Apple walked audiences through Mac's newest operating system OS X Yosemite on Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, and not surprisingly, users will be treated to a bevy of new features when it officially launches in the fall.
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In case you missed the full rundown, here's a look at Yosemite's top six best features:
1. Prettier Icons: Yosemite has cleaner and clearer icons along the bottom of a Mac screen, including the apps that usually value function over beauty. 'That is a gorgeous trash can,' Federighi said. 'You wouldn't believe how much time we spent crafting a trash can.'
2. Larger Interface Field: When a user clicks on the magnifying glass icon located in the top right corner, a Spotlight search bar appears in the middle of the screen.
Steve Jobs at WWDC 2007, touting 300 new features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Apple even went so far as to list all 300 new features on its website. As it turns out, 'spring' was a bit optimistic. Mac OS X, X on behalf of the Roman numeral for 10, was the successor to Mac OS 9 (released in 1999) and its first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, followed with Mac OS X v10.0 'Cheetah' in 2001. Former releases of OS X were named after big cats, such as OS X.
3. Smarter Search Bar: The search bar is intuitive, auto-completing search terms with apps, news items and even maps.
4. Expanded AirDrop: AirDrop can now move documents and other items back and forth between iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. In addition, Handoff allows users to transfer seamlessly from working on one device to working on another.
5. Easily Transferrable Non-iPhone Messages: Whereas text messages sent from other phones used to not show up on Macs, iOS 8 streamlines all messages onto a user's computer.
6. Phone Calls On Macs: Phone calls can now be accepted and made via Mac. Federighi demonstrated this by calling Beats founder and rapper Dr. Dre, whose company was recently purchased by Apple.
Although 'free' is not a feature, it's certainly a nice perk — the upgrade to Yosemite will be gratis when it finally makes its debut.
For a deeper look at the features announced on stage at the event, check out the video above.
Its almost one year since Steve Jobs confirmed the background development of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard . Snow Leopard had undergone numerous changes and fixes during this one year of in- house development and beta testing .And now its announced to be almost to be ready for final release on September of this year . Mac OS X 10.6 will succeed most recently released Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard . Snow Leopard primarily focuses on the Apple’s Intel range machines to improve speed ,performance and to get a reduction in consumption of system resources .OS X 10.6 will contain QuickTime X (10), the upcoming version Apple’s popular cross platform media player .
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Mac OS X 10.6 snow leopard features:
As per reports , Snow Leopard 10.6 takes only near twenty minutes for full installation .And its far better when compared with one hour installation time of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
There are so many improvements in overall system performance which would results faster opening of images ,movies and documents .
QuickTime player X (version 10)
QuickTime player X was demonstrated in WWDC on June 8 2009 . New version of player supports streaming videos and uploading files to online video sharing sites like Youtube . Basic video editing ,recording of streaming videos and enhanced graphics processing etc. are some of the new features of QuickTime player X .
Safari 4 : Mac OS X 10.6 snow leopard includes the latest version of Safari web browser .Final version of the Safari browser is now available for download .
Many applications in Snow leopard are 64 bit and will be also compatible with existing 32 bit applications . So Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be able to adapt all features of 64-bit processing like increased color depth ,security ,support for more RAM ,speed etc. at the same time maintaining its support for 32 bit applications .
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Snow Leopard has improved support for multi-core processors .
Full change log will be available soon .
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard release date:
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is scheduled to be released on September 2009 for 169 $ . All existing Leopard customers will be able to avail the update for 29 $ . New Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard customers from June 8 to December 2009 can update their software versions by paying 10$ handling charge.
Minimum suggested requirement for for installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is 1GB RAM and 5GB of available hard disk .