Snow Leopard Improvements You Should Know About

The improvements

First, the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Build 9J56 hinted at the inclusion of the Bluetooth 3.0 standard. This could mean that Apple is already setting up Snow Leopard as the OS to come on the Bluetooth 3.0-enabled Macs that will be available all around Apple stores.
Another build, specifically Mac OS X 10.5.7 Build 9J39, is said to have brought updated speech support system, as well as improvements to Mail signatures, USB drivers, iChat encryption, and the System Profiler's ability to properly show information on Mini DisplayPort adapters.
The Mac OS X 10.5.7 Build 10A286 featured an improved version of QuickTime Player, which now has a "minimal UI" that will prove to be an important addition to a better playback experience, and Safari 4 Beta as the new default browser in Snow Leopard (this way, replacing the previously available Safari 4 developer preview).
Other improvements made available in this seed were a Cocoa makeover for good old Finder, a makeover that includes the Get Info window, the Desktop, and Finder’s Contextual Menus.
Previously seeded Snow Leopard builds also came with a number of over 100 other fixes and improvements, including fixing the color corruption issue, the issue where the computer may wake after Sleep enabled, the problem with AFP C Client and searches, the Mail signature synching issue, the issue with FSCatalogSearch loops and AFP X Client, the problem with CFNetwork FileProtocol and WebArchive, and the issue with HFS and Magneto-Optical Disk.

The rumors

These are some of the improvements you were aware of if you are one of the developers receiving the Snow Leopard seeds on your Mac. Having covered them, let’s head over to the rumor land as I’ve promised above.
Although the rumor machine usually delivers all kinds of sci-fi like pieces of information (some more credible than others), in this case, only one subject managed to catch my attention: the new Quicktime Player that will be made available in Snow Leopard.
As rumors say, the Snow Leopard version of QuickTime will allow its users to easily share any of their video files with other people by quickly uploading it to Google’s video service YouTube.
The only things the user will need for that to happen will be their YouTube username and password. After the user enters their YouTube account details in the dialog displayed by QuickTime, the player will take care of all the other things related to this task, such as the video file’s conversion to a video format suited for online video sharing.
Another, more interesting, rumor says that Apple might finally stop charging Mac users for QuickTime’s Pro by incorporating it directly into Snow Leopard. This rumor is sustained by the fact that a number of Pro features (export and editing) are reported to be unlocked in some of the Snow Leopard developer seeds.

 

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