TUAW bloggers are finding subtle new refinements in Snow Leopard like the new naming scheme for pictures taken with the Grab utility or Photo Booth or the HDTV readiness of Mac OS X 10.6. Steven Sande, also from TUAW, has posted some of the Snow Leopard gems he’s found like auto-detection of time zones, system-wide symbol and text substitution (I’ll find this very useful for typing “₱”), and QuickTime X’s screen recording feature.
Of course, everything is not about what’s new and shiny. Brett Terpstra has some things go wrong on him after the install, like input managers and plug-ins. Most of the issues stem from incompatibility with 64-bit processing in Snow Leopard.
Over at Macworld, Rob Griffiths has his list of Snow Leopard annoyances, old and new. Some of which are the inability to customize Finder’s label colors, still missing Bluetooth SMS sending in Address Book (was in 10.4), and Time Machine’s limited user interface. Dan Frakes, in the meantime, points out that System Preferences also underwent an overhaul with reorganization of individual preference panes and changes in the layout of settings.
We’ll all be hearing more of what’s new and what’s broken in the coming weeks. But expect it to be overshadowed next week with the upcoming September 9 event.
One last thing, if you are curious what music is playing at the end of the Snow Leopard install (also with Leopard), it’s “Exodus Honey” by Honeycut.
[via TUAW]
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