Of course, QT X makes it pretty easy to just trim the video slightly afterwards, right ?
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Of course, QT X makes it pretty easy to just trim the video slightly afterwards, right ?
I believe this is new ?! :
When you drag selected text from anywhere into a Finder window and the text only consists of a written URL, Snow Leopard will create a weblink where Leopard would have created a text clip. Pretty intelligent.
Just tried that in Leopard. It's nothing new.
Automation Services changes in Snow Leopard
Having watched Alex Lindsay on the most recent MacBreak - i'd say the changes to the Automation Services is very useful, and will only become more powerful. The contextualisation, and the customisation and the ease of use now is impressive.
Is there a 30 second rewind on using QT X for web pages for mp3 content?
Having watched Alex Lindsay on the most recent MacBreak - i'd say the changes to the Automation Services is very useful, and will only become more powerful. The contextualisation, and the customisation and the ease of use now is impressive.
Is there a 30 second rewind on using QT X for web pages for mp3 content?
Of course, QT X makes it pretty easy to just trim the video slightly afterwards, right ?
Haha, you're completely right of course. I can't fathom why I didn't think of that.
Speaking of second monitor; in Leopard (at least for me) when I would open Dashboard with an external monitor plugged in (and in extended mode, with the external, fullscreen monitor having the menubar) it would come up on the external, effectively screwing it up when i unplugged it. It looks as though they worked on this; now it opens on my MacBook, only weather goes on the external =P.
Good thread!
This was in Leopard.
Does the zoom not help?
Cool! I’m not sure you need the command key, the zoom gesture alone seems to work.
One I haven’t seen mentioned yet (after looking through all 11 pages) is another update to exposé.
I have posted this on another thread, but there was some confusion over what I was explaining, so hopefully it gets picked up this time round. I’ll upload a video later (edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YYYQ8FIA3g).
Exposé Tip 1
With Snow Leopard, Apple has introduced 3 modes for expose (but most people only know 2).
[1] All Windows from All Apps
[2] All Windows from One App
The new mode is:
[3] All Windows from a Selection of Apps
Here’s how it works:
Use case: You want to find a document, but you can’t remember if it is open in Pages, Word or OpenOffice.
[1] Hold down the Pages icon to see the Pages windows
[2] Command + click on the Word icon to see the Pages and Word windows
[3] Command + click on the OpenOffice icon to see the Pages, Word and OpenOffice windows.
To an app from the selection command + option + click (e.g. command + option + click on the Word icon to see just the Pages and OpenOffice icons).
Exposé Tip 2
Activate expose and type the name of the window you want (e.g. typing “Snow” will place a blue ring around the window containing this thread, typing “inbox” brings up your inbox etc.). Hit return to activate.
Bonus
[1] The shift key slows downs window zooming in expose (which is activate by the space key).
[2] After pressing the space bar, move the cursor to change the zoomed window.
This was in Leopard.
Does the zoom not help?
Cool! I’m not sure you need the command key, the zoom gesture alone seems to work.
One I haven’t seen mentioned yet (after looking through all 11 pages) is another update to exposé.
I have posted this on another thread, but there was some confusion over what I was explaining, so hopefully it gets picked up this time round. I’ll upload a video later (edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YYYQ8FIA3g).
Exposé Tip 1
With Snow Leopard, Apple has introduced 3 modes for expose (but most people only know 2).
[1] All Windows from All Apps
[2] All Windows from One App
The new mode is:
[3] All Windows from a Selection of Apps
Here’s how it works:
Use case: You want to find a document, but you can’t remember if it is open in Pages, Word or OpenOffice.
[1] Hold down the Pages icon to see the Pages windows
[2] Command + click on the Word icon to see the Pages and Word windows
[3] Command + click on the OpenOffice icon to see the Pages, Word and OpenOffice windows.
To an app from the selection command + option + click (e.g. command + option + click on the Word icon to see just the Pages and OpenOffice icons).
Exposé Tip 2
Activate expose and type the name of the window you want (e.g. typing “Snow” will place a blue ring around the window containing this thread, typing “inbox” brings up your inbox etc.). Hit return to activate.
Bonus
[1] The shift key slows downs window zooming in expose (which is activate by the space key).
[2] After pressing the space bar, move the cursor to change the zoomed window.
Wow, that's. . . busy. And a good 5 degrees off from the forecast in the built-in weather widget. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a try and see which one turns out to be more accurate.
Apple's weather widget still has a tendency to skip around the screen - I was hoping that SL might have cured this.
Turning off dashboard syncing in the MobileMe preference pane fixed that issue for me.
Oops, sorry.
ummmm
try repairing permissions
No problem
Tried that many times but doesn't work. I've found that others have discussed the issue with the weather widget on the Apple support forums.
I'm not sure if it's new to SL or not, but in Activity Monitor, the wired memory value includes the 256 MB of memory taken by the 9400M if its the active gpu. Consequently, the used value also increases. May explain why some users are reporting 'memory hog' issues.
IIRC, under 10.5 this was not the case. But I may be wrong.
Oh, and the iStat widget will show you your used memory sans the 9400m's chunk.
Example (on a uMB running 10.6 and 4gb of ram)
In activity monitor: 3.03gb free, 667 wired, 258 active, 68 inactive; Used 992.8 MB
Under iStat widget: 3.03gb free, ~413 wired, 258 active, 68 inactive; Used 739 MB
Interesting indeed.
This is after a reboot, waiting about 2 minutes for all the startup processes to calm down.
IIRC, under 10.5 this was not the case. But I may be wrong.
Oh, and the iStat widget will show you your used memory sans the 9400m's chunk.
Example (on a uMB running 10.6 and 4gb of ram)
In activity monitor: 3.03gb free, 667 wired, 258 active, 68 inactive; Used 992.8 MB
Under iStat widget: 3.03gb free, ~413 wired, 258 active, 68 inactive; Used 739 MB
Interesting indeed.
This is after a reboot, waiting about 2 minutes for all the startup processes to calm down.
It helped me reclaim 12 GB. I think that's bigger than whatever I remember they claimed, but I just can't find where they said it...
12GB LESS on an OS upgrade is better than Vista: 11GB more than xp.
I love apple for THIS reason. I've just reclaimed (parts of) my hard drive...
Edit:
Read the rest of the thread until here. Sorry for the confusion. I probably reclaimed much less...
It helped me reclaim 12 GB. I think that's bigger than whatever I remember they claimed, but I just can't find where they said it...
12GB LESS on an OS upgrade is better than Vista: 11GB more than xp.
I love apple for THIS reason. I've just reclaimed (parts of) my hard drive...
You reclaimed SOME hard drive space. You did NOT claim 11GB. The OS just calculates space differently now.