Mac OS X Snow Leopard Discussion

[PyX]

Oh well, now Software Update works.

I didn't do anything special. Maybe it's because of a reboot, but I wouldn't think so because I had rebooted about 3-4 times yesterday for that and my Airport.

Maybe Repair disk permissions and Verify disk, although it didn't find anything...

Errors in Finder : They have simplified a lot of errors in Snow Leopard they said at WWDC, so that the end user could understand them better. But I still saw a couple of errors in the Finder that were "numbers" that I had to look on Google. Instead of a simple message telling me what the problem really is. I don't know if they'll change this in the final...

Quicktime X : You can't use the double arrows to go faster or to go back in a video. You really have to drag the button. Obviously I know this will be changed in the final.

Quicktime X : There's a new fullscreen mode. If you're seeing a 4:3 video on a 16:10 monitor for instance, you can activate fullscreen and see black borders on the left and right. But if you activate the new mode, it stretches the sides of the video exponentially. It does not stretch the whole video equally. The middle is not stretched at all in the new mode, so characters don't look fat.

Edit : Quillz is right, the Services menu is not empty. Must have been dreaming...

Edited June 12, 2009 by PsykX

[Quillz]

I just noticed that after logging out and back in, my battery status icon has disappeared on its own from the menu bar and now refuses to reappear, as that check box refuses to stay clicked.

[Quillz]

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/06/...now-leopard.ars

Now we know why Apple included the new Menlo font in Snow Leopard: it is replacing Monaco. The gold release of Snow Leopard will no longer include Monaco or the .dfont format. And you can no longer choose your level of font anti-aliasing. There's just one setting now.

[PL_ Veteran]

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/12/new-sn...inue-to-emerge/

- Expanded Multi-Touch Capabilities for Older Notebooks: Snow Leopard will bring 3- and 4-finger multi-touch gestures to MacBooks that currently do support only a maximum of two-finger gestures. Examples of the gestures that will make their way to the older notebooks include swipe to navigate, swipe for Expos?, and swipe for switching applications.

Suh-weet:DD

[Quillz]

For you iconaholics, Snow Leopard has fixed the well-documented "open folder" bug.

[mattrobs]

Anyone notice this:

With Snow Leopard and a compatible AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule base station, however, your computer can go to sleep yet continue to share its files with other computers and devices, waking when you need it and sleeping when you don?t.

Does it work in the WWDC build?

[Quillz]

Anyone notice this:

Does it work in the WWDC build?

Set me a Time Capsule and I'll be happy to let you know ;)

[PyX]

I haven't tested it out :p

Problem with time capsule is... I can't go in Time Machine in iCal or Mail or Address Book... If I had the app highlighted and I go in the Apps stack and look for Time Machine, it goes in the Finder...

Time Machine seems to be a little faster with Time Capsule by the way.

[crazzyyfool]

Can anyone confirm whether or not you still need to log out when switching graphics cards in recent MacBook Pros like you have to do in Leopard?

[MasterC]

Quicktime X : There's a new fullscreen mode. If you're seeing a 4:3 video on a 16:10 monitor for instance, you can activate fullscreen and see black borders on the left and right. But if you activate the new mode, it stretches the sides of the video exponentially. It does not stretch the whole video equally. The middle is not stretched at all in the new mode, so characters don't look fat.

I'm pretty sure that the current version of Quicktime does that too.

[Timan Veteran]

I'm pretty sure that the current version of Quicktime does that too.

Sure is, just right click the fullscreen thing.

"Ignore my big brother uk in the background"

[PyX]

You're right... I never thought about right clicking on a button in the HUD interface though, this is strange..

Well in QuickTime X, people like me won't miss the option I believe :p

[.Neo]

In case anyone cares, the WWDC-build of Mac OS X Snow Leopard has leaked as well. So far I've only seen the client version in the wild.

[Genius]

I just hope that with the addtion of OpenCL we will finally have GPU acceleration in players like XBMC ;) really the main thing that still keeps me using windows on my mac ;)

[Brian M. Veteran]

Can anyone confirm whether or not you still need to log out when switching graphics cards in recent MacBook Pros like you have to do in Leopard?

I really hope they've changed it. Hybrid SLI would be nice too - or am I dreaming :D.

[.Neo]

I just hope that with the addtion of OpenCL we will finally have GPU acceleration in players like XBMC ;) really the main thing that still keeps me using windows on my mac ;)

Isn't that something the developers should add themselves to the application?

[Garry]

I really hope they've changed it. Hybrid SLI would be nice too - or am I dreaming :D.

You still have to log out, at least in the 10A380 given to devs at WWDC.

[crazzyyfool]

You still have to log out, at least in the 10A380 given to devs at WWDC.

Grrr, that needs to change before they ship it.

[Quillz]

In case anyone cares, the WWDC-build of Mac OS X Snow Leopard has leaked as well. So far I've only seen the client version in the wild.

You mean the one that was given out to those who attended WWDC? That's been out for a long time now.

Or, are you referring to the actual demonstrated build at WWDC, the one that included the Expose features in the Dock?

[.Neo]

I'm not entirely sure yet. :/

[.Neo]

A new build just appeared in Software Update, including the new Dock Expos? feature.

[giga Veteran]

If you're running the WWDC build, just run software update to get the latest build which has dock expose.

Edit: Redundancy, yay.

[Quillz]

A new build just appeared in Software Update, including the new Dock Expos? feature.

I didn't know Apple let you upgrade your OS via Software Update (in developmental releases, that is.)

I'll be doing that right now...

[giga Veteran]

Minimized windows are in expose now. Video by someone on MR.

http://localhostr.com/files/d309ef/Expose%...20Recording.m4v

[Quillz]

Minimized windows are in expose now. Video by someone on MR.

http://localhostr.com/files/d309ef/Expose%...20Recording.m4v

I noticed this myself, earlier. Cool feature.