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I haven’t found Tiger’s Network Diagnostics application too useful yet. 

Very thoughtful of Apple to have added such a feature, but woah!  A “Server connections interrupted” dialog? 

The OS is actually asking me what I want to do instead of hanging indefinitely.

What’s going on here?  We’ve had ten major systems and we’ve never seen this before. 

It’s almost as cool as killing the AppleTalk stack under Macsbug in the classic MacOS.. but, I suppose I’m losing people here..

Mac-kind are used to the process of losing network connections and having the computer hanging.  If you we’re lucky, you might get a dialog- but this.. wow.

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.

Tiger’s Spotlight Indexes are stored here:

/.Spotlight-V100

To reindex:

sudo mdutil -E /

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.

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?