12 Apr 2005

Tiger: April 29th

Apple officially announced Tiger’s release date: April 29, 2005. Yay!

They’ve also updated their Mac OS X page with spiffy Tiger graphics and content.

From the new features page, things I’m most looking forward to:

  • Spotlight (even across network shares!, CLI tools)
  • Dashboard
  • Quartz Composer
  • Xcode 2
  • Finder Slideshow (slideshows from selected images directly within Finder)
  • Smart Folders, Smart Contacts, Smart Mailboxes (Smart-anything, really)
  • Birthday Calendar
  • iChat (Buddy Groups, multiple accounts)
  • WebDAV improvements (Kerberos-enabled)
  • Preview (PDF forms, slideshow)
  • Quicktime 7
  • Safari RSS (RSS reader, web-page archiving, inline PDF viewing
  • Safe Launch (re-launch after a crash)
  • Automator
  • RSS Visualizer Screen Saver
  • New default desktop (looks very similiar to Panther’s, which isn’t all bad)
  • Access Control Lists (ACL)
  • Remappable Modifier Keys (“Remap modifiers such as control and caps lock to be super elite.”)

In short, a lot.