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More Tiger winners and losers

By Nick, May 11, 2005

Here are some more of the best and worst of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Here are some more of the best and worst of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. If you haven’t read part one yet, read it!

Missing the target
When exporting images to JPEG, earlier versions of Preview had a “target size” field where you could enter how large you wanted the exported image file size to be (in bytes). This was useful for posting on online forums, many of which have restrictions on the sizes of files you can upload. Now you are left to guess. Bummer.

Be safe
Safari 2.0 not only tells you if the file you’re downloading (.zip, disk image, etc...) contains an Mac application, but also a Windows application. Also, when viewing a secure page, click the lock icon in Safari’s title bar to view a certificate information dialog (useful to verify the authenticity of a site).

I wonder if I can hack that!
Speaking of Safari, apparently the error pages are ordinary HTML/CSS pages. Also, the RSS reader page is really just an HTML 4.0 document. If you knew what you were doing, you could conceivably hack these documents and customize them. Where they are is for you to find out (Note: I am not responsible if you decide to mess with Safari and render it unusable. Hack at your own risk).

Missing in Action
It appears a couple Sherlock channels are no more. The Stocks and Movies channels are gone in Tiger.

Biggest ripoff, revisited
Last time, I commented on how I felt the lack of…
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What you don’t know about Spotlight

By Nick, May 9, 2005

Forwarding Address: OS X (saladwithsteve.com) currently features a short article spotlighting (pun sort of intended) some lesser-known features and tidbits about Spotlight. The comments are useful too.


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News of the Weird: “This one goes to 11!"*

By Nick, May 9, 2005

Mac OS 11, that is.

MacShrine has posted a list of what may be the most preposterous rumors of the year. Well, almost. Anyway, rumors include OS 10.6 due in 2007 (no OS 10.5?) which would feature an Active Desktop clone (uhm, why?), OS 11 which would include a 3D Dock (how they’d pull that off is beyond me) and G5-only support, and the beaten-to-a-bloddy-pulp iPhone speculation (which really isn’t a rumor anymore).

Perhaps one of the more amusing parts is the segment about iWork 06:

Apple is busy porting over old AppleWorks modules and improving them. Currently iDraw, iChart and iWord are being developed. A database module is currently last on Apple’s list. iWork ‘06 will not be a free upgrade for iWork ‘05 users.

I guess they never got the memo that iWork’s word processor is Pages, not iWord. Besides, iDraw is a shareware app.

The Fifth-generation iPods is pretty amusing too. It would have “A dock - featuring access to various ‘apps’” which, from the way they describe it, sounds like an OS X-style dock. So much for the iPod’s interface philosophy. Uh huh.

Anyway, if absurdity amuses you, give it a read.

*A reference to This is Spinal Tap


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iTunes Music Store now selling videos

By Nick, May 9, 2005

Coinciding with the release of iTunes 4.8, the iTunes Music store now features videos bundled with some albums. iTunes 4.8 includes a feature which allows users to view videos from within the application.

Deep Thought’s Take: That explains the new feature in iTunes 4.8 (although it feels tacked on and very clunky by Apple standards), but may add more fuel to the video iPod fire. We’ll see how it turns out.


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iTunes Opens To New Countries

By Beelsebob, May 9, 2005

Hot on the heals of the iTunes 4.8 release the iTunes Music Store has opened in four new countries

Hot on the heals of the iTunes 4.8 release the iTunes Music Store has opened in four new countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.  There was a strange limbo period earlier today in which the Apple web page declared the stores open, but iTunes its self did not.  Now though, the stores are up and running.


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