Das neue Tiger ^^
Ich habe es und es ist super imo, kann es jedem nur empfehlen. zwar gibt es "auf der haube nur wenig neues" aber darunter einige highlights. hier eine aktuelle einschätzung:
Tiger burns bright for Apple fans
By Darren Waters
BBC News reporter
Apple's new version of its Mac OS X operating system, dubbed Tiger, is being touted as the world's "most advanced operating system". But does it deliver on its promise?
According to Apple, Tiger has more than 200 new features but most of them will be invisible to the average person, while a good number are developer-specific. We look at the key features and some of the smaller changes that could have a big impact on how you use your Mac.
SPOTLIGHT
Find files fast with Spotlight
One of the most trumpeted features is a new search system called Spotlight. Designed to give users instant access to documents, files and folders it is a supposed solution to increasingly cluttered hard drives.
Spotlight sits as a permanent icon in the top Apple menu bar and when clicked you merely type in a few letters of whatever it is you are searching for and it fires into action.
It is a big leap in usability for desktop search. Within seconds it finds any photo, mp3, e-mail, PDF, bookmark, folder, file, diary date and pretty much anything which exists on your Mac that matches your search criteria.
Spotlight does not rely simply on file names, it can search within documents and find files simply on the basis of roughly when you last used them.
For people like me who simply dump files in any convenient folder, or in one giant folder, it transforms search from something haphazard to something essential.
Complex or frequent searches can be saved as smart folders to take the pain out of finding your essential files.
Apple fans will be rubbing their hands in glee, especially because desktop search is one of the touted features of Microsoft's next operating system, which is not due out till 2006.
DASHBOARD
Widgets run in the background
Dashboard gives users access to potentially hundreds of mini applications, called widgets, that run constantly in the background of your Mac and can be launched at the click of a button.
Widgets are designed to take the hassle out of small, frequent tasks, such as checking the latest weather forecasts, train timetables, directory enquiries etc.
The emphasis is on streamlining the way you want to access your information. So rather than using scores of different websites to bookmark and open, you can use widgets.
At the moment most of the widgets are very US-centric - US traffic information only, for example - but Apple is keen for people to develop their own widgets so it will not take long for a raft of new mini-applications to be launched.
Widgets are still embryonic but they could prove to be a killer application for Mac OS X as people customise their internet experience, not through browsers, but through these mini programs.
SAFARI RSS
RSS - or Really Simple Syndication - has taken off as the easiest way to keep track of what's new on your favourite websites.
There are plenty of third party programs that can look after all your RSS feeds and browsers such as Firefox and Opera have integrated RSS readers.
Apple has now updated its Safari browser so that RSS feeds can be read within the browser window.
It is not revolutionary but will probably help increase the numbers of people who are turning to RSS to improve their experience online.
AUTOMATOR
If you find yourself doing repetitive tasks such as renaming digital photos, or changing the details of your MP3 files then Automator could make your life a lot easier.
Hundreds of pre-configured actions have been created so that "workflows" of repetitive tasks can be handled at the click of a button.
Tagging photos, re-sizing images, sending batch e-mails - Automator works for all of these tasks.
Some people have already founded novel applications for it, such as taking a daily astronomy picture from a website and automatically using it as the desktop image of the day.
Automator is one of those applications that only make sense when you have used it but once tried it quickly changes the way you manage tasks.
CONCLUSION
Tiger adds several crucial new features to Mac OS X that every Mac user will benefit from but at £89 for the upgrade it is questionable whether the OS is an essential purchase.
Mac OS X remains the most stable and reliable operating system on the market and the new features keep it well ahead of rival Windows XP.
PC users switching to a Mac that comes pre-installed with Tiger will be getting the best deal of all, however.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4528785.stm