Simulate Leopard on your Mac

If you’ve spent the last few days drooling over the new features included in OSX 10.5 Leopard but can’t afford to upgrade yet then calm down. If you want a glimpse into how the new operating system might look and behave then I can reccommend a couple of downloads you might like to install on your current system.

The first is the imaginatively-titled Liger, a customisation tool that makes it look like you’re running Leopard on OSX Tiger. The free application replicates the sleek new semi-transparent menu bar, and the new Dock look with a remarkable degree of accuracy. Another neat feature in Leopard is its ability to create a widget from any part of a web page. Dash Clipping gives you a feel for how this might work, by allowing you to select any part of a site and view it from your desktop.