World of Apple

A gallery on the popular photo sharing website Flickr shows several screenshots from the most recent build (10A354) of Mac OS Snow Leopard. Also a video has appeared on YouTube demonstrating the new Chinese handwriting recognition within Snow Leopard.

The author of the detailed Flickr gallery also writes:

Anything I didn’t snap a shot of was because it didn’t seem like anything had changed.

Some additional observations:
- Initial setup now warns you if you don’t choose a password hint.
- Time Machine menu bar icon is now grayed-out if Time Machine is not configured.
- Clean Up icons command in the Finder now “slides” icons into place instead of them just moving instantly. It’s a neat visual effect.
- There is no QuickTime preference pane, and no preferences within the application itself. I theorize that Apple is going to do away with QuickTime Pro entirely.
- Quick Look now works from Open and Save dialogs.

On the basis that the images will likely be removed at some point the highlights are reproduced below.

A video has also been posted on YouTube that shows the Chinese trackpad handwriting recognition in action.