Besides the “marquee” features in Leopard that I’ve described over the last several weeks (Quick Look, Stacks, Spaces, Time Machine, Parental Controls, Screen Sharing, and Mail) there are many less spectacular yet fun and useful tidbits that earn “honorable mention” accolades.

The new Dictionary in Leopard also contains a Thesaurus, an Apple-specific Dictionary (type in “play” and you get “Playlist”, as it pertains to a list of songs to be played in sequence in iTunes), a Japanese-English translator, and, if you’re online, the Wikipedia entries for the word you’re looking for.  If you’ve never heard of it, Wikipedia is an internet encyclopedia built from net citizens’ contributions (and that’s a whole ‘nother column).

There’s also a “Word of the Day” screen saver that pulls random words and their definitions from the Dictionary.  Click the “D” key and you’re instantly taken to the word’s entry in the Dictionary.

If you receive an email message with a bunch of attachments, say, photos, Leopard Mail now contains a Quick Look button that displays all the attachments in Quick Look format – you can view them in full screen, in a slideshow, in an Index Sheet, or with one click export them into iPhoto.

There’s only one new Apple-built Widget in Leopard’s Dashboard – Movies.  Type in your Zip code, and the Movie Widget can tell you which movies are playing in theaters in your locale.  You can also view a trailer of a selected movie, and if the theater supports it, order tickets online.

Speaking of Widgets, the Safari 3 web browser in Leopard lets you build your own Widgets out of parts of web pages.  Click the little scissors icon in the Safari Tool Bar, select an area of a web page, click “Done”, and a Widget containing that part of the web page is created in your Dashboard.  If you’re online and call up that Widget, you’ll see the content of that part of the page, refreshed with whatever’s there today.  Perfect for the “Headlines” section of the Yahoo home page, for example.

The DVD player gets the ability to move to other chapters in a DVD movie without returning to the DVD’s opening menus, via a bar containing a thumbnail of each chapter invoked by moving the pointer while the movie is playing.  You can also “save” favorite clips from the movie, and make on-the-fly color corrections to fit your fancy while you watch.