[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

And why

[Big Mac]

Spotlight appears to be the real killer feature of Tiger. I am also definitely looking forward to smart folders in Mail, and I just hope that the new interface won't detract from the benefits of the upgrade too much. I do not know how much productivity I will derive from Dashboard, but hopefully it will prove its usefulness.

[kcmac]

Spotlight. I think it will be faster to type a word of a file, a contact, etc. I need and selecting it than rooting through folders, the addressbook,etc. The smart folder thing is really appealing to me in all apps but especially in Mail.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Actually I thought Spotlight would be a godsend but it has actually made things worse and slower for me.

When I serch for a file 99.99% of the time I am looking for the NAME of the file, such as resume.html.

If I type that into Spotlight I get about 300 hits as it finds ever email and document that contains that word, it take a while to sift though all it.

Dashboard and Mail are the real money shots in Tiger.

[Big Mac]

Money shots, eh? Never heard of the term in a technical context. . . If you're unhappy with the search results from Spotlight, doesn't that mean you need more/better keywords? Your comment about Dashboard is interesting - what have you found most useful about it?

[Applefreak01]

I voted for Dashboard. Just looks cool Spotlight I could care less. I know where I save my files. I'm actually hoping it will be a little bit faster on my iBook too doubt it but we'll see.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Money shots, eh? Never heard of the term in a technical context. . . If you're unhappy with the search results from Spotlight, doesn't that mean you need more/better keywords? Your comment about Dashboard is interesting - what have you found most useful about it?

No because like I said it is not keywords I am looking for, I look for the file name of the file, like most people do.

As for dashboard the wether widget is the nicest looking one and very useful, I also love the address book and converter (use each ever day), now I don't have to launch these apps induvidually.

The yellow pages does not work for Canadian Addess' though.

It also really needs the sherlock movie listings.

[Goldfinger]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Actually I thought Spotlight would be a godsend but it has actually made things worse and slower for me.

When I serch for a file 99.99% of the time I am looking for the NAME of the file, such as resume.html.

If I type that into Spotlight I get about 300 hits as it finds ever email and document that contains that word, it take a while to sift though all it.

Dashboard and Mail are the real money shots in Tiger.

Yep, I'm having the same problem with Spotlight it finds too much crap. It needs some kind of AI. Tonight when I'm back on my Mac I'm going to start filtering out certain directories. Oh and it's not what you would call "instant" at all, but I can live with that. (867Mhz TiBook, 7200rpm HD)

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Ya it isn't instant or even close on a dual g5 with 7200 RPM drive.

[ManOfSteal]

Other:

Stickies

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

The results are turning out exaclty what I thought they would be with:

1) Spotlight
2) Dashboard
3) Mail.

[Big Mac]

Well, those are the biggest features. . . But I really think Apple did a disservice to Safari 2 by implying (through the rename) that RSS was the only substantial improvement.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

Well, those are the biggest features. . . But I really think Apple did a disservice to Safari 2 by implying (through the rename) that RSS was the only substantial improvement.

What should they have called it? "Safari the zillion times faster version with RSS"?

[Sarc]

Automator is quite impressive

[Kerrigan]

Any idea on when we can expect to have Yellow Pages support for other countries?

[Goldfinger]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Any idea on when we can expect to have Yellow Pages support for other countries?

Never ? not from Apple anyway.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

Never ? not from Apple anyway.

It is not entirly Apple, they use a 3rd party for the results. The weather one works fine.

[MrForgetable]

i'm not looking forward to much at all?? if there are speedups in G4 machines then maybe...

[poulh]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Any idea on when we can expect to have Yellow Pages support for other countries?

You can write your own dashboard widget

[Krypton]

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[Chuckit]

I have a feeling that my favorite improved app will be Quartz Debug.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by Krypton

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It doesn't come in the box, you have to buy that in an alleyway or something.

[Kerrigan]

Originally Posted by poulh

You can write your own dashboard widget

I don't know how to.

[mAxximo]

What feature of Tiger are you looking most forward to?

“None of the Above”.

[Krypton]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

It doesn't come in the box, you have to buy that in an alleyway or something.

Oh, I get it; you need narcotics to induce the feeling of teh snappyness™.

[Sarc]

btw.
window resize is at last .. snappy !

[PurpleGiant]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

It also really needs the sherlock movie listings.

Lacks some polish, but this might help you out for now.

[Silky Voice of The Gorn]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Actually I thought Spotlight would be a godsend but it has actually made things worse and slower for me.

When I serch for a file 99.99% of the time I am looking for the NAME of the file, such as resume.html.

If I type that into Spotlight I get about 300 hits as it finds ever email and document that contains that word, it take a while to sift though all it.

Dashboard and Mail are the real money shots in Tiger.

If you want to do a search just on filenames, hit cmnd-f and modify the search parameters as needed.

Oh, and Automator is REALLY the real money shot

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by PurpleGiant

Lacks some polish, but this might help you out for now.

Thanks, does it work for Canada?

I'm scared to download it as it is ugly as hell.

[Busemann]

Originally Posted by Chuckit

I have a feeling that my favorite improved app will be Quartz Debug.

Too bad they dropped the resolution independent ui, and that Q2DX is deactivated when quit

[Superchicken]

CoreImage

[Fusion]

Well, I am looking forward to them all. If I had to pick one, it would certainly be spotlight, just because I am hoping that it changes the way I use my computer. I'd really like to begin to just throw everything in the documents folder instead of using folders for organization.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally Posted by Sarc

Automator is quite impressive

I have 100s of images and html files that need renaming. Automator should do the trick

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by E's Lil Theorem

I have 100s of images and html files that need renaming. Automator should do the trick

That is the first and only thing I did with it and it was really buggy doing it.

[dru]

OTHER because, God help us all, the Finder can't continue to be a piece of crap. Although... I said that before Jaguar. And again before Panther so what do I know? The problems comes down to the fact that the Finder is HORRIBLE at dealing with large numbers of files. Drag/drop a couple thousand files and you'll get the beachball of death if it ever comes back. Try to make use of Icon Preview with more than a trivial number of files and you'll fall asleep waiting--Apple has apparently never heard of CACHEING. Doing a big file copy (~5000 files) hung up on me a few days ago and even killing the Finder didn't do it because it continued to hang up. Then the Window Server crapped out and all I could do was get Force Quit which didn't help since nothing allowed me to cleanly log out or restart. I had to COLD REBOOT. There are *CLEARLY* leaks in the Finder and have been since 10.0.

Spotlight because it might make it faster to find things although I'm highly skeptical at this point. Besides, the system as it is now lets me find basically everything I look for these days.

Automator just because it might be useful. Again, I don't know if I'll end up using it or not.

QuickTime 7 because I hope it's more efficient. Right now, VLC kicks QuickTime's butt on G4 playback. Maybe it won't bomb out when I click "Launch Toast" after Exporting to VCD. I get the MPEG1 file in VCD format just fine but it doesn't successfully "Launch Toast" at all. Also, forget trying to do an Export and every play something else. Threading in QT is pathetic. It's downright intolerable for Apple.

Dashboard might be good because I often do conversions using the calculator and this could make it a bit more streamlined. I'm skeptical of the utility of Dashboard because it seems... odd from a UI point of view. I never use Expose because I ran out of mousebuttons to set F11 to.

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One more poke in the eye, Steve... the CLASSIC Macintosh System Finder didn't have those issues with large numbers of files.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

dru

The finder WAS really slow in 10.3 and before even with 300 files in Column view. It would take about 5-10 seconds to drop files from one place to another on a Dual G5, with Tiger it is instant.

Also thumbnail creation is a million times faster.

[Spliff]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Actually I thought Spotlight would be a godsend but it has actually made things worse and slower for me.

When I serch for a file 99.99% of the time I am looking for the NAME of the file, such as resume.html.

If I type that into Spotlight I get about 300 hits as it finds ever email and document that contains that word, it take a while to sift though all it.

Spotlight is slow and stupid. LaunchBar completely kicks Spotlight's ass. And Spotlight doesn't learn from your searches. If I type "Mail" in Spotlight, 9 times out of 10, I want Mail.app. LaunchBar remembers this and will fetch Mail.app before everything else. Spotlight just searches for every instance of the word "Mail" and never remembers your previous result. Moreover, Spotlight should always return Application results or hits first.

[Spliff]

I'm actually excited about Quicktime 7. Quicktime was in desperate need of an overhaul.

[gururafiki]

Spotlight will make my life easier. Dashboard will make my life more fun. Automator will let me sleep.