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New Snow Leopard Features Continue to Emerge
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If i touch a third finger while scrolling with two fingers, scrolling stops and if i release the third one, scrolling continues. I guess this is a clue for multitouch capability.
(White Macbook, late 2007)
I don't use it as I prefer Gmail in a browser but I should not have to configure Mail.app just to be able to browse my iPhone notes after syncing. I would prefer it if iPhone notes synced with Stickies instead.
Black UI Theme?
Random question:
Is it possible that we might still see a slightly upgraded UI in SL? Nothing major, but Quicktime X's black theme that we saw during the quicktime X demo in the keynote presentation looked pretty good to me.
Seems kinda strange to make release an integrated app with SL that has a different UI theme to the rest of the OS?
Sorry if this has already been discussed. I couldn't find it anywhere.
Random question:
Is it possible that we might still see a slightly upgraded UI in SL? Nothing major, but Quicktime X's black theme that we saw during the quicktime X demo in the keynote presentation looked pretty good to me.
Seems kinda strange to make release an integrated app with SL that has a different UI theme to the rest of the OS?
Sorry if this has already been discussed. I couldn't find it anywhere.
I personally don't mind the sound, however, I would like to be able to change it to a different sound. Is that even possible??
Until someone has tested the feature on a pre-2008 Macbook or Macbook Pro, it's all speculation. I will actually have access to the Snow Leopard Developer preview tomorrow and plan on trying it on my July 2007 Macbook Pro, I'll post my findings
I don't think the startup sound is part of the OS, I believe it runs before the OS starts to boot so it's in the hardware on your Mac, therefore you can't change it
I don't get why people want to disable the startup chime. I can see why it can be annoying (it's scared the **** out of me if I've left my volume up and turn on my Mac in the middle of the night, not to mention woken up my family, ha)...but it's there for a reason - it's supposed to tell you that your Mac has passed all the pre-boot tests and that the hardware should be capable of booting. Not hearing the chime is a legit cause of concern, it indicates that your computer is...well, messed up.
Did you ever feel embarrassed of all the eyes upon you when a Macbook boots up in a silent library? Happily Macpilot solved this issue.
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There are no multi-touch options on my White MacBook. That doesn’t mean they can’t include them in the final release. One thing is sure: the hardware is definitely capable of at least some multi-touch gestures.
To add to this, you can now have a more local refinement when you first install (when it asks you to indicate your time zone, there are a lot more cities) - when you do this, that city auto populates now for the weather widget as well.
And as far as Marble. Nobody outside Apple's engineering lab has no idea if it will be in a final or future point release of SL.
Hands On - Developer Preview
I have tried the Developer Preview of Snow Leopard on a July 2007 Macbook Pro and there is no multi-touch beyond the normal 2 finger scrolling, however there is also no expose from dock, and none of the other new features of expose that organize the windows better.. so it seems that not all features are final in this version.
On the plus side, Quicktime X is very cool, works fast and smooth. The system overall is very responsive and seems much faster for most tasks. Interesting that Safari 4 runs much faster on Snow Leopard than on Leopard, thus internet surfing especially on media intensive sites appears to be much faster.
Quicklook is much faster as was promised, the new icon previews and the ability to watch movies and PDFs right from their icon is very cool, and the slider for quickly enlarging/shrinking the thumbnails in finder works fast and smooth and you can blow the thumbnails up to gigantic sizes!
There's still some features like the new iChat that i haven't looked at yet, so I'll post more once i have if anyone is interested.
I have tried the Developer Preview of Snow Leopard on a July 2007 Macbook Pro and there is no multi-touch beyond the normal 2 finger scrolling, however there is also no expose from dock, and none of the other new features of expose that organize the windows better.. so it seems that not all features are final in this version.
On the plus side, Quicktime X is very cool, works fast and smooth. The system overall is very responsive and seems much faster for most tasks. Interesting that Safari 4 runs much faster on Snow Leopard than on Leopard, thus internet surfing especially on media intensive sites appears to be much faster.
Quicklook is much faster as was promised, the new icon previews and the ability to watch movies and PDFs right from their icon is very cool, and the slider for quickly enlarging/shrinking the thumbnails in finder works fast and smooth and you can blow the thumbnails up to gigantic sizes!
There's still some features like the new iChat that i haven't looked at yet, so I'll post more once i have if anyone is interested.
Or you just silence your speakers before turning your Mac off. At start-up no sound. Ain't that magical?
Or you just click an option and don't worry about it anymore. Ain't that magical?
i don't think that's correct, i have rebooted many times with my speakers muted... the startup sound is independent of the OS so it doesn't matter if your speakers are muted or not
That's weird. I keep my speakers on muted a lot (college student) and I never hear the startup sound unless I unmute the speakers but I also like the option of checking it off (I wasn't aware of it before).
Yes, i worked like that for a while but it was super unreliable. This is why i searched the net and found Macpilot. BTW it does waaaaay more than that.
@all_the_people_that_shuts_the_volume_down_at_every_power_off
Don't get me wrong, i don't like the idea of 3rd party solutions, but hey face it, this is something really wrong, irritating and non-professional that no option to turn the startup sound off. Come on!