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Snow Leopard - Hints, Tips and little changes

When looking at documents using quickview (Such as PDFs and the like) you can flit between documents smoothly, the quickview window just updates with the relevant document without having to minimise.

Pretty sure this is a new feature - before, in Leopard, if you clicked a new document whilst 'quickviewing' another, the window disappeared.
 
Sdancott said:
When looking at documents using quickview (Such as PDFs and the like) you can flit between documents smoothly, the quickview window just updates with the relevant document without having to minimise.

Pretty sure this is a new feature - before, in Leopard, if you clicked a new document whilst 'quickviewing' another, the window disappeared.
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Nah, it was like that in Leopard too. However, if you’re in Exposé, and you hit the spacebar to zoom in on a window, then move the mouse towards another windows, it smoothly switches to zoom that window without ever having to zoom back out. It’s nicer than it sounds, I swear!

Also, Dictionary.app now remembers the last entry you were on, and they got rid of the bug where if you help the mouse button and moved the mouse in any direction, it would start slowly scrolling up until you released the mouse button.
 
Disk Utility now warns you before you Verify Disk on your startup disk:

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Woo! Fixed trackpad PDF scrolling! Ever since I upgraded to Leopard, scrolling PDFs in Preview and Safari both felt like ****. It would be painfully slow, and if you increase the speed just a little bit, it would jump really fast. Now it’s back to normal!
 
Another non-reported improvement. :-D

System Zoom is much much better.

Try a crtl-scrub zoom and then move the mouse around - now the screen does not move about until you reach the edge - a big improvement!!

The zoomed image looks cleaner too.
 
Someone please tell me how to fix the firefox fonts, it looks a right mess.

EDIT: nvm it fixed itself
 
When you first start Voiceover you get a very helpful tutorial. Voiceover also has a HUD on the bottom left which tells you what Alex (or your chosen voice) has said.

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nubee said:
How do you open this feature?
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To enable the chinese handwriting input, firstly you need a macbook of some sort. Then goto:

system preferences > language & text, click the 'input sources' tab then scroll down and Chinese simplified or traditional.

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Close the preference window then logout and log back in again. Hit shift+ctrl+space and it'll come up. With the handwriting pad turned on your mouse is disabled, to get the mouse back hit the same key combination.
 
wetrix said:
HP all-in-one printers don't need any cumbersome software now. You can now print and SCAN natively!
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What do you mean native scanning? Printing could always be done from within any program, but you need scanning software surely? My HP all in one isn't showing any scan options in the print and fax preferences
 
Ah cool, I was getting confused by the "import from scanning (include networked devices)" in preview.

Is the import (pics) from iPhone new in preview and image capture?
 
downhillski1 said:
You can option click the wifi menu bar button to see the details to the network you are currently connected to.
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Helpful hint: I see you cropped the screenshot. If you want to take a screenshot of only one specific area, simply do:

CMD+SHIFT+4, then press [___SPACE___], then a camera icon will appear. Hover the mouse over the item you want to screenshot, and it will turn blue - now CLICK!. Done!.
 
sammich said:
This is awesome, the drivers I get of the HP website (for my OfficeJet 7400) never work.

As the first scan, I thought it might be nice to image this:

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glossywhite said:
Perfect for all the pirates out there! LOL!
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No now it's perfect. ;)
PNG for icon goodness. sammich if you're pissed I took your scan and cleaned it all up lemme know.
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That is far from perfect - you've chopped off the bottom of the image, whereas before it only chopped off the foil layer of the DVD.
 
It is perfect though - for sticking on a CD-R, which has its own foil layer. :p

As for that cutoff part - why, that's where you put your thumb when you stick the thing in a slot-load drive :D
 
After G said:
It is perfect though - for sticking on a CD-R, which has its own foil layer. :p

As for that cutoff part - why, that's where you put your thumb when you stick the thing in a slot-load drive :D
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Probably you'd have trouble burning SL to a CD!.
 
glossywhite said:
That is far from perfect - you've chopped off the bottom of the image, whereas before it only chopped off the foil layer of the DVD.
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I can fix it but the image was not a perfect circle so there had to be compromise. I can go back and try again if it bugs you that much.


I don't know if you can see this but the marquee tool, perfect circle, and still off center. If the image weren't cut off it'd be easier, to do it now would take a bit more time than I took before.

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jessica. said:
I can fix it but the image was not a perfect circle so there had to be compromise. I can go back and try again if it bugs you that much.


I don't know if you can see this but the marquee tool, perfect circle, and still off center. If the image weren't cut off it'd be easier, to do it now would take a bit more time than I took before.

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May I ask... why are you even doing this?... seems a waste of time to me, unless you plan to press your own batch! :D
 
I am happy for you guys who have the HP things working. My HP all-in-one (PSC 2110) doesn't show up in Image Capture, does not scan through preview, and does not work when opening the stupid HP software. :mad: At least it prints.
 
glossywhite said:
May I ask... why are you even doing this?... seems a waste of time to me, unless you plan to press your own batch! :D
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It would be nice to have a professional-looking backup - instead of a regular disc with Snow Leopard handwritten on it in marker.

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r.j.s said:
It would be nice to have a professional-looking backup - instead of a regular disc with Snow Leopard handwritten on it in marker.

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That's a lot of fuss for just a backup copy... unless you read something different into the word "backup". Why even bother, I mean it will spend 99% of its time INSIDE the Mac, installing!. Imagine if, later on, you end up selling Snow Leopard to someone, and, because you had made SUCH a good job of printing the backup, that you accidentally packaged it up, and sent it off to the purchaser. Imagine the trouble you could get in!. Don't tell me it wouldn't happen - we're all human!. A backup should make no pretence about what it is - a BACKUP of a valid, legal copy of the OS.

I equate this to cash and cheques; a cheque is, essentially a "backup" of your cash, and as such, you don't have a $100 banknote design printed across a cheque for $100, do you?.

There is no purpose for this - if you want to gaze at a beautifully printed disc, pull out your original and enjoy the design!. Anything beyond this, seems a little pointless, except if the aforementioned reasons are actually true.
 
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