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Do You Really? (Tiger features)

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witness said:
I use this when I'm on XP, it's Exposé for Windows.

http://www.otakusoftware.com/
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This is by far the best fake expose I've ever seen. There was another popular one out there on the market, but it didn't animate the windows, they just all disappeared then appeared the same size, tiled out, Worthless imitation.

Otaku seems to have done it right....I actually bought a license. I spend 8 hours on the stupid work XP Station, so...anything to make me feel like I'm home on the Mac is worth it. I love Expose, use it all the time.

Spotlight is way super cool, I find stuff all day long. I even started building my own pdf/html library of refernce books that I can find off the web, and save them on my laptop. Now, when I need to reference something, or search for something I know is in those files, spotlight brings it up nice and quick....it's like having Google for my own database, allowing you to leave out all the worthless pages...
 
witness said:
I use this when I'm on XP, it's Exposé for Windows.

http://www.otakusoftware.com/
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How well does that handle live updates to the windows though? I see it has some support but it sounds like it just takes new thumbnails of the windows, which would lessen it's usefulness. I often monitor several things at once with Expose and when something needs my attention I just click on the window.

I use Sidetrack on my Powerbook use the right side for scrolling, top left for Expose show all windows and bottom left to show desktop, words a treat. :)
 
I use Dashboard the most. I love the widgets! I honestly didn't think I would use it that much, but I'm becoming addicted. It's so much easier than starting up a web browser and going from this page to that page. :)

Spotlight on the other hand, is useless to me. I'm turning it off because everytime I insert a disc or connect a hard drive, it starts indexing, which slows down my computer. I'll just use Find, thanks.
 
I use Dashboard and Expose, Spotlight's helped a few times too
 
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yeah i use most if not all the new features in tiger to their full extent and stuff... dashboard is cool for getting information really quick and what not, and spotlight is handy when you know you need to delete a file but don't know necessarily where on your hard drive it is (take duplicates for example)... the dictionary integration into the whole os core is awesome as well... and has proven useful in safari too... :cool:
 
leekohler said:
Bummer. So I'm stuck with it?
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You can of course go back to 10.3.9 and use the Panther version of Dashboard widgets if you really can't do without them. Can't remember what it's called, but it does exist. I'm much happier with my Macs since I reverted to 10.3.9.
 
Exposé and Archive (zip from contextual menu) are really the only innovation in the last 2 revs of OS X that I cannot live without.
 
Dashboard - could do without, but still like to use it every now and again.
Spotlight - What can I say? Spotlight is just fantastic. My computer is very organised but when you want something fast, spotlight does the job.
Automater - haven't tried yet.
Mail - I actually like Mail the way it is, but many seem to be having problems.
Safari 2.0 - Getting better all the time. Love it.

The iLife apps are pretty good now as well. I'm glad I upgraded sooner rather than later. Tiger is well worth the £££.
 
skunk said:
You can of course go back to 10.3.9 and use the Panther version of Dashboard widgets if you really can't do without them. Can't remember what it's called, but it does exist. I'm much happier with my Macs since I reverted to 10.3.9.
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You didn't like Tiger? I like it OK except for the fact that Quartz Extreme doesn't seem to do as well in it. But other things are faster for sure. What didn't you like?
 
leekohler said:
What didn't you like?
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I installed it twice, once as an upgrade, then as an Archive and Install. Both times it just destabilized my main machine: PS7 and AI10 began to refuse to play together, Word 2004 started crashing even more than usual, Preview was a complete POS and associated images with the wrong thumbnails (actually the thumbnails were from images I had trashed weeks before!), and Spotlight couldn't find things in plain sight on my desktop. Dashboard I found a complete time-waster. Now I'm back to 10.3 on my Cube, everything is working beautifully again. Fortunately, I did not "upgrade" my other Macs, so I at least retained some functionality throughout. I'm not touching anything until at least 10.4.9.
 
skunk said:
I installed it twice, once as an upgrade, then as an Archive and Install. Both times it just destabilized my main machine: PS7 and AI10 began to refuse to play together, Word 2004 started crashing even more than usual, Preview was a complete POS and associated images with the wrong thumbnails (actually the thumbnails were from images I had trashed weeks before!), and Spotlight couldn't find things in plain sight on my desktop. Dashboard I found a complete time-waster. Now I'm back to 10.3 on my Cube, everything is working beautifully again. Fortunately, I did not "upgrade" my other Macs, so I at least retained some functionality throughout. I'm not touching anything until at least 10.4.9.
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Wow! I had some very minor problems, but they all worked out after a clean install. I don't blame you at all.
 
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