Any new Tiger discoveries???

brap · Apr 30, 2005

mkrishnan said:
Do you make the sidebar icon only just by dragging the divider left until it snaps to the icon-size only? For me, it *does* still resize after that.

That's what I mean, but I must have done something stupid. Can't replicate it now.

Another [genuine] peeve I have is the new 'Get info' behaviour; when you hit cmd+i on multiple files, it brings up info windows for each. Not helpful, as I usually used that to tell me how big files are for DVD writing purposes and such... not to mention the fact that I'm using 1024 resolution. First time it happened I was like... yeah, can't see anything else now. I know cmd+opt+i does the old 'get info' now, but wouldn' it have been better to keep old functionality and just add new, rather than break habits?

yellow · Apr 30, 2005

I have discovered a few things..

1) My OEM Pioneer DVR-108, which Ihad to use PatchBurn3 with in Panther to have it recognized, now is "Vendor Supported", AND now has dual layer support built in! Sweet!

Code:

yellow% drutil info
 Vendor   Product           Rev 
 PIONEER  DVD-RW  DVR-108   1.04

   Interconnect: ATAPI
   SupportLevel: Vendor Supported
   Profile Path: VendorSupport.drprofile
          Cache: 2000k
       CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC
      DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW, BUFE, Test
     Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

2) There were some new utilities added to the installer DVD. Disk Utility is still there, as is the admin password reset.. but now it includes, Terminal (Sweet!), System Profiler, Network Utility, and a Startup disk prefpane.

mkrishnan · Apr 30, 2005

brap said:
Another [genuine] peeve I have is the new 'Get info' behaviour; when you hit cmd+i on multiple files, it brings up info windows for each.

Yeah, I found this out to my chagrin as well.

I didn't know about Cmd-Opt-I, though. Thanks!

Related to this is that, as in Panther, there still seem to be certain folders for which the system will try seemingly endlessly to calculate a size and not give you a size. I find this very annoying, because the folders I need size info on are disproportionately represented in this category!

rickvanr · Apr 30, 2005

mkrishnan said:
Yeah, I found this out to my chagrin as well. I didn't know about Cmd-Opt-I, though. Thanks!

Related to this is that, as in Panther, there still seem to be certain folders for which the system will try seemingly endlessly to calculate a size and not give you a size. I find this very annoying, because the folders I need size info on are disproportionately represented in this category!

I'm glad it does this, I didn't like how if you selected 4 and hit get info you'd get one get info, because you'd have no idea what the big file was compared to the smaller one. The way it handles get info now is how it used to work in OS 9.

mickhyperion · Apr 30, 2005

brap said:
...when you hit cmd+i on multiple files, it brings up info windows for each.

Jonnie said:
Can anyone confirm that a screenshot is now saved as a .PNG file?

These both sound like wonderful changes to me. Both will be time savers for my purposes. Glad they thought to include the cmd-opt-i for those who prefer the old way to Get Info.

rickvanr · Apr 30, 2005

mickhyperion said:
Glad they thought to include the cmd-opt-i for those who prefer the old way to Get Info.

That isn't the old way. It's the old new way, now it's the old new way. Make sense?

yellow · Apr 30, 2005

I kinda ticks me off that I can't unmount my mounted (unused, internal) drives using Cmd-E anymore.

auroberos · Apr 30, 2005

I've noticed

that it makes my powerbook hot enough to press a shirt quite well. This is not a joke.

dukemeiser · Apr 30, 2005

mkrishnan said:
I am pretty sure that the distinction is Cocoa or not, isn't it? Just like in Panther, how Cocoa apps support inline spell-checking using the system checker but Carbon ones do not?

Bingo. That's why Apple pushes Cocoa over Carbon, a hell of a lot more fun stuff included.

abc123 · Apr 30, 2005

woodsey said:
Place your cursor over any word and press apple-ctrl-d.

It reveals a dictionary definition of the word.

it is a shame that it doesn't work in firefox

mkrishnan · Apr 30, 2005

dukemeiser said:
Bingo. That's why Apple pushes Cocoa over Carbon, a hell of a lot more fun stuff included.

Yeah, it is a shame...FF with the cocoa niceties would be an amazing thing.

TigerPRO · Apr 30, 2005

mkrishnan said:
Yeah, it is a shame...FF with the cocoa niceties would be an amazing thing.

Dude, you can say that again (but don't). That's why I don't use it as much as Safari. But there probably not that big of a market for OS X firefox users for them to care. So many people just uses Safari.

quackattack · Apr 30, 2005

auroberos said:
that it makes my powerbook hot enough to press a shirt quite well. This is not a joke.

I noticed this as well. It seems much warmer. I thought this was just in my head..... now I'm not so sure.

Lacero · Apr 30, 2005

H.264 encoding

Anyone wanting to finely tune their H.264 encodings can press the Option key while in the Quicktime standard compression window to set the Temporal quality. It defaults to med.

SnarkMan · Apr 30, 2005

Cut and Paste in Dashboard

It's not much of a discovery but you can cut and paste numbers in the Dashboard calculator. I haven't found any other widgets yet that support that.

sethypoo · Apr 30, 2005

TIGERmac said:
Your graphics card is not core-image compatible. Tiger will function just fine...just without the "eye-candy." Sorry.

You're right, Tiger works fine. That really irks me though. I want core-image!

Do any PowerBooks on the current line-up have this core-image feature?

t300 · Apr 30, 2005

sethypoo said:
You're right, Tiger works fine. That really irks me though. I want core-image!

Do any PowerBooks on the current line-up have this core-image feature?

A lot of them, don't they? Mine does.

Marshack · May 1, 2005

Not working for me

woodsey said:
Place your cursor over any word and press apple-ctrl-d.

It reveals a dictionary definition of the word.

This feature is not working for me.. I tried it in the apple store but when
I got home and tried it on my powerbok nada. what gives? btw when I
installed Tiger I did an update not a format then a clean install....Help!

jacg · May 1, 2005

yellow said:
I have discovered a few things..

1) My OEM Pioneer DVR-108, which Ihad to use PatchBurn3 with in Panther to have it recognized, now is "Vendor Supported", AND now has dual layer support built in! Sweet!

Code:

yellow% drutil info Vendor Product Rev PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-108 1.04 Interconnect: ATAPI SupportLevel: Vendor Supported Profile Path: VendorSupport.drprofile Cache: 2000k CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW, BUFE, Test Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

I only did an upgrade of Tiger after replacing my Powerbook's Matshita UJ816 with a UJ845. Looks like I'm still relying on patchburn. I haven't tried burning a dvd yet.

[/CODE]
MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-845S:

Firmware Revision: D100
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Vendor Supported)
Profile Path: /Library/DiscRecording/DeviceProfiles/PatchBurn-matshitadvdramuj845s.drprofile
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Med
[/CODE]

Apple · May 1, 2005

The one thing i wish you could do on the world clock widget is be able to make he clock say your town or city. I do not like always having to use Atlanta but it gets the job done

killmoms · May 1, 2005

Can anyone post a ZIP of the compiled CoreImage Fun House? I'd like to try it, but not being a developer, really don't want to have to install XCode 2 and all the other developer stuff just to play with it.

Doctor Q · May 1, 2005

Apple said:
The one thing i wish you could do on the world clock widget is be able to make he clock say your town or city...

Or the name of a person you know in that time zone. If you have friends or business associates in that time zone, that might be why you wanted that clock there in the first place. So the titles should simply be editable.

ryan42 · May 1, 2005

Too large to upload. Put it on my server

http://www.ryan42.com/cifh.zip

Edit:This is Core Image Fun House. If you want any other apps (Quartz Developer, etc) just lemme know.

j33pd0g · May 1, 2005

I don't know if this is new to "Text Fields" in apps like Safari and TextEdit... but if you hold down the "option" key while your curser is in a text field - it will turn into a cross hair that you can use to kind of draw a selection. This is real cool if you just want to grab a few words (a block of text) out of a paragraph. Example found below:

I don't know
but if you h
will turn int
real cool if
paragraph.

ryan42 · May 1, 2005

Nice find. I'll use that one quite often for sure! That one will be helpful for copying text between advertisments on the side of pages

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