Filed under: OS , Software , TUAW Tips , Snow Leopard As all of us are starting to get familiar with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, we’re starting to find little features that aren’t immediately visible and are pretty cool! My first surprise came when one application asked me to make sure that my date and time settings were correct. I dutifully popped into System Preferences, clicked on the Date & Time preferences pane, clicked on the Time Zone tab, and noticed a couple of things that were different: First, the time zone I’m in (Mountain) was highlighted and as I moved my cursor left and right, a “ghost” appeared for whatever time zone I was currently over (see arrow above)
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Filed under: OS, Software, TUAW Tips, Snow Leopard
As all of us are starting to get familiar with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, we’re starting to find little features that aren’t immediately visible and are pretty cool!
My first surprise came when one application asked me to make sure that my date and time settings were correct. I dutifully popped into System Preferences, clicked on the Date & Time preferences pane, clicked on the Time Zone tab, and noticed a couple of things that were different:
First, the time zone I’m in (Mountain) was highlighted and as I moved my cursor left and right, a “ghost” appeared for whatever time zone I was currently over (see arrow above). That in itself wasn’t anything great, but the check box at the top — Set time zone automatically using current location (see oval above) — was intriguing so I clicked on it. The map went to shades of gray, and then Snow Leopard used the SkyHook Wireless’s Wi-Fi positioning service to figure out where I was.
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