Mac OS 10.4 – Tiger
Got Tiger up and running and so far ive had no problems at all with it.
The new mail buttons dont do a lot for me, they just dont seem right. Although they do look more ‘buttony’ i guess.
Dashboard is nice, ive used the widget things a fair bit, the temperature one seems dodgy. I looked up the webpage that it gets the info from and it has an entry for ‘Rockhampton Aiport’ yet when i type that in as the place to use in the widget it does nothing. 
Ive fiddled with automator, theres some basic things i wanna do but just cant figure it out. e.g. Theres an action that lets you create a new folder, which is fine, and then theres another action that lets you copy items to a folder. How do i tell it to copy the items to the folder that gets created in a previous step?
It lets me browse for a ‘copy to’ location, but the folder i want to copy to hasnt been created yet, and i dont know the name of the folder cause it gets done when the script is run. *sigh* Maybe im trying to do too much, it just seems like its a pretty basic thing that i should be able to do.
Overall though, its a decent upgrade. All the new stuff underneath is awesome from a developer perspective. I cant wait to get my hands dirty with core image, core data, spotlight, etc etc etc 
tuesday, 3 may, 2005 10:00 MAT
how come spotlight has to load EVERYTHING on the computer with whatever i type in the box. it takes soooo long to load. just the applications would do… launchbar was much faster.
“how come spotlight has to load EVERYTHING on the computer with whatever i type in the box. it takes soooo long to load. just the applications would do… launchbar was much faster.”
Set the preferences to make it just search for applications…I think thats what i’ll do as i don’t have much on my computer that i’d want to search for document wise. Brett can show you how to do that
SpotLight isnt meant to be an Application launcher, thats kinda what the dock is for – you put the applications you frequently use in the dock.
SpotLight is for indexing and searching for everything on your computer. I think only enabling applications would take away a lot of what makes spotlight great.
e.g.
Last night i was writing and email to Melanies aunty. I couldnt remember her email address so i just typed her first name into spotlight and instantly it found all emails i had received from her in the past. I did the same for her mum and dads email addresses as well. If i was to do that without spotlight i would have ahd to manually search through mail.