Nov 26
Ever get sick of the boring glass “3D” dock?
Try this simple trick to change it to 2D:
open “terminal” and type:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
Nov 10
The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:
- an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
- a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
- Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
- a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user
- issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers
- the reliability of menu extras
- an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture
- an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server
- Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing
- a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book
- an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet
- Safari plug-in reliability
- general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk
- an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: About the Mac OS X v10.6.2 Update.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit: Apple security updates.
Combo Update: http://support.apple.com/downloads/D…ombo10.6.2.dmg
Update: http://support.apple.com/downloads/D…XUpd10.6.2.dmg
Aug 30
Another small but new feature of Snow Leopard is minimising open application windows to their respective ‘application icon’ in the dock (instead of a new icon on the right hand side of the dock). Not bad!
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Aug 29
Looks like when you take a screen cap / grab in Snow Leopard, you get really useful filenames, instead of just “Picture1.png” etc.
Check out this how-to video (done with the new Snow Leopard screen recording feature of Quicktime!)
(if you are struggling to see the text/screen in this video, please view it on youtube
Aug 28
So I’ve just installed Snow Leopard on my near-new 13″ Macbook Pro. It’s fast, very fast. Faster than Leopard. The new Quicktime is nice, “stacks” are much improved. Excellent!
Aug 24
Aug 24
A screenshot from the new build has been floating around featuring an updated version of the Address Book application with one big addition. A “social networking” menu is added showing both Twitter and Facebook icons. This could mean that Apple will allow you to keep (and possibly edit) your contacts pulled from social networks.
There’s no word yet if the screenshot is credible or not, but it does look pretty convincing and would make sense given recent news that Apple is likely to incorporate social media into other applications such as iTunes.
from: TUAW
Aug 18
crunchgear has a preview of Snow Leopard, including a little video. It’s based on the Gold Master, 10A432 release.
Some notable features:
- QuickTime has been turned completely Pro with screen capture, audio capture, and movie capture built in along with an editing/trimming ribbon right in the app
- Shutdown is faster as is wireless connectivity
- There is automatic printer driver download as well as automatic timezone setup
- It also has Chinese character input, faster installation, and faster Time Machine backup. It also is 6GB smaller than the original Leopard
- Stacks has been updated as well with a new icon style and menu color. Previews are much more powerful now and you can cut intelligently from PDFs
- It requires an Intel processor – no PowerPC support – 1GB of memory and 5GB of disk space
