Tiger… Monday?
Okay, so the title for this entry would have been much cooler if Tiger were arriving tomorrow. Tiger Tuesday! I could have had fame and fortune. Instead, I’ll have Tiger one day earlier and be a nobody.
Anyway, posting won’t be on the agenda tonight. I hope to cover one Tiger feature a day. The order I cover those features is still up in there air though. Any of you out there interested in seeing my take on a particular feature first, please leave a comment. I plan on taking a lot of screenshots because no one can get enough.
My informal list of features to cover is:
- Dashboard
- Spotlight
- Safari RSS (I’ll probably be sticking with NetNewsWire, but I’ll give Safari a whirl)
- Automator
- .Mac Sync
- Core API stuff if I can find apps that show them off
I think of particular note on Apple’s Mac OS X page is the sidebar region of the page. It has a running listing of new plugins for Tiger’s new technologies. This is further reinforcement that Apple wanted to aim this release at developers heavily. While some users may see little value at first, six months down the road, we won’t know how we lived without it.
Ohh, Spotlight for sure :D.. Though I was kinda hoping for a full writeup and review
So far…like the beautiful, intelligent, intuitive woman whose flaws haven’t come to the surface, but when and if they do….are accceptable and part of who she is. And we’ll fix her. Cliche #237.
Widgets are like black thigh highs with the seam in the back…
Elegance….a little flash, and a whole lot of engineering.
the merlot perspective….
When my new broadband connection went down temporarily, a Safari page would not load, and then an EMBEDDED link in Safari asked to launch a Core Services application,”Network Diagnostics”, an app not found in the applications or sub-utilities folder. It wanted to diagnose the reason why I lost my ethernet connection, and in the menus provided real time status of various network settings, by green, amber or red button icon status. Wayyyyy cool and ingenious. Saved me work, time and coffee. Beautiful. Apple reigns.
Thanks for the comments on Tiger Andy. From what I’ve seen so far, Apple has included a lot of diagnostic programs with Tiger (that actually work well). Very nice.