a real powerhouse with many new and useful features.” For example, Preview’s “Mark Up icon provides a drop-down menu with highlighting, strike-through and underlining tools, all fantastic for editing text. “ And, Levitus points out, you’ll find tools for annotating PDFs, reordering pages in a PDF, and several other new and highly useful features.

Women More Likely Than Men To Surrender Security For Chocolate

The overall percentage of London office workers willing to trade their computer passwords for a few moments of chocolaty goodness was down two-thirds compared to 2007.

Macs Trounce PCs in Popular Mechanics “Ultimate Lab Test”

In what columnist Glenn Derene (popularmechanics.com) billed as the “Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops,” both the iMac and MacBook soundly outperformed Vista-running PCs. “In our speed trials,” reports Derene, “Leopard OS trounced Vista in all-important tasks such as boot-up, shutdown and program-launch times. We even tested Vista on the Macs using Apple’s platform-switching Boot Camp software—and found that both Apple computers ran Vista faster than our PCs did.