Hey! ya know what smooths over an ugly Apple PR month? New Apple products!!! Today Apple announced the release of two new products and an iMac refresh. Not bad for another Tuesday at Apple. But let me present to you the new mini-gadget of the moment.

Apple’s Magic Trackpad!

“It uses the same Multi-Touch technology you love on the MacBook Pro. And it supports a full set of gestures, giving you a whole new way to control and interact with what’s on your screen. Swiping through pages online feels just like flipping through pages in a book or magazine”  $69 dollars though? I would say it makes sense at $49 but Apple’s neat software doesn’t make that slightly over sized trackpad more expensive to produce.  All my bitterness aside, it truly looks like a very fun and intuitive way to interact with computer content. Seems we are one step closer to the future. Be mindful though, this device requires OS X 10.6.4.
Learn more about the Magic Trackpad.

The day is upon us and Snow Leopard has made it’s debut. You may notice however, that it’s not all that different.  Well it is, but its hard to notice at first. To help you get the most out of the great new features that Snow Leopard offers.

• The Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of all the modern technologies in Mac OS X, including 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch.
• 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.
• Exposé is refined and more convenient. It’s now integrated in the Dock, so you can just click and hold an application icon in the Dock and all the windows for that application will unshuffle so you can quickly change to another one.
• Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you — enough for about 1,750 more songs3 or a few thousand more photos.
• OpenCL in Snow Leopard is a technology that makes it possible for developers to tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently in the graphics processor and use it for any application.

Macrumors recently received what appears to be legitimate pictures of the retail packaging for OS X Snow Leopard. (click on the pic to see the rest of the pics and read the full story at Macrumors.com)