After some delays due to both Macworld Expo and hearing back from all of the winners, I'm please today to announce the 10 winners in our Best Leopard Hints contest. The winners were chosen by rankings from both the public voting, and votes from the Macworld editorial team (yours truly excluded). We then took the average of both groups' scores, and used that number to create the final rankings. Note that this is the first time the winners will see what they've won -- as of now, they only know that they've won something. So without further ado, here's how things wound up...

iPod Shuffle winners:

• 10th: Enable data detectors in iChat -- Zach S. from New York, NY.
• 9th: Use Help to select menu items via keyboard -- Aaron J. from Beaverton, OR (and no, I don't know him!).
• 8th: Link to any specific message in Mail -- Adam S. from Sydney, Australia.
• 7th: Zoom in and out on Quick Looked PDFs -- James C. from Milwaukee, WI.
• 6th: Add a Show Package Contents keyboard shortcut -- David G. from Sheffield, England.

4GB iPod nano winners:

• 5th: Zoom in and out and pan images in Quick Look -- Hunter H. from Arlington, TX.
• 4th: Banish the 3D dock from 10.5 -- Andrew W. from Canberra, Australia.
• 3rd: Enable Bonjour Browser in ScreenSharing.app -- Chris A. from Syracuse, NY.

80GB iPod Classic winner:

• 2nd: Use extra region capture screenshot options -- Justin E. from Absecon, NJ.

20" iMac winner:

• 1st: Add a 'recent things' stack to the Dock -- Emmanuel M. from Paris, France.

As you can see, our winners span much of the globe, with two in Australia, one in England, and one in France. That's why it was important to us to not restrict the geographic reach of the contest. (We've now got our work cut out for us to fulfill these prizes in all those places, but that's our problem! We'll be working with the winners over the next few weeks to get that done.) This small contest is a snapshot of how well the web reaches beyond borders, letting users share information globally with ease.

So congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to everyone who has submitted 10.5 hints. Collectively, you have all helped create a huge collection of OS X 10.5 tips -- 442 and counting as of today -- in a very short amount of time. That's an average of just over five OS X 10.5 hints per day (seven days/week) since the product was released! Wow.

Rob Griffiths