Mac OS X is the world's much complex operating system. Built on a rock-solid UNIX foundation and intended to be neat and intuitive, it's what makes the Mac innovative, highly secure, compatible, and simple to use. Quite just there is nothing else like it.  In ways big and small, Mac OS X Snow Leopard makes your Mac faster, extra dependable, and easier to use. Click to enlarge. | Mac OS X. It's what makes a Mac a Mac.
Power of UNIX. Simplicity of the Mac.
Mac OS X is together simple to use and incredibly great. Everything--from the desktop you see when you begin up your Mac to the applications you use each day--is intended together with simplicity and elegance in intellect. So whether you're browsing the web, checking your email, or video chatting together with a friend on another continent, getting things done is at one time simple to study, neat to perform, and fun to do. Of course, making amazing things neat takes seriously complex technologies, and Mac OS X is loaded together with them. Not only is it built on a rock-solid, time-tested UNIX foundation this offers unparalleled stability, it in addition brings incredible performance, spectacular graphics, and industry-leading support for Internet standards. Ideal integration of hardware and software.
Since the software on each Mac is created by the same company this makes the Mac itself, you get an included system in which everything works mutually completely. The complex technologies in the operating system get full advantage of the 64-bit, multicore processors and GPUs to bring the greatest possible performance. The built-in iSight camera works flawlessly together with the iChat software so you can begin a video chat together with a click. Your Mac notebook consists of a Multi-Touch trackpad this maintains pinching, swiping, and other gestures. And the OS communicates together with the hardware to bring incredible battery life by spinning down the hard drive when it's inactive, by intelligently deciding whether the CPU or GPU is excellent for a task, and by automatically dimming the screen in low-light conditions. Elegant interface and spectacular graphics.
The much striking aspect of a Mac is its elegant customer interface, made possible by graphics technologies this are built to leverage the complex graphics processor in your Mac. These technologies offer the power for things like multiway chatting, real-time reflections, and smooth animations. Fonts on the screen look stunning and extremely readable. A soft drop shadow makes it clear at a glimpse which window is active and which ones are in the background. You can preview just concerning any type of document utilizing Fast Look, and for the reason that the previews are high resolution, you can actually read the topic. Built-in support for the PDF format means you can view or make PDFs from nearly any application in the system. Highly secure by design.
Mac OS X doesn't get PC viruses. And together with virtually no effort on your part, Mac OS X protects itself from other malicious applications. It was built for the Internet in the Internet age, offering a diversity of sophisticated technologies this help keep you safe from online threats. For the reason that each Mac ships together with a secure configuration, you don't have to worry concerning understanding advanced environments. Even better, it won't slow you down together with constant safety alerts and sweeps. And Apple responds shortly to online threats and automatically brings safety updates directly to your Mac. Built for compatibility.
The versatility and power of Mac OS X do it compatible in nearly any setting, counting Windows networks. It works together with virtually all of today's digital cameras, printers, and other peripherals not including the want to manually download separate drivers. It opens popular document types such as JPG, MP3, and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. In addition, Mac OS X consists of built-in support for the industry-standard PDF format, so you can read and make PDFs from nearly any application in the system--ideal for sharing work together with colleagues whether they use a Mac or a PC. If you would like to run Windows on your Mac, you can do this, too. And Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the only operating system together with built-in support for the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server, so you can use your Mac at home and at work and have all your messages, meetings, and contacts in one situate. Improvement for everyone.
Mac OS X comes standard together with a wide range of assistive technologies this help people together with disabilities experience what the Mac has to propose--counting many features you won't locate in other operating systems at any cost. For example, the built-in VoiceOver screen-reading technology makes it possible for those who are blind or have low vision to control their computer utilizing key commands or gestures on a Multi-Touch trackpad. Mac OS X in addition proposes out-of-the-box support for over 40 braille displays, counting Bluetooth displays, and many other accessibility features, such as dynamic full-screen magnification, playback of closed captions, and a scalable screen. Dependable to the core.
The core of Mac OS X is built on the same ultrareliable UNIX foundation this powers industrial-strength servers, helping to ensure this your computing experience remains free from system crashes and compromised performance. Even upgrading your Mac to the next version of Mac OS X is dependable and simple. It checks your applications to do sure they're compatible and sets aside any programs known to be incompatible. If a power outage interrupts your installation, it can begin again not including losing any data. Excellent of all, upgrading doesn't require reformatting your drive; you can keep all your compatible applications, files, and environments. And if something goes wrong when you're utilizing your Mac, Time Machine is there to keep automatic backups of everything on your drive. Fully featured, fully loaded.
Mac OS X comes in a single, full-featured version this consists of a large collection of beautifully intended applications. They not only let you surf the web, conduct video and topic chats, manage your contacts, and accomplish other day-to-day tasks--they in addition work mutually to do you extra productive and let you have extra fun.  The Finder makes working together with your files and documents as simple as browsing your iTunes library. Click to enlarge. | Dock + Finder
The Dock in Mac OS X offers quick, one-click access to frequently used applications, folders, files, and even downloads from the Internet. The Finder makes working together with your files and documents as simple as browsing your iTunes library. What is the Dock?
The Dock at the bottom of the screen provides you fast access to your much frequently used applications, files, and folders. Together with its visually appealing, high-resolution icons, the Dock practically begs to be clicked. When you do, your applications spring to life instantly, and a bright signal tells you which applications are open. You can in addition use Exposé from the Dock to instantly see all the open windows for an application. You can set the Dock to remain at the bottom of the screen, framing your desktop image and always visible. Or you can set it to tuck itself away, ready to return when you move the pointer to the bottom of the screen.  The sidebar in the Finder window is your starting point when browsing your Mac. |  The Dock at the bottom of the screen provides you fast access to your much frequently used applications and files. Click to enlarge. |  Mac OS X helps you find the way everything on your Mac visually together with an improvement called Cover Flow. Click to enlarge. | What's in your Dock.
The Dock comes loaded together with icons for many of the applications integrated together with your Mac--Dashboard, Mail, iCal, iPhoto, and so on. But as you'd expect, it's simple to customize. To add a new application or folder, just grab it from the Finder and move it onto the Dock. The Dock extends to do room for the new product, and if you have a lot of products, the icons scale to fit on your desktop. Removing and rearranging products is just as neat: Click and drag. Stacks for your stuff
A stack is a Dock product this provides you quick, direct access to folders and files. When you click a stack, the files inside spring from the Dock in a fan or a grid, depending on the number of products (or the preference you set). Mac OS X starts you off together with premade stacks for downloads, applications, and documents. The Downloads stack automatically captures files you download from Safari, Mail, and iChat. The Applications stack provides you quick access to all your applications. And the Documents stack is a excellent situate to keep things like presentations, spreadsheets, and word processing files. The files in every stack can be visible as large icons this preview their contents, so it's simple to locate the right one before you click. Stacks are scrollable, so you can effortlessly view all products, and you can find the way throughout folders in a stack to see all the files inside the stack. Make as many stacks as you wish just by dragging folders to the right side of your Dock. All-new: Exposé in the Dock.
Together with Exposé now included into the Dock, you can view the open windows of a particular application together with a click. Just click and hold any application icon in the Dock, and Exposé tiles the open windows of this application while causing the windows of other applications to fade away. The clutter cleared, you can effortlessly locate the document you want. A click makes it the active window, and pressing the Space bar provides you a full-screen preview of the window. This's not all you can do together with Exposé in the Dock. When you drag a document onto a Dock icon, all the application's open windows pop up, so you can situate the document in the right window--ideal if you would like to attach a document to an email message. Introducing the Finder.
The Finder is like home base for your Mac. Represented by the blue icon together with the smiling face, it's one of the first things you see when you begin working on your Mac. It lets you categorize and access practically everything on your Mac, counting applications, files, folders, discs, and shared drives on your network. You can in addition see rich, high-excellence previews of the contents of your files. The Finder takes full advantage of the complex technologies in Mac OS X--such as 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch--so it responds extra shortly to your actions. Meet the sidebar.
The sidebar in the Finder window is your starting point when browsing your Mac. If you've used iTunes, you'll feel right at home. Like iTunes, the sidebar is organized into categories to do it simple to locate your stuff--frequently accessed folders, CDs and DVDs, computers on your local network, and so on. Together with a few clicks, you're on your way to finding what you want. The sidebar in addition features a handy Search For section. It uses Spotlight search to let you shortly locate files you've modified today, yesterday, or in the past week, or locate all pictures, movies, or documents. Just click one of the folders and you'll see an up-to-the-minute list of files. And just like the Dock, you can customize the sidebar together with your own search folders. Instantaneous networking.
Any Mac or PC on your home network automatically appears in the sidebar, allowing you to effortlessly share files between them and even use Spotlight search and Cover Flow to search the other computers. And when you click a connected Mac, you can use screen sharing, which lets you see and control another Mac as if you were sitting in front of it--useful, for example, when you would like to show someone how to use an application or aspect. See your files in Cover Flow.
Mac OS X helps you find the way everything on your Mac visually together with an improvement called Cover Flow. Utilizing Cover Flow, you can flip throughout your documents as effortlessly as you flip throughout music in iTunes or bookmarks in Safari 4. Every document is displayed as a large preview of its first page, so you can actually see the contents of a document before opening it. Three extra ways to view.
You can in addition see your files in list view, which lets you effortlessly sort them in different ways, counting by document name, date modified, or document type. You can see them in column view, which lets you find the way throughout multiple folders shortly. And you can see them as large icons, up to 512 by 512 pixels in size. Icon view lets you thumb throughout a multipage document or watch a QuickTime movie right in the Finder, an simple way to locate and view your stuff.  Exposé unshuffles overlapping windows on your desktop into an organized thumbnail view, so you can shortly locate and switch to any window or get to any document on the desktop. Click to enlarge. | Exposé
Instantly view all open windows in spectacular style together with a single keystroke. Exposé unshuffles overlapping windows on your desktop into an organized thumbnail view, so you can shortly locate and switch to any window or get to any document on the desktop. From chaos to order.
If you like to work together with many applications and documents at the same time, you probably use time every day poking throughout your open windows just to uncover the one you want at the moment. Wouldn't it be excellent if all you had to do was press one key to snap all of this window chaos into order? This's exactly what Exposé does. Together with one keystroke, Exposé instantly tiles all your open windows, scales them down, and cleanly arranges them, so you can see what's in each single one. And you definitely can see each one, for the reason that Exposé conserves the visual excellence of the window in its reduced size. To see a full-screen preview, just press the Space bar. This's not all. Move from one tiled window to the next and you'll see its title displayed at the bottom of the window. When you locate the window you want, just click it. Magically, each window returns to full size, and the window you clicked--whether it's a folder, a PDF, a QuickTime movie, or a Word document--becomes the active window. Return to your desktop.
There's one extra aspect in Exposé. Press one key to push all the windows aside, giving you instantaneous access to your desktop. One time you grab what you want, another keypress delivers all the windows back. Would like to open a document? Check to see if the CD or DVD you're burning in the background is ready? Or shortly locate and drag a document into an email as an enclosure? Exposé makes it simple. All-new: Exposé in the Dock.
Exposé not only tiles all your open windows, it in addition lets you view the open windows of a particular application. For example, say you're a Keynote maestro and often have up to a dozen documents open at the same time. Exposé makes finding the one you want incredibly simple. Just click and hold the Keynote icon in the Dock, and Exposé tiles your Keynote windows while causing the windows of other applications to fade away. The clutter cleared, you can effortlessly locate the document you want. A click makes it the active window, and pressing the Space bar provides you a full-screen preview of the window. Prefer keyboard shortcuts? You can tile application windows together with a keystroke, too. And this's not all you can do together with Exposé in the Dock. When you drag a document onto a Dock icon, all the application's open windows pop up, so you can situate the document in the right window--ideal if you would like to attach a document to an email message.  Instantly preview the contents of your documents not including ever opening them. | Fast Look
Instantly preview the contents of your documents not including ever opening them. Flip throughout multipage PDFs, watch full-screen video, view photo slideshows, and extra. Together with a single click. Opening files is so last year.
Fast Look is the innovative technology this provides you a sneak peek of entire files--even multiple-page documents and video--not including opening them. All you have to do is pick and choose a document in the Finder and press the Space bar. An elegant transparent window appears, showing you the contents of the document instantly. It's excellent when you're looking for something specific but don't have time to open lots of files to locate it. See everything.
Fast Look works together with nearly each document on your system, counting pictures, topic files, PDF documents, movies, Keynote presentations, Mail attachments, and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. To see a document in Fast Look, you just tap the Space bar or click the Fast Look icon in the Finder window. You can view the document in full screen, and you can open the application this created it together with a double-click. Excellent of all, Fast Look works even if you don't have the application this created it--ideal when a colleague sends you a document this you couldn't otherwise open. A Fast Look back in time.
You can use Fast Look to your advantage when you're searching for files to restore in Time Machine. One time you locate the document you're looking for, use Fast Look to verify its contents before restoring it to the desktop. View attachments, no detachment.
Fast Look in addition works in the Mail and iChat applications in Mac OS X. Say you get a message together with a bunch of attachments. Instead of downloading and opening every one, you can use Fast Look to see them together with a click. It's excellent for viewing PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, and other files. You can even view attached photos as a slideshow and add them to your iPhoto library together with ease.  Together with Spotlight, you can locate anything on your computer as shortly as you type: files, email, contacts, pictures, calendar events, and applications. Click to enlarge. |  In addition to the Finder, Spotlight search technology is built into other applications in Mac OS X: Mail, Address Book, iCal, System Preferences, Preview, even Safari. | Spotlight
Together with Spotlight, you can locate anything on your computer as shortly as you type: files, email, contacts, pictures, calendar events, and applications. And for the reason that it's built into the core of Mac OS X, search outcomes update instantly whenever files modify. Stop looking, begin finding.
Spotlight is the lightning-quick search technology built into Mac OS X this makes it simple to locate what you're looking for, even if you don't recognize where to look. Conveniently available in the Mac OS X menu bar, the Spotlight search field provides you instantaneous outcomes as you begin typing, encompassing not only files, folders, and documents but in addition messages in Mail, contacts in Address Book, iCal calendars, products in System Preferences, applications, and even dictionary definitions. Spotlight searches aren't confined to your computer--you can in addition search other computers on the network. The want for speed.
Built into the core of Mac OS X, Spotlight brings outcomes so shortly for the reason that it indexes files on your computer in the background, so you never experience lag times or slowdowns. And when you do a modify, such as adding a new document, email, or contact, Spotlight updates its index automatically, so search outcomes are always up-to-the-moment accurate. Searching together with smarts.
When you search together with Spotlight, you're actually accessing a comprehensive, continuously updated index this sees all the metadata inside supported files--the "what, when, and who" of each piece of information saved on your Mac--counting the kind of content, the author, edit history, format, size, and many extra details. Much document types, counting Microsoft Word documents, Adobe Photoshop pictures, and email, already contain rich metadata. And for the reason that Spotlight indexes content as well, your search outcomes contain what appears inside a document or document, not just its title. When you click the document, you are immediately taken to this spot in the document together with the search terms highlighted. Smartly organized.
Thanks to the speed and flexibility of Spotlight, you'll discover countless new ways to categorize your files. You can save the outcomes of a search as a Smart Folder this automatically updates as you add, modify, or shunt documents on your Mac. Smart Folders contain files grouped mutually based on search criteria instead of physical setting, so the same document can be visible in multiple Smart Folders not including moving from its original saved setting on your system. No want to duplicate, shift, or update files: Spotlight Smart Folders keep everything organized for you. It's in the Mail. (And extra.)
In addition to the Finder, Spotlight search technology is built into other applications in Mac OS X: Mail, Address Book, iCal, System Preferences, Preview, even Safari. No matter which application you search, outcomes be visible immediately afterwards you begin typing a few letters. And your search is customizable. In Mail, for example, you can search in selected mailboxes or across all of them, and in unique fields (To, From, Subject) or entire messages. In Address Book, you can search the entire list or unique groups.  Together with its neat, elegant interface and support for the latest Internet standards, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web. | Safari 4
Experience the web together with the quick, simple-to-use web browser. Together with its neat, elegant interface and support for the latest Internet standards, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web. Surf quick.
Safari 4 in Snow Leopard outraces all other browsers. On even the much demanding Web 2.0 applications, Safari brings blazingly quick performance utilizing the new Nitro Engine. For example, thanks to 64-bit technology in Snow Leopard, JavaScript performance in Safari 4 is up to 50 percent faster than the 32-bit version of Safari. In addition, Safari proposes top-flight HTML performance--the excellent on any platform--loading pages up to 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and nearly 3 times faster than Firefox 3.5. What does all this indicate for you? Less time loading pages and extra time enjoying them. Distraction-free browsing.
Safari sports a clean, elegant look this keeps your focus where it belongs: on the content of the web page. The features you use much are just a click away, and an included Google search bar makes it simple to locate what you're looking for. Crash resistant.
Safari 4 in Snow Leopard is even extra resistant to crashes. It turns out this the number one cause of crashes in Mac OS X is browser plug-ins. So Apple engineers redesigned Safari to do plug-ins run separately from the browser. If a plug-in crashes on a web page, Safari keeps running. Just refresh the page and get going again. Flip throughout history.
Safari 4 proposes a dramatic way to revisit your browsing history. Just type a word or phrase in the History Search field in Top Sites, and Safari shortly presents you together with full-page previews of the websites this look exactly as they did when you last visited them. You flip throughout them just like in Cover Flow in iTunes or the Finder, then click to access the page you would like. See your Top Sites.
The new Top Sites aspect lets you enjoy a spectacular, at-a-glimpse preview of your favorite websites not including lifting a finger. Safari 4 tracks the sites you browse and ranks your favorites, presenting up to 24 thumbnails on a single page and making them accessible together with just a click. You can customize the display by pinning a favorite site to a specific setting in the grid. And a star in the upper right of every thumbnail means whether a site has new content since the last time you visited. Surf securely.
Together with support for the latest standards for secure access and information sharing on the web, Safari protects you whether you're browsing the Internet at home or on a public computer. Safari proposes built-in antiphishing technology this detects fraudulent websites and warns you before displaying the information. It in addition maintains EV (Expanded Validation) Certificates, so you can feel confident shopping, updating account information, or paying bills online. Kid-proof the Internet.
Begin your children' web exploration off on the right foot together with Safari parental controls. Utilizing the same technology this keeps your inbox free of junk mail, a content filter in Mac OS X takes a fast peek at websites before they load and tries to determine if they're suitable for children. If they're not, Mac OS X blocks them from view. You can override this filter by creating lists of specific websites you would like--or don't would like--your kids to see.  Mail proposes an elegant customer interface this makes it simple to manage all your email from a single, ad-free inbox, even when you're not connected to the Internet. Click to enlarge. | Mail, iCal, Address Book
Three built-in applications this work as one: Mail, iCal, and Address Book get the power of Mac OS X to your email, calendar, and contacts. You get elegant, simple-to-use interfaces, lightning-quick searches, and complete integration across the applications and your Mac. Mail: All your email accounts in one situate.
Intended from the ground up specifically for email, Mail proposes an elegant customer interface this makes it simple to manage all your email from a single, ad-free inbox, even when you're not connected to the Internet. It works together with much email standards--counting POP3 and IMAP--and much popular email services, such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail. If you have extra than one email account, no problem. Just add all your accounts to Mail and you'll be effective to access everything from one central situate. Microsoft Exchange Server Support
Together with Snow Leopard, Mac OS X is the only operating system together with built-in support for the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server. So you can use your Mac--together with all the features and applications you love--at home and at work and have all your messages, meetings, and contacts in one situate. Data, detected.
Mail does extra than just show email. It in addition analyzes the contents to help you act on them. Say you get an email inviting you to dinner at Gino's Pizza tomorrow at 6 p.m. Mail not only distinguishes this 6 p.m. is the time, it recognizes this "tomorrow" stands for a date on a calendar. So you can add the invitation to your iCal calendar by clicking the date, whether it's an actual date (October 18) or a relative date (tomorrow). It in addition recognizes this Gino's is a situate, so you can click the address to view a Google map of the restaurant's setting. And if the message consists of a phone number or email address, you can add it to Address Book together with just a click. Filtering the junk.
Mail consists of an intelligent mail filter this automatically catches messages it thinks are junk. Junk mail is located in a exclusive folder in Mail so it doesn't clog up your inbox. If a junk message gets throughout, just click the Junk button, and from then on, similar email will be located in the Junk folder. The extra you train Mail to distinguish junk mail, the better it gets. Address Book: One situate for all your contacts.
Address Book provides you a flexible and convenient situate to store contact information for your family, friends, and colleagues. You can import information from other applications, make distribution lists for clubs and groups, print address labels and envelopes, and extra. For the reason that Address Book is built on the industry-standard vCard format for storing contact information, your friends can send you cards this you can add to your own list by dropping them in--no typing necessary. Do extra together with your addresses.
Address Book does extra than display card contents; it in addition lets you use them. Click an address to ask the web for a Google map showing the setting. Click a URL to open the website. Click an email address to instantly send a message or begin an iChat dialog. iCal: A great desktop calendar.
iCal makes it simple to keep track of your busy schedule. You can make as many separate calendars as you want--one for home, another for school, a third for work, and so on. You can see all your calendars in a single window or select to see only the calendars you would like. RSVP you.
Together with iCal, you can invite friends and family to events. iCal lets you make invitations utilizing contact information from your Address Book, update your guest list, keep track of attendee responses, and get the latest status information. A centralized notification box keeps all your invitations and responses in one simple-to-access setting so you can manage events in iCal instead of your busy email inbox. And when you or another Mac customer receives an iCal invitation in Mail, it's automatically added to iCal. Locate what you want.
Thanks to Spotlight, it's simple to locate information in Mail, iCal, and Address Book. Inside the applications, a search sorts throughout everything--all fields in an email, all information on a card or appointment--so you locate each possible match. If you're not utilizing the applications, you can still locate messages, contacts, and appointments by utilizing Spotlight search in the menu bar. Begin typing a search term and Spotlight returns the related products immediately. Smart Groups and Smart Mailboxes.
Spotlight technology helps you categorize your mail and contacts in another big way: Smart Groups and Smart Mailboxes. You just pick and choose the important criteria--say, each contact together with a birthday in the next 30 days or each email sent by your boss--and your applications make a folder containing each product this meets your criteria. Excellent of all, the folders stay updated as new products are created. Smart Groups in Address Book be visible in your Group list, and Smart Mailboxes in Mail be visible just below your inboxes. Fully included.
For the reason that they're Mac OS X applications, Mail, iCal, and Address Book are fully included together with every other and together with other features of your Mac. For example, Mail and iCal use the contacts in your Address Book, so you can shortly send messages or invitations to individuals and groups. Mail can access your iPhoto library, so it's simple to email images to your friends and family. If you get an attachment, Mail lets you use Fast Look to view its contents not including saving the attachment and opening another application. Syncing integrated.
Part of what makes Address Book and iCal so great is seamless syncing. They can sync the contact and calendar information on your Mac together with your iPhone or other mobile phone, PDA, or iPod touch, so it follows you everywhere. And together with a MobileMe account, your contacts and calendars stay up to date across multiple Mac computers and on the web, so you can access your information from any computer together with an Internet connection.  iChat is a rich instantaneous messaging application this works on the AIM network and makes it simple to stay in touch together with friends and family utilizing topic and video, whether they're on a Mac or a PC. Click to enlarge. | iChat
Integrated together with Mac OS X, iChat is a rich instantaneous messaging application this works together with your AIM or MobileMe account and makes it simple to stay in touch together with friends and family utilizing topic and video, whether they're on a Mac or a PC. IM me.
A great instantaneous topic messaging application, iChat comes together with Mac OS X and is loaded together with excellent features this do sending messages to your AIM or MobileMe buddies quick and simple. Neat topic chats feel like natural dialogs, together with icons and thought bubbles this do it simple to see who's saying what. And you can transmit any kind of document--from a web address to a photo--by just dragging it into your chat. Images display right in the message window, web links open in a browser together with a click. In short, iChat is the excellent way to IM. Don't just type it--say it face to face.
Much Mac computers contain a built-in iSight camera and mic. When you use them together with iChat, you get the easiest way to have high-excellence video and audio chats together with your friends and family. You can chat together with just one other person or do it a party by starting a multiway chat. Featuring a three-dimensional view, iChat practically puts everybody in the room together with you. View their faces reflected into space, just as if they were sitting all-around a conference room table. And together with video backdrops built into iChat, you can do it look like you're chatting from the Eiffel Tower, under the sea, or your own custom backdrop. Click to initiate.
Together with its intuitive interface, iChat shows you when your buddies are available for a chat. Bright icons mean their online status and whether they're capable of a video chat or just audio. To begin a chat, click the camera or phone icon to send an invitation. To add extra people, click the icons for the meeting attendees on your buddy list and every colleague steps into your virtual office. Show off slideshows from anyplace.
Why wait for a darkened room and a projector to present vacation photos or Keynote slides? Now you can do it all remotely, right in iChat. Put on a photo slideshow, click throughout a Keynote presentation, or have fun a movie--in full screen, accompanied by a video feed of you hosting--while your buddy looks on. Share and share alike.
Thanks to iChat screen sharing, you and your buddy can observe and control a single desktop, so you can effortlessly collaborate together with a colleague, browse the web together with a friend, or pick plane seats together with your spouse. Share your own desktop or your buddy's--you together have control at all times. iChat initiates an audio chat when you begin a screen sharing session, so you can speak things throughout while you're at it. Kid's have fun.
Together with iChat at home, you can enforce your "no talking to strangers" rule utilizing parental controls this agree to you to decide who your kids can chat together with online. Approve the buddies you trust and iChat blocks all strives to send and get IMs together with anyone else. iChat in addition automatically hides or displays online status so this only buddies approved by you can see if your children are online.  Entertainment made simple. Click to enlarge. | iTunes
iTunes plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's an entertainment superstore this stays open 24/7. Entertainment made simple.
Not recall rifling throughout stacks of CDs or flipping throughout channels. iTunes puts your entire music and video collection a mere click away, giving you an all-access pass to thousands of hours of digital entertainment. Browse. Categorize. Have fun. All from your Mac or PC. - Browse.
View your library by artist, album, episode, year, rating--any way you would like. A fast search reveals outcomes as you type. - Categorize.
Turn CDs into digital music by importing them to iTunes. Categorize your entire collection together with custom playlists. - Have fun.
Shuffle songs to mix up your groove. Pay attention to music from other computers on your network. Have fun video utilizing onscreen controls. Everything, to go.
You have music and video in iTunes. You have photos, contacts, and calendars on your computer. You would like to get it all on your iPod or iPhone. iTunes syncing does exactly this. And wireless syncing to Apple TV puts music and video from your iTunes library on the big screen. The world's #1 online music store--and extra.
iTunes is an application this plays all your digital music, podcasts, and videos. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it's a 24/7 entertainment superstore this lets you browse and buy over 10 million songs, rent or buy blockbuster movies, get HD episodes of your favorite TV shows, download applications for your iPhone or iPod touch, subscribe to free podcasts, and shop for audiobooks.  A brand-new version of QuickTime Player, the application used by millions to watch a wide range of video formats and files. Click to enlarge. | QuickTime X
Watch pristine-excellence video in a clean, uncluttered window. Record and trim your own movies. And effortlessly share them over the web. A stunning new player.
Fully redesigned in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, QuickTime X debuts a brand-new version of QuickTime Player, the application used by millions to watch a wide range of video formats and files. Utilizing the power of the Core Animation technology in Mac OS X, QuickTime Player proposes a clean, uncluttered interface together with controls this fade out when they're not necessary. And large thumbnail pictures do navigating chaptered movies simpler than before. Instead of topic-only chapter names, QuickTime Player displays frame-based thumbnail pictures for every chapter marker, so it's simple to find the way your chaptered media. Trim your media.
The new QuickTime Player lets you trim your media to the perfect length by removing unwanted portions from the beginning or end. Rather than relying on a neat timeline, it displays frame-based thumbnails this help you do the ideal edit. Share together with iTunes and the web.
QuickTime Player transforms your personal media files for use by iTunes and your iPhone, iPod, or Apple TV, utilizing the best environments for every destination. Afterwards conversion, QuickTime Player automatically brings the content to your iTunes library. You can in addition use QuickTime Player to publish your media to MobileMe or YouTube not including worrying concerning formats or resolutions. Record together with a click.
QuickTime Player makes it simple to capture exist audio and video directly from your built-in iSight camera, FireWire camcorder, or microphone. Just click the Record button in QuickTime Player and begin recordcapturing your audio or video to disk. You can in addition catch the action on your screen together with screen recording--ideal for creating instructional media or when you would like to show a friend how to do something. Built for high excellence and smooth playback.
QuickTime X is optimized for the latest media formats--such as H.264 and AAC--throughout a new media architecture this brings stutter-free playback of high-definition content on nearly all Snow Leopard-based Mac systems. QuickTime X maximizes the efficiency of modern media playback by utilizing the graphics processor to scale and display video. It further enhances efficiency by supporting GPU-accelerated video decoding of H.264 files. And QuickTime X takes advantage of the proven abilities of ColorSync to color-manage your media for the excellent playback experience and for sharing to your iPhone, iPod, or Apple TV.  Get fun photo snapshots and video clips together with your built-in iSight camera utilizing Photo Booth. | Photo Booth
Get fun photo snapshots and video clips together with your built-in iSight camera utilizing Photo Booth. Send them to your friends, use one as an iChat icon, add them to your Address Book, or categorize and edit them in iPhoto. Your personal photographer.
Photo Booth is a fun application this makes it simple to get photos utilizing the built-in iSight camera in your Mac. Just look into the lens, smile, and click. Before it snaps your photo, Photo Booth flashes your display together with bright white to add extra light to your face. Get a single snapshot or use the burst mode to get four fast images. The fun begins.
Sure, you can get regular photos, but the real fun starts when you use the cool results and backdrops in Photo Booth. Snap a photo of yourself at the Eiffel Tower or in outer space. Twist and twirl your smile together with the strange Twirl result. Add an artistic look together with the Colored Pencil result. Experiment together with all the results to convert your look. Capture video clips.
Photo Booth is not just for images. Utilizing your iSight camera, you can shoot video clips and send them to friends and family via email together with just a few clicks. Backdrops and results work for your videos, too.  Snow Leopard makes Time Machine up to 50 percent faster and decreases the time it takes to complete your initial backup to Time Capsule. | Time Machine
Never again worry concerning losing your digital files. Time Machine automatically saves up-to-date copies of everything on your Mac--photos, music, videos, documents, applications, and environments. If you ever have the want, you can effortlessly go back in time to recover anything. Set it, then not recall it.
Time Machine works together with your Mac and an external hard drive. Just connect the drive and assign it to Time Machine and you're a step closer to enjoying peace of intellect. Time Machine will automatically back up your entire Mac, counting system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, movies, and documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is this it not only keeps a spare copy of each document, it remembers how your system looked on a given day--so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past. Each modify, each hour.
Following the initial backup of your entire Mac, Time Machine automatically makes incremental backups each hour, each day, copying just the files this have changed since your last backup. And it does this all in the background so you can continue working while Time Machine is busy copying your files. Time Machine saves the hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month. Go back in time.
Say you accidentally deleted a document you meant to save. Just enter the Time Machine browser and you'll see exactly how your computer looked on the dates you're browsing. You can browse for files utilizing Cover Flow or perform a Spotlight search to locate what you want. Use the timeline to pick and choose a specific date, or let Time Machine fly throughout time to locate your much recent changes. Before recovering a document, use Fast Look to verify the contents of the document, then click Restore to get it back to the present. Ready when you are.
When your mobile Mac is connected to your backup drive, Time Machine works as you'd expect. When it isn't connected, Time Machine in addition works as you'd expect. It keeps track of which files have changed since the last backup and backs them up to your backup drive the next time you connect. On any Mac, if Time Machine is unable to perform a backup, this's duly noted in its preference pane. Migration together with style.
If you're environment up a new Mac together with files from an old Mac, Time Machine can help simplify the process. Just use Migration Assistant to copy portions of any Time Machine backup to a new Mac, or pick and choose "Restore System from Time Machine" in the Leopard DVD Utilities menu. Select any date recorded in Time Machine to set up your new Mac exactly as your previous Mac was on this date.  A native version of Microsoft Office is available for Mac OS X, and it features a Mac-friendly interface this lets you make documents together with Word, presentations together with PowerPoint, and spreadsheets together with Excel just like on a Windows PC. |  Nearly any device this connects to a computer via USB, audio cable, or Bluetooth will work together with a Mac. | Built for compatibility.
Mom always said, "Have fun nice together with others." Your computer should, too. Together with Mac OS X, you can use Microsoft Office, connect to industry-standard printers and cameras, and even run Windows. Office on your Mac.
A native version of Microsoft Office is available for Mac OS X, and it features a Mac-friendly interface this lets you make documents together with Word, presentations together with PowerPoint, and spreadsheets together with Excel just like on a Windows PC. And it's compatible together with Microsoft Office for Windows, so you can effortlessly share documents together with friends and colleagues. Even if you don't have Office installed on your Mac, you can use Fast Look to get a peek at Office documents not including having to open an application. Microsoft Exchange Server support.
Together with Snow Leopard, the Mac is the only computer together with built-in support for the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server. So you can use your Mac--together with all the features and applications you love--at home and at work and have all your messages, meetings, and contacts in one situate. Industry-standard bearer.
Thanks to its support for industry standards, Mac OS X works together with virtually all email providers and websites. It in addition lets you view the much common document types, counting Office documents, PDFs, pictures, topic files, MP3s, videos, ZIP files, and extra. So if you're moving files from a PC or if your friends and colleagues send you files, you can rest assured they'll work on your Mac. And if you buy your Mac at an Apple Retail Store, an Apple Genius can transport your files from your PC for you and even recycle your old PC. Relax. Your camera, printer, and mouse work, too.
Nearly any device this connects to a computer via USB, audio cable, or Bluetooth will work together with a Mac. This consists of digital cameras, external hard drives, printers, keyboards, speakers, and extra. You can even use a right-click mouse together with a Mac. And together with thousands of device drivers integrated together with Mac OS X, you can begin utilizing these devices as soon as you plug them in--no want to download additional software. It runs Windows, too.
Have a Windows application you want to use one time in a while? No problem. Each new Mac lets you install Windows XP and Vista and run them at native speeds, utilizing a built-in utility called Boot Camp. Configuration is neat and safe for your Mac files. Afterwards you've completed the installation, you can boot up your Mac utilizing either Mac OS X or Windows. (This's why it's called Boot Camp.) Or if you would like to run Windows and Mac applications at the same time--not including rebooting--you can install Windows utilizing VMware or Parallels software. Connect to PCs over a network.
The Finder not only lets you browse files on your Mac, it in addition makes it simple to locate files on other computers--together Mac and PC--on your home network. Computers this agree to document sharing automatically show up in the Shared section of the Finder sidebar, allowing you to browse files and folders you have permission to view.  Together with virtually no effort on your part, Mac OS X protects itself--and you--from viruses, malicious applications, and other threats. | Mac OS X has you covered.
Mac OS X doesn't get PC viruses. And its built-in defenses help keep you safe from other malware not including the hassle of constant alerts and sweeps. Defense against viruses and malware.
Together with virtually no effort on your part, Mac OS X proposes a multilayered system of defenses against viruses and other malicious applications, or malware. For example, it prevents hackers from harming your programs throughout a technique called "sandboxing"--restricting what actions programs can perform on your Mac, what files they can access, and what other programs they can launch. Other automatic safety features contain Library Randomization, which prevents malicious commands from finding their targets, and Execute Disable, which protects the memory in your Mac from attacks. The 64-bit applications in Snow Leopard are even extra secure from hackers and malware than the 32-bit versions. This's for the reason that 64-bit applications can use extra complex safety techniques to fend off malicious code. Always on the alert.
Innocent-looking files downloaded over the Internet may contain dangerous malware in disguise. This's why files you download utilizing Safari, Mail, and iChat are screened to determine if they contain applications. If they do, Mac OS X alerts you, then warns you the first time you open one. You decide whether to open the application or terminate the strive. And Mac OS X can use digital signatures to verify this an application hasn't been changed since it was created. Stay up to date. Automatically.
When a potential safety threat arises, Apple responds shortly by getting software updates and safety enhancements this can be downloaded automatically and installed together with a click. Apple works together with the incident response community, counting the Forum of Incident Response and Safety Teams (FIRST) and the FreeBSD Safety Team, to proactively identify and shortly correct operating system vulnerabilities. In addition, Apple cooperates closely together with organizations such as the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC).  Features such as Password Assistant help you lock out identity thieves who are afterwards personal data. |  Antiphishing technology in Safari protects you from scams by detecting fraudulent websites. | Simple to customize.
Together with Mac OS X, it's simple to customize and use safety features. Environment up secure document sharing, for example, involves a fast trip to System Preferences. FileVault lets you encrypt all the files in your Home folder together with just a few clicks and a password of your choosing. The firewall comes preconfigured to block online intruders, but it's simple to do whatever changes you would like. Exercise parental control.
As a parent, you would like your children to have a safe and happy experience on the computer. Mac OS X keeps Parental Control an eye out even when you can't. Together with a neat configuration in Parental Controls preferences, you can manage, monitor, and control the time your children use on the Mac, the sites they visit, and the people they chat together with. Don't go phishing.
Phishing is a shape of fraud in which online thieves try to acquire sensitive information such as customer names, passwords, and credit card details by creating fake websites this look like legitimate companies. The antiphishing technology in Safari protects you from such scams by detecting these fraudulent websites. If you visit a suspicious site, Safari disables the page and displays an alert warning you concerning its suspect nature. Surf safely.
Mac OS X makes it simple to stay safe online, whether you're checking your bank account, sending confidential email, or sharing files together with friends and coworkers. Features such as Password Assistant help you lock out identity thieves who are afterwards personal data, while built-in encryption technologies protect your private information and communications. Safety not including the hassle.
Mac OS X won't slow you down together with constant Password Assistant safety alerts and sweeps. Each Mac ships together with a secure configuration so you don't have to worry concerning understanding advanced environments. Just turn your Mac on and begin working. When you want to be aware of something, it will let you recognize. And if you would like to modify the safety configuration, just open System Preferences and do any adjustments. Extra Power to Your Mac.
Since 2001, the breakthrough technologies and rock-solid UNIX foundation of Mac OS X have made it not only the world's much complex operating system but in addition extremely secure, compatible, and simple to use. Snow Leopard continues this improvement by incorporating new technologies this propose immediate innovations while in addition smartly environment it up for the future.  | 64-bit
64-bit computing used to be the province of scientists and engineers, but now this generational shift in computing provides all users the tools to apply the power of 64-bit to speed up everything from usual applications to the much demanding scientific computations. Although Mac OS X is already 64-bit capable in many ways, Snow Leopard takes the next big step by rewriting nearly all system applications in 64-bit code and by enabling the Mac to address massive amounts of memory. Now Mac OS X is faster, extra secure, and fully ready for the future. |  | Grand Central Dispatch
Extra cores, not faster clock speeds, drive performance enhances in today's processors. Grand Central Dispatch takes full advantage by making all of Mac OS X multicore aware and optimizing it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors. Grand Central Dispatch in addition makes it much easier for developers to make programs this squeeze each last drop of power from multicore systems. |  | OpenCL
Together with graphics processors surpassing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they're capable of considerably extra than just drawing images. OpenCL in Snow Leopard is a technology this makes it possible for developers to tap the vast computing power currently in the graphics processor and use it for any application. |  | QuickTime X
Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, a key jump forward this advances modern media and Internet standards. QuickTime X consists of a brand-new player application, proposes optimized support for modern codecs, and brings extra efficient media playback, making it perfect for any application this needs to have fun media content. | |