14 DAY TRIAL // A report over at World of Apple offers a series of Snow Leopard screenshots containing some of the minor adjustments made in the latest build of Mac OS X Snow Leopard – 10A380. Handed to developers around the time WWDC '09 kicked off, the latest Snow Leopard build shows many changes, but not everything that was announced at the conference, the report points out.
After offering up the Snow Leopard Aurora desktop background itself, the site begins to stress that one of the biggest changes (among the minor fixes in Snow Leopard) is that Snow Leopard now counts data sizes in base 10. Softpedia reported the find three days ago and, while it is interesting, we wouldn’t consider this a big change. World of Apple does make an important observation in that the change to base 10 means file sizes will differ across different operating systems.
Other highlights are listed as follows:
– the AirPort menu now reports signal strength of wireless networks even if you aren't connected to them; – keyboard Shortcuts preference panel has had an overhaul; – time-zones can now be ascertained automatically; – you can now show the day and date next to the time in the Menu Bar; – icon changes in System Prefs; – automatic text replacement can now be applied system-wide; – a built-in system wide automatic spelling correction engine similar to that of the iPhone; – much easier to change the case of text in applications; – some Automator actions are installed as default giving functions such as the ability to set a desktop image quickly; – exchange IMAP and Exchange 2007 accounts can now be setup in Mail; – stacks now always open the same size; – navigating to a folder in Stacks presents an iPhone style back button; – the Cocoa-based Finder now has a thumbnail size scrubber; – the vast majority of processes are now Intel 64-bit.
The source has also posted a demonstration video of automatic system-wide text substitution in Snow Leopard. Reportedly, QuickTime X was used to record the video. Snow Leopard is scheduled for a September debut. Apple touts the OS as the most advanced yet, offering it at a bargain price of $29.95 as an upgrade. More Snow Leopard Build 10A380 screenshots can be found below.
