Agenda
- Snow Leopard
* Installation (Saving space, Rosetta, Disk drive space measures, cautions)
* QuickTime
* Services
* BYO Experiences
- iPod updates (Sept 9th Event)
* New device
* iTunes update (version 9 and 9.01)
Special guest, Mark Maclellan from Apple.
See you there.
- Adoption rates for Snow Leopard. Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net/2009/09/snow_leopard_adoption_rate) Mac Nerdery site has over 50% Snow Leopard Adoption Rate in first 2-weeks by its Readers
- iWork 09 (http://www.apple.com/iwork/) discussion
- Apple Education Store (http://canadaedu.apple.com/routing/index.php?lang=eng) pricing - read carefully, you must meet the criteria to be eligible
- MacSpeech Dictate (http://www.macspeech.com/pages.php?pID=147), speech-to-text software, which has been demoed previously at Mugoo, has been updated to 1.5. This is a paid upgrade.
- iP47BR Bluetooth speakerphone (http://www.ihomeaudio.com/iP47) for your iPhone, by iHome. It also docks and recharges your iPhone, but docking is not necessary to use the speakerphone functionality
- Altec Lansing BackBeat 906 Stereo Bluetooth Headset (http://altec%20lansing%20backbeat%20906%20stereo%20bluetooth%20headset) for use with iPhone. The BackBeat 906 delivers stereo with the iPhone, unlike earlier Bluetooth headsets such as the Motorola MotoROKR s9 (http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/s9/) headeset which does not deliver stereo with the iPhone.
- Photoshop Creative magazine (http://www.photoshopcreative.co.uk/back_issues.php), the magazine for Adobe® Photoshop® inspiration and advice, raffled off.
- FireWire 800-400 adapter (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/FIR1369AD/). Available at OtherWorldComputing.com (http://otherworldcomputing.com/) a good, US-based Mac supplier. The new Mac Mini (2009) as well as the new MacBook Pro's only have firewire 800 receptacles. But firewire 800 is compatible with firewire 400 drives. The Firewire 800-400 adaptor allows you to plug in firewire 400 drives into these newer macs, using your existing firewire 400-to-400 cables. OWC also carries the very rare short-length firewire cables, in both the firewire 400-to-400 (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/1394A66012/) and firewire 800-to-400 (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/1394B96012/) versions.
- Short 6" iPod cables (http://www.usbfever.com/index_eproduct_view.php?products_id=1257): usbfever.com, $US 2.99 shipping worldwide.
- iPod dock extender cables: cablejive.com (http://www.cablejive.com/dock-extender-cable)
- Cable-identifier stickers by Dotz (http://store.cordotz.com/dotzidentifiercomputeroffice.aspx): for folks with long cables going under desks, etc. who want to visually know what cable connects to what.
- Multitouch for desktop computers? Wacom Bamboo Touch adds a multitouch trackpad to your laptop or desktop. Gizmodo, 24-Sep-2009 (http://gizmodo.com/5366763/new-wacom-bamboo-is-first-graphic-tablet-with-tactile-multitouch-capability)
- Listen to CBC Radio over the Internet: CBC streams WMA format audio at these URLs: cbc.ca/listen/streams.html (http://www.cbc.ca/listen/streams.html). A free WMA stream listener for iPhone/iPod Touch or your Mac, that also records: FStream (http://www.sourcemac.com/?page=fstream&lang=en)
- Clone your Mac to an external drive before you upgrade to Snow Leopard, so you have have the option to back out if something goes wrong. Use the application SuperDuper (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html) to clone your Mac's drive. It's free for cloning. You can pay for additional features.
- If you have no backup, get an external drive or Time Capsule (http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/), and run Time Machine (http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html)! It's even faster (http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#systemwide) in Snow Leopard.
- Mail.app, a great 3rd-party website resource: hawkwings.net (http://hawkwings.net/)
- Feedback for Apple? apple.com/feedback (http://apple.com/feedback)
- Discussion of OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard, feature by feature: apple.com/macosx (http://www.apple.com/macosx/)
- 1 System Preferences (http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#systempref)
- 2 Desktop
- 3 Drag and Drop
- 4 Dock (http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#dock)
- 5 Expose (http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/expose.html)
- 6 Finder (http://hhttp://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#finder)
- 7 Preview (http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#preview)
- 8 QuickTime X (http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/quicktime.html)
- 9 iCal (http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/mail-ical-address-book.html)
- 10 iChat (http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#ichat)
- 11 Address Book Sync (http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#mail)
- 12 Data Detectors
- 13 Screen Snapshot Time Stamp
- 14 Transformations
- 15 Trash
Tip: Highlight text in any Cocoa app (e.g. TextEdit), Shift-Command-Y creates a Sticky Note with that text.
A selection of postings on Snow Leopard, OS X 10.6, sorted by date published. The authors of later articles may have had more time to work with OS X 10.6:
28-Aug- Snow Leopard, OS X 10.6 released
31-Aug- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review (http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars), John Siracusa
10-Sept- Snow Leopard aka OS X 10.6.1 Update
- About the Mac OS X v10.6.1 Update (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3810), support.apple.com
- HP Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907), support.apple.com
11-Sept- Snow Leopard UI roundup (http://blog.cocoia.com/2009/snow-leopard-ui-roundup/), cocoia blog
- Canon Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL899), support.apple.com
- Brother Printer Drivers for Mac OS X v10.6 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL894), support.apple.com
- HP adds Snow Leopard printer drivers after customer complaints (http://www.macworld.com/article/142768/2009/09/hp_snow_leopard.html), Greg Keizer, ComputerWorld.com
13-Sept- What's New in Snow Leopard? Technologies Review of Snow Leopard (http://maketecheasier.com/whats-new-in-snow-leopard-technologies-review-of-snow-leopard/2009/09/13), Jeffry Thurana, MakeTechEasier.com
14-Sept- 4 reasons NOT to upgrade to Snow Leopard today (http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=613), Robin Harris, blogs.zdnet.com
18-Sept- See hidden files in Snow Leopard's Open and Save dialogs (http://www.macworld.com/article/142884/2009/09/106seehidden.html), Rob Griffiths, Macworld.com
- Even More Hidden Refinements in Snow Leopard (http://db.tidbits.com/article/10573), Tidbits.com
21-Sept- Podcast: MacNotables #939: Tonya Engst Takes on Snow Leopard News Coverage...and Finds It Wanting (http://www.macnotables.com/wordpress/macnotables-939-tonya-engst-takes-on-snow-leopard-news-coverage-and-finds-it-wanting/)
23-Sept- Services in Snow Leopard: It's Even More Brilliant Really! (http://smokingapples.com/software/tutorials/services-snow-leopard-explained-download/), Milind Alvares, SmokingApples.com
25-Sept- Life With Snow Leopard: One Month Later (http://theappleblog.com/2009/09/25/life-with-snow-leopard-one-month-later/), Mark Crump, theAppleBlog.com, 25-Sept
27-Sept- More Hidden Refinements in Snow Leopard (http://db.tidbits.com/article/10507), Jeff Carlson and Glenn Fleishman, Tidbits.com
Ongoing- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard:Software Compatibility (http://www.macintouch.com/specialreports/snowleopard/slcompat.html), MacInTouch.com
- MacWorld.com Index page for Snow Leopard-related articles (http://www.macworld.com/browse.html?tag=Snow+Leopard)
Upgrade Guides- Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard (http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/snow-leopard-upgrading?pt=TCNEWS), Joe Kissel, TakeControlBooks.com and tidbits.com, $10 ebook
BTW, you can get the SonnetTech FireWire 800-400 Adapter
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw_adapter.html
locally at Compunation on Merivale Rd.N.
http://www.compunation.com/main.php?area=contact&cntnt=contact&PHPSESSID=j135n2lhjajakcmae3r6dd2gp1