No free shirts. They just had the CD's stacked on the counter next to the register rather than on a display. I was in there all on 2 minutes and I overheard at least 3 people asking where they were and another 2 on the escalator as I was leaving.
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - What, Where, When, Why & How much
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No free shirts. They just had the CD's stacked on the counter next to the register rather than on a display. I was in there all on 2 minutes and I overheard at least 3 people asking where they were and another 2 on the escalator as I was leaving.
Everything will remain, including iLife, if you do a simple upgrade. If you do a clean install (not really necessary), you can reinstall everything, including iLife - which is included on a separate disc in the box that came with your MBA.
I have Leopard on my macbook pro, will I need to backup all my files to do the upgrade?
Also, I bought my MBP early last year, will it work with the chinese character input recognition they mentioned in the site?
Lastly, will I have to reinstall my window on the other side?
Also, I bought my MBP early last year, will it work with the chinese character input recognition they mentioned in the site?
Lastly, will I have to reinstall my window on the other side?
Users need to back up PERIOD. It's worthwhile doing a backup normally. Definitely recommended for updates such as SNow Leopard.
Thinking, as another user pointed out - might be best to "do an upgrade, see how things run, then if your satisfied... fine. If not you can just do a clean install like normal."
I could imagine people doing their install actually in the store if the revamped theatre section has power sockets. Busy i'd imagine, but it's *the* main store. They'll have copies by the pallet load.
With 10.6.1 coming along. A look at 10.6 Snow Leopard Server here.
Snow Leopard related announcements here
one question:if i buy snow leopard in france will it be on french language or I can change it into english? 
one question:if i buy snow leopard in france will it be on french language or I can change it into english?
The box and booklet will be French but you will be able to install in English.
Snow Leopard memory usage
Saved about 5 GB of disk space but the memory usage of SL looks double what Leopard used on a clean startup. Comments?
Saved about 5 GB of disk space but the memory usage of SL looks double what Leopard used on a clean startup. Comments?
I don't know - having done a update, then done a clean install on top of that, I'd say it's quicker after the Clean Install. It's all app, data, and computer and usage dependent i'd imagine.
Snow Leopard brings the Tablet's keyboard? http://9to5mac.com/snow-leopard-soft-keyboard Part of the System Preferences shuffle
Snow Leopard brings the Tablet's keyboard? http://9to5mac.com/snow-leopard-soft-keyboard Part of the System Preferences shuffle
First time around installing it I got the spinning curseball of death when it wanted to re-start half way through. I finally shut it off after 20 minutes. Then it went through on the second time around, taking about 20 minutes to install. It's probably better to start up on the install disk when you wanna install it!
Time Machine is faster!
Quicktime X is crap and has been introduced to da trash can!
Left useless sidebar be gone...finally!!!!
Mail is way faster at checking mail!
I'm going to spend a day in Death Valley. It'll be 120 degrees. Should I drink any water while I'm there??!!
Time Machine is faster!
Quicktime X is crap and has been introduced to da trash can!
Left useless sidebar be gone...finally!!!!
Mail is way faster at checking mail!
I'm going to spend a day in Death Valley. It'll be 120 degrees. Should I drink any water while I'm there??!!
I've installed SL as well. Safari is far less stable.
I was going to post a review, but Safari crashed and I don't feel like typing that much again.
I was going to post a review, but Safari crashed and I don't feel like typing that much again.
I was really disappointed that the install video was the same as Leopard's. I want my $29 back.
Yeah, that sucked. Unpacking Mac stuff and installing OS X is an experience, like opening Christmas-morning-presents, so finalizing it with something old is just cheap. If they'd only added some snow effect or whatever, that would've been cool.
I must say, it just feels like I have a new computer. Leopard was running pretty smooth, hardly any problems. But compared to this it was just slow and not smooth at all. I don't know if this'll change with time, but apps just launch só fast. Hell, everything's fast.
All this on a January 2007 MacBook (2,1). I was thinking of buying a new MacBook Pro, not expecting much of a change on this machine from SL, but boy was I wrong.
All this on a January 2007 MacBook (2,1). I was thinking of buying a new MacBook Pro, not expecting much of a change on this machine from SL, but boy was I wrong.
Same here. Loving every second of it.
Agreed. Safari is way less stable on SL, however.
All this on a January 2007 MacBook (2,1). I was thinking of buying a new MacBook Pro, not expecting much of a change on this machine from SL, but boy was I wrong.
I was thinking of saving for an iMac (refurb, 24'') to replace my mid-'07 Mac mini, but I'm having second thoughts now.
Finder is superbly fast. Browsing my server's iTunes music folder took awhile to load a was choppy in Leopard. Not so in SL; it's instantaneous and as smooth as possible.
One of my few beefs is changing the background in Finder windows doesn't really work. Some pics work, but most don't. Hopefully 10.6.1 will fix this.
somehow we can use 2 graphic card in Unibody MBP, to work together with opencl. This is Great News.
check at this thread guys.
http://yit.me/78s8t8
just waiting opencl programmer release their application. i love it
check at this thread guys.
http://yit.me/78s8t8
just waiting opencl programmer release their application. i love it
Automation Services changes in Snow Leopard
After listening to Alex on MBW, I thought i'd link to the PixelCorps MacBreak episode 235.
Download here. 15 minutes, 80 MB.
Sal Soghoian from macosxautomation.com Speaks to Alex Lindsay.
Looks like a nice integration to start rolling your own automation. Send file to Bluetooth device would be useful. Text (Send Message, SMS, add to iTunes as a spoken track, etc).
Contextual menus now.
Access to Services changed.
E.g. Click on image (go to services, rotate clockwise).
E.g. Can encrypt a PDF through the cog (Action menu).
Linked tightly to Automator (5:30 in)
Services at the point you want to do it - e.g. click on rtf, get it to convert to html.
Works on selected text also, not just files. Select text, then right click, to bring up the contextual menu for it. Data detector framework (part of Mail) can then detect, w.g. an address.
e.g. 2 options
"Who do i Know near this address?"
"Show Address in Google Maps"
For a phone number:
"Where is this area code?" With pictures.
Demo of how to create a service.
You have a list of people's names. Select it in textedit. Right click, there isn't a sort. So you want a script to sort them. So open Automator, and it's new Automator - has a template picker.
iCal alarm, can then fire off an automator - i.e. a way to make a chron job. Selecting a service, say what you want to pull out of the text (URLS, addresses,dates, phone numbers, file types etc).
If you have remote desktop, you can use remote computer - select a computer in a computer list, do a workflow on it.
So services receives selected text in any application, replaces selected text. Adding an action to the workflow that does the sorting. Create a shell script,
Save services as Sort Selected Paragraphs.
So in any program that uses text, you can then right click the text, and sort the names.
Useful, non? You can also assign a Keyboard shortcut to it. You can turn off one you don't want. Chinese text conversion doesn't show if you don't have Chinese text - a useful change.
So once you've set one, you go into TextEdit, select the text, then in the Textedit menu, services, it's there, and shows the keyboard shortcut.
If you have repetitive things you do, this is contextual, customisable, convenient & configurable.
Pushing macosxautomation.com/services/downloads/index.html
Will be exploring this more soon, on MacBreak.
Kudos to them - they're adding videos of how to do this - e.g. Rotate clockwise an image
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/scripting.html
Some Demos to show off Snow Leopard
Snow Stack video and live demo (Use space bar and <- -> arrows to navigate pictures).
Fun CSS text shadow
3D transforms
CSS Animations
3D transforms
CSS Animations
More CSS animations
3 D transforms
http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/simpleVideo/video.html - Seems to work in FF3.5 (but Safari forces QTX, shown by the back 30 second button and it not working.)
Rotating Firefoxes
Rotatable sizeable text kind of works
Just to repost - the thread on features of Snow Leopard is showing there are a lot of undocumented improvements being picked up all over the OS.
After listening to Alex on MBW, I thought i'd link to the PixelCorps MacBreak episode 235.
Download here. 15 minutes, 80 MB.
Sal Soghoian from macosxautomation.com Speaks to Alex Lindsay.
Looks like a nice integration to start rolling your own automation. Send file to Bluetooth device would be useful. Text (Send Message, SMS, add to iTunes as a spoken track, etc).
Contextual menus now.
Access to Services changed.
E.g. Click on image (go to services, rotate clockwise).
E.g. Can encrypt a PDF through the cog (Action menu).
Linked tightly to Automator (5:30 in)
Services at the point you want to do it - e.g. click on rtf, get it to convert to html.
Works on selected text also, not just files. Select text, then right click, to bring up the contextual menu for it. Data detector framework (part of Mail) can then detect, w.g. an address.
e.g. 2 options
"Who do i Know near this address?"
"Show Address in Google Maps"
For a phone number:
"Where is this area code?" With pictures.
Demo of how to create a service.
You have a list of people's names. Select it in textedit. Right click, there isn't a sort. So you want a script to sort them. So open Automator, and it's new Automator - has a template picker.
iCal alarm, can then fire off an automator - i.e. a way to make a chron job. Selecting a service, say what you want to pull out of the text (URLS, addresses,dates, phone numbers, file types etc).
If you have remote desktop, you can use remote computer - select a computer in a computer list, do a workflow on it.
So services receives selected text in any application, replaces selected text. Adding an action to the workflow that does the sorting. Create a shell script,
Code:
sortSo in any program that uses text, you can then right click the text, and sort the names.
Useful, non? You can also assign a Keyboard shortcut to it. You can turn off one you don't want. Chinese text conversion doesn't show if you don't have Chinese text - a useful change.
So once you've set one, you go into TextEdit, select the text, then in the Textedit menu, services, it's there, and shows the keyboard shortcut.
If you have repetitive things you do, this is contextual, customisable, convenient & configurable.
Pushing macosxautomation.com/services/downloads/index.html
Will be exploring this more soon, on MacBreak.
Kudos to them - they're adding videos of how to do this - e.g. Rotate clockwise an image
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/scripting.html
Some Demos to show off Snow Leopard
Snow Stack video and live demo (Use space bar and <- -> arrows to navigate pictures).
Fun CSS text shadow
3D transforms
CSS Animations
3D transforms
CSS Animations
More CSS animations
3 D transforms
http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/simpleVideo/video.html - Seems to work in FF3.5 (but Safari forces QTX, shown by the back 30 second button and it not working.)
Rotating Firefoxes
Rotatable sizeable text kind of works
Just to repost - the thread on features of Snow Leopard is showing there are a lot of undocumented improvements being picked up all over the OS.
somehow we can use 2 graphic card in Unibody MBP, to work together with opencl. This is Great News.
check at this thread guys.
http://yit.me/78s8t8
just waiting opencl programmer release their application. i love it
Uh, what good is that when bottlenecked so greatly that you get less power than the 9600 alone?
Nah, myself and at least one friend of mine really don't like it. It goes from being a quick window switcher, to something you have to stop and examine. Sometimes apps are made much smaller than chat windows, and it makes no sense. It kills workflow now.
Right, the old Expose was so much faster, sure things didn't always look super great, but I loved it. Back in Tiger, that's what made me start using Macs, that function alone. I'm sure someone will figure out a way to get the old one back, or I will just get used to it.