A while back I wrote an email and sent it into Subway Sandwiches. In short, myself and many of my friends are bothered with how they put the mayo on last, rather than letting it be a soggy bread barrier like it should.

You can read my original post here, along with the email I sent it.
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I used to love Panic. They made great apps, designed well, and they were solid. I never jumped on their ftp bandwagon, as I use Interarchy. Audion and Unison were solid, and I used both all the time.
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I have no idea how many parts to this there will be. I am going to write one item per post, and yes, they will be persnickety.

Create a new folder (Command-Shift-N) on the Desktop, it will select the name so you can give it a new name. The same holds true for any folder you are in, so long as you are in icon view.

If you are in list view, it selects the name for a split second, then deselects it. This is new behavior as of 10.5. I call it a bug.

Leopard has a new text to speech voice, Fred. Fred has an issue, he never ever shuts up. Open up the speech preference pane, and assign a hot key so you can tell any selected text to speak out loud. I used control-T. It works amazingly well. With a small bump in the speaking speed, you can kick back and do other things while Fred is reading to you.

The rub? He never stops, and as far as I can tell, there is no way to make him stop talking. Select with caution, if you select an entire book of text, your computer will be talking to you for days on end. The only way I have found out of this is a logout. Maybe a force quit on Finder would do it as well.