I've assembled a list of ideas that build upon what Apple has delivered in Mac OS X so far; some features are refinements, some make use of outside ideas, and some are more marketing ideas than new technology.

Several are also attached to new hardware products. In many cases, the ideas I'm presenting are not necessarily original, but are simply ideas I think Apple can and should implement at least by the release of Leopard.

Ideas are grouped together by related topic in a series of articles:

Part 5 - Security services and products
Part 6 - Communications services and products
Part 7 - Media services and products

There's more than one way to name a cat.
Did you know puma, panther, leopard, cougar and mountain lion are all names for the same cat? Black jaguars can also be called panthers, and cheetah comes from the Sanskrit word for leopard. Ironically, the Cheetah codename applied to the slowest version of Mac OS X.

The Oxford Dictionary that comes with Tiger defines panther as a "leopard, esp. a black one, a cougar" and says "until the mid 19th cent. many taxonomists regarded the panther and the leopard as separate species." The 'leo' in leopard comes from the Latin word for lion.

Despite all the cat code names, when O'Reilly, known for featuring various animals on the cover of their technical books, began publishing manuals for Mac OS X, they chose to put dogs on the cover. After Apple's cat names went mainstream, O'Reilly changed to cats.

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