Fink Works in Tiger
May 20, 2005 (edited since original posting)
I just reinstalled Fink 0.7.1 and found that it does indeed work in Tiger. Release notes state that not all packages are updated, but most do work. I’m recompiling now.
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Network Diagnostics, Interuptions and More!
May 09, 2005 (evening)
I haven’t found Tiger’s Network Diagnostics application too useful yet.
Very thoughtful of Apple to have added such a feature, but woah! A “Server connections interrupted” dialog?
The OS is actually asking me what I want to do instead of hanging indefinitely.
What’s going on here? We’ve had ten major systems and we’ve never seen this before.
It’s almost as cool as killing the AppleTalk stack under Macsbug in the classic MacOS.. but, I suppose I’m losing people here..
Mac-kind are used to the process of losing network connections and having the computer hanging. If you we’re lucky, you might get a dialog- but this.. wow.
Reinstall Stuffit Expander in Tiger
May 07, 2005 (mid-morning)
Save yourself some grief and reinstall stuffit expander after your tiger install. It will be either broken or missing when you’re done with installation.
Dictionary Lookups Are Way Cool
May 01, 2005 (lunch time)
The new Dictionary functionality in Tiger is way cool. Try holding control-apple-d and moving your mouse cursor over the next in this page. Whoah!
Not sure how useful this is, but it is fast and impressive.
Energy Saver Settings
April 30, 2005 (late evening)
Loving the fact that you can change the energy saver mode setting from the Battery Menulet in Tiger. Great for saving power or getting that extra oomph for Doom3.
Addressbook Sharing
April 30, 2005 (evening)
At long last, Apple has built Addressbook Sharing into Tiger. I’m curious to explore how much control you have over the shared data.
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QuickTime 7 Pro Again
April 30, 2005 (evening)
Going to fullscreen mode in QuickTime 7 triggers a really cool effect where the player scales up to fullscreen. Neato- glad I paid the $30 
Spotlight Indexes
April 30, 2005 (evening)
Tiger’s Spotlight Indexes are stored here:
/.Spotlight-V100
To reindex:
sudo mdutil -E /
Spotlight Is Nice, But…
April 30, 2005 (early evening)
Spotlight is a nice search tool, but I’m finding that the speed can’t touch LaunchBar. Sure, its nice to be able to search inside files and the like, but I’m more about opening files and applications without resorting to half a dozen clicks.
I’m really curious to see how much faster Spotlight is on my dual G5 2.0. My only experience so far is on my 1.5Ghz PowerBook.
iSync Changes
April 30, 2005 (edited since original posting)
After setting up Tiger’s .Mac sync and playing for a while, I noticed that the iSync application doesn’t really come into play. All sync seems to happen in system prefs.
A quick spotlight search reveals that the application still exists, but is really only used to sync devices now. Looks like it actually includes a log now- nice.
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