In OS X 10.5, if you drag an file over an application icon and hit the space bar, the app will open for you. This makes drag-and-drop super easy. Here are a few screenshots to show how easy it is to use Leopard's Spring Loaded Dock.One of the things I always liked about XP/Vista was if you hovered over the taskbar, the program would open automatically. With Leopard, OS X adds this same functionality. For example, if you want to drop a file from your desktop onto a program, just do the following. I'll be dragging a file into cyberduck (ftp) as an example. 1. Click on the file and drag it over the the appropriate program. 2. When hovering over the application's icon, hit the Space bar. Do not let go of the pressure held on the mouse/trackpad. 3. The app will open automatically while you still have a hold on the file. Drop the file into the open application.... Read More

 Installing a local version of wordpress is very easy using MAMP. In fact, the configuration and installation is quicker than downloading the packages. Let's get started...Previously I have described how to manually install wordpress and mysql locally on a leopard box. With a failed step or two, the manual installation can be ugly very quickly. MightQ suggested MAMP. MAMP + WP on leopard is less graceful but much, much easier. 1. Download MAMP 2. While you are installing MAMP, Download WP 3. Mount the MAMP dmg and drag the folder into your applications directory. No not use a subdirectory. 4. You can turn on the mysql and apache servers through installing the widget into your dashboard or by clicking the MAMP application. Start the servers now. 5. Click the Open start page button 6. The Welcome to MAMP page should open. You should record your mysql information that will look similar to this... To connect to the MySQL Server from your own scripts use the following connection parameters&#... Read More