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This new build is much more stable. But I still dislike the new default name for screenshots... Just doesn't look as nice as the older naming format.

When your only complain about an OS is the naming scheme for screenshots then you're talking about a really good OS :)

Whoa Apple actually added the blur effect behind the Stacks' grid view in the new build.

I thought I'd never see the say!

I wonder if that new WWDC QuickTime icon will actually make it into Mac OS X Snow Leopard. You'd think that if they really wanted to change it, it would be included by now?

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I think this was brought up before, but I can't remember (search didn't help).

Is it true that for the Dashboard weather widget Apple changed the provider from AccuWeather to The Weather Channel (and/or Yahoo!)? It is kind of annoying that the iPod touch weather app (OS 3.0) and OS X 10.5.7 do not always match.

Thanks.

Another quick question. Does Snow Leopard (Safari 4 in Snow Leopard) have a new version of Flash Player? Does YouTube, Hulu and other Flash content still take a lot of CPU and cause the fans to get really loud. I have 10.5.7, Safari 4.0.2 and the latest Flash Player on a early 2008 MacBook. I was wondering if Snow Leopard will (or has) improved Flash performance.

What is SHA1? And why bother with 10a380, when a newer build is out?

SHA is a hash function used to generate a unique hash from a file. It's similar to MD5 or CRC, albeit better. I was looking for a hash so I could verify the integrity of the rip I have.

10A380 is the build I have, so that's why I was looking for a hash for that specific build.

Another quick question. Does Snow Leopard (Safari 4 in Snow Leopard) have a new version of Flash Player? Does YouTube, Hulu and other Flash content still take a lot of CPU and cause the fans to get really loud. I have 10.5.7, Safari 4.0.2 and the latest Flash Player on a early 2008 MacBook. I was wondering if Snow Leopard will (or has) improved Flash performance.

Adobe hasn't released a new Flash player yet, but nothing's changed that would allow lower CPU usage (Most of the performance goes to drawing I think, unlike on Windows, Mac plugins can't draw windowed)

Flash will most likely never change. The more Adobe says it changes, the less it really does.

I don't think SL could really change something in how Flash can be programmed for OS X, but it seems like The_Decryptor knows something I didn't about Flash. But hey, I hate it so much that I don't want to know about it either :p

Plugins on OS X have 2 drawing modes, QuickDraw and CoreGraphics, both work by having the browser set aside a surface and telling the plugin to draw onto it (equivalent to transparent mode on Windows and Linux)

There's work on a new plugin model though that will allow out of process, windowed plugins, that would speed up Flash and the browser in one go.

@The_Decryptor and PsykX

Thanks for the quick replies. Flash is really the only thing I do not like about OS X due to the poor performance (at times) and the high CPU / loud fans. I wasn't sure if the new technologies like Grand Central or OpenCL (even though my MB won't support OpenCL) would make Flash better. Maybe Adobe will release an update. Only time will tell.

Thanks for the quick replies though.

Nice, I just installed it :)

I don't really like the little glow / border of the QuickTime icon, but it's certainly nicer than it ever was before.

Now the OS look pretty polished everywhere, it seems to be localized perfectly in french, the final version is approaching for real :)

Noticed that they have removed those quick services in the right click menu on text in Safari... I liked it better before! I hope it's coming back! These little icons in the contextual menu were nice.

Not really... I think they're done adding major stuff. What we'll see now are under-the-hood things... or a new QuickTime icon lol

They have like 2 months left to finalize things, so they better not start something new and never finish it in time.

I know they had their secret builds in Apple's HQ that they kept for themselves, but I think what we see now is really where they are right now, as compared to before when we knew they had something much different in their laboratories. (especially when we took a look at the WWDC build and realized that Dock Expos? wasn't there).

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