We miss you Laura! Meanwhile, thanks for the comment regarding Favorites. The running-out-of-room on the carousel was an issue I had with 9.1 – I don't have it with Desktop because of the "More" option, so that's nice.

My newest Desktop discovery is the Mail Search feature. When first searching for a term in my Mail I didn't get very many results, which I knew was wrong. Then I realized that next to each of my mail folders was a number. Turns out this is the number of search results within that folder. Wow! This is much different than 9.1, where all the relevant emails that use the search term got consolidated into one big, long list.

So, for example, let's say I sent a mail to all my friends with the subject line "picnic" and they all wrote back. If I wanted to find the email I sent, I would do search for "picnic" and I would not only get the email I sent, but all the response emails with a subject line "re: picnic." With 10.1, I can search only in the "Sent" folder for "picnic" emails to find the one I need. It's a lot more efficient.

I also sent my first email with a MapQuest map right in it. I mentioned earlier that if I needed to give directions in 9.1, I would only provide an address and make the recipient do the work because I'm lazy (yes, simply opening a new window to access MapQuest WAS too much work!). But the ability to add maps into email using Desktop is so easy that I may be converted into providing maps to my recipients on a regular basis, even if I don't actually have a place to send them. You hit the attach button, type in your location and presto! Your map is in the email. It only looks like I care enough about my recipient to do a lot of extra work for them – in reality, I do almost nothing. Nice.

More fun finds next week!