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Narate · 14-04-2005, 04:22

Got my e-mail to pre-order it today.

Reckon I will do, its only £89 and it looks pretty slick as well as the nifty new tools.

Wonder if I can set the Automator to handle all my client e-mails for me.

Mr Fred · 14-04-2005, 04:56

not sure what it can do that i cant do now.
no doubt we will purchase it though.

sleepingfish · 14-04-2005, 04:59

Brown · 14-04-2005, 05:26

smackheads fish boy.

sleepingfish · 14-04-2005, 12:28

Thought as much.

gray · 29-04-2005, 10:58

so mine arrived this morning.. havent installed it yet

Mr Fred · 29-04-2005, 11:16

stick it on limewire - theres a good lad

I am going to wait until version 10.4.1 - an article saying loads of updates due.

gray · 29-04-2005, 11:40

i cant wait to ichat with my isight haha
isigh

Brown · 29-04-2005, 11:44

let us know if its worth it.

tomson · 29-04-2005, 13:01

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Originally Posted by Brown

let us know if its worth it.

that reminds me, theres a nice new banksy piece on clerkenwell road - 'because i'm worthless'

sorry for the tangent

Brown · 29-04-2005, 13:03

where abouts? i'm round there quite often.

tomson · 29-04-2005, 13:15

in the empty space next to the motorbike shop just past hatton gardens if you're walking down towards farringdon road.

Mr Fred · 30-04-2005, 05:05

near mr smithsons window?

Brown · 30-04-2005, 07:09

no, just after international magic.

pedge · 30-04-2005, 09:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by Narate

Got my e-mail to pre-order it today.

Reckon I will do, its only £89 and it looks pretty slick as well as the nifty new tools.

Wonder if I can set the Automator to handle all my client e-mails for me.

I got mine yesterday and installed it last night.

First impressions are that my work mac (Dual 1gb processor G4 with 2gb ram) are good - it 'feels' snappier, less sluggish than before. Eyecandy is there, not much of a difference visually but here's what I've found so far (and I've not had much of a chance to mess with it)...

I played it safe and did a complete install onto a second 250gb drive in my mac. After installing it asks if you want to copy various items from another mac/drive/partition. I clicked partition and it copied everything over - keychains, mail messages, apps, preferences etc so there was no need to reinstall any apps (apart from Virex).

Spotlight is really useful - being able to view searchwords in anything from a folder, document, application, email, image etc is really good. Downside - depending on how many file you have on your drive (I had over 125gb worth) the first time it indexes your mac can take a while. Mine took (allegedly) 8 hours(!) so I left it running overnight. This morning, its working a treat.

Automator - not had a chance to try it yet but will do shortly.

Preferences have changed slightly - in particular the print preference pane which acts like a sort of 'chooser' (argh!) but is way better than print centre (which is still there but its mainly contained within the preference pane).

Mail is way better than before - the sliding draw has gone to be replaced with a nice side panel. Smart mailboxes are really useful - its like a saved search so you can have everything from a certain email address automatically found when you click on it.

Safari is pretty much the same but the RSS is pretty good but again I've not had a chance to use it yet.

Printing - it automatically copied over my printers & respective drivers *but* they didn't work. I had to delete them and add them again in the printer preferences panel (not reinstall) and everything was fine.

All the Adobe progs & quark work well, no incompatabilities yet (*yet*) but I'm sure I'll find some next week I'm sure. At least I've got 10.3.9 on the other drive to fall back on just incase.

Dashboard - quite useful (a bit like konfabulator) and has a really snazzy eyecandy way of adding and removing them. If I use any it will be the conversion widget - I'm sure there will be others to follow as they get developed.

Oh yeah, if you have Netbarrier installed its disabled when you use it with Tiger. Also, if you use the Netbarrier screensaver it will quit the screensaver preferences pane. The answer is to remove it from the screensaver folder and then open the screensaver preferences pane.

That's my experience with it so far - hope someone finds it of use!

gray · 02-05-2005, 05:25

1. boots up v fast
2. airport signal is way stronger(?)
3. dashboard is handy and looks good
4. no idea what to use automator for (i know what it does)
5. no need to use spotlight yet, im to organised an know where everything is anyway
6. nice rss screensaver
7. ichat lets you put the current itunes track under your name
8. something different when connecting to idisk
9. mail looks weird - not brushed metal anymore, but its the only thing thats not

thats about all ive noticed

pgo · 02-05-2005, 05:40

Not that I'm a Mac user or anything, but I was reading about Tiger and, while I'm sure it's an improvement to an already great OS, the whole Dashboard thing and Spotlight thing seemed kinda...useless...to me.

Like gray said, I'm already organized, so being able to search for things is pointless - like Gmail - I'd rather define my own folders and directory structure than have to deal with labels and searches.

Plus the Dashboard seems to float somewhere between usefulness and bloatware.

Longhorn is supposed to have a Spotlight type application and I'm sure M$ stole that idea from Apple. I may be a PC user, but I have very little love for M$. If only I could use Adobe products (and other Windows/Mac only apps) and test in IE on Linux (easily, without running an emulator).

I'd switch to the

in a heartbeat.

Mr Fred · 03-05-2005, 04:31

http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/feat...home/index.php

Mr Fred · 03-05-2005, 07:40

http://otierney.net/cagefighter/

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Mr Fred Magazines™ Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Glasgow.. Posts: 11,344	not sure what it can do that i cant do now. no doubt we will purchase it though.

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sleepingfish css is for divs Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Norwich Posts: 4,527	Thought as much.

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gray i still want paying Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: newcastle, uk Posts: 4,728	so mine arrived this morning.. havent installed it yet

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Mr Fred Magazines™ Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Glasgow.. Posts: 11,344	stick it on limewire - theres a good lad I am going to wait until version 10.4.1 - an article saying loads of updates due.

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gray i still want paying Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: newcastle, uk Posts: 4,728	i cant wait to ichat with my isight haha isigh

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Brown volkswagen yellow & gold Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: london, england. Posts: 6,215	let us know if its worth it.

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Brown volkswagen yellow & gold Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: london, england. Posts: 6,215	where abouts? i'm round there quite often.

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tomson Black & Proud Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,265	in the empty space next to the motorbike shop just past hatton gardens if you're walking down towards farringdon road.

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Mr Fred Magazines™ Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Glasgow.. Posts: 11,344	near mr smithsons window?

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Brown volkswagen yellow & gold Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: london, england. Posts: 6,215	no, just after international magic.

02-05-2005, 05:25	#16 (permalink)
gray i still want paying Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: newcastle, uk Posts: 4,728	1. boots up v fast 2. airport signal is way stronger(?) 3. dashboard is handy and looks good 4. no idea what to use automator for (i know what it does) 5. no need to use spotlight yet, im to organised an know where everything is anyway 6. nice rss screensaver 7. ichat lets you put the current itunes track under your name 8. something different when connecting to idisk 9. mail looks weird - not brushed metal anymore, but its the only thing thats not thats about all ive noticed

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pgo i'm done, son Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,262	Not that I'm a Mac user or anything, but I was reading about Tiger and, while I'm sure it's an improvement to an already great OS, the whole Dashboard thing and Spotlight thing seemed kinda...useless...to me. Like gray said, I'm already organized, so being able to search for things is pointless - like Gmail - I'd rather define my own folders and directory structure than have to deal with labels and searches. Plus the Dashboard seems to float somewhere between usefulness and bloatware. Longhorn is supposed to have a Spotlight type application and I'm sure M$ stole that idea from Apple. I may be a PC user, but I have very little love for M$. If only I could use Adobe products (and other Windows/Mac only apps) and test in IE on Linux (easily, without running an emulator). I'd switch to the in a heartbeat.

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Mr Fred Magazines™ Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Glasgow.. Posts: 11,344	http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/feat...home/index.php

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Mr Fred Magazines™ Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Glasgow.. Posts: 11,344	http://otierney.net/cagefighter/

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