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Check out this how-to video (done with the new Snow Leopard screen recording feature of Quicktime!)

(if you are struggling to see the text/screen in this video, please view it on youtube

So I’ve just installed Snow Leopard on my near-new 13″ Macbook Pro. It’s fast, very fast. Faster than Leopard. The new Quicktime is nice, “stacks” are much improved. Excellent!

Snow Leopard, now available for pre-order!

Thanks Justin for this tip:

One of the main reasons I used Firefox over Safari was the ability for FF to remember my tabs and windows once I quit the application. Since the release of Safari 4 however, I am finding it to be much smoother and faster than FF and have moved to it exclusively.

The problem still remains that users are not able to have the browser launch directly into the previous sessions so I decided to stop complaining and write an AppleScript to solve the problem.

The first thing you need to do is “Enable access for assistive devices” which is located in the System Preferences under Universal Access.

Then just run this application anytime you want Safari to open your last sessions (prior to quitting the application).

If you would prefer to create the script yourself simply open Script Editor and enter the following text:

tell application "Safari"

activate

end tell

tell application "System Events"

 tell process "Safari"

 tell menu bar 1

 tell menu bar item "History"

 tell menu "History"

 click menu item "Reopen All Windows from Last Session"

 end tell

 end tell

 end tell

 end tell

end tell

Then save the script as an application and your good to go.

If you want to change the icon so it looks like Safari simply “Get Info” for the application and drag the Safari (or any other) image to the icon preview (top left) in the inspector window.

*Reposted from here.

A screenshot from the new build has been floating around featuring an updated version of the Address Book application with one big addition. A “social networking” menu is added showing both Twitter and Facebook icons. This could mean that Apple will allow you to keep (and possibly edit) your contacts pulled from social networks.

There’s no word yet if the screenshot is credible or not, but it does look pretty convincing and would make sense given recent news that Apple is likely to incorporate social media into other applications such as iTunes.

from: TUAW

Some notable features:

• QuickTime has been turned completely Pro with screen capture, audio capture, and movie capture built in along with an editing/trimming ribbon right in the app
• Shutdown is faster as is wireless connectivity
• There is automatic printer driver download as well as automatic timezone setup
• It also has Chinese character input, faster installation, and faster Time Machine backup. It also is 6GB smaller than the original Leopard
• Stacks has been updated as well with a new icon style and menu color. Previews are much more powerful now and you can cut intelligently from PDFs
• It requires an Intel processor – no PowerPC support – 1GB of memory and 5GB of disk space

Looks like macrumors have some pics and a blurb on the possible retail packaging for Snow Leopard.

check it out here