With regard to System Upgrades, I am a firm believer that Apple does
not deliberately try to make the new one worse than the previous.
Therefore I am rarely disappointed. Qualified by saying I am a single
user for fun and pleasure, not for income producing.
The difficulty with this attitude is that it takes me some time to
find out the minor upgrades which are embedded and this is even more
so with the OS X series. When using systems OS 9 and before, there
were always new Control Panels and so on so a user had a feel for
what changes were there.
With OS X, not being a programmer of any sort, I must rely on some
sort of intuition that something different has occurred.
But some new applications like Spotlight [which grows on me every
time I use it], Safari 2, better Syncing, Quicktime 7, Dashboard
[which has yet to grow on me], Automator [ditto, but I must try it],
Mail [now with a fixed side panel], etc.; and I haven't covered the
Utilities. The in-built big cursors are great.
Yes, there are a slew of third-party applications but one expects
that with a Mac. That is its lifeblood where anyone capable enough
can write code which will enhance the basic system. NWE is one
example close to home. Pre-OS X, VersionTracker would have 5 to 10
items on its daily list; with OS X initially there were 1 to 5 daily
and now there seem to be dozens, for all sorts of activities.
But I still come back to my initial statement, each upgrade of the
Apple system has always improved my use of a Macintosh even if some
are not immediately realised.
rgds brianF
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On 29 May 2005, at 4:55 pm, Simi Chavel wrote:
Brian,
What in addition to Spotlight makes Tiger worthwhile, IYO? I am
eager to hear since, reactions I've seen since the release have
suggested (a) there are no great new capabilities, just an
incorporation of free- and shareware tools, and (b) the system has
a few holes that need to be plugged.
- Simi
On May 28, 2005, at 4:04 AM, Brian Ferguson wrote:
Jem, I don't know what you use your Mac for, but I can assure you
that Tiger is better than all the previous Mac systems.
Of course there will be some applications which have complications
but many of these are being upgraded.
Comments here also depend on the machine version being used and
the user who like to really customise it; then you are more likely
to have problems.
If for nothing else you need to find something, then Spotlight on
its own is worth the upgrade. The only stuff I could not find was
on files trashed and emptied out long ago.
rgds brianF
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On 27 May 2005, at 6:40 pm, jem cabanes wrote:
Hi,
Well, I don't use Tiger yet, and I'm not particularly encouraged
by the this list...
jem cabanes
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On 27/05/2005, at 10:31, Charles Jolley wrote:
When you open a file directly from an e-mail, Apple Mail saves
the file to a folder called "IncomingWork". Sometimes the
permissions get set on this folder not to allow saving. As a
result, you end up with the problem you described. It appears to
be fixed for me in Tiger...
-Charles
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