Try this out – send yourself a mail message inviting you to a meeting. In the body of message in the middle of some text include the meeting time and date something like ‘Thursday 12th February 12pm – 2pm. On receipt of the message you will find that Mac Mail recognises the pattern as one that might be a date that you wish to add to iCal. Even better, someone might invite you to a real meeting:^)

Similarly, if there us a contact information such as an mail and phone numbers it offer the opportunity to add this to your Mac Address Book.

Rather than simply say ‘I am impressed about this new feature in Mac Mail for Leopard’, it strikes me that these small technological innovations make a real contribution to our productivity, as well as making life that little bit easier…