My experience with Tiger

[Jalexster]

I was thinking of having Google in Spotlight too. How hard would it be to code? Then we could have the ultimate search function!

Also, does Spotlight search your iTunes (and possibly iPhoto) libraries?

 

[juangomez]

Apple Google ties

I was thinking of having Google in Spotlight too. How hard would it be to code? Then we could have the ultimate search function!

Also, does Spotlight search your iTunes (and possibly iPhoto) libraries?

Am I the only one who find it annoying to be tied to google for whatever they have to do, I just wish Safari developpers would incorporate search plugins like in firefox, It's a bit annoying to have apple always going the google way.

Or maybe mozilla should integrate a rss function to firefox?

 

[MacsRgr8]

A bit like the "old" Sherlock app with internet search sites plug ins?

 

[gekko513]

Hmm... It's designed specifically for porn then

We should tip some of the less serious tech news sites about this ... Could attract lots of switchers.

Also ... imagine the new switch ads

 

[LimeiBook86]

I think I got that same panic (the now hanging quote at the end was the same at least) on my Quicksilver 2002 933, even after removing every device (literally, took out all the PCI cards, airport, modem, zip drive, hard drives) in it other than the video card, one stick of 512MB ram, and the Superdrive (DVR-103). It's too bad, I wanted to play with Tiger.

(I'm using a DVD-R of the disk, not fortunate enough to get a real one)

Same here with the DVD-R, I have herd that installing onto a FireWire disk using the package osinstall.pkg works, I forget exactly. I think it's in this thread or one of the other few Tiger threads. Check it out.

EDIT: I found it! Yay!

"Second - someone already talked about installing on G4 PB's, etc and getting kernel panics. The solution I used was to install onto an external FW drive (this way I also don't lose my Panther installed HDD to who knows what). Simply open the OSinstall.pkg file from the Tiger disc while in Panther and choose the FW drive as the install point. then select the FW drive as the starup disc in Sys Perfs or hold down Option at startup. Worked like a champ."

Also I have taken down my Tiger screenshots, I am running out of iDisk space, if you really, really, want them PM or e-mail me.

 

[jonabinante]

Install DVD on powerbook

In my experience, while the official DVD does work, the *unofficial* one does not install on a Powerbook. I did manage to get it to work by mounting my Powerbooks HD in target mode onto a Desktop Mac, and installing onto it over firewire. After that, the OS works fine. It merely seems that the installer doesn't like Powerbooks.

 

[psingh01]

Just installed it on my iPod and booted from my PB G4 1.5Ghz 15". Runs great, maybe slightly slower than Panther but not too noticable.

First thing though, I was looking for the widgets thing. I went to the system preferences and typed in "Widgets", "Wigets", and "Dashboard" and nothing came up!!! I found it in the Expose control, but come on Apple lol. However the Search feature from the main menu was pretty fast. Plenty of room for improvement but really good for an early version. I'll play with it a bit more this weekend and see how it goes.

PS, I have an "unofficial" DVD

 

[stevehaslip]

the widget tsearch didnt probably didnt work because they havent put all the keywords into the search feature yet. someone said that the spotlight search wouldnt work as steve jobs showed us until a later version.

"show me all the documents that phil made during the last week"

(or whatever it was he said)

im sure it will be there in the next developer release!

 

[Mac-Xpert]

Also ... imagine the new switch ads

Featuring Ron Jeremey

 

[psingh01]

BTW, does anyone know what the application was with the satellite tracking? Is that available for download?

 

[iChan]

video scaling

nobody in this thread has mentioned anything about the new dvd player or the new Quicktime player.

the video now scales smoothly to the size you select rather than just "appear".

DVD player also has a new timer feature. you can tell your computer to go to sleep after a set amount of minutes or just close dvd player.

also, you can edit the info of a DVD now, like the name of the Title, which appears at the title of the viewer, and you cna alos drag an image into DVD player for each of your dvds and the viewer will display that picture if you stop the DVD. quite nice.

I have one question... do these new feature contribute to the 150+ new features touted for Tiger, or would it could as being one feature...?

 

[musicpyrite]

Can anyone get Tiger installed on a 17" 1.5GHz PowerBook? I have the WWDC DVD and it kernel panics before even getting past the initial grey screen (on boot) and the first line is something like "panic: no profile for PowerBook 5,5"

Any ideas?

-Drew

yea, there's a way to do it, but you have to install it onto an external HD like I did, or you could make a DVD if you can. (I don't have a DVD burner)

 

[thecombatwombat]

Also ... imagine the new switch ads

Been done. Not exactly "safe for work" but, funny.

http://www.muchosucko.com/video-chapelleswitch.html

 

[sockeatingdryer]

Been done. Not exactly "safe for work" but, funny.

http://www.muchosucko.com/video-chapelleswitch.html

"not safe for work"... Are you a Farker, too?

 

[Mord]

just a little report that it works great on my 600MHz ibook no problems, no kernal panicks smooth as glass ui this is definatly a supported mac

 

[maradong]

true, but this is slower than Panther was at WWDC, not only that, here are some differences between the build the developers got and Steve's that he demoed.

Well obviously...
Panther was released in October IIRC, while tiger will be released in the beginning of the first semesterm, which is before march.

So basically there is like a 5 months difference, in terms of completion... At least that is the way i understand it.

 

[gopher]

Just finished installing Tiger on my 800mhz iBook G3. Everything seems to work about as well as it did running Panther. Dashboard takes about 5 seconds to load but that was to be expected. Ok, so I'm a little slow...Thought tabs were gone in Safari but they are not turned on by default.

That's the way it is when you get any new machine or install X for the first time, or Safari for the first time. Tabs must be enabled through the preferences. Yes it would be nice if they were on by default, but it is a one time only switch on until you either erase and install or completely delete all the Safari preferences.

 

[amin]

Wow, I am really impressed with Spotlight. A friend of mine just booted his 12" Rev A PB into Tiger from his iPod and did a search on "pituitary" which immediately (and I mean immediately) found the three documents on his PB harddrive that contained that word in their text (not their title). Two PDFs and a keynote presentation.

Also, does Spotlight search your iTunes (and possibly iPhoto) libraries?

It sure does. Both of them.

 

[Maayan]

Here are my Kernel Panic Photos to prove it:
http://homepage.mac.com/ibook238/PhotoAlbum37.html

Hah-hah! "We are hanging here..." I remember I freaked the first time I saw that...

 

[Mord]

Wow, I am really impressed with Spotlight. A friend of mine just booted his 12" Rev A PB into Tiger from his iPod and did a search on "pituitary" which immediately (and I mean immediately) found the three documents on his PB harddrive that contained that word in their text (not their title). Two PDFs and a keynote presentation.

It sure does. Both of them.

it even searches in my ipod's hidden music partition .

man i'm lucky that 10.4 is so stable on my ibook no kernel panics and i have had it for over a month

 

[morkintosh]

true, but this is slower than Panther was at WWDC,

true, but it is also farther away from release than panther was at WWDC