[DM-MUG] Snow Leopard Review and tidbits

[Bailey Ford]

Greetings DMMugers,

There is an excellent, if long and technical, review of Snow Leopard  
over at Ars Technica. I give it my strongest endorsement by saying  
it's the kind of thing I wish I had written. It left me very excited  
about all the 'under the hood' stuff in 10.6 and how it would affect  
our platform for years to come.

Secondly, I thought I'd share a tiny thing I found with the group.  
Have you ever minimized a window on your mac while holding the shift  
key down? If you've never done it, I say go for it right now (shift  
key down and click the orange button in the upper left corner of a  
window) It's just nifty. The animation happens in slow motion so you  
can scrutinize all the graphicy goodness. Snow Leopard's Finder now  
contains more animations than ever, and my tiny discovery is that the  
shift trick seems to work on the new animations too. To wit, when you  
click on the tool bar lozenge in the upper right corner of a Finder  
window while running Leopard, you mac will dutifuly blink between  
showing the toolbar / side bar and hiding it. In Snow Leopard there is  
a smooth animation between the two states, and with the shift key down  
- you guessed it - the animation is in slow motion.

Happy upgrading!
Bailey
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