Snow Leopard Videos Showing New Features Now Pulled

MacMagazine found a bunch of interesting OS X 10.6-action videos posted by a YouTube user, while later, the videos were removed. LeopardOctober, who is not at his first posting of Snow Leopard video previews, showed off a slider that allowed users to adjust the size of icons in a Finder window, a closer look at Quicktime X, new Stacks behavior, smart quotes, smart dashes, smart dates and auto-correction of spelling errors.

According to a summary posted before the videos had been pulled (a good sign none of them were fake), many of the features disclosed had already been described in earlier articles accompanied by imagery. However, this time, readers could actually see them in use. So what could they see?

HD + NEW – Snow Leopard Build 10A261 – “[The video] demonstrates 'Put Back' feature that restores trashed files to their original locations, Finder window slider for resizing icons, Stacks 'drill down' navigation, the ability to play videos directly within their Finder icons, automatic date and time stamping of screenshots in the file name, organization of the Services menu by type, and a new preference pane within Keyboard & Mouse offering expanded keyboard shortcut configuration.”

Dock and Substitutions – Snow Leopard Build 10A261 – “Illustrates the ability to easily assign applications to specific Spaces directly from their Dock icons, and 'Substitutions,' which offer several auto-correct/auto-format features and expansion of the Data Detectors feature that automatically finds text such as dates and times and automatically provides links to operations in related applications such as iCal.”

Finder Preferences – Snow Leopard Build 10A286 – “Shows Finder preference allowing default searches to cover the entire Mac, the currently open folder, or whatever the previous search scope was.”

QuickTime 10 – Snow Leopard Build 10A286 – “Runs through the menus present in the new QuickTime Player and illustrates the 'Trim' feature and Save/Export options...”

Apple is set to unveil a polished-up OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The public release is expected to occur some two months after the WWDC '09 showcase.