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To say we're amazed at just how many devices worked with the built in WWAN support of 10.6 Snow Leopard would be an understatement. Practically everything we threw at it "just plain worked". One thing to note about built-in WWAN support: its not always immediately obvious. The Verizon MiFi and USB760, along with the Sprint U760, 598U, and Compass 597 all appear on desktop upon recognition by the finder, and present the user with software to install. Don't do it! Instead, you need to drag the volume to the trash (or otherwise eject the volume) and then need to wait until the WWAN menubar icon appears, underneath which you will see it say "Initializing...", as shown below:

what you see when 10.6 recognizes your modem

After the initializing process, the finder will present you with a dialog that looks similar to this one:

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard's WWAN Support will do all the work!

One of the gotchas I hit with Snow Leopard was that I couldn't get my EVDO modem to work under Snow Leopard. The Sierra Wireless app wouldn't recognize the device (oops) and I thought I might be SOL for a while. I was pretty motivated to get this working because a) I pay a pretty penny for the service and b) I'm stuck in the contract for a while.

I thought I had it all working this week, but I was wrong. The "wrong" part came from the silly notion that I should use Sierra's app and drivers. I don't know if the 10.6.1 update did the trick or that I finally found some good steps to get it working, but it's working (so I'm not complaining).

Here's the cool thing: Snow Leopard just gets WWAN devices! All I needed to do was uninstall all the Sierra apps and drivers, reboot, plug in the modem, dismount the volume to install the stuff again, and wait. Snow Leopard found the EVDO modem, put the handy WWAN icon on the menu bar and all I had to do was add the device.

Yeah, just worked. Nice.
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/10/software-update-10-6-1-debuts/

This past Friday, Apple released Snow Leopard, a slimmed-down update to Mac OS 10.5 with a focus on performance, stability and improving the core of the operating system.

Today we’re releasing the first Snow Leopard compatible beta of Blogo, which fixes the startup crashes which our users have encountered when trying to use the app after upgrading.

You can download the beta here. Let us know of any problems on this thread at our Get Satisfaction! page. Undo/Redo was the main area of the application which was affected by the changes in Snow Leopard.

Whew! I thought I was going to have to live without this for a while! I should have known that the guys at Brainjuice would come through with an update to Blogo.

Unfortunately the default out-of-the-box action is still set to look everywhere on your Mac. But don't worry, it's easy to change. 1. Make sure Finder is your active app (either click on the Finder icon in the dock, click the desktop or a visible Finder window, or cmd-Tab to switch to the Finder). 2. Choose Preferences in the Finder menu. Or you can just use the Command-comma key combo to invoke Preferences. 3. In Finder Preferences, click on the Advanced tab. 4. Choose your desired search scope from the drop-down menu under the heading "When performing a search." 5. Close the Preferences and enjoy a search or two. That's it. Just one example of the many little changes in Snow Leopard that make life with the OS easier and more efficient. I hope you find what you're looking for!

One of the most annoying things about Leopard was that when I search within a folder the default was actually "This Mac"...not helpful. Now you can force it to be the Current Folder, but it isn't the default setting...