<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings DMMugers,<div><br></div><div>There is an excellent, if long and technical, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars">review of Snow Leopard over at Ars Technica</a>. 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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Happy upgrading!</div><div>Bailey</div></body></html>