Poll: *** The Snow Leopard Thread - All Related Posts In Here ***

Are you going to upgrade to Snow Leopard?

  • Yes indeedy, that I am.

    Votes: 236 85.2%

  • No sir, not a chance.

    Votes: 41 14.8%
  • Total voters
    277
ok here goes with instructions......

go to system/library/CoreServices

find Dock (right click) show package contents

contents/Resources

now find the 4 files

scurve-l.png
scurve-m.png
scurve-sm.png
scurve-xl.png

make a backup of these files then open them with preview.

in preview go to tools/adjust colour

at the top you see the colour curve, (spiky graph thing) drag the black arrow on the left all the way to the right (there's a white arrow there)

(you should see the picture turn black and gray.

save this file and do it for the other three.

restart the dock

and Robert's your mothers brother!
 
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probably could use it..... i have a habit of finding the hard way!

edit: looked at that site now and it's just replacing those files with others people have created.

my way was creating your own

i'd say use the files from that site and replace the files i said in the folders i said!
 
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MagicBoy said:
v3 is on the incompatible list. I'm currently weighing up buying the upgrade or just going to VMWare...
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yes, v3 is the one on the incompatible list. But v4 is on another list that says apps won't load because of blah blah. How this is anything other that incompatible beats me.
 
I don't get the hoo-hah being made about 64-bit. It's only the kernel. Snow Leopard will run 64-bit apps in a 64-bit mode with the 32-bit kernel loaded.

Parallels 4 isn't 64-bit either.
 
I've used Parallels 4 this evening and it's been working perfectly.

Has anyone picked up on the fact that we were all pretty much wrong about the 'upgrade' DVD? All Snow Leopard DVDs are the same.

If you own Leopard then you buy the £25 product but if you're still on Tiger then they expect you to buy the box set which includes iWork '09 and iLife '09 for £129.
 
Right, I've found something that really makes it worthwhile.

System Preferences/Dock

There's a little tick box for "Minimize windows into application icon"

So if you click the little yellow light in the top left or do cmd-m, the program minimizes down into the application icon on the left side of the dock rather than cluttering up the right side - Then you can use the new Dock Expose to see what application windows you have minimized.

Just getting minimized apps out of the right side of the dock is really good news as far as I'm concerned.
 
MagicBoy said:
I don't get the hoo-hah being made about 64-bit. It's only the kernel. Snow Leopard will run 64-bit apps in a 64-bit mode with the 32-bit kernel loaded.
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Geeks like their system to be running in the "optimal" fashion regardless. Not surprising :)
 
Feek said:

Just getting minimized apps out of the right side of the dock is really good news as far as I'm concerned.
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Here, Here! I've always disliked the minimisation in OS X, just felt wrong. First tweak I made...

wush said:
Geeks like their system to be running in the "optimal" fashion regardless. Not surprising :)
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It's a non-issue as far as I'm concerned. It's OS X, not flipping Windows! 64-bit kernel is enabled on the xServe for good reason, but until everyone else in Apple land sorts themselves out and the peripherals manufacturers write new drivers for everything (printers, scanners, TV tuners etc) then what's the point. The 32-bit kernel with 64-bit application stack is a well considered move by Apple. Roll on full 64-bit on 10.7, or 10.6.x.

So ... after 24 hours of using Snow Leopard on my 2009 Mini (Core Duo MBP stays on 10.5 until Parallels pull their finger out on v3)
Pro's :
Proper Window Minimisation
Dock Expose
Grid View in Stacks
Much snappier

Cons :
Quicktime X is a tad flaky
No proper HP drivers for my admittedly slightly ancient 990cxi printer. They've been axed in favour of Gutenprint. The quality sucks!
 
Snow Leopard pre-installed?

Hi,

I am thinking about purchasing a Macbook Pro 13" or 15" online. Just wondering, will Snow Leopard come pre-installed, or will DVD be included in the package, or will I still have to purchase the upgrade?

The Apple Store still states MacOS 10.5 in the specs.

Thanks.
 
If I get the Snow Leopard upgrade, does that mean I can't use iLife 08/iWork 08 any more? I can justify £25 for Snow Leopard. I can't justify £129.
 
Popped to Bluewater, bought SL, I'll now have two once my family pack arrives from NL next week.

A bit of a mess the whole "upgrade"

QuickTime X to old QuickTime is like switching from photoshop to MS Paint. Against all initial previews it doesn't contain any features of QT7 Pro. Not even simple stuff, like ability to play mpeg2 or xvid without Perian and old MPEG2 QT7 component. Opening media files from "cold start" is actually slower than before. Export, Movie Properties and A/V Controls with fantastic speed control are gone and so are Play Selection and Play All Frames options. Daft player controls slapped in the middle of video window prevent you from seeing whole screen while maintaining step control (the moment you start using cursor keys the on screen graphics come back covering massive portion of the screen) so officially QT is now as good as dead for QC, editing and any professional use really. And of course - there is no "always on top" option.

Which brings me to another news - those that used aFloat for "always on top" in their editing work will want to know that aFloat doesn't work in SL, and since it depends on Plugsuit which is completely screwed under SL (asking for password every time you focus on any window) chances are it will not work for quite a while.

iStat menus don't work. Literal sense of loss when OS came up without familiar temp and graphs..

But what took the biscuit was to find that once you do search in Finder, you now have "Arrange by Date Modified", "Arrange by Date Modified" and "Arrange by Size" in view menu BUT... they are greyed out... they are SPECIFICALLY disabled for search results...

And of course, it still leaves .DS_Stores and .any_media_filename on all drives and around the network. Not that anyone expected for that to change, ever.

It's like banging against wall of a mental institution with apple. We now have the same grotesque old bugs and retarded constraints natively in 64 bit...
 
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Anyone know how to get rid of that ba***** sync icon that is appearing on my flipping menu bar all of a sudden? Upon clicking on it all I get are Sync Now or Open MobileMe Sync Prefs - and none of them contain anything related to the icon being on the menu bar.

Edit: Fixed. Found the option to remove it in the iSync app. Seems it was syncing my Address Book with my google periodically.
 
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v0n said:
QuickTime X to old QuickTime is like switching from photoshop to MS Paint. Against all initial previews it doesn't contain any features of QT7 Pro. Not even simple stuff, like ability to play mpeg2 or xvid without Perian and old MPEG2 QT7 component. Opening media files from "cold start" is actually slower than before. Export, Movie Properties and A/V Controls with fantastic speed control are gone and so are Play Selection and Play All Frames options. Daft player controls slapped in the middle of video window prevent you from seeing whole screen while maintaining step control (the moment you start using cursor keys the on screen graphics come back covering massive portion of the screen) so officially QT is now as good as dead for QC, editing and any professional use really. And of course - there is no "always on top" option.
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I completely disagree with all of this.

Previously I hated QuickTime 7. It was ugly, it was slow, and generally unusable. I used VLC for all my media playback. And I don't know what you're talking about with regards to DivX/XviD support...I always had to install DivX. It never worked out of the box.

Since Snow Leopard though I've moved back to QuickTime as I feel QuickTime X is light years ahead. It's fast, snappy, with a really nice UI and control interfact, and when you move the mouse away it gets rid of everything, including the border. It's brilliant. What with Flip4Mac, Perian, and DivX installed it supports all the media files I need.

As for "professional use", I can't speak for that, but I have never seen QuickTime as a professional tool. When Apple made it that you had to pay for a "Pro" upgrade I thought it was stupid, especially when some of the "Pro" features included Full-Screen, something that every other media player has as standard.

Yup. QuickTime X is now my new favourite player.
 
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