[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Ok so there are very well known features about Tiger that everyone know.

I have also found a bunch of Little things people may not know about it. Please list what you find.

Dashboard:
The little + sign to add new widgets ROLLS when clicked making it look like it is winding up the drawer.

Safari:
Hitting the RSS feed makes the URL roll down into the page (cool effect)

System:
Contextual menu to search something in Google

Spotlight:
Hitting Command Space in any app brings the spotlight search field down.

System Prefs:
Lots of new desktop pictures.

New Paper screensaver

RSS screensaver is the coolest thing ever. You need QE or it doesn't even show in the list.

Font screen smoothing has an Automatic setting ( a good thing as everyone I know with an LCD had it set to the default of CRT)

Recent Servers in the Apple Menu

Startup disk lets you choose a firewire device.

Quicktime:
Changing the players size has it smoothly adjust to the new size not jump. You have to have QE as far as I can tell.

[Jellytussle]

Finder:
Try opening a folder with lots of pictures in, and searching for 'kind:images'. Then click the little blue 'play' triangle in the top right of the results window, and you get a slideshow. Try it on /Library, or, of course, your 'special' pictures folder.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Forgot something.

New system sounds when moving files and emptying the trash.

[PrettyBoyClone]

Select images in finder, select "slideshow" from the contextual menu. ..neat! Try the index sheet.. ..neater! The whole implementation of this is really cool

[SomeToast]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Spotlight:
Hitting Command Space in any app brings the spotlight search field down.

Can this be overridden? Adobe Illustrator uses this to call up the page-mover hand.

Of course, Apple already usurped command-tab, so it's not as if avoiding common keyboard shortcuts of Adobe apps is a priority or anything.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by SomeToast

Can this be overridden? Adobe Illustrator uses this to call up the page-mover hand.

Of course, Apple already usurped command-tab, so it's not as if avoiding common keyboard shortcuts of Adobe apps is a priority or anything.

Yes.

[ManOfSteal]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Startup disk lets you choose a firewire device.

Didn't Panther allow this as well?

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

Didn't Panther allow this as well?

Not in the Startup disk panel as far as I remember.

[Too Artificial]

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

Didn't Panther allow this as well?

Yes, unless I'm misinterpreting what was said.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

What I mean is you can set YOUR COMPUTER to be in target mode withought having to hold down keys at startup.

[kman42]

What are the 'keywords' in Spotlight. For instance, you can type 'kind:images' as mentioned above. Can you designate locations? Others?

thanks

[ashp@untaken.ne]

Hi,

One thing I found out about; try pressing cmd-ctrl-d (I think, it may be shift instead of ctrl) when you've highlighted a word. Far more useful than the dictionary dashboard widget!

For me, that's worth $129 alone, as I tend to use the dictionary a fair amount. I'm not too smart and I stumble across a lot of words I don't know on a regular basis.

[mAxximo]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Forgot something.

New system sounds when moving files and emptying the trash.

I don't hear any sounds when moving files...:?:
I don't like the new empty trash sound though, it sounds like a fried egg...

[kman42]

Originally Posted by ashp@untaken.ne

Hi,

One thing I found out about; try pressing cmd-ctrl-d (I think, it may be shift instead of ctrl) when you've highlighted a word. Far more useful than the dictionary dashboard widget!

For me, that's worth $129 alone, as I tend to use the dictionary a fair amount. I'm not too smart and I stumble across a lot of words I don't know on a regular basis.

cmd-ctr-D is the coolest ever! Hold it over 'PM'

[11011001]

How do you switch keyboard languages in Tiger?

It used to be command-space.

[nycdunz]

damn how did you find out about that ctrl+cmd+d dictionary feature in safari? thats ****in awesome man! damn...

[Kristoff]

WOW...finally a Tiger feature that I think is really slick, and will enhance productivity (besides spotlight).

Thanks for that one, that owns

[CKr]

Help Viewer = A lot faster!

[Jasoco]

This is good news. Hey, do the Dev tools come with that "CoreImage" effects tester application, or some application that allows you to try out all the cool effects available to CI? If so, can someone try it out on a mini? See what works and what doesn't..

[CollinG3G4]

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

Forgot something.

New system sounds when moving files and emptying the trash.

I though that was my hard drive making some god awful noise at first.

[inchhigh]

Originally Posted by 11011001

How do you switch keyboard languages in Tiger?
It used to be command-space.

it seems if you have your system set up to use multiple languages with command-space set up to switch, then spotlight automatically pics control-space as it's activation key. On a clean install with multiple languages activated, I'm not sure which key sequence it defaults to.

Seems you can set spotlight to be just about any key combo, the only one I haven't been able to set was command-escape (which I had been using to activate launchbar, so I wanted to use it for spotlight, but I can't get it to take that particular key combo.. if anyone knows how to please post it!)

Spotlight is nowhere near as fast as launchbar, for just launching apps, but it has the ability to search into things, so I'm going to try and use it and see if the loss of speed bothers me. (this is on a 1ghz TiBook with many many many small code files almost filling up the whole 60 GB drive, so I understand I'm probably taxing spotlight, but hey a lot of us don't have the latest and greatest.)

I can consistently cause the finder to crash if I set certain search criteria in spotlight, so I think it still could use some more refinement. From what i understand 10.4.1 will be released soon after tiger is officially launched.

Most of all I would say tiger it more evolutionary than revolutionary... it seems spotlight and dashboard (and maybe mail 2.0) are the main visible differences, but you get the feeling that under the hood there have been many changes. Network browsing seems much better, it seems the computer can go to sleep with a hung process (and wake up with it still hung) seemed panther would never go to sleep if something hung up.

[inchhigh]

Originally Posted by Jasoco

This is good news. Hey, do the Dev tools come with that "CoreImage" effects tester application, or some application that allows you to try out all the cool effects available to CI? If so, can someone try it out on a mini? See what works and what doesn't..

there is:
/Developer/Applications/Graphics Tools/Core Image Fun House

not to burst your bubble, and I haven't tested it myself, but AFAIK mini has NO core image support. Quartz Extreme, definitely... Core image, no

But seriously, I don't think lack of core image support is going to really hold many people back. that being said, if you are going to be working in motion or shake, then yes it's an issue. Course if you bought a mac mini to run shake or motion you have other problems to deal with. Don't confuse core image with quartz extreme. Obviously going forward there will be more apps that leverage the power of core image, but at this point I don't think there is anything other than motion and shake.

[Stradlater]

You can right-click on a selected word in any application and:

1. Search in the dictionary.
2. Search in Google.
3. Search in Spotlight.

[frankiec]

Originally Posted by Jasoco

This is good news. Hey, do the Dev tools come with that "CoreImage" effects tester application, or some application that allows you to try out all the cool effects available to CI? If so, can someone try it out on a mini? See what works and what doesn't..

*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh*

Everything works.

Do you people STILL not understand what Core Image is?

If a programmable GPU is not present, Core Image doesn't utilize the graphics card for image processing operations. This does NOT mean the task will NOT get done. It just means the CPU handles the task (like pre-10.4).

Additionally, if the GPU doesn't handle it and the CPU has to it will be handled using the AltiVec engine (if possible).

This Core Image fiasco has turned out to be the Mac version of the low IQ PC people's, "Macs can't get on the Internet!"

"Mac mini can't run Tiger!"

"Mac mini can't run Core Image apps!"

Real info, not forum FUD.

For the love of god, someone please make them stop.

[Jasoco]

Then confirm that on a Mac mini, the water ripple will work.

Confirm that, it's all I want to know. I mean geeze. I asked a simple question. A question to which I have not seen an answer yet. And here you come all guns blazing "OMFG YOU IDIOT YOU NOT KNOW IT WORKSSS!!! LOL LOSER!!!11" God. Since when can someone not ask a simple question?

Is there, or is there not a ripple?

[frankiec]

The god damn water ripple was intentionally disabled for non-CI enabled computers. (Thankfully so, because there would probably be a jarring CPU spike.)

You're still denying what Core Image is?

The low-IQers are going to feel stupid when they can run Core Image Fun House and other CI enhanced apps.

Discussion over. Another troll on my idiot/ignore list.

[inchhigh]

Originally Posted by frankiec

Do you people STILL not understand what Core Image is?

If a programmable GPU is not present, Core Image doesn't utilize the graphics card for image processing operations. This does NOT mean the task will NOT get done. It just means the CPU handles the task (like pre-10.4).

Additionally, if the GPU doesn't handle it and the CPU has to it will be handled using the AltiVec engine (if possible).

For the love of god, someone please make them stop.

hmmm perhaps you should rethink some of this tirade. I'm not sure you understand what core image is.

some apps (like motion) require coreimage support to run, you can't run them 'software only'

playing with the Core Image Fun House app it seems that on the machines that core image is not supported, absolutely nothing happens to the image. It's not like it happens slower, it just don't happen.

I still don't think lack of core image support is really going to affect many users who are not in audio/video related industries. And going forward who knows what interesting ways it will be used, but I don't think it will be a big issue to most users at this point.

[frankiec]

Originally Posted by inchhigh

playing with the Core Image Fun House app it seems that on the machines that core image is not supported, absolutely nothing happens to the image. It's not like it happens slower, it just don't happen.

*sigh*

Wrong.

[frankiec]

Originally Posted by inchhigh

some apps (like motion) require coreimage support to run, you can't run them 'software only'

That's intentionally like that because the performance will be so dismal.

[inchhigh]

Originally Posted by frankiec

*sigh*
Wrong.

stop sighin biotch
you know not of what you speak

[frankiec]

Originally Posted by inchhigh

stop sighin biotch
you know not of what you speak

You're a moron!

[ctj]

One great thing for me is that when you're using Fast User Switching, you can now choose to have a generic icon in the menu bar instead of your full name. (You could also choose your short username as well.)

This provides the basic functionality that WinSwitch did (and WinSwitch did an admirable job, to be sure). Screen real estate was at a premium on my PowerBook, and this helps out a ton! Kudos to Apple for doing the little things!

[ctj]

Oh, and as has been discussed before, everything is now "Bonjour" instead of "Rendezvous".

[JLL]

Originally Posted by SomeToast

Can this be overridden? Adobe Illustrator uses this to call up the page-mover hand.

Of course, Apple already usurped command-tab, so it's not as if avoiding common keyboard shortcuts of Adobe apps is a priority or anything.

That would be very hard since Photoshop uses almost every sane combination possible.

Btw. in my Illustrator (and Photoshop), the pagemover hand is called by Space alone. Cmd-Space is Zoom In.

[Jasoco]

Wait..

Did he just call me a troll?

Just because I asked a question?

...

WHAT THE HECK?

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally Posted by frankiec

The god damn water ripple was intentionally disabled for non-CI enabled computers. (Thankfully so, because there would probably be a jarring CPU spike.)

On my Dual G5 there is a 25% CPU spike when I do the water ripple even though my card is core image supported.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally Posted by inchhigh

some apps (like motion) require coreimage support to run, you can't run them 'software only'

That isn't really correct. Motion 1.0 runs just fine on Panther.

[Detrius]

Originally Posted by frankiec

You're a moron!

Wow... useful input here. Grow up. Everyone else has you to thank for this.