Snow Leopard, just like its predecessor Leopard, is a developer’s delight. It ships out of the box with (in no particular order):

ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [universal-darwin10.0]
Python 2.6.1
perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
svn, version 1.6.2 (r37639)
Apache/2.2.11
PHP/5.3.0
Java SE 6 (javac version 1.6.0_15)
SQLite version 3.6.12
gcc 4.2.1

And then you can also install XCode 3.2 or download the iPhone SDK.
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I did a clean install of Snow Leopard, after which I installed Aperture 2.1 from the retail DVD. Now at this stage you cannot launch Aperture because versions lower than 2.1.4 are blocked from running on Snow Leopard. So I downloaded the 2.1.4 Aperture Update and tried installing it. The installer gave me the following [...]

If you’ve used the Dashboard’s Weather Widget on Mac OS 10.5, you’ve probably noticed that the provider for weather data used to be AccuWeather.com. With Snow Leopard this has changed to a combination of Weather.com and Yahoo. AccuWeather used to have a much bigger collection of cities – including many smaller cities in India [...]

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