Tiger

Well, Tiger is almost here and everybody is excited. The thing I'm looking forward to the most is Spotlight. Search is a beautiful thing. Man, I rocked search back in OS9. Sherlock was seriously kick arse, I never used to open a folder, Apple + F was all I needed.

Then came along OSX and bam, we were back to 1983. Thankfully they have improved it since then and I use search a lot in Panther, however it's not until Tiger that they have taken search seriously. Go Apple + f in Panther now, and you'll see what I mean. Bring on the Spotlight hot key. Hopefully it's not going to kill every computer that isn't a G5.

Dashboard looks kinda cool, look being the key word there.

When Steve holds down shift....
The idea of an application flipping over and the preferences being on the back is pretty cool, hopefully other developers take note of this and it won't take as long to become mainstream as drawers did. The Quartz effects in Dashboard look pretty crazy, but again, I fear for my computer's safety.

Here are some of the 200 odd new features of Tiger that I'm looking forward to the most. Some of which I have been waiting for well over 5 years for. Disapointingly, there is no excuse for why some of these features weren't introduced earlier, but hey, better late then never. Still no sign of "Home on iPod" though, oh well.

Here they are:

Pocket Address Book Printing
Print a handy pocket address book to take with you anywhere.

Dictionary Service
Call up a dictionary definition for any word on-screen with just one click.

Save as HTML
Save TextEdit documents as HTML for use in websites and take advantage of support for strict compliance and style sheet formatting.

World Clock Widget
Check local time anywhere in the world or open multiple World Clock widgets for different time zones.

DVD Bookmarks
Bookmark favorite moments of a DVD for quick access later on.

DVD Video Clips
Designate a section from a DVD — start point and end point — for quick access to favorite moments later.

DVD Video Zoom
Magnify the video image to reduce or eliminate the black letterbox bars that appear on some DVDs while maintaining high video quality.

Birthday Calendar
Always know the birthdays of everyone in your Address Book with this automatic calendar in iCal.

Multi-person Audio Conferencing
Conduct an audio conference with up to 10 people at a time from iChat AV. [Chaos]

RAW Camera Image Support
Open images in the RAW file format used by Canon, Nikon and other models using the Apple Preview application.

PDF Forms
Fill out and print PDF forms from Preview.

QuickTime Fullscreen Controls
Easily access all the controls you need — play, pause, stop, fast-forward and rewind — even in full-screen mode.

Bookmark Search
Quickly search for a bookmark from all bookmark collections. [A real solution hopefully]

Inline PDF Viewing
View PDF documents directly in a Safari browser window — no other application required.

Safari and iPhoto Integration
Easily save a picture from the web to iPhoto with a single click.

Apple Remote Desktop 2.1 Client
Easily manage Mac desktops with the latest version of the Apple Remote Desktop client, now integrated into Mac OS X Tiger. [Is this for real??? Does this mean we don't have spend a whole lot of dosh to look at the downstair's computer's screen?, Too good to be true I'm sure.]

Migration Assistant
Easily migrate from an old Mac to a new system any time using the Migration Assistant.

Target Disk Mode
Make your Mac appear to be a hard drive on another system with just one click by using the Target Disk Mode option in the Startup Disk Preference panel.