Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual by David Pogue This de facto manual offers insights into some of the nuances and left-unexplained tendencies Apple failed to cover in the official Snow Leopard instructional CD. Yes, Snow Leopard saw no major paradigm shift, but in terms of daily use and shortcuts, they certainly added more than the “Snow-” prefix to the former Leopard model. Pogue helps sort through each and every change, no matter how small, spanning the entire breadth of Apple applications from the heavily-used mainstays like Safari, Mail and Preview to even lesser known programs such as Time Machine. Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.6: A Guide to Supporting and Troubleshooting Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard by Kevin M. White The official Apple certified guide released just 2 months after Snow Leopard will help both casual and professional users figure out precisely how to use the changes found in Snow Leopard to best suit their computing needs. Get inside information into how Apple intended the various adaptations to ease customer use and satisfaction and let Apple explain how their good intentions can best come to fruition on your home desktop or laptop computer screen. Read more »

Posted: October 6th, 2010 under OS X Resources, Snow Leopard.
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The release of Snow Leopard marks Apple’s seventh major release of Mac OS X. As opposed to a major retooling of a generally well liked and user-friendly interface, the alterations users might notice in Snow Leopard offer better attention to detail and fine craftsmanship. According to developers, new features were not high on the priority list, instead striving to streamline efficiency, improved performance and decreasing the amount of main memory required for the program to run.Visually, there are few if any noticeable changes to the average user, except for perhaps the price printed on the packaging. Whereas Apple has traditionally charged 129.00 for prior releases in the Mac OS X series, Snow Leopard’s 29.00 sticker price is not, in fact, a misprint, rather an admission by the Apple brass that users are largely in for more of the same, at least in terms of feel, even if upgrade in speed for Mac OS X applications (i.e. Finder, iCal, Address Book, etc.) is significantly faster. Read more »

Posted: October 4th, 2010 under Snow Leopard.
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