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Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AppleInsider has been publishing some very detailed articles on Apple's new Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' operating system, which include numerous screenshots of the system. So far the publication has discussed overall installation and Spotlight search technology, Safari with RSS, a new Mail revision with Smart Mailbox technology, and a websearch enabled Mac OS X Help application."

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  1. Apple Link by mattyohe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is apple's own "Preview". It contains tons of screenshots and a webcast from WWDC.

    http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/

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  2. Smart Folder == Opera M2 Mail Client by RinkRat · · Score: 5, Informative
    If anyone is interested in checking out 'smart folders' ahead of time, I encourage you to try the mail client included with Opera.

    It works under the 'everything is a database' premise for email, with 'smart filters', multiple views, multiple email integration, everything controlled via CSS and much, much more.

    It's free as in beer, too.

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  3. Some common answers to Tiger questions by hkb · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is Tiger usable as a daily OS, currently?

    No, Safari 2.0 currently does not work with HTTPS sites. Many common apps, including FireFox crash upon execution. Additionally, there seem to be some pretty serious filesystem bugs which can trash your entire hard disk (not just your Tiger partition).

    Do I need a DVD drive? My pirated copy of the Tiger DVD crashes upon boot up.

    No, you don't need a DVD drive. Visit the following URL for good installation steps:

    Install steps

    He also has a Tiger FAQ here:

    Tiger FAQ

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  4. Re:Smart Folders == Labels? by System.out.println() · · Score: 5, Informative

    Smart folder and labels aren't quite the same, particularly in that Smart Folders are automatic, and labels aren't. This has both upsides and downsides, but they *aren't* the same thing.

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  5. This is why it is called a DEVELOPERS release... by feloneous+cat · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is for us DEVELOPERS. So we can DEVELOP. Sorta' like the development systems I work on here - blue wires, etc. yet it allows me to DEVELOP.

    Oh, BTW, did I mention it was a DEVELOPERS release?

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  6. Re:Search, Indexing by Chucker23N · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) Tiger includes a new indexing daemon, "mds", for this purpose.

    2) The daemon only becomes active when it notices that files have changed. The performance loss is minimal.

    3) Applications obviously need to make use of the provided APIs. That's what they're for.

  7. Re:Been running it for about a week by danigiri · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember some of the most exciting changes are under da hood.