Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Third Parties Already Taking Advantage of Tiger

Posted by Zonk on from the catch-the-thingie-by-the-tail dept.

tezbobobo writes "Tiger been out hours and already the Apple download page has been updated to take advantage of the update's new features. These cover areas including Spotlight plugins, Dashboard plugins, and Automator plugins. These allow a range of actions from searching within omnigraph documents (spotlight), to resizing photoshop documents (automator), and (my fav) a dashboard wireless locator. The best bit -- a cursory glance indicates about half are freeware."

2 of 371 comments (clear)

  1. Right Now by 0kComputer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    About a hundred guys over at Microsoft are freaking out; figuring out how to patent this stuff for use in longhorn.

    --
    Top 10 Reasons To Procrastinate
    10.
  2. Re:The hype is warranted. by nullreference · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I recently learned of Konfabulator -- a shareware version of Dashboard -- and tried out the Windows version. Very well done.

    I don't know the details about Konfabulator and Apple, but it would be sad if Apple did lift off the idea so blatantly without due credit. I hope at the very least the Konfabulator guys get more attention from this. Maybe the Apple market is gone but the Windows market might grow because of this.