Here are some of the highlights they list on : On Valentine's Day, AOL released a sneak peek of the new AOL Desktop for Mac (beta 8), available for all Tiger(R) and Leopard(R) users (10.4.8 or higher). What the Mac team at AOL is up to, check out their blog: This out and consider giving AOL another go. Otherwise old-time Mac users who long ago abandoned AOL should check It would be nice to see moreĬommunity and personalization features added soon (ahem.) but Overall the new AOL Desktop for Mac seems to be a great directionįor AOL applications - greatly simplified with a laser-focus on the
Keyword support is another convenience that isn't fully there yet but Things than you'd ever guess) and other formatting options. History, increasing text size (trust me - more people ask about those Item, very clear options for clearing your cache, erasing your browsing Perhaps that is on the roadmap in the future? Multiple mailĪccounts (IMAP/POP3) are not supported yet but that will be added,Ī few other convenience features include AIM profile search as a menu Unfortunately doesn't seem to offer the right-rail with widgets that AOL Fortunately, it retains the 3 pane design, but Mail is basically like AOL Webmail, but sans branding and with a There is an option to customize the toolbar, which was fairly limited,īut will likely offer more options over time. Number of AOL properties: AOL News, Money & Finance, Music, TV, Movies, People, Living, Sports, MapQuest, and for now, a button for beta feedback.
Mail, IM and Web are the 3 key features, indicated by slightly brighterĬolored icons in the upper left corner. More "Windows" like, allowing you to see your computer desktop, which
Restrictive as the AOL client options for the PC. Overall itįeels very Mac-like and integrated but not quite as immersive or Page loaded in the browser in the center and that's it. Iconic-style buttons, a buddy list down right side, aol.com default
Once installed, you see a toolbar across the top with several simple, More simplified yet sophisticated look and feel. Stand on their own without branding every screen. They've let all the internal applications like email and AIM It was refreshing (even as anĮmployee) to just see a simple "AOL Desktop" in plain text in the upper Immediately is the downplayed AOL branding. One of the biggest differences that jumped out at me Installed quickly and easily and launched with a browser open,ĭefaulted to AOL.com, offering me the option to sign in or just beginīrowsing. I tested it out on a PowerPC G4 running OSX.
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