May 3, 2005

Some Tiger Observations

After using the new version of OS X for a couple of days, I’ve noticed a few minor changes in the way things work.

Safari

  • bold text now looks like crap, especially bold white text on a black background
  • downloading .zip or .sit archive gives you a warning that the archive could contain a virus (is there a way to turn this off?)

Finder

  • emptying the trash plays a crinkled paper sound
  • when an application crashes a dial box gives you the option to “Reopen” the application
  • screen grabs are now saved as PNG files instead of PDf
  • Burn Folders is a great idea for archiving files to CD/DVD

Widgets

  • the new Calculator widget is kind of useless if you have to do multiple calculations—open Dashboard, click on calculator, perform calculation, copy number, go back to appliation, paste number, open Dashboard… (I’ll stick with the old Calculator that is nestled in my Dock)

Best reasons to upgrade—RSS feeds in Safari and Automator.

Best reasons not to upgrade—font antialiasing problems and the lack of really useful new features worth $149.00 CDN.

Posted in OS X Software at 3:42 PM

Comments

Comment # 1

Academic pricing on all Apple software and hardware at the York university and UofT computer stores. Tiger was $89. Student status is assumed, no ID required. Good for all of us ‘students of life’.

Posted by: Ryan on May 3, 2005 11:24 PM

Comment # 2

And Xcode 2.0 is an excellent upgrade.

Posted by: Ryan on May 3, 2005 11:26 PM

Comment # 3

Now you tell me! Oh well. There is always version 10.5 to look forward to.

Posted by: Jay on May 3, 2005 11:28 PM

Comment # 4

Jay, I’ve been using the delete key to go back on all of my browsers, Safari included, for quite some time now. No Tiger necessary. Sorry, dude. :)

Posted by: Shiz on May 3, 2005 11:47 PM

Comment # 5

Hmm. I guess I’m the last one to know! I haven’t been able to find any documentation in the Safari help about it.

I guess it is one of those features like using the spacebar to scroll down or shift-spacebar to scroll up in a browser window.

Okay. Tail between my legs. i’m going back to edit the first bullet point in this entry.

Posted by: Jay on May 3, 2005 11:55 PM

Comment # 6

The new bold text is REALLY annoying. Maybe it’s only WebKit, I’m no sure, but virtually every web site I go to now looks weird. Including mine. Grrr.

Posted by: Brent on May 29, 2005 5:52 PM

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