Quick Tutorial on Some of Snow Leopard's Hidden Features

[Jeff Campbell]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/05/found-footage-snow-leopard-hidden-features-great-video-by-a-16/' target='_blank'>http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/05/foun...-video-by-a-16/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Matt Fisher is a 16 year old high school junior and Apple enthusiast who has been putting up tutorial videos on all things Macintosh since December of 2008. I just saw one that is so good I wanted to bring it to your attention."</em></p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="600" height="360" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ABok55J6YYM&amp;ap=&fmt=18" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ABok55J6YYM&amp;ap=&fmt=18"></embed></object></p><p>This is a pretty good quick look at some of the "hidden features" of Snow Leopard. The video is only 4 1/2 minutes long, and he has several more listed on his&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MacOSXTutorials12" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a>.&nbsp;</p>

[doogald]

That was good.

There are a few other things that I have noticed:

- When you print, you get a badge icon number on the dock printer icon indicating the number of documents in the queue. That was not there in Leopard

- Apple "fixed" an issue in Mail.app with gmail when connected via IMAP. It used to be that it would download items and update statuses just fine with the first connection, but as you left it open, if you opened mail in gmail using another computer, or using the web interface, that Mail.app would not recognize those messages as read. It was a bit of a pain in Leopard. (I say "fixed" because I think that it is more of an issue with Google's non-standard IMAP usage, as Thunderbird 2.x had the same issue. I guess Apple realized that Google wasn't going to make gmail work as most other IMAP servers do.)

- At least on my MacBook, sleep (and resuming from sleep) is far snappier.

- And, well known I think but certainly much better than before, when you try to eject a removable disk with files open, Finder now tells you which app is holding open the files.