Tiger, finally
After two failed delivery attempts last week and one this morning, i finally managed to have tiger successfully delivered this afternoon after a bunch of phone calls. From what i can tell even the austrian postal service seems more reliable than tnt.
So far it feels more like an incremental update than something genuinely revolutionary, but that’s perhaps because the “big” new features like spotlight, dashboard and automator haven’t made it into my daily workflow yet. Unsurprisingly it’s the little things that i find most pleasant so far:
- Caps lock can be deactivated! I bet there’s nobody out there who actually finds caps lock useful, but millions stumbling over it regularly. Just go to “system preferences” ->”mouse & keyboard” ->”modifier keys” ->”caps lock key: no action” to deactivate.
- The image slideshow finally delivers one of very few features i really missed after switching from windows to mac os x.
- I don’t really care for rss support in safari, but it’s nice that you can specify an alternative default feed reader. Proper feed subscription from within the browser at long last.
- The birthday calendar in ical is really nice, pulling in birthday information from addressbook. Except that with this feature missing in the past i never bothered to enter birth-dates in addressbook and threw them in a regular old ical calendar. Well, my address book needs lots of care-taking soonish anyway.
- Dictionary lookup everywhere is every bit as nice as expected.
- Smart folders in mail appear as useful as anticipated and i’m sure i haven’t grasped a fraction of their versatility yet.
- Preview appears a lot more polished. The two new features i appreciate most so far are jpeg2000 support (the lack thereof forced me to install the abysmal adobe reader twice in the past) and the capability to display two pages alongside each other – not exactly revolutionary, nice nonetheless.
Of course it’s not all sunshine: spotlight is a tad slow on my machine, mail is as ugly as it looks on screenshots and dashboard just doesn’t quite feel right – not quite up to quality standards one has come to expect from apple. Nonetheless so far i’m quite happy with the upgrade. More as it comes to mind.
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