Well, we are about a week or so into Apple’s new operating system release, Snow Leopard, and all we’ve gotten are wallpapers and disk space. It certainly has been an interesting announcement and release, as people on the Internet have been discussing the price and whether it even constitutes a new operating system at all. But that’s neither here nor there. And while I’ve gotten my hands on a copy of Snow Leopard for only $10 (through the Up To Date program), I have yet to install it. I certainly have reasons for this, but I also wanted to provide my thoughts on the popular consensus of this release.

A fantastic week of E3 announcements and demonstrations is past us, and it’s now time turn our attention towards Apple’s WWDC. The event kicks off Monday, June 8th at 10:00 PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT) from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, but we couldn’t wait to get our live blog up. Why? Because we’ve got some great products to give away, and we want to let you know how to win them.

New leaked screen shots and videos posted on a Portuguese website showcase some of the new features we will be seeing in Mac OS X v10.6. Snow Leopard has been noted for being mostly a stability build to make Mac OS X more dependable, as well as slimming down its size. Therefore, most of the new features that are being added aren’t necessarily groundbreaking, but they are interesting nonetheless. Details and video past the jump.

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.

Open Computing Language, or OpenCL, has been ratified and is ready for Snow Leopard. OpenCL is an open standard to extend the processing abilities of the GPU past just graphics. It was made by Khronos Group, and is available to more than just Apple. But the most exciting use of OpenCL to many of us more »

Back in April when Apple acquired PA Semiconductor for $278 million, no one was quite sure what Steve’s motives were and where he would take the company. Many people were positive that PA Semi had been acquired only to give Apple some more talented engineers, but Steve spilled the beans on the real reason for more »