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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."

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  1. Silly people by chia_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Silly people! Dont' they know Apple is going out of business? They have been for the past decade or so.

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  2. "Tiger"? I thought they renamed it BHR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Butt Head Reseller

  3. Dashboard Wireless Plug-In by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that for warganging? Driving on the open road, searching for unsecured WiFi ports?

    Now that would be sweet!

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    1. Re:Dashboard Wireless Plug-In by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      war what?

      Oh yeah.

      Warriors! Come out and PLAYEEEYAY!

  4. Or perhaps... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...burninating the countryside?

  5. Re:Typical worthless crap by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, seriously. How much Mac software is the equivalent of "faceplates for your cell phone?"

    Yeah I mean how many metadata plug-ins do we need to be able to search the text inside our prototyping, graphics, and organization applications. I mean this must be like the 50th time someone has provided a way for me to instantly search my system for tree diagrams in a proprietary format with particular text in them.

    Oh wait, no it isn't.

  6. Can I put a tiger in my tank? by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny
    I knew a guy in college who tried to take advantage of a tiger. They never did find all the bits.

    "Bloody zoos!" - Rick on The Young Ones

  7. Which? by MoogMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait, is this Mac OSX Tiger or TigerDirect? I'm confused...

  8. I'm not a fucking troll, you idiot mods! by Thud457 · · Score: 1, Funny

    But can it play the new Bruce Springstein "Devils and Dust" album, that is only available as a "DualDisc" travesty, on a powerbook?

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  9. You bastards! by demonbug · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Third parties already taking advantage of Tiger"

    See, this is why I'm in favour of the two-party system; you just can't trust those third parties. Bunch of savages.

    Wait, what are we talking about again?
  10. Re:TigerDirect? by russellh · · Score: 3, Funny

    P.S.- Just ordered the Mini a few minutes ago.

    Cool. Convertible?

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  11. Re:100+ by jocknerd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just got my iBook G3 700mhz in October 2002. I've already bought Panther to put on it. I can't believe Apple wants me to pay for another upgrade. This is outrageous. I'm switching to Windows. At least then I don't have to buy another upgrade for 7 or 8 years.

  12. Microsoft has a huge community base by jocknerd · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spyware application vendors and anti-virus application vendors come to mind.

  13. Re:apple store celebrates tiger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And the time before it at 10:20 PM. I got there early and still didn't get in the door until midnight. And the line behind me was as long as ever. And all I got to show for it was a t-shirt, mousepad, refrigerator magnets and a copy of OS X that will not boot any of my current machines.

  14. I think that explains why iPods are so popular by SuperKendall · · Score: 2, Funny

    People are rushing to buy them before the company goes under!

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  15. Re:100+ by anonicon · · Score: 4, Funny

    "At least then I don't have to buy another upgrade for 7 or 8 years."

    You mispelled "download," "patches," and "days." ;-)

  16. TigerDirect is also taking advantage by noidentity · · Score: 2, Funny

    of Apple's Tiger, and they were doing it a day before release!

  17. Re:A little offtopic, but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apple? Is that you?