While it might seem to some like buying a ticket to the ball game after the seventh-inning stretch, MacFixIt’s Topher Kessler thinks that even with Apple’s release of Mac OS X v10.7 Lion not far off, the Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard upgrade—available on DVD for upgrading from Leopard or Tiger installations at a modest $29—is still a good idea. I agree unreservedly.

Neil McAllister over at Developer World posted an interesting article regarding Apple’s forthcoming Grand Central technology. It is a great article (a little dense if you are not a hardcore techie), but I wonder if his conclusions are necessarily right.

German Apple site Apfeltalk has released new screenshots of Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” onto the internet. There’s not really much to see, but the screenshots offer “photo evidence” of Safari 4′s web-application feature, Address Book Exchange Support, and more.

While the screenshots don’t really show much, as most improvements are under the hood, the shots seem to show that Apple is really on top of Snow Leopard’s surface features, however limited they may be. Given that they have a whole year to continue development, I can’t wait to see the performance increases…or perhaps some yet-unannounced features?

Screenshots after the break.

Mac OS X 10.6 is Snow Leopard. While only mentioned once at the WWDC keynote, it was enough to let us make some very safe assumptions. Snow Leopard, as evidenced by its name, is a bigger than usual incremental update. Here’s what I’m expecting. Snow Leopard will have some visual tweaks. The only way this more »