An AppleInsider reader has brought the Mac community's attention to an album of screen shots published on Flickr of Apple's OS X upgrade named 'Snow Leopard 10.6'. Within the album an array of screen shots can be viewed, providing amongst other things, glimpses of various cosmetic changes to the Finder, QuickTime X and additions to preference settings such as the time and date and security menus.
The AppleInsider reader 'inewton1974' makes various comments regarding the screen shots which prove to be fairly fruitful in terms of showing off the new additions to the OS.
Perhaps the most notable to readers are the following:
- New transition effects within the newly structured Finder. Icons can now be commanded into position and size by the use of a slider located in the lower right-hand corner of the Finder window rather than them shifting immediately upon command. The AppleInsider reader deems this a 'neat visual effect.'
- The QuickTime preference pane seems to also have been removed from QuickTime X along with any preference altering possibility entirely. Various opinions suggest that this is Apple's first step in no longer offering its QuickTime Pro upgrade. Another screen shot shows a video of the Eiffel Tower playing in QuickTime X where the video alone floats on the desktop without a HUD, a noticeable change from the currently available.
However, there are many more features to take a look at which can be found at the AppleInsider website.
The screen shots seem to have got people excited and whilst on ZDnet's 'Apple Core' blog, I found that the writers suggest that people wishing to view them get in quick before Apple Legal have them removed. Finally, the esteemed AppleInsider user seems to believe that the operating system upgrade will be available to eager buyers in October of this year. This isn't the date I've been given after walking into a local Apple stockist (not run by Apple officially) last week and asking when I can come in and buy the new OS. I was given a date of June 8th, how believable this is I am unsure, though the assistant seemed to be fairly sure of the information on his computer.
The software window, there's a "Installed Software" tab in it.
Maybe this is Apples attempt at Add/Remove programs. I hope so...really i do.
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Fact is, every ap that i had in os x always 9/10 times would spread **** about.
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 30 May 2009 - 16:58
Not sure what kinds of apps YOU were using, but the vast majority of OS X apps are a simple drag & drop install that you can delete just as easily. The only other file related to an installed application will be a small .plist file in the /Library/Preferences folder (which stores the program's settings). These files are generally 1KB or smaller.
Only larger apps seem to more commonly leave stuff scattered about, but these are usually easily found in Application Support vs Cache.
Yeah, but that won't prevent 'Journalists' from getting up and cheering when they introduce it at WWDC. Or from charging $130 for what's essentially a service pack.
Exactly, Apple should do something like Microsoft and release this as a Service Pack rather than a full blown update.
But everyone knows Apple
Seriously. "Apple OSX 10.x versions are Service Packs" nonsense has to die, just like the 'Windows is unreliable' or 'Windows Blue Screens a lot' crap which everyone got sick of.
Seriously. "Apple OSX 10.x versions are Service Packs" nonsense has to die, just like the 'Windows is unreliable' or 'Windows Blue Screens a lot' crap which everyone got sick of.
Except for the whole thing about this being...well, you know...really basically a SERVICE PACK. Under the hood improvements and minor system updates...like...a service pack. With a $130 pricetag. Go Apple. Milk those fans for everything they're worth.
Dude Leopard came with enough innovation for at least 5 years.I'll be more then happy if snow leo fulfill the apple's claim of stability and speed.
But to be honest, now that I'm used to not having a dock-like part on the screen, the Taskbar feels like a bit of a waste on Windows to me. The trouble is that the Dock and the Taskbar serve two slightly different tasks. The parts of the taskbar that are important to me are the digital clock and the running programs. I never auto-hid the taskbar because it felt debilitating to me. Yet with Mac OS X the digital clock isn't contained in the dock, but on the upper menu bar (which is a bit over half the size of the taskbar, I'd say). I switch between running programs through expose; I can switch through multiple windows within the same program through expose (although most people don't seem to know about that feature); and tying all of that into "hot corners" makes the entire process very easy to perform.
And on second look, that guy has a ton of stuff on his dock. Some people feel inclined to put every single program that they have installed into the dock, which makes for extreme clutter. Personally, I only have about seven programs listed on my dock - the seven that I use most frequently. Almost everything else is in a "Stack" that I made, which sort of resembles the Start > Programs aspect of Windows. It's much neater that way.
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