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Annoying Snow Leopard bug

September 9, 2009

There is an annoying bug in Snow Leopard that seems to have no fix. Without reason or apparent cause, the Alert Volume changes itself to 0, effectively muting all system alerts.

Several people have reported this bug in the Apple forums. Some relate it to Things. Some say it has to do with certain IMAP accounts [...]

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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review – Ars Technica

September 1, 2009

John Siracusa goes in-depth with Snow Leopard:

The overall message from Apple to developers was something like this: “We’re adding a ton of new things to Mac OS X that will help you write better applications and make your existing code run faster, and we’re going to make sure that all this new stuff is rock-solid [...]

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What’s working in Snow Leopard?

August 31, 2009

If you want to see what’s working and what’s not in Snow Leopard, then jump over to Wikidot’s Snow Leopard Compatibility List.

It’s the best list around for Snow Leopard compatibility.

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Looking at System Preferences in Snow Leopard

August 29, 2009

Dan Frakes gives Macworld readers a rundown of System Preferences in Snow Leopard:

As it does in every major upgrade to Mac OS X, Apple has renovated System Preferences in Snow Leopard, reorganizing individual panes and changing the layout of settings within panes. You’ll also find new settings and wonder where some old ones went.

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Search what you want in Snow Leopard

August 29, 2009

TUAW points out a little-mentioned Spotlight fix in Snow Leopard:

One of the little frustrations in my everyday use of Leopard was the way it searched in folders. When in a Finder window, there was a handy-looking search box in the upper right-hand corner. I would place the cursor, type my query, and [...]

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My Snow Leopard experience

August 29, 2009

Updating a Mac OS has never been a challenge. Tiger took some time, but went flawlessly. Leopard was a breeze. And all of my reading on Snow Leopard had me ready for a 45 minute non-event.

Needless to say, my experience was not a smooth one. It took me two installs and hours of troubleshooting before [...]

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