Remember? The famous Blue Screen Of Death many of us had when updating from Tiger to Leopard?
Well after a few hours, we knew the reason was the Application Enhancer and you all remember the famous tutorial.

I wrote a blog post a few days before Leopard came out, giving many advices to users who were (worried) about to make an upgrade from Tiger(10.4) to Leopard (10.5), the same advices apply for the Leopard to Snow Leopard transition.

Apple’s OS X installers traditionally come with 3 options (archive and install …) but with Snow Leopard, there will be a single default kind of installation (Archive & Install) meaning “fresh OS”.

The installer is complicated as it used: insert disc, open installer, type password and go. The installer first quarantines incompatible apps and plugins in an “Incompatible Software” folder, but it will be better (on my opinion) to clean up your system a bit before installing Snow Leopard by removing tweaks, mods, input managers and plugins.

You may also take a look at this Snow Leopard compatibility listing.

For example, on my system, I decided to delete Growl (the uninstaller script is in the installer’s disk image), Chax (installer comes with a remove option), Google Gears, Flip 4 Mac, and many other utilities that adds plugins or modify OS X’s default application/system.
I’m not meaning these applications are not supported by Snow Leopard.
This post is just a set of advices for the paranoid ones like myself.

Another solution (takes a lot of time) is to reinstall a fresh copy of Leopard and then upgrade it to Snow Leopard.

Before starting the installer it would be better to unplug/unmount any external device plugged to your Macs (you can keep the mouse and keyboard of course).

Here it is, finally.

The latest version of iTunes 7.7 brings the App Store.
Most of the applications are free; and that is an amazing thing for iPhone owners we are!
I’m so happy to see almost all the applications I use daily on my Mac available now for the iPhone like NetNewsWire, Twitterrific, or AIM!

The rumors were right, iTunes 7.7 came with a free utility that enables you to remotely control iTunes from your iPod Touch or iPhone.
No applications to customize the look (icons etc..) of the iPhone yet, but it would be amazing to have a CandyBar for the iPhone!

You can download iTunes 7.7 from here.

If you’re a frequent visitor of MacAmour, you may have read many posts on an Open Source application called QuickSilver. A mix between a Spotlight, Finder, Terminal but most of us are using it like a launcher in OS X.
But if you’re a user of QuickSilver you may also know the developer claimed the project has been discontinued since 2007.
But there’s a wind of hope in the air. While another developer trying to clean up QS’s code to make it faster; the original author of this amazing tool is working on a new version of QS!

Download the latest version of QuickSilver here.
You’ll notice the last version has some new features nobody heard about like Quick Look support!
The last update is version beta 56; june 25th.

Bonus: Nicholas Jitkoff’s (author of QS) conference at Google explaining QuickSilver!
You’ll find the video after the jump.
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[lang_en]How many icons will you need on your dock for the Microsoft Office Suite? 5.
For iLife? 6 icons.
For iWork? 3 icons!
The aim of these Dock applications launchers is to reduce clutters in your dock.
Each of them is less than 100 kb and they use 0% of your CPU active or idle.
Intuitive to use: right click on them and you’ll see the entire series Applications:

Download:

• Office Dock
• iWork Dock
• iLife Dock

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[lang_fr]De combien d’icônes sur la dock auriez vous besoin si vous deviez mettre toute la suite Microsoft Office? 5.
Pour iLife? 6 icônes.
Pour iWork? 3 icônes!
L’objéctif de ces applications est donc de minimiser le nombre de clutters sur votre dock.
Chacune d’entre elles pèse moins de 100 kb et ne consomme qu’un 0% de votre processeur.
D’utilisation intuitive, celles-ci affichent la liste entière des application de la suite lorsque vous double cliquez dessus:

Téléchargez:

• Office Dock
• iWork Dock
• iLife Dock

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You can easily install an application on a jailbroken iPhone, but a few number of apps is really worth mentionning.

MxTube is simply destined to directly download and watch YouTube videos on your iPhone.
It combies stability & ease of use.
Even its icon is gorgeous!

To try it, just search “MxTube” on Installer and you’ll get it!
        

Here’s a great web application for the iPhone. This is a Twitter client.
Hahlo 3 just came out of beta, and provides great features in a beautiful, usable user interface.

To try out Hahlo 3 for yourself, just point iPhone’s Safari over to http://hahlo.com. It’s free and easy to use!

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To add a source, go to your installer in your iPhone, then go to “sources”, “edit”, then “Add” and put tap the link of the source you’d like to add.
Have fun downloading!

• 1. AppTapp Official > repository.apptapp.com > installer
• 2. Conceited Software> conceitedsoftware.com/iphone >
• 3. Ste Packaging > psmxy.org/iphone-apps >
• 4. AlohaSoft 1.0.2 > homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/102.xml
• 5. AlohaSoft 1.1.1 > homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/111.xml
• 6. AlohaSoft 1.1.2 > homepage.mac.com/reinholdpenner/112.xml
• 7. Apogee LTD > apogeeltd.com
• 8. aXP > lostsoul.aeroxp.org/iphone/index.xml
• 9. BigBoss > markmon.mine.nu:90/iphone/repo/repo.plist
• 10. CedSoft > prog.cedsoft.free.fr (iSnake/Bounce)
• 11. CopyCoders > homepage.mac.com/hartsteins/copycoders/copycoders.xml (Network Apps)

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This mobile phone application (available in 21 languages) will let you know the impact on your daily choices on the climate change.

mobGAS© will challenge individuals to make small changes to their daily routine in order to achieve significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.
It will be developed for the 27 EU countries, and available in 21 languages.

Download the mobGAS application here.