definately better.
i installed tiger a few days ago, and so far i love it. it’s $129 to ‘upgrade’ but i’ve never bought an upgrade i enjoyed more.
a few favorites:
- the search. best implementation i’ve ever experienced. fast, powerful – gives me all the information i’m looking for. took a while to index on first install, but i do have 100,000 items on my computer for it to look through and categorize. if i type “paul bellows” it brings up my brother’s contact info, any emails sent to him, any word docs that include his name, and the URL to his website.
- dictionary – fully integrated dictionary based on The New Oxford American Dictionary (great if you speak English). if you ctrl+click on anything with dictionary enabled (Mail, Safari, TextEdit) you can look up a word in the dictionary. if you select a word and hold down ctrl+apple+D you get a contextual dictionary menu popping up. if you keep ctrl+apple pressed you can move your mouse around to other words for a definition.
- widgets – they seem alright at first, i don’t think i’d use any of the prebuilt ones, but custom widgets! that’s where the money is. as soon as ebay creates one to track and monitor your sales, and FedEx creates one to monitor your packages they’ll become a whole lot more productive.
- mail – i read and send a lot of email during my day. right now i’m using outlook 2003 for the peecee at work, and mail at home. the integration and feel of this app far surpasses outlook 2003, and the speed is quite considerably better.
a few bugs:
- i think tiger eats my battery. paul mentioned i said “it makes my battery slower” which i’m not sure i quite understand. but i know my battery management is not as good as it was.
- external displays – whenever i plug in an external display my Bluetooth Mouse Connection Wizard pops up. a quick thing to close, but uh … weird.
- hungry. an upgrade install of tiger ate my friend gregg’s imac. he had to send his data to his lifeboat/ipod until he could get hardware rectified. but i’m hoping that’s not common.
see all 200 new features
Categories: apple / code |
* * * * * *