Steve reveals 10 features of Leopard for ring 2007 release

If you're waiting for Leopard, you'll have to cool your heels until ring 2007, when A le officially promises the release. To wet your a etite, A le previewed 10 Leopard features at WWDC today:

• Time Machine - a new built-in backup system that will back up your entire system and allow you to restore the whole thing or just selected files.
• Enhancements to iChat -- including a ta ed interface, custom still or video backdro for your video iChat, iChat Theater (which lets you show iPhoto pics or a Keynote presentation during an iChat), and Photo Booth effects to make yourself look silly during a chat. Other iChat enhancements that were mentioned but not demoed include video recording (yes!), invisible mode, and animated buddy ico . The A le site also shows the ability to share your desktop during an iChat. Now just let me figure out how to use these features to do screen recordings and machinima -- hmmm.
• Two dashboard additio -- Web Clip, which allows you to build dynamically updating widgets from any Web page (examples -- a cartoon or bestseller list that updates every day); and DashCode for widget development, complete with modifiable widget templates (for R , podcasts, and more), and a library of parts to pop into your widget.
• Additio to Mail.a -- a To-Do list made automatically from emails and that ties into iCal and other a Stationery (rich HTML email templates); and Notes (to replace those reminder emails you've been sending yourself).
• Universal Acce features - natural sounding voiceover, closed captioning in QuickTime, and braille su ort.
• Core Animation - with features like keyframing and tweening to help developers create animatio .
• otlight enhancement - otlight will be able to search other machines on your network, do Boolean search, and will launch your a licatio for you.
• Virtual desktop aces - letting you combine task-based a licatio into separate logical desktop configuratio . That mea you can have one group of a ru ing for Web design, another for print production, and yet another for podcast creation and editing. You'll be able to drag items between aces.
• Complete package - of built-in a , including Boot Camp, Front Row, and PhotoBooth.
  
• 64 bit proce ing.
  

There's some mouthwatering stuff here. Now I wonder what those other top secret items are that Steve said he's still keeping under wra ?