Somebody's been poking around Steve Jobs' computer and got a hold of the features of the upcoming Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. The information is not  confirmed but that won't stop us from posting it. This is after all the Leak Department. According to the leaked documents (which will put the Mac security system in bad light if proven genuine) the major MacLeopard changelog will be seen in the following:

• Spotlight 2.0
• Dashboard 2.0
• Safari 3.0
• iChat 4.0
• Automator 2.0
• QuickTime 7.2
• Mail 3.0
• iCal 3.0
• Address Book 5.0

Spotlight 2.0

• New Spotlight icon.
  
• Words down the side (applications, system preferences) replaced by icons.
  
• Larger icons of the hits, documents, events, mail, images, PDF's movies, fonts and presentations. There will be little live icons. For documents, the icon of the app (word or pages), events; the iCal icon with the date of the event and the time on it.
• Image previews will be larger with little text of the type of image i.e. jpg in a contrasting color in the bottom right of the preview. PDF icon will just be larger. Movies will have a little preview at about 8x the speed that will be cached in the finder.
• Fonts will be in the font type.
• Presentations will preview just like movies.
• If any of the items are in an open window, on the desktop, or in an app (bookmarks in safari, or a library item in itunes etc.) and the app is open, the rest of the app will fade and the specific items will light up, and if more than one, in the examples given, the app will just give a standard search and safari will open the bookmark browser.
• Spotlight will shine on the active icon(s).
• Standard metadata searching. If the majority of results are images, the show all pane at the right will allow to organize by camera, date taken, file type and app used.
  
• Spotlight will also search widgets.
• The slideshow feature will be enhanced for most filetypes. Documents can be previewed in a similar way to images are now and so on and so forth.
• Spotlight will be almost instantanteous.
  
• A new spotlight widget.
  

Dashboard 2.0

• Dashboard has a system preferences icon.
• Dashboard will appear in the application switcher.
• Widgets can be placed on the desktop. If icon is dragged to the board and waits two seconds in one place the board will fade out and you can place it on the desktop. The icon will appear in the dock and will be treated as an app.
• Widgets can be placed in the dock by dragging them there from dashboard or keeping them there when they appear on the desktop.
• In the dock will be the x icon for closing the widget on top of the widget icon, not on the widget itself.
• There will be also a selection of different animations.
• Dashboard can be isolated in a similar way to front row, you can push the desktop as an expose item to the side and isolate dashboard that way.
• Dashboard can be isolated via a cube effect. You can open dashboard in a similar way to f11, the widgets will hide at the side and come forward for use, in this one, the dashboard will not be isolated. Hot corners and F numbers can be configured to use one of them for different function key for each effect.
• In the isolated dashboard, the background will be black, but it will act as a pool of water, creating ripples when you drag a widget around.
  
• You can choose from water, air, space and metal as your chosen set of widget animations. Air and metal animations are not elaborated on, but space acts a bit like a black hole when you remove a widget and the widgets 'zoom' on.
• New widgets.

Safari 3.0

• Phishing filter
• Tighter RSS
• Integrated FTP
• Integrated mailto function, a mail plugin that lets you send emails without opening Mail.
• Isolation box grows a little black shield around it and everything to do with Safari takes place instead in an encrypted disk image of a special filesystem that nulls unix permissions. Anything that is written goes there and can't execute out of the image. The image is deleted after the session.
• Tabs can now operate on more than one line, and be saved.
• A safari Exposé is available, allowing Web pages in tabs to be treated as separate windows for the time of the Exposé .
• Web pages can be "Widgetized." You can make a new separate widget of a Web page, there is also a mini Safari widget that just has back and forward buttons and a small address bar.
• Tighter integration with Web formats.

iChat 4.0

• 7 way video conversations available.
• A new window with gives iSight feedback and also letting you optimize your video stream how you want to.
• Better Voice over IP integration.
• Folders for contacts.
• Different layout, quite hard to explain, but better.
• MSN and Yahoo integration
• Dedicated iChat widget

Automator 2.0:

• Loads faster
• Different layout
• AppleScript is updated and is more english, allowing automator to incorporate it without people feeling squeamish.
• More actions
• GUI scripting
• Dedicated widget

QuickTime 7.2

• Full screen and audio recording available in non-Pro version
• New CODECs, including loose RealPlayer and DiVX.
• Movie slideshow feature
• Some other minor inclusions
• Dedicated widget

Mail 3.2

• New server protocols
• Widescreen version
• Different views, drop down
• Gmail-like thread system
• Ability to send proper HTML email
• Able to import pages documents as email
• iChat integration and new collaboration integration
• iCal calendar integration

iCal 3.0

• Brilliant new UI
• 25 different organization techniques
• 100's more options for each log
• Integration with more formats

Address Book 5.0:

• New UI
• Wider range of import abilities
• Collaborative abilities
• Tighter iChat and iCal integration.