15 Snow Leopard Tricks You Have to Try

Snow Leopard is lastly reaching the masse shot . As much aswe like it , though , the interface feels awfully similar to its predecessor . Here are 15 tricks to check out that are undeniably newfangled — and even a little exciting :

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Sync Contacts with Gmail and Yahoo : No longer just for syncing with the iPhone and Mobile Me , the Contacts app can now tattle to your Yahoo and Gmail savoir-faire books , and pull down your contact info . It ’s as childlike as going into Contacts preference and hit the Accounts tab .

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Show Date In Menu Bar : If , like me , you ’re too otiose to get through on the clock , or launching widgets , or just make enjoyment of your God - gifted memory , you’re able to now set the clock to display full date in the Menu Bar , just go into Date and Time Preferences and set .

Smart Text Formatting and Correcting on the Fly : Snow Leopard has a issue of text - based enhancement for apps like Text Edit , iChat and Mail including spell auto - correct , and text substitution , which lets you utilize short macro instruction in place of longer Book and phrases . The enchantment corrector is limit to commonly misspell words , but the school text substitution is yours to define . Just control - flick in the text entree field for any of the aforementioned apps to toggle the features on or off , and visit the Text section of the Language & Text scheme pref for tweaking .

Password Log - In Delay : If you have password protection enabled for when your computer move to sleep , you’re able to now prefer how long your computer snoozes before the watchword requisite actually kicks in . This means you may more easily have the privacy of a darkened monitor without the pain in the neck of have to key in your password every prison term you step away . These preferences are under the Security druthers pane .

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Google and Yahoo Support in iCal : iCal is now much easier to add calendars from Google and Yahoo . No hack or third - political party software necessary . You just bestow a unexampled account statement under preferences and select your service of selection . ( causa - wearers take note : Exchange keep is here as well . )

Edit Videos in QuickTime X : QuickTime Pro user have long been able to edit and exchange television without launch the laborious picture apps . With QuickTime X , Apple has done away with that nasty fee . Yep , Pro is dead . Now everyone can trim and save , with a visual navigation timeline for easy edits , not to mention that other pro perk , viewing pic in full - covert .

Upload to YouTube From QuickTime X : Now you may upload immediately to YouTube from QuickTime X. Just open up any television file then go up to the card bar and get across Share . That same menu lets you upload movies directly to MobileMe , and commute motion-picture show to iProduct - well-disposed formats to ship to iTunes .

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QuickTime X Video Capture : How much do we love QuickTime X ? It now also has video gaining control direct from the iSight camera , any FireWire video recording camera or any audio input . advantageously still , it can record the action bump on your screen , and keep open that as a motion picture too . A fascinating one , to be sure .

Smarter Drive Eject : Half glitch fix , half exploiter sweetening , Snow Leopard now tells you exactly why it ca n’t boot out a thrust that ’s in usance . Instead of articulate it ’s just busy , it tell you what app is using it . Apple also promises ejecting in general is just “ more honest . ”

Recover Trashed Files : If you unexpectedly sent an item to the glass that you want to exchange , you do n’t have to go in and then puff it to wherever you had it before ( if you even remember ) . Now you just control - snap on the trashed item and blue-ribbon “ Put Back . ” Problem solved .

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Airport Signal Strength : Windows user have long been accustom to this , but when you ’re looking for gratuitous wi - fi to slip and wanna get an idea of what ’s most reliable , you may now get an estimation before you link . It really took Apple this long to add this ?

Automatic Time - Zone Detection : If you ’re jet setting around the world with geometrical regularity , you may allow Snow Leopard to discover your location using Wi - Fi hot spot , and aline the time zone — and clock ’s time — accordingly .

Preview a Indian file Inside Its Icon : If strike the space legal community for a “ prompt spirit ” is too much for you , seek the in - icon preview . Just wrap your pointer over a video or audio file and a play button will come along . PDFs show arrow , let you leaf through their pages . In most brochure , there ’s a luger that lets you scale icons up to a massive 512×512 pixel , presumably to make this data file preview seem in any mode rational .

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Annotate This ! : The increasingly useful Preview now has a bar at the bottom of the window full of various note tools , such as shapes , highlighter , memoranda , underscore , strikeout and hyperlink . utilitarian for the bookworm out there who are deal with texts in digital formats . Perhaps it also hint at the Apple Tablet ’s Preview app , because a gimmick that goes up against a Kindle would require something like this ( along with , you know , a five - day electric battery biography ) .

Chinese Character Input : This is n’t really a feature the majority of us will utilize , but rather a demonstration of what ’s possible with Apple input applied science . you could use the trackpad to indite Chinese character and have them appear as computer text , just hit Ctrl - Shift - Space Bar . reasonably neat idea , and perhaps something else that might come in in handy with a tablet .

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