Tuesday, June 02, 2009

OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard writing in Chinese - by Abinyah Walker

Snow leopard is starting to show some teeth. You can view some screen shots here posted to the website Flickr on build 10A354.

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.

What I find most interesting is the YouTube video demonstrating Chinese handwriting recognition in TextEdit :



Original post can be read here