THE article/review of MacOS X (Tiger) • Non-Gaming • Apple, Mac, and iPod • Eurogamer.net

TennesseeStiff 29 Apr 2005 12:56:47 372 posts
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This is the only review of MacOSX Tiger you need to read. Required reading for all Mac owners and anyone curious about it. It's HUGE and occasionally woffly but very informative and should be easy to understand.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Reviewed on Ars

kincaide 29 Apr 2005 13:10:15 5,067 posts
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What a load of Ars

(sorry, couldn't resist)

ssuellid 29 Apr 2005 13:16:29 19,142 posts
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Huge is an understatement.

TennesseeStiff 29 Apr 2005 13:18:33 372 posts
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ssuellid wrote:
Huge is an understatement.

LOL Just to be clear ... it's a 106 page PDF if you were to download it.

ssuellid 29 Apr 2005 13:21:13 19,142 posts
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21 pages was enough.

Good to see the command line stuff is not following the unix tradition of giving commands daft names.

reflux 29 Apr 2005 14:34:03 1,804 posts
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ecosse_011172 wrote:
Apple abandoned its existing, 16-year-old code base for something entirely new.

That's one way to describe NeXT Step/Unix... "new"

ssuellid 29 Apr 2005 15:26:48 19,142 posts
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otto wrote:
My copy was just delivered. *yay*

Box is not up to the hardware packaging standard is it?

ssuellid 29 Apr 2005 15:32:56 19,142 posts
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otto wrote:
Dunno, haven't seen it yet, it's at home. But I'm sure you're right.

Got one sat next to me.

The its 'Service Pack 2' and 'you remember the active desktop from win95' comment did not go down too well

I like the 'Assembled in Ireland' on the box tho.

Deleted user 29 April 2005 16:41:38

ssuellid wrote:
I like the 'Assembled in Ireland' on the box tho.

LOL How do you assemble software?

deem 29 Apr 2005 18:53:35 31,667 posts
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sam_spade 29 Apr 2005 19:17:58 15,745 posts
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Doesn't that make it more obvious. Now there's a company willing to sell you out to your wife/SO/kids.

eviltobz 29 Apr 2005 23:25:08 2,511 posts
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well, that article made me really really happy.

yup tiger has some nice features added, but we already knew that, so that aint it.

yup tiger has some significant under the hood enhancements that improve the user experience and will enable developers to do more more easily for future appications, but again this is nothing new.

what is new, at least to me, was when he was justifiably bitching about the finder being shite he linkaged to this. which having just installed it and had about 20 seconds of flicking around had me feeling the need to ome on here and sing it's praises. a few more seconds and i'm as happy as a pig no longer in shit

the 2 key things that i like from literally a few seconds are that folders get separated out from files in the ordering of a folder's contents which has had me hating finder with a passion. and it has a favourites thingy for network mapped drives. i don't know it it will automount them with any further tweakage, but no longer do you have to click network. wait. wait. click the workgroup. wait. wait. wait some more. hopefully, at some point, be able to click the machine you want. wait. finally select the share that you want. dunno if it's like this with a mac network setup up, but going to my windows fileserver has been a constant irritation everytime i boot/wake the machine. especially those times that finder decides that it has looked at the network once since it started so it won't look again to find the machine that you've since booted up and are trying to access. huzzah.

how well it'll work in the long run is yet to be seen, and the appearance is a little odd, but i'm looking forward to giving it a go and hopefully getting to ditch finder \o/

TennesseeStiff 29 Apr 2005 23:55:32 372 posts
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I take it you are talking about Pathfinder ..... I still haven't tried it but I really want to ..... what annoys me about it is that it is so big .... it isn't just a file browser but has its own text editor terminal .... I don't know quite what to think of it ....

I don't really hate finder ..... the Tiger one is fixes my own biggest problem which was files not turning up for half an hour. The second biggest problem is how it mixes up files and folders ..... like eviltobz said. The third one is how I can't do cut and paste ........

BTW ...... this is killing me ..... there has to be a script or some small program that lets me copy/paste in Finder.

Stopped at the Bull Ring store at around 6 to see if I could pick up Tiger. I foolishly thought that I'd have to stand in a queue for a little while ......... there were f**king thousands of people there! It was like a carnival!

I left it at that since I had to be somewhere .... I'll see if I can get it tomorow.

PS, I meant cut/paste

Edited by TennesseeStiff at 01:51:50 30-04-2005

phAge 30 Apr 2005 00:26:46 25,487 posts
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So, er, what will the next OS X upgrade be called?

The only big cat that can kick a tigers ass is a liger, and frankly "OS X - Liger" doesn�t sound very cool or Apple-like...

BartonFink 30 Apr 2005 09:58:29 35,268 posts
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So how many upgrades have there been for OSX at this stage?

Way to milk your customer Apple.

Deleted user 30 April 2005 11:09:28

otto wrote:Ooh ooh have you seen my binocular pics?

No! Let me see.

ssuellid 30 Apr 2005 15:40:12 19,142 posts
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otto wrote:
The Automator is a really useful tool, I've only scratched the surface but batch renaming is now a piece of piss.

oralmilf?.jpg to EU_Draft?.prn

sam_spade 30 Apr 2005 15:40:40 15,745 posts
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I really like the look of the RSS Screensaver. That is classy.

sam_spade 30 Apr 2005 16:25:19 15,745 posts
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Review at Macintouch.

Goes into some of the inconsistences of the apps. Particularly selection commands being different in several apps. o_0

Shivoa 8 Sep 2005 12:06:14 6,314 posts
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/random resurrection

Couldn't find a more appropriate thread for Safari related info but I just stumbled upon a custom CSS file for all browsers that allow custom css that has a good rule list that blanks out adverts. For anyone looking for something like adblock for Safari but isn't bothered with a front end for making changes with a pre-existing list of rules that are quite handy at avoiding false positives and getting all the ads out of a page then the above seems really good (I found it a few days ago when I noticed work filtering was dead and gone but I needed to tone down the EG look to make it less 'lots of flashy videos of colourful fighting'-y).

Also, why does the check as you type spell checker start off in Safari? Surely most people nowadays when they're typing in a text box want a spell checker running if the OS supports it so it is strange that it is off by default in most OS X supported apps, especially the integrated ones like Safari.