Filed under: Software, Snow Leopard
SnowChecker will help you make the jump to Snow Leopard
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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nkhorman said 8:07PM on 11-02-2009
Um... you mean you "dove into"... right, because you can't "doved", right ?
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Rossmac said 8:41PM on 11-02-2009
And shouldn't that be "couldn't have cared less" rather than "could have cared less" which would imply that they really did care about compatibility?
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zoffdino said 8:59PM on 11-02-2009
Is this a bit late? Snow Leopard has been out for 2 months. Most of the compatibility issues have been resolved.
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Tom said 9:49PM on 11-02-2009
I'm glad I still have one Mac Mini without Snow Leopard. I've had issues with the Mini that I upgraded, including no upgrade driver for my HP Color Laser Jet 2600n, frequent "quit for no apparent reason" with "Preview" and "Mac Mail". Most of the problems have been associated with trying to save scanned photos or documents from "Preview" and then attaching them to my updated "Reunion" application or to emails. The Leister folks have been helpful with suggestions about problems with "Reunion", and I'm glad I have a couple of other mail applications to use when I have to attach documents to emails.
If you have "upgraded" to SL on one computer, hopefully you have another without SL to use as a backup!
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hindlist said 10:10PM on 11-02-2009
It really feels better now
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kelly said 1:43AM on 11-03-2009
This app is extremely helpful to many of us who are tardy up-graders. Thanks, TUAW!
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Joanna D said 3:05AM on 11-03-2009
It should be Apple producing this software, not a third party. Looks like Microsoft has won on the usability and customer support front once again - they've been doing this for their new OSs for years.
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DT said 4:49AM on 11-03-2009
Serious people don't speak of Microsoft and usability in the same sentence.
tabaks said 8:33AM on 11-03-2009
Really, "dived"...? Haaaahaahahahaaahhahh! I hope you haven't "breaked" your collective heads. Ah, the beauty of knowledge...and those ignoring it while in school.
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Rory said 9:33AM on 11-03-2009
I'll refer you to this: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dive
jb510 said 10:59AM on 11-03-2009
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.
kelly said 9:31AM on 11-03-2009
Geez..
Let's give a big TUAW welcome to the YouTube trolls.
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nkhorman said 10:26AM on 11-03-2009
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 >
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Rory said 11:04AM on 11-03-2009
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.
raleedy said 11:42AM on 11-03-2009
Where was the miss of whom you speak used?
Daniel said 6:47PM on 11-03-2009
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.
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Matt Nadler said 3:58PM on 11-04-2009
doesn't work in TIGER
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Zews said 6:04PM on 11-06-2009
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
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