Happy Friday: 48 Snow Leopard screen shots

An AppleInsider reader located an annotated Flickr album of four dozen Snow Leopard screenshots he published a bit earlier in the week. Some of his observations:

• Initial setup now warns you if you don't choose a password hint.
• Time Machine menu bar icon is now grayed-out if Time Machine is not configured.
• Clean Up icons command in the Finder now "slides" icons into place instead of them just moving instantly. It's a neat visual effect.
• There is no QuickTime preference pane, and no preferences within the application itself. I theorize that Apple is going to do away with QuickTime Pro entirely.
• Quick Look now works from Open and Save dialogs.

The Flickr user inewton1974 expects to see Snow Leopard released by October with a brand-new interface (which many are calling "Marble") that is similar to the new QuickTime X interface with "glossy blacks, probably a lot of transparency as well."

You might want to check out the screenies before Apple legal gets ahold of them.