New Desktop Pictures and QuickTime X Icon in Latest Snow Leopard
Apple appears to be making some final visual tweaks to Snow Leopard in their latest developer build. Several people have noticed that Apple has provided new Desktop pictures that come with the OS. Uneasy Silence offers a complete gallery of the images:
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Another cosmetic changes include new avatars, an improved QuickTime pause button and a new QuickTime X icon:
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Some behavior changes in Expose and scrubbing QuickTime movies have been noticed but were apparently introduced in earlier builds. Finally, there are reports that stability has significantly improved over the previous build.
Snow Leopard will be released in September and will be $29 for existing Mac OS X Leopard owners.
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