Dock Exposé launches in 10A394 Snow Leopard Software Update

Cleve Nettles
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June 26, 2009
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Snow Leopard Beta Testers were greeted with a surprise Friday night.  Instead of having to burn a dual layer DVD and install the newest Snow Leopard build manually, Apple delivered the newest release via a 700MB Software Update. 

We got to playing around with Dock Exposé and found it to be pretty much as advertised (below).

  • Activate Dock Exposé by clicking and holding on a running application's Dock icon
  • Click any other running application to switch to that application's Exposé.
  • Preview the window in Exposé by selecting it with the mouse or hitting spacebar.  There is a nice blow up transition between windows.
  • When you go into Exposé mode you can click on the different apps to see the windows of that app

Dock Exposé isn't a going to change the world, but it is certainly a nice addition that can speed up worflows.

As for other stuff, Safari and other GUI elements feel ... snappier™.

Comments (5)

kivers (not verified) | June 26, 2009 - 9:21pm

quicker than the previous build? that would be crazy stupid fast! the previous build was way quicker than leopard.

Mac devie (not verified) | June 29, 2009 - 10:47pm

Yea it boot's faster!
13 secs with SSD

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 30, 2009 - 8:25am

Why would you have to burn a dvd? Can't you just restore the dmg to an external drive and then boot to it?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 30, 2009 - 8:25am

Why would you have to burn a dvd? Can't you just restore the dmg to an external drive and then boot to it?

Markus Zeller (not verified) | July 03, 2009 - 8:21am

You better can boot from your USB stick, if it has the appropriate size of about 8 GB instead of burning a relative expensive dual layer DVD. It is also possible to that with a 8GB or better iPod.