[hubert]

i think the best thing about tiger is spotlight. the best thing about the keynote was that sexy girl steve was ichatting with. she was very hot.

[nooon]

If you think spotlight looks promising, you should try Quicksilver

[kcmac]

Spotlight appears to be very awesome. Especially smart folders.

I am just as excited about Automator. I would imagine a great website will be created loaded with ideas and things we can download. Applescript for people like me.

[Superchicken]

I think Automater will be my most used feature of Tiger. If Konfab- I mean Dashboard can try not looking like crap I might find my way to using it. For the most part I stay super organized so I doubt Spotlight will be that useful for me. I imagine perhaps a little but not to much. I'm thinking I will like Smart Folders, and I'm going to enjoy using them in Mail.

I'm quite excited about Image Core and seeing where that takes us. Oh and does anyone else think iLife '05 will be introduced around the same time, with Image Core support in iPhoto, and Video Core support in iMovie?
I imagine I'm surprised we heard nothing on the iLife front this time... no hidden features no nothing.

By the way did the new iChat leave you wondering... does anyone at Apple USE IM? They haven't beefed up IM at all in iChat despite the fact that it REALLY SHOULD BE! Adium is just about my default IM client for everything, not just MSN. By the way the lack of the AOL Buddy guy on Apple's site, do we think that that might possibly be a hidden feature of the next iChat? You know... iChat now with MSN support so you can talk to just about anyone in Canada who uses IM.

[hubert]

thats cool but what did you think about that hot girl on ichat.

i use quicksilver it is an awesome program but spotlight looks much better because it searches for everything under the sun when you type in any word.

but there is a good chance that maybe im not using quicksilver correctly because when i type in a word, for the most part it gives me web bookmarks and the results themselves seem scattered unlike what i saw from the spotlight demo. its organizational structure seems better.

by the way the guy who writes quicksilver is a nice person. i would give him money if i was rich

[kcmac]

Originally posted by hubert:
thats cool but what did you think about that hot girl on ichat.

Most of us will have to wait until we see a stream...

[Millennium]

The libxslt and SQLite support.

Yes, this is backend stuff (though I imagine that Safari/RSS probably leans very heavily on the XSLT, and Mail's smart views on SQLite), but having it included allows for some amazing stuff. It's a shame that up until now, neither of these has been noticed too much by developers, but hopefully this will prove to be the extra advertising that these products need.

Now, if only they give proper Python bindings and bring over Tk support, I'll be in heaven developer-wise. Make no mistake: the frontend stuff is good (except maybe Dashboard), but the backend is much more exciting this time out.

[Stradlater]

Originally posted by nooon:
If you think spotlight looks promising, you should try Quicksilver

or, better yet, the new LaunchBar betas

[natan]

Originally posted by Millennium:
The libxslt and SQLite support.

Yes, this is backend stuff (though I imagine that Safari/RSS probably leans very heavily on the XSLT, and Mail's smart views on SQLite), but having it included allows for some amazing stuff. It's a shame that up until now, neither of these has been noticed too much by developers, but hopefully this will prove to be the extra advertising that these products need.

Now, if only they give proper Python bindings and bring over Tk support, I'll be in heaven developer-wise. Make no mistake: the frontend stuff is good (except maybe Dashboard), but the backend is much more exciting this time out.

SQLite is now bundled with Tiger? Very, very, cool. That'll make it a lot easier for developers, and make their apps slimmer.