Comments on: Snow Leopard: A Brief Introduction to the New Big Cat http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:03:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ted Strutz http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355599 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:29:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355599 After installing Sno Leopard my computer does not recognize my HP photosmart C2750 scanner. It still prints, although it no longer recognizes the small photo tray. I was able to restore my dict. and Add. Book by dragging the app into the dock. Cannot get the hp app to do it. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

]]> By: 'Cisco http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355598 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:08:15 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355598 If you pinch toward the center, the icons will decrease in size. If you pinch away from your fingers, the icons will grow once again. Like on the iPhone, if you’re in need of augmenting the picture size to see more detail, you pinch. Do the opposite to make the picture smaller. Try it out. Or reply and I’ll get back to you with what I mean in more depth.

]]> By: 'Cisco http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355597 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:56:52 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355597 Yes, I think so too. He’s talking about SL, so he might have just not been thinking straight. The guy is obviously a Mac Head … So I’ll forgive him :-)

]]> By: Asim Esen http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355596 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:32:18 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355596 I just installed Snow Leopard in a new MacBook Pro. All seem well. I noted that desktop icon sizes keep changing. I adjusted the size so many times in View Options but it keeps changing (increasing size). This happens when I touch the track pad. This is irritating because icons get so large that some of them are not visible. For example, I cannot see the hard disk icon on my desktop. Is there any way to keep this from happening?

]]> By: Ted Strutz http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355595 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:24:13 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355595 Thanks to Andy C. for previous answer… Now a question forC.S. I’m a little leery to try Mail… as before it removed all my mail in gmail and I could not get it back. I like gmail, but would like to use the mail system in contacting companies on their web sites. If I start up Mail… will it remove my inbox from gmail? Thanks

]]> By: C.S. http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355594 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:07:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355594 Mail has been completely overhauled. It works flawlessly with Gmail now. Deleting, or reading a message from the iPhone, or gmail webapp is immediately communicated to Mail.app now…

One problem elsewhere though: When using either bottom-corner hotspot to disable the screensaver is unworkable in full screen QuickTime. It causes the dock to float to the top and it won’t go away! Thankfully Hulu in Full screen mode in safari doesn’t have the same problem… Not sure about netflix yet…

]]> By: Bryce Null http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355593 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:38:48 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355593 Snow Leopard does seem to use more RAM than 10.5. For the most part this upgrade is pretty disappointing.

]]> By: Andy C http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355592 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:32:23 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355592 Ted: Do a search in spotlight for ‘Dictionary’ and you will find the application location in Snow Leopard. The shortcut you were using before is probably pointing to an old location.

]]> By: Drake http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355591 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:58:48 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355591 Found a transparent image fix to get rid of that horrible Expose blue glow. It may fix this bug also:

http://codersresource.com/mac/tips-tricks/how-to-change-snow-leopards-expose-glow-from-blue-to-transparent

]]> By: Munn http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355590 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:40:43 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355590 no one is talking about the new scanning interface. Preview is much better now. http://www.greatecs.com

]]> By: Ted Strutz http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355589 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:42:07 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355589 After a two days I can no longer use my dictionary…

A message says… You can’t use this version of the application Dictionary with this version of Mac OS X… you have Dictionary 2.0.2.

Anyone have any ideas? I’m not too computer savvy and can’t spell to well either.

Thanks

]]> By: atris http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355588 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:32:28 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355588 No. Sorry I can’t help you there. I use option + tab to bring up Witch and haven’t had a problem.

Hope that helps!

]]> By: Tim Brown http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355587 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:26:31 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355587 I use Witch with APE and Pulltab to reclaim cmd-tab, but APE now will not load Pulltab since the upgrade to Snow Leopard. Have you found a way around this or do you use a different shortcut key? Is so what shortcut? Thanks…

]]> By: Have Mac, Will Travel http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355586 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:55:10 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355586 My list of quibbles and quirks after using Snow Leopard for a couple of days. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same.

1. Finder seems to be a bit twitchy compared to 10.5 (cursor jumps, clicks seem to be too quick) and at times sluggish (while scrolling). It also “forgot” all the settings for the windows from 10.5. Had to configure my workspace all over again. It also seems to use more memory than 10.5.

2. Preview starts out at 8-10MB when launched by itself. After opening one PDF doc, it goes to 160MB (the doc itself is <5MB). Opening a 2nd PDF send it to 210MB. What is it doing with all that memory? Also, in 10.5, opening a landscape PDF (like a presentation doc) would frame it around one complete page. Now, it opens in a window in portrait shape with one and a half pages showing.

3. Both Safari and Firefox terminates when printing out PDF's. Not every time but pretty regularly.

4. Running sudo periodic weekly in Terminal used to free up memory reliably. Now, it doesn't run as long and doesn't seem to free up any memory.

Thinking back to every "point oh" release, there are always some strange bugs and quirks (ie Why did they change that? It was fine the way it is.) that are "fixed" by point one and two pretty quickly. Hopefully, that will be the case with Snow Leopard.

]]> By: Carter http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355585 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:10:00 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355585 I am living in Bahrain (middle east) and I dont yet have snow leopard available here. Reading this blog (and others like it) helps with the pain.

All the Best

Carter

]]> By: Tilo http://gigaom.com/apple/snow-leopard-a-brief-introduction-to-the-new-big-cat/#comment-355584 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:27:55 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=31634#comment-355584 That’s not new. Maybe just that it’s enabled by default, but I’ve used that for quite a while in Leopard.

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