More Snow Leopard Screenshots, Chinese Handwriting Video
A few items we neglected to post from the past week include a new flickr gallery that depicts screenshots from the latest Snow Leopard build (10A354) as well as a Chinese handwriting recognition video (embedded below). The flickr poster writes:
published on Sunday, the 31. May 2009, macrumors
Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs
DJRumpy writes in to alert us that Apple's new OS, Snow Leopard, is apparently nearing completion. "Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release. ...Apple is said to have informed recipients of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A354 that it has simplified the... APIs for working with Grand Central, a new architecture that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of Macs with multiple processing cores. This technology works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then... dispatched efficiently to a Mac's available cores for faster processing."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
published on Tuesday, the 12. May 2009, apple-slashdot
Snow Leopard update: new features, Apple readying final push
Apple continues to release successive test builds of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to developers, while its iPhone OS engineering team is hard at work on the next major revision of Mac OS X's mobile cousin. The latest test build—10A354—reveals a couple new features that are likely to make an appearance in Snow Leopard. It also marks the end of API changes, according to Apple, meaning that most of the remaining work involves bug fixes and optimizations. First on the list of new features, the version of Boot Camp supplied with Snow Leopard will include HFS+ drivers for Windows. These drivers will allow direct read and write access to Mac-formatted drives when booted into Windows. The added convenience should eliminate the need to rely on FAT-formatted drives or third-party utilities like MacDrive for moving files between operating systems. Click here to read the rest of this article
published on Monday, the 11. May 2009, ars-technica
Apple issues code freeze on Snow Leopard APIs
Apple has issued what may be its most significant seed of Mac OS X Snow Leopard to date, developer sources indicate. With build 10A354 Apple is said to be freezing the APIs for the operating system, allowing developers to code on the assumption that all key components are in place. The achievement may also cement notions that testing is accelerating towards completion....
published on Monday, the 11. May 2009, macintosh-news-network
Apple Adds Chinese Handwriting for Multi-Touch Capable Macs in New Snow Leopard
Apple has seeded developers with a new version of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) tonight. The build (10A354) adds one particularly interesting new feature to Apple's Mac operating system: Chinese handwriting recognition specifically for multi-touch ca...
published on Friday, the 8. May 2009, macrumors