This post is the place for everyone to share their experiences so far installing and using Mac OS X 10.6 a.k.a. “Snow Leopard”. If you’ve upgraded leave a comment even (particularly?) if everything went well.
Archives for August, 2009
Apple announced the official ship date for the next major revision of Mac OS X, 10.6 a.k.a. “Snow Leopard” will be Friday August 28th.
Snow Leopard is light on obvious new major features compared to previous major releases s most of the changes are under-the-hood improvements to reliability and speed. It does sport a shiny new version of the Finder that adds the ability to view icons up to 512×512 pixels in size and restores a few old features such as “Put Back” for trashed items.
- Snow Leopard Refinements
- TidBITS: What’s New in Snow Leopard
- TidBITS: Examining Snow Leopard Installer Changes
- TidBITS: Peering Inside Snow Leopard Security
- Macworld: 11 major new Snow Leopard features
- Macworld: Snow Leopard’s smaller changes
It is priced at $29 but is only for Intel Macs and cannot be installed on older PowerPC based machines.
If you’re looking for a replacement for the standard Apple Mail application head over to:
And take a look at Mailsmith. It is an email application created by Bare Bones Software the authors of the popular programmers’ editor BBEdit and Yojimbo, “Your effortless, reliable information organizer for Mac OS X.”
Mailsmith was formerly a commercial application but Bare Bones has decided to release it for free. It’s no longer a Bare Bones product but it will apparently still be supported and updated as a standalone product.
There is one very importatnt thing to be aware of if you do decide to evaluate Mailsmith: if an email account’s type (displayed just below the account name in Mail’s Accounts list) is POP rather than IMAP then any mail retrieved through Mailsmith may be gone should you decide to switch back to Apple Mail. This will typically not be the case for .Mac/MobileMe accounts but probably will be true for Comcast and Verizon accounts.
There’s no guarantee you’ll like Mailsmith more than the current Apple Mail, but at least now it’s free to try and you might find it suits you.
- Topic
- Movie Making with iLife
- When
- Friday, August 14th, 7:30pm – 10pm
- Who
- Judy Branin
- Where
- Room M129, Building M, ACCC Mays Landing Campus
Starting with raw video footage, Judy will demonstrate how to edit, add titles, incorporate special effects, customize music, put it all together and send it to YouTube.
We will also be raffling off an item previously featured during a meeting earlier this year. To find out what it is, you’re just going to have to show up.
Presentation topics may change so be sure to verify on the day of the meeting. Got questions you’d like to have answered? Feel free to post them as comments before the meeting so the presenters have a chance to prepare.
The latest incremental update to Mac OS X 10.5 a.k.a. “Leopard” is now available via Software Update, or download and run the combo updater. Here is the official word on the changes from Apple:
What’s included in this update: READ MORE …