The whole Tiger printing experience is finally improved. Setting up printers is much easier with the new print browser and everything seems much more cohesive.
Tiger includes a new option called Bluetooth File Sharing in the Bluetooth System Pref pane. Interesting..
The Tiger address book now has a “Look for Duplicate Entries…” command. Very nice touch- although it would be nice to be able to see what these are before the app makes changes. You can see which were modified after the merging by looking at the “Last Import” group.
What’s with the fact that you no longer can use apple-[ to go back in Tiger’s system prefs? Is there another shortcut that I’m missing?
I’ll admit I read this elsewhere and wrote it off as a lame gripe, but Quicktime 7 Pro registration sucks! Here I am playing with my fresh install of Tiger. I download one of the extremely cool hi-res movie trailers from Apple’s website, then bam- no full screen mode. I need to register.
Come on! I own four copies of Final Cut Pro, five copies of Final Cut Express, and all the other Apple goodies and I have to shell out $30 for a registration key. Jeez!
btw- Road Runner is smokin’ today-
In case you’re wondering, I feel the only way to go with a major OS install is to do a clean install.
Sure it takes a bit of time, but if you have as many application, system modifications, and just plains hacks as I do, this is really the only surefire way to have a clean running cat.
I backed up my computer to an extenal firewire drive using Carbon Copy Cloner and went for it.
On that note- Why is it that only Apple’s apps need to be reinstalled to work properly?
Tiger totallly rocks! I’m really enjoying using the OS and plan to document the many subtle and extremely cool changes under the hood.
Stay tuned as I focus my spotlight on the big metal X.
According to this page in Apple’s online Tiger preview, Rendezvous is now officially been renamed Bonjour.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/
Last year, Apple stated that it would rename Rendezvous in response to a suit brough by TIBCO Software in 2003. Mac rumor sites had been split on whether the new name would be Bonjour or OpenTalk.
I’m finally opening this blog as a place to write down the many thoughts and projects that simply need a place to live. Now there will be a home for the troubleshooting sessions, fixes, tricks, and random thoughts that seem to just disappear after I’ve spent so much energy developing them.
Hopefully, this will help others and cut down on google time.
