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What's new in 10.6 "Snow Leopard" |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 I personally am feeling ripped off still from the WWDC 2008 Keynote. I hold a grudge for a long time, so maybe it's just me. I really wanted Steve to WOW me with something besides another iPhone. So when i heard about the first screen shots of "Snow Leopard" I got excited. Turns out there wasn't much to get excited about. A couple of pictures of the applications folder and the utilities folder along with the system preferences. Not much going on there. Until you look closer.
While Apple did say they are going to be updating the OS over adding new features, how much they are updating was unknown until this first release. I took a look at what applications are being updated in 10.6 and which ones aren't. The list is surprising long in the udpate side. Granted some are maintenance updates, but there are still a good number of full version or 1/2 version updates. Read on to see a full list of changes so far.
Here's the list of the big changers from Tiger to Leopard to Snow Leopard.
| Application |
Tiger
10.4.11
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Leopard
10.5.2
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SnowLeopard
10.6 beta
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Address Book
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4.0 |
4.1 |
5.0
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Automator
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1.0.4 |
2.0.2 |
2.1
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Calculator
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4.0.5 |
4.2
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4.51
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| Chess |
2.1 |
2.3 |
2.4
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| Dashboard |
1.0 |
1.1
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1.7
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| DVD Player |
4.6.5 |
5.0.1
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5.1
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| Expose |
n/a |
1.0.1
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1.1
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FontBook
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2.0.3 |
2.1
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2.2
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iCal
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2.0.5 |
3.0.1
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4.0
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iChat
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3.1.8 |
4.0.3
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5.0
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iSync
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2.4 |
3.0.1
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3.0.2
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Mail
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2.1 |
3.3
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4.0
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Photo Booth
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n/a |
2.0.2
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3.0
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Preview
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3.0.9 |
4.1
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4.5
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Quick Time Player
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7.2
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7.4.5
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7.6
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Safari
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2.0.4 |
3.1.1
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4.0
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Spaces
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n/a |
1.0
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1.1
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Stickies
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5.1 |
6.0
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7.0
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System Prefs
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3.3 |
5.0
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6.0
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Text Edit
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1.4 |
1.5
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1.6
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Time Machine
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n/a |
1.0
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1.1
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Acitvity Monitor
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1.5 |
10.5
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10.6
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BlueTooth File Exchange
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1.7.14
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2.1
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2.1.1
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BootCamp Assistant
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n/a |
2.0
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3.0
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Disk Utility
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10.5.6 |
11.1
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11.5
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Grab
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1.3 |
1.4
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1.5
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Migration Assistant
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1.0 |
1.2.1
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2.0
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Network Utiltity
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1.4 |
1.4.5
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1.4.6
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| Podcast Capture |
n/a |
1.0.2
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2.0
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Remote Mac Install
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n/a |
1.0
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1.1
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System Profiler
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4.1.1 |
10.5
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10.6
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Terminal
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1.5 |
2.0.1
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2.1
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Voice Over Utility
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1.0 |
2.0
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2.1
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There are a few default Apps that are not updated in Snow Leopard; Dictionary, Image Capture, iTunes, Airport Utility, Audio MIDI Setup, Color Sync Utility, DigitalColor Meter, Directory, Grapher, KeyChain Access, ODBC Administrator, RAID Utility. It also looks like Apple changed the way they number some of their software between Tiger and Leopard, but the numbering stays between the Leopards.
Some of the updates in Leopard will no doubt be to work with an Exchange server better, but there has been no word on how it works or what the other updated apps will get.
When more information on added features or fixes become available, we'll post them here.
Screen shots available at orchardspy.com
UPDATE : Orchardspy.com has gone 509 on us. Here's the pix before they went down. Maybe when they come back they'll have more.
Not much, but that's what we have so far.
Click on the bottom three images to see them in their full size in a new window.
Images courtesy of orchardspy.com
-- Chris
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