Upgrading to Snow Leopard made me disappointed to see that Sound Source no longer works as a menu extra. However, this left me disappointed for only a few seconds, as I figured out that by Option-clicking the OS X Sound icon in the menu bar, you can choose your inputs! I don’t recall Leopard ever doing this, or seeing it in the new features of 10.6. Enjoy!

AppleScript Folder In 10.5, this folder contained four distinct programs: AppleScript Utility, Example Scripts, Folder Actions Setup, and Script Editor. In 10.6, this folder is gone, its pieces scattered elsewhere.

The biggie of the group, Script Editor, can now be found in the Utilities folder, under the new name AppleScript Editor.

In 10.5, AppleScript Utility let you change the default script editor, enable GUI scripting, set up Folder Actions, and enable or disable the Script menu in the main menu bar. In 10.6, you set the default script editor and control the Script menu from the General tab of the new AppleScript Editor’s Preferences panel. Folder Actions Setup is now an entry in the Finder’s contextual menu; Control-click on any folder and select Folder Actions to configure them.

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As hard as it is for those of us in the northern hemisphere, Friday, August 28, 2009 is a Snow Day. It’s the day that Mac OS X 10.6—Snow Leopard—arrives in stores. But here at Macworld, we’ve been using it for weeks, and in some cases, for months.

Now we’ve got the details on Apple’s new operating-system release, from a full review to in-depth feature roundups and individual stories that dive deep into special corners of this new cold-weather cat.

Below you’ll find an ever-growing list of Snow Leopard stories from Macworld. Check back often for even more coverage. And if you’d like to see a comprehensive list of every story we’ve published about Snow Leopard, we’ve got that too.

Full article: MacWorld

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. Here are some of the most notable changes.

Accounts This pane now provides the option of joining a Network Account Server.

Appearance You can no longer specify a font smoothing style (Leopard let you choose from Automatic, Standard, Light, Medium, and Strong); you can choose only whether or not to use the feature and the font size at which it automatically turns on or off.

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Earlier today Apple announced the availability of Snow Leopard, it will be available on August 28. To those who will be submitting tips and tricks for Snow Leopard kindly indicate it anywhere that it is for Snow Leopard by that it will help me sort things out properly and faster. thanks

There are a variety of enhancements and refinements introduced in Snow Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, which Apple announced will be available this Friday (August 28). The Mac is generally viewed as a consumer or niche platform, but some of the features in Snow Leopard show a maturity that makes the Mac better than ever for the enterprise.

1. Annotations in Preview. New tools enable you to annotate and markup PDF files using Preview. The annotation tools include comments, links, highlighting, strikethrough text, shapes, text, and arrows.

2. Restore deleted items to original locations. This seems long overdue. In Windows data restored from the Recycle Bin is automatically restored to its original location. With Snow Leopard restoring to the original location is now an option on the Mac as well.

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The latest dev release of Leopard doesn’t automatically boot into 64-bit kernel except on an Xserve. To boot into 64-bit on any other Mac you must hold down the ’6′ and ’4′ keys at boot.

“If you’re not a fan of having to remember to hold down the “6″ and “4″ keys each time you re-boot, there’s a fix…”

Full article, with simple instructions on how to eliminate the need to hold the “6″ and “4″ keys at boot via a quick edit of the “com.apple.Boot.plist” file, here.