Preview

However, one good thing about Preview is that you can copy and paste text from it, which you can't do with the Adobe product. ...

For Preview, you can set the default zoom in the preferences. I recommend "Auto size". 100% is usually too small, because OS X treats screens as though they're 72DPI even though most modern monitors are 96DPI or higher.

In Preview, it always seems like my PDFs appear too small when I download and open them. Is Preview not supposed to be a full-fledged PDF reader? How do I fix this? Also, Dashboard is slow to open and I seem to have lost the Wikipedia widget I installed. Is there anyway to reset Dashboard back to its defaults (ie. no note widgets). --Sam

blank pages come out of the printer, sometimes with the top inch of the document I want. No error message is ever generated. I have opened these documents in preview then printed from preview. Same thing happens. I have also saved the documents to the desktop as pdf's, then opened the pdf's and tried to print. ...

Have you tried printing them to a PDF and then opening them in preview to see if this is still an issue. ...

New versions of iLife and iWork. A FrontRow update to 2.0 has been rumoured. Leopard preview: Nopee, that's reserved for WWDC in June (as you mentioned). If an intel Mac is released, then we'll also hear a lot about universal binaries and, of course, Mac OS X 10.4.4 for intel Macs.

What's the likelehood of a Leopard preview, or will that be more likely in June?

Instant Messaging: Adium is the best free, open-source application for IM. It supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ, and other protocols. However, it's file transfer support may sometimes fail on you. Keep iChat as a back-up for file transfer over the AIM protocol (its file transfer support over MSN usually works, however). Skype is my preferred program for audio...

I like Tiger's way of displaying PDFs in the browser window. I previously _never_ liked such behaviour, but something about Preview/Safari in Tiger is right. Probably the lightweight feeling about it.

Would you like it to work like the 'Preview In Browser' button in some web design applications.