Any new Tiger discoveries???

[leosantos]

No luck

If you use the Mail Preferences -> Accounts -> Advanced -> Remove copy from server -> "Now" button, you can no longer watch the progress in the status bar. If you have lots of server-based messages to remove, it can take a while, and you ought to be able to see the progress as you used to.

I tried that, but still no progress indication on the main window. I can see the rolling clock alongside the word "Sending," which oddly enough replaces the folder label "Sent" when there's a message being sent. But no percentage indication, and no rolling clock when I hit "Get Mail."

And even though I have "Play sounds for other mail actions" checked, I still get no sound for when I hit Get Mail and there's nothing to download.

Annoying when they get rid of existing features, ain't it?

No luck yet, but thanks for the tip anyway.

 

[Doctor Q]

No luck yet, but thanks for the tip anyway.

I wasn't giving you a tip. I was making the same complaint you made.

 

[leosantos]

I wasn't giving you a tip. I was making the same complaint you made.

Oh, my bad.

I just noticed the sound for "no mail" is back after a few reboots. A different sound than I had in Panther, and much lower at that.

But still nothing in terms of progress feedback on the main window of Mail.

 

[nightdweller25]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but you can use the "Fun House" app that Steve used in one of his Keynotes to preview Tiger by going to (assuming you installed xCode): Your hard drive>Developer>Applications>Graphics Tools>Core Image Fun House. It's really cool and interesting to play with.

 

[Makosuke]

Ooh, I've found a couple more REALLY nice little additions that I hadn't noticed before.

First, I didn't realize it, but Keychain.app has been beefed up. The metal interface is stupid (c'mon, at least use the new Mail.app look, Apple!), but it FINALLY has a search box! Oh, how I've wished for that!

Another subtle imrpovement is the Character Palette; for those not familiar, it's an extra feature of the keyboards menu that lets you pop up a floating window that will do all kinds of interesting stuff to Unicode characters, particularly Asian characters (Japanese Kanji and Chinese characters), and was basically worth the price of OSX to me--like a built-in Kanji dictionary and Asian font sampler all in one.

A whole bunch of little new additions have made it even more incredibly useful than it was before: You can now sort the radical list by number of strokes or character name, there is a box that lists glyph variants in the selected font (was that there before?), there is a SEARCH BOX (yes!), and there's even a little "gear" menu that lets you directly add a character to your favories and toggle on and off a feature to hide the palette when you switch applications. That last one is awesomely useful when switching between a text editor and another application. Finally, there's an "insert with font" button that is wicked cool if you find exactly the glyph and font you were looking for to get that font started in a document without using the menus.

Great that Apple engineers are tweaking these little-appreciated features of the OS. I guarantee that the Character Palette, for the handful of peope who use it, is a killer OSX feature.

 

[mkrishnan]

Another subtle imrpovement is the Character Palette...

Wow, I have tried Japanese with romaji input, but I have not tried the character palette. This sounds really great! Thank you for pointing it out, Makosuke!

 

[nightdweller25]

I've noticed that there are also slight shadows on top of windows. There never used to be any type of shadow on top of windows)

 

[Lacero]

Finder has changed how it remembers its window settings when creating new windows. The change is subtle but improved. For instance, in Panther, after opening the first finder window, if you move the window to a new position and close it, opening another new window sets it back to the previous position. In order to memorize new window positions in Panther, you'd have to create two new windows and then move the second window to the spot you want. Then you'd have to close both windows.

In Tiger, moving the initial window and closing it. Opening new windows, Finder will memorize the last position of the last closed window. It makes more sense this way.

 

[TigerPRO]

I know it has already been posted, but I think Control + Apple + D is extremely useful!

Dude, that is sweet! I must have missed the earlier post.

Anyway, here's something interesting I found. When you install new programs that add items to your startup folder, Mac OS X will notify you. I'm not sure if it does this for every new item, but I got this message after installing FCP.

 

[Doctor Q]

In the Dashboard calendar widget, I notice that you can use a few keyboard keys:

left-arrow: previous day

right-arrow: next day

up-arrow: same day of previous week

down-arrow: same day of next week

home: today (same as clicking diamond)

page up: previous month (same as clicking up-triangle)

page down: next month (same as clicking down-triangle)​

The up and down arrows are handy for counting weeks (e.g., what date will it be 8 weeks from today?), which you can't do as easily with the mouse (because the next/previous month function loses the day-of-the-week display).

There seems to be no keyboard equivalent to the open/close action (clicking the top part of the widget).

The year (e.g., 2005) is shown when you use the next/previous month function, but not when you use up/down-arrows to go to another month. When you use the arrows to go to other months, you see the giant day-digits on the right, as you always do on the home month.

 

[TigerPRO]

First, I didn't realize it, but Keychain.app has been beefed up. The metal interface is stupid (c'mon, at least use the new Mail.app look, Apple!), but it FINALLY has a search box! Oh, how I've wished for that!

They murdered the interface on Keychain! Good call on the new features though. The only thing that's slightly irritating is having to open a close a window everytime you want details on a secure note or something. Before the information just effortlessly appeared in another pane.

But at least the metal interface problem is very easily solved with several ".nib" file tweaks in Interface Builder, which are perfectly safe and normal unlike third party interface hacks. Here's what mine looks like now:

http://tigerpro.net/gallery/keychain.png

 

[Doctor Q]

Preview is incredibly much faster at saving rotated images back to disk. I don't know what it was doing in the past, but now saving is instantaneous as it always should have been.

And there are big easy-to-grab handles when you highlight a section of an image in Preview, which you use when cropping.

As in Mail and the Finder, you can use the Slideshow menu choice to view a bunch of images in sequence, or all at once Exposé style.

 

[Makosuke]

Here's a fun one I haven't seen mentioned anywhere:

If an app crashes, Tiger now asks if you just want to reopen it. This has been reported, and is a very nice feature. The thing I haven't seen mentioned, though, is what happens if the app crashes again shortly after you reopen it. Tiger will then ask if you want to try resetting its preferences and reopening it. This is very cool, as it's a quick way for novice users to get around corrupt plist issues.

Of course if the crash isn't caused by corrupt preferences (or the app uses something other than standard plist files--I ran into this when WMP started crashing on startup) it won't help, but it's a step in the right direction.

 

[Lacero]

In Safari, you can now drag an image directly from the browser onto the Photoshop CS2 icon in the dock and it will open up the image. I'm unsure if this is a feature of Safari 2.0 or Photoshop CS2, but you cannot do this in Panther and Photoshop CS. The workaround has always been to drag the image to the desktop first, then to Photoshop.