The AOL Mac Team is delighted to present AOL Desktop for Mac 1.5 beta 3. You can download the new beta at AOL Beta Central. As for all of our betas, please make sure you do not use it for any mission critical purposes. It's just a test version on our way to a final candidate version.

Highlights of the latest beta build include:

• Default font, font size and style preferences have been added for AIM and Mail

• Outbox resend issues have been fixed
• Improved performance of mailbox to reduce the "Message Content Loading" wait times
• When replying to an e-mail, signature will be placed in the correct insertion point, based on user Preference
• Spell check can now be added to the Compose Mail toolbar
• Spell check dialog box can now be activated by pressing CMD-;
• Transferring the same file twice displays a link to the location (such as Desktop) instead of the file name
• File Transfer notifications interrupt typing in different tab instead of appearing in background
• AIM now behaves as expected when you launch a VPN connection when already signed in with AIM
• Offline users on Buddy List will now appear with italics font style
• Improved knock-knock dialog box for IMs and file transfers from unknown senders
• Fixed AIM drag-and-drop file transfer issue
• Improved performance and user interface for built-in AIM

• Improved accessibility support for AIM file transfer
• Users can now reattach torn-off browser windows by dragging the tab back to the target browser window
• Added Delete to allow users to delete a Buddy on the AIM Buddy List using the contextual menu command
• Improved accessibility to allow delete spam from mail toolbar
• Improved performance for Tiger OS users when user is online and Airport is turned on/off
• Support for Mac OS X Fast User Switching now supported