Sneak Peek of OS X Snow Leopard Features

Lonnie Lazar ()

YouTube user LeopardOctober has posted videos, screenshots and information about Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on YouTube since mid-March or so, and in the last few days has put up some interesting clips of a few things we can expect to see when the new OS debuts June 8 at WWDC.

The first video above shows that users will be able to set the default behavior of Spotlight so that performing a search can ‘search this Mac’, search the current folder or use the previous search scope.

In the video below, we see users can assign an application to a space or all spaces, quickly from within the Dock.

LeopardOctober has several additional clips on the YouTube channel with embedding disabled, so you’ll need to head over there to check ‘em out.

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The videos posted are from fairly late builds of the Beta (10A261 and 10A286), which has reportedly been ‘frozen’ at 10A354 for the final release software.

[Thanks Rafael!]

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  • Tom

    Isn’t it the 10A354 build – that there would be “no further API changes are planned for Snow Leopard.”

  • http://iphone-game-reviews.com Vikram @ iPhone Game Reviews

    Same look though, just like Leopard.

  • http://cultofmac.com Lonnie Lazar

    @Tom: You are correct, sir. Thanks for the heads up. I corrected the info in the body of the piece.

  • http://www.mralston.com/ Matt

    Smart quotes!?!

    I suspect that many standards-compliant web developers will get behind me when I say “oh, god, no!”.

    Copying text from MS Word is bad enough. Why does Apple need to copy this bad idea?

  • Philip

    Trust me, when Apple does it it will actually work and not piss you off. MS is great at coming up with fantastic ideas, then executing them poorly or not at all. Apple takes it’s time to get it right.

  • Tim

    Smart dashes? Office Mac already does this. Yawns.

  • Brian Burke

    This is quite possibly the most useless article. Why is this news?

  • palms831

    @Tim This is different. Instead of being a feature of one app, it is part of the entire os and will be available in almost every app.

  • Thomas

    I’m running SL 10a354 right now. I tried to pull over all my personal data, apps, etc. from a Tiger build on another drive. It brought over everything but – you can probably guess – Apple Mail. I track 8 different e-mails on that thing, and 3 additional archives. But Mail I still have to move manually, and at great frustration and effort. They still haven’t fixed that problem.

  • http://www.thecustommac.com caleb Pike

    Apple has “erased” this guy. Account is gone and videos removed.