Palm OS syncing gone
Uh-oh, if you're the owner of a device that runs the Palm OS (Treo, Centro, etc.), we have some bad news for you. Snow Leopard no longer supports Palm OS syncing, and since Palm has retired the OS, there's a good chance they won't be updating their software. Fortunately, you can grab a copy of The Missing Sync for Palm OS from Mark/Space. Good luck.
Dock Exposé
This was the “ooh, ah” feature of the Snow Leopard demonstration at WWDC. Apple has taken steps to make sure Exposé is more awesome than ever before. One of the biggest improvements is that you only have to click and hold an icon in the Dock to trigger Exposé for all of that application's windows, instead of having to use a keyboard shortcut. This can be especially useful if you’re trying to quickly sort through all your Finder, Web browser, or word processing windows.
Option-click in the Dock to force-quit
Holding down Option while clicking an app in the Dock has been a quick way to force quit an offending app. Force-quit is available when you right-click an app in the Dock or click and hold for Dock Exposé. You're also presented with Hide Others, a good way to hide all the apps except the one you have selected.
Share your videos, get the URL right in the progress window
If you opt to share your videos from QuickTime X, you'll be presented with a progress window that uploads your video. Once the video is done, the progress window will display the URL for the video you've uploaded. This works with both MobileMe and YouTube.
Nested Stacks
Stacks in Leopard wasn't exactly a fan favorite. The worst part was that it didn't work with certain folders. Though it was meant to reduce the number of clicks and windows you had to go through before getting to your file, if your folder had a number of subfolders, you would really only save one click. In Snow Leopard, if you click another folder within Stacks, it opens that folder within Stacks as well, with convenient back and forward buttons to jump through the folder hierarchy.
Scrollable Stacks
In Leopard, Stacks adapted bigger folders by shrinking the icon sizes, often making very large stacks impossible to navigate. Stacks in Snow Leopard are fully scrollable, meaning the icons will stay a fixed, easy-to-read size, and if there are more items that can’t fit, you can scroll to them.
Boot Camp HFS support
Covered here more extensively, Windows support via Boot Camp has improved drastically. Instead of your Mac being blind to the files on your PC side, and vice versa, they both have read-only access to the other partitions.
6GB to 7GB of free space
One of the seemingly outlandish claims that Apple made during WWDC is that after installing Snow Leopard, you would be able to reclaim 6GB to 7GB of drive space. After installing it, we can verify this is true -- space for even more FLAC music, yay.
Location support for third-party apps
With Snow Leopard, Apple is introducing a new Core Location framework that will extend location support to third-party apps. Similar to the feature of the same name in the iPhone, the first example of this is the new automatic time function in the OS X clock. It triangulates your position based on your IP address, and sets your time zone correspondingly, instead of merely updating from a network time server.
Exchange support
By far the most talked about feature in 10.6 is Microsoft Exchange Support, because it will be a key selling point for Apple, in order to reach business customers. Though it only supports Exchange 2007 servers, it’s still very well integrated -- you can sync your contacts, calendars, and mail accounts as well. Interestingly enough, Snow Leopard is the only OS with Exchange support out of the box, as Windows 7 requires you to buy Office 2007 to get that functionality.
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October 27, 2010 at 5:29am
Hello i am shawn lee.Thanks for sharing this wonderful and interesting topic.Open a new Finder window, select your Mac’s HD icon from the sidebar, drag the Applications folder to the right-hand side of the Dock. Control-click the Dock icon and you get view options. For apps, Sort by Name, Display as Folder and View as Grid works nicely. View as List also works well.
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scottgriest
October 21, 2010 at 7:18am
article is so good: "In Leopard you had to double-click on the event, then you had to click Edit to edit the event. That's one too many clicks. In Snow Leopard, you can just double-click on the event to get to edit mode thanks for sharing this great article...
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debielapol
February 24, 2010 at 8:46am
Unless I missed it, I didn't see mentioned the new feature in the QuickTime Player:
File->New Screen Recording...
It allows you to do a video capture of what is happening on your monitor. Considering that there is commercial software that allows you to do the same thing and they cost more then Snow Leopard itself, this feature alone could pay for itself immediately.
Now, the commercial software will likely have more features at this point, but for basic screen recoding, the new QuickTime Player feature is great.
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ladysun1969
February 17, 2010 at 9:35pm
I just answered my own question:
The article says: "In Leopard you had to double-click on the event, then you had to click Edit to edit the event. That's one too many clicks. In Snow Leopard, you can just double-click on the event to get to edit mode."
This only works if you have "Open events in separate windows" turned on. Otherwise, you have to double-click, then click Edit.
ladysun1969
February 17, 2010 at 9:32pm
The article says "In Leopard you had to double-click on the event, then you had to click Edit to edit the event. That's one too many clicks. In Snow Leopard, you can just double-click on the event to get to edit mode."
Is this true? I've got Snow Leopard on a brand new MacBook, but I have to double-click, then click the Edit button to edit the event. Is there an option to choose somewhere?
ladysun1969
February 17, 2010 at 8:46pm
The article says, "Snow Leopard is the only OS with Exchange support out of the box, as Windows 7 requires you to buy Office 2007 to get that functionality".
Not *quite* true. Windows 7 does not come with an Exchange client (ie. Outlook), but Exchange server does. If you have Exchange server, you can install Outlook on your Win7 box & connect to the server. No need to buy Office 2007.
s10nefer
February 17, 2010 at 2:23pm
When using screen sharing to connect to a remote Mac, cmd-tab and Exposé keys are now redirected to the remote machine (it was not the case in Leopard)
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allenkenya
February 03, 2010 at 1:16am
I'm very satisfied with Snow Leopard. For the most part it works exactly as "advertised", is very stable, is fast, etc. I have also enjoyed reading these 100 Tips. I've learned some things and they've reminded me of others that I had forgotten or ignored.
However, two of them don't ring true at all for me:
1. "Wake up and shut down faster" -- Snow Leopard usually wakes up faster; I have far fewer times when the computer simply refuses to wake up. But, it does not shut down faster. The only thing that consistently embarrasses me about my MacBook Pro is that it is so slow shutting down -- we're talking 5+ minutes to close out applications, stop processes, and turn off -- or sometimes just refuses to shut down. Combined with Firefox (any recent iteration) quitting, it's a dog in this respect.
2. Edit iCal Event Quicker: Hmmmm. Double-clicking on an iCal event brings up the details about the event but in order to edit it, I have to then click edit. I don't see any change from Leopard. I would welcome a return to double-clicking and going straight to edit.
madno
January 18, 2010 at 8:33am
Hi i love everything about leopard but the problem is i want to install it on pc. I hope mac life can write the article about how to install leopard in pc.
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PCheese
December 07, 2009 at 1:43pm
You wrote that Snow Leopard "triangulates your position based on your IP address". Triangulation uses multiple angles and distance estimates from known physical locations (i.e. cell towers, satellites) to determine current location. Apple could also have used an IP address to location lookup database, but that does not appear to be the case. Instead, they use skyhookwireless.com to to find your location based on MAC addresses of nearby access points. (It's possible they employ triangulation techniques here.)
bgreggs
October 10, 2009 at 6:28am
My Palm Centro is still syncing fine via HotSync manager to Palm Desktop 4.2.2 in Snow Leopard
Robert Ireland
September 12, 2009 at 11:11am
switch to 64 results in inability of yahoo to download mail
gmorain
September 09, 2009 at 1:54pm
When using screen sharing to connect to a remote Mac, cmd-tab and Exposé keys are now redirected to the remote machine (it was not the case in Leopard)
heap1
September 06, 2009 at 12:47pm
Palm syncing still works fine. I have had no problems syncing my 9 year old Sony Clie with Palm Desktop software version 4.2.1 in Snow Leopard.
beeblebrox
September 05, 2009 at 8:03pm
I must be really missing something here. When I first read of the new feature I sent up a cheer, as I'm sure many Mac users did. Then I tried it. There were way over 100 items in the trash when I went down the list and tried the 'Put Back' feature both from the context menu and the file menu. Out of all those items only seven had 'put back' enabled, - 2 empty folders, 1 WMV, 1 Application, and 3 PDFs -all the rest were grayed out. Of all those files only seven worked as Apple's Support article said they should?
I wish someone could tell me what's wrong here. Otherwise it just doesn't seem to be worth the effort.
jyuichi
October 18, 2009 at 12:52pm
Regarding buggy put back, for me it seems that items sent to the trash from Finder or desktop can be put back but items dragged from stacks (like my download stack thats right next to the trash can) can't. Real bummer :( Sleepless Nights & Wakeless Days
romanboy
September 04, 2009 at 12:22pm
Option click in the Menu Bar on the iSync icon and it tells you when it last synched all your Bookmarks, Calendars, Contacts, etc.
mr100percent
September 01, 2009 at 10:45pm
To turn on text substitution features in an application:
Control-click and choose Substitutions > Show Substitutions. (In some applications, you can also choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions.)
Doc Izzy
September 01, 2009 at 4:10pm
The sticky keyboard shortcut was in Leopard. I've used it almost daily at work. May have even been in Tiger.
jemoreno
September 01, 2009 at 8:41am
I first noticed that my directory utility app was gone, then I snooped around and found how to access it.System Preferences > Accounts > Login Options > Network Account Server
jemoreno
September 01, 2009 at 8:39am
If you’ve ever wanted to change audio sources without firing up system preferences, well Snow Leopard lets you do just that. By holding down Option + clicking on the volume control in the menu bar you are able to quickly change sources.
ericgorr
September 01, 2009 at 7:54am
Unless I missed it, I didn't see mentioned the new feature in the QuickTime Player:
File->New Screen Recording...
It allows you to do a video capture of what is happening on your monitor. Considering that there is commercial software that allows you to do the same thing and they cost more then Snow Leopard itself, this feature alone could pay for itself immediately.
Now, the commercial software will likely have more features at this point, but for basic screen recoding, the new QuickTime Player feature is great.
One of the best uses for this new feature is when users report bugs, they all now can easily send a screen recoding of what they were doing at the time. A huge boon to developers everywhere...
Nijigasumi
September 01, 2009 at 7:35am
You're right about iChat video to Windows AIM. The ability's already in Leopard but it was buggy and sometimes decided it didn't want to work. I have yet to try it out in SL. Lets hope they made it more stable.
BallinaLad
September 01, 2009 at 5:10am
I tried the feature to edit iCal entries with just one click, but no joy.It still works just as before -- double click the item then click Edit to change the details.Was this feature removed from the release version?Ric "Edit iCal events quickerIn Leopard you had to double-click on the event, then you had to click Edit to edit the event. That's one too many clicks. In Snow Leopard, you can just double-click on the event to get to edit mode. "
ikarelin
August 31, 2009 at 10:02pm
Active Directory Settings are moved to "Accounts" in System Settings instead of /Applications/Utilities/Directory Services app. Cool !!!
Calob Horton
August 31, 2009 at 8:10pm
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe being able to audio/video chat with Windows AIM client users was available in Leopard.
mattc986
August 31, 2009 at 2:46pm
Yeah I'm still on 10.5.8 on a MBP Early 2008 and I've always been able to resize my Desktop icons with a two finger pinch. You can do it in a finder folder so it makes sense the desktop responds the same way since it's technically your desktop folder.
Anyway, definitely not a Snow Leopard tip/trick/feature.
