Well, how about you?

I have had no real problems installing and upgrading to Leopard, but many people had problems. Could also have been a PC commercial ....

Odiogo

Today I installed Odiogo, a fairly new product for text to speech. They describe it as:

Check out the automated podcast "to go": your site's RSS feeds, text articles and blog posts can be converted automatically to iPod-ready audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device. 

Turn readers into listeners, and transform your blog into a high quality, ad-supporting broadcast that can vastly expand your audience reach!

• Automatic podcast generation
• "Near-human" quality text-to-speech
• Listen Button feature deployed in next to no time for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and Terapad platforms
• Detailed download statistics
• Make money from embedded ads

If you do not believe it, just click the button to the right and check some of the entries on Visit me Daily. 

Apple Releases First Leopard Update (10.5.1)

Apple has released their first update to Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.1) today:

The 10.5.1 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

Apple details the improvements in this technote. Some highlights include:

- Allows password-protected accounts on AirPort Disks to show up on in the Finder's Shared Sidebar.

- Addresses formatting issues with certain drives used with Time Machine

- Addresses a potential data loss issue when moving files across partitions in the Finder.

- Improves the reliability of Back to My Mac-enabled Macs appearing in the Finder's Shared Sidebar.

The final build number of Mac OS X 10.5.1 is indeed 9B18 as previously reported. Apple first released Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 on October 26th.

I installed it and no issues yet :-)

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Decision taken

Due to several issues I had to cancel my upcoming trip to New Zealand. Hopefully I will be able to travel to New Zealand in the near future.

From MacRumors: Filemaker Introduces Bento Personal Database for Mac

Filemaker has introduced a new personal database application for Mac OS X called Bento.

Bento
organizes all your important information in one place. So you can
manage your contacts, coordinate events, track projects, prioritize
tasks, and more -- faster and easier than ever before.

Bento is described as being designed exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard
and takes advantage of many Leopard-specific features, such as live
linking to iCal, Core Animation, Advanced Find, Time Machine Backups
and Multimedia features.

A free preview download is available. Filemaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple and publishes FileMaker Pro for Windows and Mac OS X. Macworld provides a brief first look at Bento. Bento is expected to be released at Macworld San Francisco 2008 for $49 for a single license.

Leopard "the most polished and easiest to use OS"

In his 4.5-star (out of 5) review of Leopard, Edward Mendelson
(pcmag.com) maintains that Leopard is "by far the best operating system
ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new
features that have real practical value." Mendelson "found Leopard to
be startlingly fast, brilliantly streamlined, and packed with
conveniences and innovations. Leopard's rich set of built-in software
runs faster than I imagined possible." Read article.

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