A Couple of New Features in Snow Leopard for Preview and Screen Shots

Playing around with the new Snow Leopard OS for the Mac has been fun. While few features are advertised from Apple, I have found two items that make some simple tasks much easier.

First, Apple now names the screen shot image files as screen shots and included the date and time. For example, the new file name now becomes “Screen shot 2009-09-02 at 8.21.39 AM”. While this may not sound like much, the old structure simply named the images “Picture 1″ , “Picture 2″, and so on. The problem was that if you moved an image to another directory and then created a new screen shot, you would end up with two images having the same file name. If you then moved that image to the same folder you would either have to overwrite the original image or change the file name of one of the images. For people taking and storing multiple image shots, this was a bit of a pain to deal with.

Second, Apple has change the annotation functionality in preview. When clicking the annotation icon in the header bar, a new toolbar appears at the bottom of the Preview screen. I have found this much more easy to use than the old drop-down functionality from the icon in the previous version of Preview.