This weekend Apple has made the latest build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard available to developers.
As was rumoured earlier in the week, the seed notes accompanying build 10A190 of Snow Leopard confirm that the Finder is āpartially rewritten in Cocoaā.
Snow Leopard was announced at WWDC ā08 and Apple expected the new operating system to ship āin about a yearā.
Seed notes after the jump.
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Back mid-December IGM reported that the Mac version of Google’s WebKit-based Chrome browser was still in a pre-alpha state.
Popular virtualization software Parallels has been updated to build 3810. The software offers many upgrades and fixes, including Windows DirectX 9.0 with Shaders Model 2 support, as well as “experimental” support for Snow Leopard and Windows 7 beta.
Confirming rumors from earlier this week, Apple announced today that more songs would be available at the iTunes Store free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) software, and that songs would be sold at different prices.
In opening up its Macworld 2009 keynote, Apple today revealed iLife ‘09, an update to its core application package for Macs. Changes to the suite begin with iPhoto ‘09, whose new Faces feature lets users sort images by the people. After running face detection, the app lets users assign names to each of the people involved, and sort photo collections accordingly. Places, meanwhile, now lets users filter photos through geotagging, and can pull information directly from cameras such as Nikon’s Coolpix series or that of the iPhone. Smart albums can be generated to include particular people and locations…
Rumor: Snow Leopard to include QuickTime Pro
You’ll recall that Apple has been gradually increasing the options available to the free version of QuickTime, like full screen playback mode. Other features of the Pro version — like simple editing and export options — were unlocked with in a recent developer’s build of Snow Leopard…