Tiger Introduction
The following outline gives an intoduction to the new features in Tiger. It's somewhat ugly but functional as an outline. Clicking the expose triangles (
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You'll notice that this displays the problems that Safari has with fonts that other browsers (all other browsers) don't have. Oops.
The outline is courtesy of OmniOutliner Professional, with some tweaking of styles.
Outline
| | Look at the Hype from Apple
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| | Spotlight
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 | Searches inside text files, mail, for text inside PDF, iPhoto, Photoshop meta data
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| | Spotlight Comments (see Automator)
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| | Search Box in Open/Save dialogs
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| | Changes to Finder's Find to use Spotlight
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| | Good: can search for a lot of things
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| | Bad: doesn't remember last search conditions
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| | Smart Folders
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| | Small Notes
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| | Makes Tiger seem slow when first installed, because of the indexing
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| | Indexes are sometime incomplete
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| | Boolean searches in spotlight
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| | An alternative?
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| | Using Quicksilver to complement Spotlight
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| | Better as launcher
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| | Better for open with...
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| | Mail
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 | Good
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| | Smart Mailboxes
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| Maybe gotcha: deleting from mailbox does nothing, because the messages aren't really in the smart mailbox (sure seemed to be true, but may just have been an illusion...)
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| | Info (from Action Menu)
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| | Slide show?!?
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| | Bad
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| | Lack of Status bar
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| | Signature changes (w/html mail)
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| If you send non plain-text mail, then your signatures will be a bit messed up (most likely)
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| | Sometimes doesn't register attachments
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| | Doubles disk space taken by local mail, though there are some fixes
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| | New File format
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| | Cannot drag local files between machines any more
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| | Not as universal
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| | Ugly
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| | Ugly New Widgets
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| | Gotchas
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| | Remote IMAP folders now don't use ~
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| | Safari
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| | RSS Feeds
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| | New Bugs
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| | MLB.com doesn't work, for instance
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| | iCal
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| | Groups
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| | New Birthday Calendar
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| | Notification for Invites in Mail (good and bad)
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| | Otherwise Useful Stuff
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| | Spelling within Cocoa applications
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| | Burn Folders
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| | General Cocoa Changes
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| | Non-contiguous text selection (command-drag)
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| | Dictionary usage and spelling
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| | Selecting rectangles (option-drag in cocoa apps only, like textedit)
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| | Graphing Calculator
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| | RPG for regular calculator
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| | Dashboard
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| | Similar to Konfabulator... probably too similar
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| | Widgets are all over the place - use at your own risk
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| | Automator
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| | Examples of making scripts
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| | Adding Spotlight comment fields
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| | Combining pdf files
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| | Little Tricks
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| | .app for droplets
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| | Leaving off files if you want to drop files on it
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| | More Useful Minor Stuff
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| | PDF Forms in Preview
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| | Getting and using certificates
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