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Save yourself some grief and reinstall stuffit expander after your tiger install.  It will be either broken or missing when you’re done with installation.

The new Dictionary functionality in Tiger is way cool.  Try holding control-apple-d and moving your mouse cursor over the next in this page.  Whoah!

Not sure how useful this is, but it is fast and impressive.

Loving the fact that you can change the energy saver mode setting from the Battery Menulet in Tiger.  Great for saving power or getting that extra oomph for Doom3.

At long last, Apple has built Addressbook Sharing into Tiger.  I’m curious to explore how much control you have over the shared data.

Going to fullscreen mode in QuickTime 7 triggers a really cool effect where the player scales up to fullscreen.  Neato- glad I paid the $30

Tiger’s Spotlight Indexes are stored here:

/.Spotlight-V100

To reindex:

sudo mdutil -E /

Spotlight is a nice search tool, but I’m finding that the speed can’t touch LaunchBar.  Sure, its nice to be able to search inside files and the like, but I’m more about opening files and applications without resorting to half a dozen clicks. 

I’m really curious to see how much faster Spotlight is on my dual G5 2.0.  My only experience so far is on my 1.5Ghz PowerBook.

After setting up Tiger’s .Mac sync and playing for a while, I noticed that the iSync application doesn’t really come into play.  All sync seems to happen in system prefs. 

A quick spotlight search reveals that the application still exists, but is really only used to sync devices now.  Looks like it actually includes a log now- nice.

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..