The discovery was made with a new database entry for the “launchd” framework, which is what powers booting of Mac OS X references. This new entry supposedly has an error message “11A47″, the numbering scheme for Mac OS X. Snow Leopard’s release was referenced with 10A432, Leopard was 9A571. 11A47 would have to mean an upgrade.

Based on this string of numbers, MacRumors has assumed Apple has been building the new system for months now.

“It’s still very early days, though, and probably even a long way off from a release to the developer community. We saw a two-year span between 10.4 and 10.5, but only a one year gap between the release of 10.5 and 10.6, because 10.6 represented mainly performance upgrades and refinements. Chances are, 10.7 is at least another year and a half off.”

Of course, details as to the features of the 10.7 are not yet very clear at this point. But it’s is sure that major changes are in the works.

Is there anything you would like for the 10.7? Something you aren’t happy with the 10.6?

Chime in the comments.

The thing is, doing this used to be so easy with the Leopard and I had done mine with the help from the PCWIZ Group of Magnifique. But when the new kitty arrived, the modifications had to be removed as Magnifique can totally crash with the Snow Leopard. Suffice to say, the application is not compatible with it. And so, there was no choice but to set back to default.

For awhile, I have been trying to find a way to customize the SL, and discovered that there actually is a way to do this by porting and tweaking certain files: Download the file 60+MB size with all the instructions needed to do it. Once you have it, it’s as simple as drag & drop . This file will guide you through customizing your menu bar, like I did mine:

Of course, before you do any thing on your computer it is highly recommended that you back up your files. Please don’t forget to read iPARC’s disclaimer.

Here’s hoping the PCWIZ Group continues the devolopement of Magnifique to adapt to the SL, since it’s really a cool application.

Get it here.

The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:

• an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
• a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
• Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
• a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user
• issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers
• the reliability of menu extras
• an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture
• an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server
• Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing
• a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book
• an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet
• Safari plug-in reliability
• general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk
• an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website.

As of now, all bugs are fixed, Safari crashing is fixed, no more memory spikes and Adobe programs seem to be stable now. But I suggest before updating to 10.6.2, run disc utility and do repair disk permission.

But I still would not recommend this to people who make use of Photoshop a lot, even if there’s a 10.6.1 update released. Adobe Programs are still unstable in Snow Leopard. So, if you use Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. it’s still not advisable as random browser crashes due to adobe flash and memory spike still occur. When I’m teaching, I use Leopard, to avoid all of this. When I’m not teaching, I use Snow Leopard. I’m using dual os for now.

Speed is still Snow Leopards premiere feature. 10.6.2 update is in the horizon and it will be around 500MB, a major update.

You may be asking why I’m still using this… it’s because I’m challenging myself to try and fix the bugs to the best that I can.