News about Snow Leopard has been thin, with focused on the under-the-hood features: 64-bit technology, , and the multicore-optimized Grand Central technology. That's enough to make developers and tech fetishists swoon, but what about you, the average user? What do you get out of Apple's latest and greatest operating system?

If you're looking for a sneak peek, you'll want to check out by user LeopardOctober (which we hope isn't a prediction of the OS's release date) . They purportedly show off a number of tweaks expected in the forthcoming release, including hierarchical navigation in Stacks, a new interface for QuickTime Player, text substitutions (which the huge nerd in me thinks looks pretty cool), adjustable icon views built into Finder windows, and more.

We don't know how long the videos will last before the elite, impeccable monochromatically-garbed Apple SWAT team secures the leaked materials, so if you want to get a glimpse, you'd better move fast.