When there had been rumors of Chinese handwriting recognition for the glass trackpad posted on MacRumors, it seemed hard to believe. There are over 47,000 characters in the Chinese language, how is it that Apple would have enough time to add handwriting recognition for them? First, the average Chinese person knows around 25,000 of these characters, so that cuts 20,000 extra characters off the chart for Apple. So to answer the question, I honestly don’t know how Apple had the time to do this, all I know is they are Apple, and they work their butts off. Regardless if Steve Jobs is behind them with a whip.

Anyways, the rumor that Chinese handwriting is coming to Mac OS X Snow Leopard via the multi touch trackpad and to the iPhone has been proved! How? Video people, video.

Comments on the video include “我爱的” followed by “Mac OS X”, translated to “I love Mac OS X”. One comment read “哈，我還記得數年前Windows ME的手寫輸入，現在終於在Mac OS X上出現” which translates to “Ha, I remember a few years ago, the handwriting input Windows ME, and now finally appear on Mac OS X”.

Since handwriting recognition videos have been leaked out, you’d think that just still frames of the many new features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard would have been leaked too, right?

Right! In fact, there is a 44 photo gallery on Flickr that showcases them, you can find that gallery here: here. Many of the photos are extremely relevant. One showing the Screen Recording feature built right into Quicktime X. It also shows that Quicktime X has a new glossy black skin to it, which is rumored to be a mockup of the new “Marble” UI. The author of the Flickr screenshot gallery says that Snow Leopard will be released in October and is to have the same theme as Quicktime X “Lots of glossy blacks and transparency.” Another photo shows more advanced features for importing movies from Quicktime, you can select 3 different formats, iPod, Apple TV, and Mac (Computer), so say bye bye to Handbrake! The author of the gallery also goes on to say in the gallery description that “Anything I didn’t snap a shot of was because it didn’t seem like anything had changed.”

So! Great news for us rumor hungry Mac users!