Any new Tiger discoveries???

When an iCal alarm comes up on your screen, there are many more options to have the alarm repeat (1,5,15,30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hour, 1 day, 1 week). Very nice, since the old options were never quite what I wanted.
 
j33pd0g said:
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.
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This has been available in Microsoft Word (you probably knew that) and it has really been useful in removing columns of spaces from imported text. Really good to see it implemented as a core feature of the OS.
 
woodsey said:
Place your cursor over any word and press apple-ctrl-d.

It reveals a dictionary definition of the word.
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As I watched a brief Tiger overview presented by one of the Mac OS X product managers at the local Apple Store on Friday, I was impressed by these two hidden features:

1. After doing a Command-Control-D to display the definition, keep holding Command-Control and hover the mouse onto other words. Tiger will display definitions in a "live" manner like a tooltip.

2. In your spotlight search, type a qualifier such as:

Yosemite kind:images

Spotlight will only find "kind:images". Similarly, you can provide qualifiers for other file attributes.
 
ksz said:
This has been available in Microsoft Word (you probably knew that) and it has really been useful in removing columns of spaces from imported text. Really good to see it implemented as a core feature of the OS.
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It's too bad that it only works in textboxes in Safari. It would be very useful for copy-paste of tabular information that one *didn't* create oneself!
 
Anybody else notice when you move a window bar below the Dock, it doesn't snap above the Dock like it did in Panther?
 
Lacero said:
Anybody else notice when you move a window bar below the Dock, it doesn't snap above the Dock like it did in Panther?
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nice observation. I forgot that bothered me. It looks like the area that activated the dock has been lowered or something like that.
 
obeygiant said:
command-R refreshes Dashboard widgets with a neat effect.

and

google maps works in safari now.
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Do you have an CoreImage compatible computer? And maps.google.ca worked for me in Safari in Panther.

Edit: Apple-R does do a neat effect.
 
Thanks, obeygiant -- the Cmd-R thing is really fun! :)

I think there were isolated reports of Google Maps performing strangely in Safari now and again...someone posted in the 10.3.9 thread that it didn't work for them in Safari 1.3, but it did for me, and when they tried again the next day, it did for them as well.

Google Maps rocks because it has a flexible parser. Which means that you can search bar it using AcidSearch or an FF plug-in, and just type your origin and destination into the search bar. How sweet is that? :D
 
another thing i love about the new safari is the fact that it displays .pdfs.
I can tell you how many times ive said **** or **** when i click a link only to realize it was a pdf after the acrobat program starts running. Thanks to apple for fixing that pain in the ass.
 
obeygiant said:
another thing i love about the new safari is the fact that it displays .pdfs.
I can tell you how many times ive said **** or **** when i click a link only to realize it was a pdf after the acrobat program starts running. Thanks to apple for fixing that pain in the ass.
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Ouch! I'm so sorry! :( I don't want to taunt you, since you suffered so much in Panther with this, but for anyone reading this who has not upgraded, you ABSOLUTELY MUST get Schubert-It's plug-in for PDFs in Safari. You should not subject yourself to Acrobat Reader. I made it through a full 16 months on Panther without that #$@# software.

This thing is off the hizzle fo' shizzle:

http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/

And...hmmm...they have a Word document plug-in too now...wonder if it works in Tiger.
 
rickvanr said:
Do you have an CoreImage compatible computer? And maps.google.ca worked for me in Safari in Panther.
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i dont knowif i have a coreimage compatible computer (imacg5), it didnt work once so i always went to firefox to use googlemaps. But i tried it just now i was please to see it worked.
 
mkrishnan said:
LOL, that gets my post of the day nomination. :D
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You can nominate any post you like for anything you deem remarkable, but I still don't get it...
 
I didn't read the whole thread so I apologize if this has been mentioned before...

I found an iChat Icons alias folder in my pictures folder and it's got a few folders of different pics/icons that you can use with iChat. Pretty cool.
 
Also, I found that installing everything from iLife 05, to updates for iLife, to Adobe CS takes no time at all to optimize like it did in Panther, it's almost instantaneous.
 
The new Get Info system is interesting: Just command-i now opens a pile of windows as it did in the very old (pre-X) days, up to a point--on my computer, 11 or more items will revert to the 10.3 and earlier summary display in a single window. It happens that 10 windows fits neatly on my monitor (20" Cinema), so perhaps this varies depending on how many windows will neatly tile on your display.

Command-option-i does what it did before, giving you a floating window, but because of the multi-get-info it is now the only way to get combined info on just a couple of items, so it's additionally useful.

Worth noting that it's not just being Cocoa that makes the really cool dictionary popup work--it is limited to programs that use the full-featured text input system (that allow on-the-fly spellchecking, that is). As such programs like Camino can't use it, even though they're Cocoa.

Oh, and Cocoa Gestures still works fine--YES!
 
Here's a Couple

New sound when you empty the trash.

There is an option in the Buddy List of iChat (status menu) that let's others in your buddy list see what song you are currently listening too. To make it better, your buddy can click the song and it will open iTunes and take them to that song in the music store to buy if they choose.

These may have been mentioned.....

BR
 
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