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my s-leo is sitting at home waiting for me why do I have to be at work

mrreet2001 wrote:

my s-leo is sitting at home waiting for me why do I have to be at work

At least you're working. My Snow Leopard purchase is effectively being put on the "splurge" list until my cash flow situation improves.

SomeOneOrOther wrote:

ScifiterX wrote:

As per the MacLife web article:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

Vuze is 4.2.0.8 now and supposedly works

That's a handy link!

That's why I posted it.

And Disk Warrior 4.2 is officially out and supported.

ScifiterX wrote:

SomeOneOrOther wrote:

ScifiterX wrote:

As per the MacLife web article:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

Vuze is 4.2.0.8 now and supposedly works

That's a handy link!

That's why I posted it.

And Disk Warrior 4.2 is officially out and supported.

Here's another one for you, Apple's "Mac OS X v10.6: About incompatible software" list:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258

LukeLucas wrote:

SomeOneOrOther wrote:

LukeLucas wrote:

[i'll answer my owned damned question!!]

up to date orders only SHIP today; they will not be received. only PREORDERS are being received today.

i say thats some smurfing bullsmurf, but... whatever.

Too late to cancel the ship, and just head over to the store today, i guess?

yeah, too late to cancel.

That sucks, dude, and I doubt Apple ships same-day.

Time Machine back up complete. Snow Kitty upgrade commencing...

So far, so good. Safari runs great. Javascript-heavy sites are much more responsive - and I have a lowly 32-bit system.

QuickTime icon looks bizarre.

wellfleation wrote:

Some nice left/right click options. I'm quickly getting used to the black foreground.

I think my MBP has a few more years in it now. Seems like a really nice update, especially for only $29. My Mac really does seem waaaaaaay faster with native Apple apps. In every way possible. Start-up time alone has been cut in half, for one example. The finder flies - finally feels similar to the speed of OS9.

Is there an option to turn off pinch & close in Safari or in System Prefs yet?  I trigger that so often by accident because I like to leave my thumb on the track pad.  I can't believe there's no way to turn that yet.

i really like the new Vignette look when Exposé is activated. quite a nice touch.

It's working nicely.

Snow Leo is significantly more responsive.  Everything just seems to happen faster.  Windows pop up faster, apps launch faster, and the GUI effects are silky smooth, even when there's a log going on.  Here's a subtle detail nobody's mentioned yet:  When you minimize a window, the shadow remains with the window as it shrinks to the dock.  The old behavior was to ditch the shadow to improve animation speed, but such tricks are no longer necessary.

Dock navigation is significantly improved --and they managed improved it without crippling it (it's still spring-loaded, and you've still got list view folks).  Dock expose is more useful than I anticipated.  Compared to the keyboard shortcuts, Dock expose gives you the ability to "F10" an app that's not currently active.  I've never really been a dock fan, but the latest iteration is pretty close to "good," imo.  The only glaring issue I see is the inability to change the icon size, which they've supersized in Snow Leopard.

With the new QuickTime player, Apple --again-- seems to be violating its own UI guidelines.  Inconsistency aside, the new player looks pretty damn cool.  Full-screen for free!  They did get rid of some pro functionality, however.  I guess it's sorta like the iMovie 08 debacle.  The app is arguably a bit more consumer-friendly, at the expense of pro-sumer functionality.  And by including a QuickTime 7 as an optional install, Apple is effectively announcing that QT7 is going to be the last version with the Pro functionality.

The old Finder had a grid alignment bug, where it was possible to reach a state within a folder, where you could have two sets of icons, each aligned to one of two slightly different grids.  If you selected all of the icons and dragged slightly, they would not snap into the same grid.  Instead, all of the icons from the first grid would align to the second grid, and vice versa.  The only solution was to individually select all of the icons from one grid (and no others), and then drag slightly.  Then, they would align with the other icons.  I posted a thread on this a while back, and I was the only one who seemed to notice it (I've since discovered a way to easily reproduce the behavior).  Anyway, the new Finder seems to have squashed this purely cosmetic bug!

Mr. T wrote:

..the new QuickTime player.. looks pretty damn cool.  Full-screen for free!

What I say the last two years? Videocard hardware accel finally properly tapped.

They did get rid of some pro functionality, however.

'Save as' functions, perhaps?

Bad news: It looks like they're killing Carbon.

Apple's official position seems to be "do as I say, not as I do" --Their brand spanking new Final Cut Studio 3 is still chock full 'o Carbon.

::Apple Legal drops by::

::Mr. T encased in Carbonite::

Gee, he doesn't look anything like Harrison Ford...