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With Snow Leopard, Apple increased the default gamma setting to the now dominant 2.2 value, rather than a 1.8 setting that has been in effect in previous Mac OS versions for the past 25 years. As a result, non-color-managed content will look darker on the whole in Snow Leopard, closely matching what Windows users are seeing. Apple’s support document says the change will better serve the needs of consumers and digital content producers:
To better serve the needs of consumers and digital content producers, Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard uses a gamma value of 2.2 by default. In versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.6, the default system gamma value was 1.8. Using the capabilities of ColorSync, the gamma value of 2.2 is automatically applied and seamlessly transitions your display, images and videos to the new gamma value.
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ake on Demand -- Putting your Mac to sleep saves power, but it also disrupts using your Mac as a file server, among other purposes. Wake on Demand in Snow Leopard works in conjunction with an Apple base station to continue announcing Bonjour services that the sleeping computer offers.
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every 2009 model and at least several 2008 models - can be woken over Wi-Fi; all Macs can be woken via Ethernet. Apple provides more details in a support note, and our Glenn Fleishman wrote a long article with the ins and outs for Macworld.
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(The exception to the steps just mentioned is if you want to check, repair, or erase your hard drive, or use other utilities, while booted from the Install DVD. If so, click the Utilities button and follow the instructions to boot off of the Install DVD
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Printer Support Snow Leopard makes choosing which printer software to install much easier than previous installers did. For starters, the installer automatically figures out what printer models you've previously used and installs drivers for them. B
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Growl 1.1.6 
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ilverKeeper v2.0.1
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If your Mac is still on Tiger, you'll be expected to buy the Mac Box Set, which comprises Snow Leopard, iLife 09 and iWork 09. That costs $US169,
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f your Mac is still on Tiger, you'll be expected to buy the Mac Box Set, which comprises Snow Leopard, iLife 09 and iWork 09. That costs $US169, or $US229 for the family pack.
There seems to be no indication at this stage whether the regular Snow Leopard upgrade will only install over Leopard, or if the Tiger upgrade is an 'honour' thing (but as you'll most likely want the new versions of iLife and iWork, it's a moot point).
If you buy a Mac between June 8 and December 26, and it ships with Leopard, the Snow Leopard update will be yours for a $US9.95 shipping and handling fee. The only catch is that you must request it within 90 days of purchase, and no later than December 26.
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pgrading from Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, just purchase Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
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Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set (when available), which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard;
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Hi Markmp, and a warm welcome to the forums!
We're not actually allowed to conjecture on such future things, but... from past experience, why would it be different? Leopard migrates data from Tiger & Panther!
Second question... why would you want the first revision of any OS release?
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Snow Leopard will be entirely 64-bit, meaning the operating system and applications could theoretically support up to 16TB of RAM
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Snow Leopard will be entirely 64-bit, meaning the operating system and applications could theoretically support up to 16TB of RAM. When it comes to speed, Snow Leopard will leverage two key technologies to take performance to the next level. The first, dubbed Grand Central, is designed to manage and efficiently assign tasks to multiple processor cores found in most Intel-based Macs, resulting in faster performance, especially during heavy multitasking
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Not always. When I bought my Mac Pro a year ago, I intended it to be my workhorse for four years (as I always have when I buy a tower.)
Had I bought a G5 three years ago, I'd be pissed if it were now unsupported. Not everyone whom owns a tower views their investment as "chump change." We can't all buy a new computer at a moment's notice just because we could afford top of the line a couple of years earlier.
That said and done, I am looking forward to Snow Leopard. But that's because I have a machine that will be supported.
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Delete caches and save disk space
Mon, May 1 2006 at 7:30AM PDT • Submitted by TigerKR
I'm starting to run out of disk space on my Mac, so I decided to poke around and see what's been taking up space. It turns out that my ~/Library/Caches folder is 1.55 GB. So what's taking up all of the space?
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate/ : 425.5 MB
~/Library/Caches/Desktop/ : 496.5 MB
~/Library/Caches/QuickTime/ : 512.6 MB
Since they're caches, and they'll be rebuilt if needed, I dragged those three folders to the Trash and restarted. I did not encounter any problems, so I emptied the Trash and now my ~/Library/Caches folder is only 154.3 MB.
[kirkmc adds: This Caches folder holds lots of stuff that you really don't need. It's good, if you need to save space, or if you are planning a backup and want it to go faster, to check from time to time, sorting by size, to see which folders take up the most. You may find folders for applications that you no longer user, or, as in this hint, folders that contain much data that you can delete.
I don't know why the SoftwareUpdate cache has so much in it; I've never seen that. The Desktop cache contains Desktop pictures, and if you change often, may grow. As for the QuickTime cache, you can set the maximum size, or turn of caching entirely, in the QuickTime preference pane on the Browser tab.]
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Core 2 Duo-based Mac owners who want to unlock next-generation 802.11n wireless technologies hidden inside their computers will first have to fork a few bucks over to Apple, AppleInsider has confirmed.
That's unless they plan to plunk down $179 for the company's forthcoming 802.11n-enabled AirPort Extreme Base Station, with which the unlocking fee (and 802.11n software enabler patch) are reportedly included.<!-- FM Medium Rectangle Zone --> <script style="display: none;" src="http://static.fmpub.net/zone/1546" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- FM Medium Rectangle Zone --> -
ou see, Apple for the last several months has quietly been shipping the majority of its Core 2 Duo systems with inactive support for the draft 802.11n specification, an emerging wireless standard that promises fivefold speed increases over previous-generation 802.11g products.
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Although not widely advertised by Apple, Spotlight can perform boolean searches. By default if you include more than one word, then Spotlight performs the search as if you including an "AND". If you place a '|' between words, Spotlight performs an OR query. Placing a '-' before a word tells Spotlight to search for results that do not include that word, i.e. a NOT query.[3]
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iPhone users, including us, have long wondered about the lack of to-do list support. Given that we do get syncing with iCal for appointments and events, it seems strange that our to-do lists vanish into the ether. While a number of to-do list web apps and native programs for jailbroken iPhones have sprung up to plug this hole—some of them quite good—there’s no substitute for a real, official native app.
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Outer Level that keeps all that license information in one convenient place and with more focused features than general organizers or record keepers.
LicenseKeeper doesn’t require a lot of painstaking data entry—an Import App button creates a new entry for each program, along with the version number, developer info, and other data.
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New to this release of MacJournal is support for the Missing Sync for Palm, Mark/Space’s Palm PDA synchronization software for the Mac
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irport Module
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- Text Manipulations (not 100 percent certain about this one)
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Any interface modules seem to be causing issues as well
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but now it looks like Apple may be incorporating its own text substitution tool directly into its upcoming release of Snow Leopard.
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