Jeremy’s Little Corner Of The Web…

After using Tiger for a day and a bit, I thought I might note down some of my experiences/issues.

Interface
Firstly:

What the hell is that? There was nothing wrong with the background of the copy/replace window in Panther! The person who decided to change it to plain white needs a good bitchslap.

There's also this:

Gah. That's two bitchslaps.

On a happier note, Mail is now MUCH faster. I'm loving the smart mailboxes (mainly because I now have a "Flagged Items" smart mailbox). Still waiting for the ability to label emails, though (in order to categorise emails - answered, waiting for reply, etc).

Spotlight
Spotlight is cool, however it's performance on my lowly 12″ PowerBook G4 (867MHz) is pretty piss poor. After doing all of it's indexing and running of the applications (I was told by Mat that in order for Spotlight to start indexing an application's files, you need to run it once), it takes a good 30 seconds or more to get some decent results (emails, photos, etc). Not *quite* like what you see in the demos from Steve Jobs.

I still find I'm using LaunchBar, though, because I can control it totally from the keyboard (among many other things that Spotlight doesn't have). I can't wait until the LaunchBar developers add Spotlight support to it… (I also tried the new QuickSilver beta, but it performed horribly, even with icons off, so I went back to LaunchBar, which has always been fast for me.)

Dashboard
Dashboard's quite neat, as well. I wasn't too enthusiastic about it, at first, but some of the widgets that have come out are pretty nifty. I like that the widgets aren't visible all of the time (I don't have a big enough screen to have the widgets viewable all the time, especially with all of the apps I run).

I'm sure there are plenty of other things I haven't noticed yet, but I only just managed to trawl through the 1000+ items that had accumulated in NetNewsWire over the weekend (I haven't read them, either… only flagged). It seems the web (well… at least the Mac-centric web) is going crazy over Tiger!