5/05/2005 07:55:00 PM|||Joe|||Ok, I waited about a week (floated a check one day before payday, yay) to get Tiger.

I chose the upgrade option rather than the archive or clean install. Don't know if that effects the one gripe I have.

I'm running it on my 20" iMac. 1.25GHz G4, 1 GB RAM.

Overall, I like it. I really like Dashboard. It's pretty handy, and the visual effects are pretty nice. I was worried that my computer would have trouble handling the effects, but it works fine. For those of you who don't know what Dashboard is, you press F12 (or click on the Dashboard icon) and a screen of mini-applications pops up. It's ostensibly like an app called Konfabulator. It's very handy. There's a calculator, a dictionary, a translator and a few others. The translator seems to run pretty slow. The rest are great. The stock ticker will be a constant point of anguish for me. I've got some of the stuff my 401(k) stuff plugged into there. So I'll be able to see the day-to-day fluctuations. Ugh.

Quicktime 7? Rock. Though I am a little ambivalent about having to purchase a new Quicktime Pro key. Haven't done that yet. I don't technically need to — I can render videos with Final Cut (including in the H.264 codec). But it is a convenience. $30 is a bit much though, I think.

Automator looks pretty good. Can't think of any big job to do to test it out. I'll try it at some point.

Safari 2 is nice. Its use of RSS will take some getting used to. I haven't quite figured it out yet.

My gripe is Spotlight. It's just not as fast as I thought it would be. It is fast. Much faster than your standard file-search. But I guess I was expecting instantaneous results. It takes a bit longer than that. I think I was spoiled by Quicksilver.

Haven't messed with XCode 2.

Now, I think I'm gonna look into how to write dashboard widgets. Could a Flapping Crane widget be far off?|||111535100299802270|||Mac OS X 10.4, AKA Tiger