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A new and extensive screenshot gallery taken from the near
feature-complete build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard distributed at
this week’s Apple developers conference shows off a more polished
operating system nearing its final stretch of development.

The screenshots,
published on MichaelFlux.com, were snapped from build 10A380, revealing
a handful of previously unseen interface changes and other enhancements
spread throughout the software and its bundled applications.

AppleInsider has extracted some of the more relevant shots
from the gallery along with their descriptions, such as those showing
Snow Leopard’s new Stacks grid view, which has recently seen the
addition of a transparent frame between the stack background and the
drop shadow.

It’s long been reported that Stacks displayed in grid view will allow
you to jump from one folder to another without ever having to leave the
Stack. However, Apple appears to have recently added a button at the
top left-hand corner that lets you easily jump back to the parent
directory — or the “Applications” folder in the shots below — similar
to the back and forth buttons offered on iPhone navigation screens.

The Desktop & Screen Saver control panel now only renders
thumbnails of available Desktop pictures that are in view, preserving
system resources and cutting back on lag:

Icons for Folder Actions Setup now reside in Finder contextual menus:

Welcome improvements to the speed in which Mail renders IMAP mail
indexes are also reported, though this discovery can be put up for
debate given these advances are seen following a clean install of Mac
OS X in which Mail’s database is largely empty:

You can now make a note out of the selected text or have it spoken out loud and added to iTunes from Safari’s contextual menus:

VoiceOver Utility has been completely overhauled with a sleek new interface that takes design cues from AirPort Utility:

The AirPort menu in Snow Leopard’s menu bar now shows the signal strength of all available wireless networks:

Both Audio MIDI setup and Image Capture have seen their interfaces
refreshed along the lines of AirPort Utility and VoiceOver Utility:

A new version of Apple’s Preview app sports some snazzy new Contact Sheet and Annotation view modes:

And finally, a few more shots show off the new QuickTime X interface:

MichaelFlux.com also published an earlier and less revealing set of digital photos taken while installing the new Snow Leopard build:

Apple said early this week it will make Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard available in September as a $29 upgrade for all owners of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

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