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Detailed Review of Mac OS X Tiger's New Features

Posted by timothy on from the everyone-has-an-opinion dept.

sammykrupa writes "I have just posted my detailed review of Mac OS X Tiger's new features. The review covers Dashboard, Spotlight, Grapher (Mac OS X's new graphing calculator), QuickTime Player 7, Automator, Safari RSS (2), that cool RSS visualizer, and all that eye candy (iCandy)."

7 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. Not very in depth.. by aikon29 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Maybe it's just me, but the article didn't seem to b e too in depth. If you're looking for any real information, look no further than the Ars review.

  2. Are you sure about Quicktime?? by dFaust · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the article: "QuickTime Player 7 is in Tiger and basically it just adds support for H.264."

    The boys at Ars Technica seem to think differently. See what's really changed with Quicktime.

  3. Re:If by detailed... by revscat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Man. I really wish we could get critical reviews.

    Try this one from ars technica, if you haven't already. It's fairly detailed, and not as amateurish, nor is it worshipful.

    Meaty goodness.

  4. Re:I was hoping for a better review. by adam+mcmaster · · Score: 3, Informative

    HTML files are indexed by spotlight, I'm not sure where you could have heard otherwise (just searching for "html" finds several thousand HTML files on my iBook).

  5. Re:If by detailed... by mikedaisey · · Score: 4, Informative


    There's no review you need for a new OS X release except for John Siracusa's work--I don't know how this joke of a review got recommended on the front page instead. There should have just been another article on Siracusa's review, even if it was a dupe--it's that good.

  6. Re:If by detailed... by aftk2 · · Score: 5, Informative
    In addition to the Ars review (already posted in this thread and elsewhere), I would recommend the feature list at Daring Fireball. They're collaborating a list of the small details that have been changed, improved or screwed up.

    It's not all completely positive, either. This is my favorite:
    If you turn on the Finder's "Show all file extensions" preference, this now includes the ".app" extension on application bundles. [...] can't stand seeing these insipid ".app" extensions everywhere, but I don't want to turn off the "Show all file extensions" preferences because I do want to see the rest of them. What I want is the old behavior, "Show all file extensions, except for the insipid '.app' ones that completely booger up the names of every single application".
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    concrete5: a cms made for marketing, but strong enough for geeks.
  7. Grapher was Curvus Pro before by Herve5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was indeed a multiple-curve grapher before Grapher: its name was Curvus Pro (last version 1.3.2); its developper sold it to Apple by end 2004, ...to become Grapher.

    I think I mentioned this here at the time, but presumably as a rank-epsilon anonymous coward ;-)

    Curvus was already excellent at the time (I am a registered user), and it seems Apple has added some honest improvements, at least a couple of extra buttons that are really useful in the GUI and other features that I didn't try in detail yet (for instance, Curvus handled copying -to export- in a variety of formats, of which vectorial pdf, but this had the effect of turning it uncompatible with old apple SW like Appleworks, maybe Grapher solves this)

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    Herve S.