The latest developer release (10A394) of Snow Leopard has brought a few new features to light. The features include a revamped version of expose´ and window minimization to app icon (instead of to side of dock). Check out the pics below. Via Macx.cn

Camino, Defined as Mozilla Power, Mac Style. It brings together the best of both worlds. This recent release brings a few new and exciting features to the table.

• Toolbar Search - Sites with OpenSearch plug-ins are discovered automatically and are easy to add to the toolbar search box
• Find Bar - The new Find Bar allows for incremental find and puts previous and next buttons right at your finger tips
• Improved Tabs - The new scrolling tab bars provides easy access to your tabs
• Auto-Update - When a new release is available, Camino will offer you the option of automatically downloading and installing it

Other new features include enhanced AppleScript support, automatic feed detection, and session saving.

To check out all of the new features that Camino has to offer by going to caminobrowser.org/features

You can download version 1.6.8 of Camino Here.

With no shortage of available twitter clients, its nice to see something new and innovative come to the market. Whats right for someone isn’t always right for everyone else so it pays to be constantly checking out new clients. Today we are going to give you a little peak at the up coming Beak twitter client developed by Mike Rundle.

Beak [UB][10.5] has many exciting and useful features. I’ll try and give you a good idea of what they are in this post. If you want to learn about every little feature beaks offers I really suggest you give it a try for yourself. Download Beak Here.

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With Snow Leopard’s debut less then three months away, I find its time to let you know what features and improvements I’m really getting excited to see.

1. Faster wake-up and shut-down times. Decreased wake-up times are always a welcome feature. Faster shutdowns also means more saved time.
2. Re-written Finder. The Finder was completely re-written to take advantage of new features in Snow Leopard, not to mention the inclusion of 64-bit support
3. Smaller footprint. This is one aspect that I feel doesn’t get enough attention. No one likes bloated software and Snow Leopard comes in at a full %50 smaller then OS X Leopard. Smaller footprint means more free space and increased efficiency.
4. QuickTime X. This new version of QuickTime delivers more efficient media playback, HTTP-based live streaming, and greater color accuracy. I have been using VLC for the last few years but Quicktime X may just win me back over. It’s new minimalistic interface is a welcomed refreshment
5. More reliable disk eject. Snow Leopard improves the reliability of ejecting discs and external drives. Albeit slightly insignificant, this is something that drives my crazy quiet often and I’m glad to see that this issue was addressed.

While I can’t pick any one thing that I like best, the implementation of 64-bit code and the smaller footprint are truly great advancements for OS X.

Blogger Michael Flux recently posted some screenshots from the most recent build (10A380) of Apple’s upcoming Snow Leopard. (click the image to see the rest)

In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.

How incomplete? So incomplete that, among other things , you won’t yet be able to view YouTube videos, change your privacy settings, set your default search provider, or even print.

Meanwhile, we’ll get back to trying to get Google Chrome on these platforms stable enough for a beta release as soon as possible!

This info was taken from the Chrome developers blog. As you have read it is still very unstable. But if your anything like me you have been waiting long enough and your ready to Try it now!

These pictures supposedly show the new iPhone appearing in some of apple’s own ads. While the legitimacy of these pics must be questioned, they certainly look real.

The full story can be found here. Macx.cn

12 pictures that will make you fall in love with Apple’s Xserve lineup

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To celebrate the recent relaunch of their site, Macware Inc is giving away a selection of their fonts for free.

These fonts are licensed for commercial work and are valued at $300. These fonts are a preview of what is available in Macware’s upcoming MacFonts3 and MacFonts4.

Download the fonts and learn more about Macware here.

All year long your mac has been collecting bits of everything everywhere. Temp files here and pref files there. Chances are you don’t need the half of them anymore. Here are 3 great ways to speed up your mac!

• Free up drive space on your startup disk. OS X uses the free space on your startup disk as virtual memory. So when you pack every last mp3 on that drive there remains no room for the virtual memory, thus performance decreases.  As a general rule, it’s best to have 10% of your drive free at its fullest. I personally use Xslimmer and it does a pretty good job of slimming out all the unnecessary bits of code and language in your apps. Depending on the number of apps you have you can save upwards of 15GBs. This slimming of the apps seems to make them launch a little faster as well.

• Repair your permissions. You hear this all the time, basically because it does wonders and you should do it! After downloading this and installing that and then deleting that some things get a little bit confused as to how its supposed to exactly function. Repair the permissions basically makes sure that everything is being pointed in the right direction.

• Check you login items. If you have multiple apps launching as you log in you may want to disable a few as they tend to slow the whole launch process a bit. You can view which items launch at login by going to: System Preferences<Accounts<login items Here you can view and enable/disable apps from launching at startup.

Happy computing. (Oh, By the way, did you know I launched a new site? Check it out! alphaapp.com)