http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/ Engadget Comments for Apple puts a freeze on Snow Leopard APIs, freeing up developers to work their magic http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/any ideas what else theyre gona do for snow leopard thats different from just leopard? cuz it seems stupid to me to release a new version of the OS with the only changes being soemthing about chinese language and grand central architecture...]]>May 11th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/
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Façade, the spiritual successor to Unsanity's GUI theming utility Shapeshifter, has been in the works for a long time, and due to its developers still having to juggle between it, other actively developed apps like Bowtie and Bluebird, and college, it's likely to stay in the pipeline for a while longer. However, in the meantime, Magnifique is available as a quite serviceable substitute.

The downside of all the above is that because Apple hates people changing how their precious Aqua UI looks, these apps basically have to swap out files (including system files in Magnifique's case), so if that's too "hackish" for you, you might be better off sticking with the defaults or using Tiger with Shapeshifter and maybe ClearDock.

BTW, I recall seeing a Taskbar-ish application called Fantasktik which was kinda neat when I looked at it. I don't know if that's what you would rather have than a dock, but there are alternatives out there. Even for OS X, amazingly enough.]]>May 11th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/
Not everybody "loves" that bubbelywubbely stuff the girls and wannabe-designers dig so bad. Since stacks it has improved a little, but the dock is just a beautiful, fancy gimmick to open/close your software, nothing more.

Here's a nice article by a truly objective person about OSX and it's functionality while working: http://www.fictionalhead.com/blog/full/mac-vs-pc-a-designers-take
Suck on that.

Calling the windows start menu, explorer, taskbar and systray a disaster probably says more about you.]]>May 12th 2009 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/
I would love to see a print screen function and a show desktop - yes I know you can get an app to do that, but it seems like two functions that SHOULD be included.]]>May 11th 2009 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/
Command shift 3 for print screen - saves a graphics file on your desktop.

press F11 to get back to your desktop.

Am I missing something here?]]>May 11th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/
Print Screen – Cmd + Shift + 3
Show Desktop – F11 (you can also use hot corners or change it)]]>May 11th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/ expose.]]>May 11th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/
Show Desktop is a bit of dead feature. Exposé does a much better job of showing all windows and the desktop, especially if you use hot corners, though you can also do a simple 4 finger own or up, respectively to get the same effect in an instant.]]>May 11th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/(Or Alt + SHIFT + 4 to selectively print a section of the screen)]]>May 11th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/
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If you didn't like Leopard, you're probably not going to like Snow Leopard. What don't you like about it, anyway? It's much better than Tiger. I'm not going to get in to the question of comparing it to other OSes, but I gather from your post that you're a Mac user anyway.]]>May 11th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/
I'm running Tiger at home and Leopard at work on an older (dual 2.0 G5) Power Mac. I'm not impressed with the minor UI tweaks (less legible icons, slightly less friendly dock design, etc) and am astounded at how slow it runs on this box. I understand that the G5 is an old chip, but it should NOT run this slow considering that I ran Panther on a 600mhz G3. Leopard also feels a bit more buggy and hang-prone. It's even hard crashed a couple of times.

The only thing I really want that's in Leopard is Time Machine, so I've been putting off the upgrade on my Mac Pro until Snow Leopard comes out.]]>May 11th 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/apple-puts-a-freeze-on-snow-leopard-apis-freeing-up-developers/May 11th 2009 1:30PM