Folks, For the last 4 months or so, I have been part of the Appleseed beta program for Snow Leopard, and overall I have to say that Apple has done a good job so far with Snow Leopard. I just got the general release, and so far, I have run into no issues show stopping […]
Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6)’s system requirements are: Mac computer with an Intel processor 1GB of memory 5GB of available disk space DVD drive for installation So do not consider running Snow Leopard on any PPC machines… It simply will not work… But PowerPC (PPC) applications will work with the Rosetta translation layer, as […]
Folks, Engadget has mentioned that it appears that Snow Leopard’s version of iSync is missing the profiles for several older Palm PDA’s… While that maybe annoying, I would point out that iSync has been slowly losing ground over the last couple of years…. As single device PDA’s have been replaced with SmartPhones… It’s not really […]
A rumor is spreading quite rapidly that Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6, will have a built-in level of antivirus protection…. As shown here: But will it? I think at this point, I can safely say that I have not yet seen any sign of this protection in the Beta’s that I have used…. But […]
A small little birdie mentioned, and I’ve verified that the current version of Google Gears, does not run on Snow Leopard (10.6 // 10A380). Â The speed difference is quite visible, between the use of Gears & without…. Hopefully Google will have a working version for Snow Leopard…
Designer and photographer Michael ‘Flux’ Chang has posted a wide range of Snow Leopard screenshots on his blog. The images detail a number a number of interface tweaks, including changes to the stacks in grid view, symbol substitutions, keyboard shortcuts and the voiceover utility. Apple has also provided new options in the MIDI setup, while […]
In the ongoing quest to finish Mac OS X 10.6, Apple has officially frozen the Snow Leopard API’s. Â For those that don’t know this, that is a good thing, and allows the developers to know for certain that the API’s that they are testing with are what will be shipped. What’s an API? Â Advanced Programming […]