getting used to tiger
The migration to OS X Tiger has been completed here at forenoon filings and all of my settings and files have been migrated with no problems. The only package that has doesn’t work is Desktop Manager, but checking the site today – the site author has already posted a Tiger compatible update.
After using this new OS for a few days, it has given me enough time to get to appreciate some if its lesser trumpeted features. There are 101 other places to read about Spotlight or Dashboard so I won’t waste space about those here. But for the two less talked about features of Tiger I liked are:
Stealth Mode: A new option in the firewall configuration menu can enable Stealth Mode. Sounds very FBI, but in essence this makes the Mac invisible to port scanners probes.
Integrated dictionary lookup: Hover your mouse over a word and press CTRL+Option+D to do a dictionary lookup on the word. A nice touch, but where’s the English English dictionary??
On the application front, most improved for me seems to be Safari. After performing a number of tests and comparing it with other browsers, I think its quite safe to say that this has benefited from a major speed boost. Pages are loaded with much less delay, and the RSS integration has been seamlessly added to the browser.
In Panther, my Mac screensaver of choice was always Flurry, but my pick of the Tiger bunch has to be the RSS visualizer. This takes an XML feed, renders and animates each entry into 3D text. Pressing a hot key directs you to the full page in Safari. The forenoon filings feed is currently set on the PowerBook here!
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