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Snow Leopard - Hints, Tips and little changes

kbmb said:
I use the Lock Screen functionality from the Keychain menu in the menubar.

In Leopard, this would lock the screen and start the screen saver.

Now in Snow Leopard, it locks the screen and sleeps the display.

-Kevin
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Yeah, I hate this, it's one of my two 10.6 dislikes.

Other stuff:

- If you've reset a account password, remotely (AD, or install disc), next time you log in, you get the option a prompt to reset the keychain.

- When logging in with a domain account, you now get a prompt if you password is going to expire.

Matthew. said:
The weather widget is now powered by Yahoo!, as opposed to AccuWeather as in 10.5. So now the Mac's weather widget will always display the same forecast as the iPhone's weather app. Not a big change, but a nice one all the same, as the conflicting forecasts always used to bug me when using 10.5.
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I haven't tried it yet, but i'm hoping I can grab the 10.5 weather widget and install that one, as i prefer accuweather.
 
I haven't seen this one advertised anywhere:

Snow Leopard is able to instantly detect the language of typed text and then apply the appropriate spell check, repairing small errors on the fly. You can even switch back and forth between languages and it'll figure it all out automatically.


I've used the screen recording feature to make a small video of it that shows it off, since otherwise it's kind of hard to get how completely seamless this works.
 

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Can the original poster consolidate all the changes in the original post. Somehow my thread got deleted. I was only trying to help everyone. If you're so intent on keeping everything in this thread, at least organize it for us. Why should we have to scan through this long thread to find the hints?

Thanks.
 
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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This is great, but I can no longer send scans from the HP scanner to a chosen Mac, selected from a list on the scanner. This worked in Leopard.

Snow Leopard is better for pulling scans from the scanner, but I prefer pushing scans from the scanner.

Anyone fix this?
 
tkermit said:
I haven't seen this one advertised anywhere:

Snow Leopard is able to instantly detect the language of typed text and then apply the appropriate spell check, repairing small errors on the fly. You can even switch back and forth between languages and it'll figure it all out automatically.


I've used the screen recording feature to make a small video of it that shows it off, since otherwise it's kind of hard to get how completely seamless this works.
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How do you get this to happen? I can't seem to make it work.
 
Shawn Parr said:
Holy cow!! Due to the change in how space is reported I didn't think I reclaimed much space. After your post just went in and checked, 17.9GB! :eek:

Even if there is a discrepancy due to the GB GiB thing, that is still a good chunk of space.

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That's insane! Of course, it's nothing compared to my 7.05GB.
 

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Also a thing I've noticed

I've noticed also that on my Late 2008 uMB that it feels as though I get less eye-strain from my display under Snow Leopard. Could be the change in default gamma but under Leopard it definantly bothered me. Of course the unibody macbook is known to have a pretty 'meh' display in the first place :)
 
Secure Empty Trash

I have my trash with the option in the open trash window to empty it securely. In 10.5, if i wanted to just quickly empty it, i could secondary click on the trash and empty and it would do a normal empty. In 10.6, a secondary click gives the secure empty option too. No way to regularly empty the trash.

Some large files takes forever to delete when it's secure emptying or it locks up. I may go back to normal empty.
 
It seems that :apple: has revamped the boot splash (and maybe even the boot process) for Snow Leopard. The Apple splash now also appears on external screens (even, or especially, when a MacBook with Snow Leopard is closed on boot).
 
Warbrain said:
I've got it set up that way but it's not working for me.
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:confused: You may wanna check under "Language & Text" in your System preferences, whether Spelling is set to "Automatic by Language". You could also click on that and then on "Setup..." to check your enabled spelling dictionaries.
 

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Matthew. said:
The weather widget is now powered by Yahoo!, as opposed to AccuWeather as in 10.5. So now the Mac's weather widget will always display the same forecast as the iPhone's weather app. Not a big change, but a nice one all the same, as the conflicting forecasts always used to bug me when using 10.5.
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Crap. Time to see if I can change that or find a new weather widget. The Yahoo weather forecast is horribly innacurate for my area. I can barely count on the iPhone to tell me if the day is going to be sunny or rainy, let alone anywhere near an accurate temp prediction.
 
tkermit said:
I haven't seen this one advertised anywhere:

Snow Leopard is able to instantly detect the language of typed text and then apply the appropriate spell check, repairing small errors on the fly. You can even switch back and forth between languages and it'll figure it all out automatically.


I've used the screen recording feature to make a small video of it that shows it off, since otherwise it's kind of hard to get how completely seamless this works.
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Woah, nice find! This is really awesome. I always used to switch off the inline spelling correction because when you use multiple languages all the time it's annoying to see your whole text underlined with red dots. And nice screencast too ;)
 
tkermit said:
I haven't seen this one advertised anywhere:

Snow Leopard is able to instantly detect the language of typed text and then apply the appropriate spell check, repairing small errors on the fly. You can even switch back and forth between languages and it'll figure it all out automatically.


I've used the screen recording feature to make a small video of it that shows it off, since otherwise it's kind of hard to get how completely seamless this works.
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That is awesome. I thought this was replaced by substitution but I guess that is a different thing. Hopefully this feature is brought to Word and others.
 
Quick look no longer resizes itself to the content as you click through files. Rather, it sizes all previews to the first file you preview. For instance, if you click on a 16x16 px icon, then use the arrow keys to browse other files in the folder, they will all be 16x16 px. Not really thrilled about this change, as I used that exact workflow to organize and clean folders before.
 
integrat.ethis said:
Quick look no longer resizes itself to the content as you click through files. Rather, it sizes all previews to the first file you preview. For instance, if you click on a 16x16 px icon, then use the arrow keys to browse other files in the folder, they will all be 16x16 px. Not really thrilled about this change, as I used that exact workflow to organize and clean folders before.
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It did the exact same thing in Leopard, at least for me :) A quick double tap on the space bar when you come across a larger image than the current QL window size is doable though. The thing is, when you going through a bunch of images, it might get really irritating when the window is constantly changing sizes, especially when you're going fast. Then all you see is the window change, instead of whatever it is you're looking at, thereby defeating the whole QL purpose.
 
C64 said:
It did the exact same thing in Leopard, at least for me :) A quick double tap on the space bar when you come across a larger image than the current QL window size is doable though. The thing is, when you going through a bunch of images, it might get really irritating when the window is constantly changing sizes, especially when you're going fast. Then all you see is the window change, instead of whatever it is you're looking at, thereby defeating the whole QL purpose.
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Wow, if that's true, it would blow my mind. All I know is, I noticed the "change" immediately. Can anyone else test it on Leopard?
 
Shake 'n' Bake said:
Another thing: The $29 install disc can do an installation on a blank HDD!. ... IIRC, I predicted this :cool:.
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Yes, it's a beautiful thing. A few of us were of the same opinion.

Some others claimed with certainty that the installer would check for an existing Leopard install. Um, no.

Shall we partner up for the "I Was Right And You Were Wrong" dance? :D
 
integrat.ethis said:
Wow, if that's true, it would blow my mind. All I know is, I noticed the "change" immediately. Can anyone else test it on Leopard?
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That's how it happened to me in Leopard, too. Just needed to close and re-open QL by double-tapping the space bar to resolve.
 
brad.c said:
Some others claimed with certainty that the installer would check for an existing Leopard install. Um, no.
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I'll admit I was wrong, but I don't think I ever claimed it with certainty. I did say that the drop-in discs used for Leopard did check - and it would make sense if these were of the same design - but, I was wrong. No big deal.
 
joesegh said:
That's how it happened to me in Leopard, too. Just needed to close and re-open QL by double-tapping the space bar to resolve.
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But... this problem is far less annoying now that we can resize our icons to 512x512. Like integrat.ethis said, you really notice this when you QL a small icon, and then continue on to bigger images. When you're browsing PDF documents and such, it's not really a big deal because they'll be pretty big anyways. But for comfortably browsing/sorting images, you can now drag the icon-size-slider in Finder and you don't need to use QL at all. At least, that's how I use it.
 
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