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.Mac subscribers, who can already sync contacts, bookmarks, calendars, keychains and email between Macs and the internet will also be able to make sure that their Dashboard widgets, Dock items, Mail notes and System Preferences are the same on every Mac they use.

Syncing is just one small area where Leopard expands on Tiger, beyond those already documented.

Address Book, for example, will now find any address in Google Maps and display it in your web browser. And iPhone users in particular will appreciate being able to sync their Yahoo address book with the Mac application.

The Dictionary app now has Wikipedia built in along with a glossary of Apple terms, grammar and pronunciation guides, and deference materials including chemical elements, weights and measure, and conversions.

Font Book now supports font auto-activation - when an application

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requests an installed font that's currently disabled, Leopard activates that font and keeps it active until the requesting application quits. Font Book can print complete font previews, including sample text in varying sizes or all available glyphs. It also protects against inadvertent deletion of core system fonts. Leopard includes several new fonts - Arial Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, Papyrus Condensed and Wingdings - plus Apple Braille Regular, Apple Braille Outline and Apple Braille Pinpoint that integrate with the new system-level voice controls.

Preview has received a major overhaul that includes Stickie-stye PDF notations, Spotlight-based relevancy searching of PDFs and PDF manipulation that lets you move individual pages around, remove pages and combine PDFs via drag and drop. Preview also becomes an image editor, with crop, rotate and resize, levels, new printing options, batch processing and support for images' GPS metadata that can open the location in Google Maps.

And that is just the tip of a very large iceberg. In addition to the much-trailed new features - such as Time Machine, Boot Camp, Spaces and Stacks - all the core OS X apps have new tools and technologies, among them TextEdit, Terminal, System Preferences, screen savers, Photo Booth, Front Row, AppleScript and Automator.

Apple has listed Leopards new spots at apple.com/macosx/features/300.html.