NPD, a market research company, is reporting that Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard has been doing extremely well since its launch, even when compared to Leopard sales. For example, they have said that Snow Leopard has sold more than twice as many copies as Leopard during the first two weeks of being for sale on the technology market. Furthermore, they are also stating that sales of Snow Leopard only declined 25% from week one to week two while they had declined by 60% for Leopard in l

People are talking about the current status of build 10A432 for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the new operating system that Apple will be shipping to their customers sometime in September. According to many, this build, which came after build 10A421a, has been designated as the “Gold Master.” In the software development field, this means that Snow Leopard has been tested enough by developers and consumers to make it nearly ready to ship.

As we approach the release of Snow Leopard, Apple continues to send new betas to developers to fix all the existing issues. One of the latest releases—10A402—contains some user interface improvements on top of the bug fixes. Apple has mostly been advertising this version of their operating system as a speed update with less of a footprint on your hard drive, so it is nice to see some UI improvements, even if they are minor.

Apple’s new version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, promises to bring some exciting overhauls to the back end of the Mac OS as we know it today. However, on top of all of this back end stuff, it now also appears as if Snow Leopard will sport a brand new interface across all of the Apple apps, giving Mac OS X a completely unified look. This user interface, which Apple has internally codenamed Marble, will bring about some small changes to the original Aqua theme that we can see in applications like iTunes.

According to recent screen shots from Snow Leopard’s most recent build (build 10A190) that have been floating around, the next version of Apple’s operating system will contain iPhone-like text correction. The screen shots that contain this feature come from Apple’s TextEdit application and have three separate options. One option is for spelling auto-correction as you more »