Tiger's 200 New Features

An anonymous reader writes "If this hasn't already been posted, Apple set up a page listing, by software section, all of the new features for OS X.4, or Tiger. Given that every upgrade touts over a hundred features, it is interesting to see all of the enhancements to this upgrade to see what adopters get out of the box. There are a lot which are tweaks, some new non-Spotlight oriented features and a few that are interesting, mostly security related features. 2 words: stealth mode. "

Comments

Coincidence?

[empty drum]

Every time Apple improves upon OSX, Microsoft delays the release
of Longhorn another 6 months.

Coincidence?

I think not!

:)

Re:Coincidence?

[gstoddart]

Every time Apple improves upon OSX, Microsoft delays the release
of Longhorn another 6 months.

Don't forget removing 5 more features. :-P

WoW....

[Anonymous Coward]

If it's a tiger, shouldn't it have Prowl mode?

Cats rock!

You guys are all crazy

[Tibor the Hun]

I was just sitting at my freelance gig, reading some online encyclopedia (win supersite, I believe) and the scientist there said that there are only 2 features: spotlight and something else. He stated that all other ones are pretty much nothing.

He also said, and I'll have to agree with him on this one, that SP 2 is a much better update than Tiger, and it's FREE!

I don't even know what you MAC people are cheering about, you're not even getting a firewall OR pop-up blocker, not to mention malicious software detector with you're upgrade your paying $$ 4! LOL!

Re:Wrong intro

[NorthDude]

First of all, it was not really a correction of its spelling. More of a rework of its structure. My previous post, you see, was a simple joke about slashdot posting so many dupes. I know, I know, those jokes are getting old these days but I just got out of bed, am on a hangover, have not yet drank any coffee, and found it quite funny anyway.


So now, In an attempt to calm down the moderators, I'll post another joke (ripped from a newsgroup):

Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates are gathered one night, when an angel miraculously appears. The angel grants them each one question.

Linus goes first, asking, "Tell me how long it will be before Linux is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." The angel looks into the future, and then answers, "It will be 10 years before Linux is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." Linus chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."

Then Jobs steps forward and asks, "Tell me how long it will be before the MacOS is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." The angel looks into the future, and then answers, "It will be 20 years before Mac OS is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." Jobs chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."

After a while, the two turn to Gates, who is shuffling around and staring at the ground mumbling. "Well, Bill, aren't you going to pose your question?" they ask him. "Oh, all right," he says with annoyance, "How long will it be before Windows is completely secure and the last bug is squashed?" The angel looks into the future, then looks further, then ... the angel chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."

Re:Stealth Mode already ported to Linux!Thanks App

[jmelloy]

You're right, that didn't need a GUI at all.

Stupid Macs

[Wylfing]

While Apple fiddles around with ridiculous improvements like these, Microsoft is hard at work breaking new ground in computing. I hear they're going to make it so icons act like previews of the document! You can keep your toy Macs, I'll wait for a real operating system, thank you.

Re:Password Helper

[rastakid]

I think a lot of network admins will breath a sigh of partial relief when they see the Password Helper. There will always be the "[kids_name]123" password people, but there are a decent number of users who want something secure but easy to remember, and to know roughly how secure a particular password is.

No, you don't understand. This tool asks you the name of your child and then adds a number from a certain pool to it. The pool contains numbers like '111','321' and '123'.

Re:Spotlight

[pla]

With Quicksilver, one can spare oneself a lot of poking about and futzing with the mouse

With Bash, one can spare oneself ALL use of the mouse.

Re:Will we see...

[Acts of Attrition]

Will we see an article like: Longhorn's 20,000 New Features!*

*new since Windows 3.1!
Also includes ground-breaking new usability features, a couple of which weren't borrowed from Mac OS X Tiger (we got them from KDE and Gnome)! New security failure features as well!!

Re:Typical

[justin12345]

This won't change anything! There is still no software available for Macs! They still can't run:

1) Netsky-P
2) Zafi-B
3) Sasser
4) Netsky-B
5) Netsky-D
6) Netsky-Z
7) MyDoom-A
8) Sober-I
9) Netsky-C
10) Bagle-AA

What good are they?