![]() ![]() People would have understood "free stuff!" better than "new computers and operating system", but I couldn't quite make myself say that. "Mac store" rings more bells than "Apple store". More people walk by to ask me what the line is for. I must have looked very approachable standing a step away from the line typing on my treo. "FREE STUFF" a guy in front of me almost yells before I get to tell him that they are releasing their new operating systen today. "Maybe you have a better answer, what's with the line?" he asks me. Guy turns around walks a few steps away and then comes back. they are giving away free stuff!! ipods and you know stuff", they tell him with excited voices. Guy comes up to the line and asks the two girls behind me what the line is for. foolishly I wandered by the apple store at 5.30 to find a long line of people waiting for them to reopen at 6. And that's after just playing around briefly. Tons and tons of little new options and improvements.Dashboard is (as expected) all sorts of fun.The Calculator now has a "programmer mode".The equation Grapher program looks beautiful.System Profiler is giving much more useful information.No more clicking through to all the time. Or at least it doesn't use the proxy settings. The Dictionary application doesn't seem to access the net.Items just jumping up and down randomly (yes, way after it figured out all the sizes) Sorting by size in the finder is really weird sometimes.Maybe they do it to to get some money for the windows version and not give mac users an "unfair advantage"? Having to pay for QuickTime Pro again sucks.They could have saved us all the "Buy Supplies from the Apple Store!" buttons though. It's better integrated into system preferences and the workflow in the printer setup utility has been improved. The printer setup thing seems to work better.As James Duncan Davidson pointed out some weeks ago, that they had to rename Rendezvous to Bonjour is just sad.Bluetooth preference pane is much improved.Did the X11 server always have a full screen mode? Seems very useful.iSync is only for syncing phones and PDAs now. Mac" option is in each application now instead of in iSync. What's the "subscribe to address book" feature about? It wants me to enter someones email address? I can allow people to access my addressbook.In Mail.app too? Finally we'll get easy to use standard encryption for our mail? Crossed fingers. There's some sort of support for S/MIME certificates in Address book.It offered to merge 80-something of my entries though but didn't want to show me which ones. Don't think you can use that date in a smart group though. Another neat address book improvement is that it shows when a card was last updated. I made one with "birthdays within 10 days or in the next 30 days" to see birthdays that just passed and birthdays in the next month. Great for automatically making a group of everyone working in a certain company. The Addressbook got "smart groups" too.I hope it'll work better here that it does in Outlook. Yes, I know Outlook has had that for a billion years. Finally! There's also a "automatically retrieve invitations from Mail.app" option. iCal now has an automatic "Birthday calendar" (enable it in the iCal preferences) getting data from the address book.The Battery menu bar thing has items for selecting the different powersaving modes. ![]() It seems to think it's a "first sync" the first time. Be sure to make it do a sync before you start editing data though.I can't wait to get the other macs upgraded and for more applications to take advantage of it. Not much competition for NetNewsWire (as expected), but I'm sure it'll create more interest. The Safari RSS thing is very lightweight.I have 327480 mails on the powerbook, so it's taking "some time". I was looking forward to trying the new Mail.app, but it's importing/converting all my mails to whatever new format it's storing them in (and indexing them for Spotlight searching I suppose).The net just suddenly drops out and then a little bit after comes back full strength. The AirPort/wireless thing seems flakier than usual.It looks like it's much better integrated with iSync now. According to the Mark/Space Tiger info page then I'm supposed to start iSync once to make syncing with the Palm device work. I have Missing Sync installed to sync the Treo. I had trouble with something iSync related crashing.(The powerbook with the somewhat slow disk is anyway). While that's going on the computer is a bit sluggish. Spotlight takes a while doing the initial indexing.Graham says it's supposed to come in a few weeks or so. The Cisco VPN client isn't supporting Tiger yet, so I didn't upgrade the PowerMac.There's a 4.0.1 version on their site now). Fortunately LaunchBar is Tiger compatible. Great to search your mail and documents, I think. Lots of little things have been improved and shined up. ![]()
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