SnowChecker will help you make the jump to Snow Leopard

Most of us here at TUAW jumped aboard the Snow Leopard bandwagon immediately after receiving our upgrade disks -- and I mean immediately. We didn't bother to check out what apps would or wouldn't run, and could have cared less about compatibility with scanners and printers or anything else important like that. No, we just dived into the lake before determining whether or not it was shallow, full of piranhas, or contained hydrochloric acid. That's just us, though -- we like to be able to tell TUAW readers what to expect, good and bad, when a new OS version is delivered. Our friends at Download Squad, however, must still be a little queasy about making the leap, since they posted a quick app review today for SnowChecker.

SnowChecker is a free Mac application that does one thing -- it tells you whether or not your applications will run under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. SnowChecker performs a scan of your hard disk for apps, then compares the list of found apps against compatibility info stored at snowleopard.wikidot.com. It displays the the results, noting which apps are OK, which might have slight compatibility issues, and which will be totally hosed under Snow Leopard. SnowChecker uses a simple green, yellow, red color scheme to pass along the information to you, and often provides quick notes telling you about workarounds or updates that will help get all of your apps working smoothly.

If you're a bit on the shy side when it comes to doing upgrades, SnowChecker can make you feel a lot better about making the jump to Snow Leopard.

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Source: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/10/31/are-your-apps-ready-…

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Zews

SnowChecker is a rather sad piece of software. I downloaded it and ran it. It only recognized a very small number of my apps. It id not recognize anything from Adobe CS3,except Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. It did not recognize anything from MS Office. It did not recognize my version of Toast Titanium. Parallels Desktop

November 06 2009 at 6:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt Nadler

doesn't work in TIGER

November 04 2009 at 3:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Daniel

I used this to check my Apps' Snow Leopard compatibility. Most of the report was ok, except for one game.
It says Homeworld 2 (1.1.1) is compatible with snow leopard but it doesn't run on my macbook (which runs nicely under Leopard or Tiger)
Any thought or suggestion please let me know.

November 03 2009 at 6:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jbrown510

Ah yes... Once again the ignorant assumption that the American way to spell a word is the only way. The one that always gets me is learned and learnt, both perfectly correct.

Triva - Did you know that American Englsh today is much closer to traditional (200 year ago) English than British English is today. Our (I'm American) langauge slowed down it's evolution while British English kept evolving... Always facinates me.

November 03 2009 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nkhorman

Just because a made up word happens to show up in an online dictionary within the past five years doesn't make it a real word http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/automagically, or even if it is a real word, it doesn't mean it is grammatically correct to use the word.

< soap >
Case in point, "vote getter", my number one pet peeve of made up, miss used phrases.
You can't "get" votes, you can receive or solicit votes, but can't "get" a vote.
So the phrase that should be used is, "vote recipient"
< /soap >

November 03 2009 at 10:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Rory

According to the hard cover Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language Second College Edition with a copyright of 1980 (happens to be setting on my bookshelf):

dive vi. dived or dove, dived, diving.....

That is neither a new or online resource.

November 03 2009 at 10:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

raleedy

Where was the miss of whom you speak used?

November 03 2009 at 11:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rory

I'll refer you to this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dive

November 03 2009 at 9:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kelly

Geez..
Let's give a big TUAW welcome to the YouTube trolls.

November 03 2009 at 9:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Serious people don't speak of Microsoft and usability in the same sentence.

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