Apple Snow Leopard updates/changes
Published
August 30th, 2009 by
lagreca
This list is NOT comprehensive or complete. Its just the changes I have observed or find interesting.
- Change search locations. Change the default behavior of Spotlight to have it search the currently selected folder or your most recent search location. Go to Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced -> change “When performing a search:” to “Search the current folder”.
- Spell checker in TextEdit. Can be controlled in TextEdit preferences.
- Airport menu now shows signal strength of available wireless networks.
- Minimize apps onto their doc icon, instead of the right side of the doc. Go to Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Dock -> select “Minimize windows into application icon”.
- Activate Expose from the dock: Click and hold an application icon in the Dock and all the windows for that application will unshuffle so you can quickly change to another one.
- Expose shortcuts: With all windows visible in Expose, you can press Command-1 to arrange the windows by name or Command-2 to arrange them by application. Pressing the Tab key will cycle through all the running applications. Press the spacebar while pointing at a window to expand it.
- Expose windows are now highlighted with a blue outline when mouse over.
- More reliable disk eject.
- Restore deleted items to original folders.
- Scroll though stacks and navigate folders in stacks.
- Faster shutdown and wake-up.
- HFS+ read support in Boot Camp.
- Screen recording functionality built into Quicktime Player. Seems to only support the main screen, not external monitors.
- Date in menu bar.d
- Screen saver shuffle.
- Multi-Touch gestures in older Mac models.
- Preview intelligent text selection.
- Location awareness: Snow Leopard can determine your time zone from information provided by your Wi-Fi hotspot – in your Date & Time preferences, choose Time Zone, and tick Set Time Zone Automatically
- Descriptive Screenshot filenames: Instead of “Picture 1,” you now get “Screen shot 2009-09-04 at 11.26.49 AM” (It seems they didn’t follow this same goodness with their screencast recordings. Always hope for their next patch?)
Here is what broke on my upgrade:
- Little Snitch
- iStat Menus