First of all, the newsreader war seems to go on: NetNewsWire is out with the pre-beta of version 3, featuring attention reports, a new combined view (ehy, pulling an Endo?), and the chance to do "link dumps" to your blog editor of choice (actually it's working just with MarsEdit at the moment).
Speaking of news and feeds, DeviantArt eventually made it: it now features RSS feeds, together with a polished webtwopointowish look'n'feel. Better late than never.
The bad news is that RSS is available only for the gallery and not for the journal, making DA still unusable as a blogging platform. Sorry, try again.
And, last but not least, Leopard. This is just an announcement (the real thing won't see the light until spring 2007), but the revealed features are quite juicy. I must admit that more than the "system level" add-ons (like the Time Machine backup system, or inter-network spotlight capability), I'm looking forward to the iChat enhancements (like being able to display a keynote during a chat and, finally, multible tabs interface). Interesting also how apple introduced now the concept of virtual desktops, after having ignored it for so many years... and now that I don't feel the need for 'em anymore :P
Well, Linux was way ahead on this.
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