Today Apple announced April 29 as release date of the update to OS X , “Tiger.” For those who have only ever used Windows, there IS a much better operating system out there. Just peruse through Apple’s Tiger showcase and see an alternative operating system that you could be using.
I had the good fortune of watching demos of the nicest features of Tiger at January’s MacWold Expo in San Francisco, and it was pretty impressive. One of the coolest new things was Spotlight, Tiger’s new search tool. It finds and categorizes search results as you type search term in. No need to hit a search or submit button. It also brings up results within e-mail messages, text within pdfs, and even photo meta info. To see what I’m talking about, you have to see Spotlight in action.
That’s just one of the great NEW things about Tiger–OS X’s previous versions full of features that make life a lot easier both for the average Joe who wants to do simple tasks as well as power users who want speed, efficiency, and the freedom from the quirks and frustrations of Windows. Oh, and I’m told various Linux flavors have the same advantages over Windows…
I run a pretty tight ship, but even after defragging, uninstalling, and cleaning up, my Windows machine at home was running so very slow that I finally had to do a clean wipe and re-install of Windows just 2 weeks ago. My startup time went from 7 minutes (I used to have to restart my computer and go make myself a cup of tea while waiting) to less than 2 after my reinstall. Everything else ran so much faster too. Users shouldn’t have to deal with this sort of thing!!!
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Using Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP
7 minutes? Wah wah!
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0 on Windows 2000
yup, after a while, Windows does that to me, and I have to periodically reinstall. I think it’s because I abuse it with huge 100+ megabyte photoshop files and gigabytes upon gigabytes of photo files.
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 on Debian GNU/Linux
> Users shouldn’t have to deal with this sort of thing!!!
I hear ya!
> Oh, and I’m told various Linux flavors have the same
> advantages over Windows…
As cool as Spotlight looks, I am holding out for Beagle:
http://nat.org/demos
It was announced six hours before Spotlight. The irony.
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 on Debian GNU/Linux
Hey, I noticed you accept email addresses but don’t use them. You should put together something like my system. The addresses are stored but never shown, but when you click on a commenter’s name, it brings up a web form for sending mail to the address without actually exposing the address.
Three cheers for usability!
Three more for defeating spammers, the scum of the earth.
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 on Debian GNU/Linux
Also, it says “who’s blog is this” on the sidebar.
That should be “whose”.
Using Safari 125.12 on Mac OS
Thanks for the suggestions (…and for pointing out my proficiency in the English language). I think I’ll just what you suggested with the e-mail addresses. I had thought about asking for a url instead and linking to a page and dumping collecting e-mail addresses altogether.
By the way, what flavor of Linux do you run?
Using Mozilla Firefox 0.10.1 on Windows XP
You know what I first thought of when I saw that picture? X-men computer game!
Using Mozilla Firefox 1.0 on Ubuntu Linux
I run Ubuntu Linux. It pretty much breaks new ground in usability and autodetecting; most stuff “just works” out of the box.
Also it’s available in LiveCD so you can try it out without any installation or wiping your current setup. The next version coming out in October will have Beagle integration for instant searches of all your personal files.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org
I used to use Mepis, which is also pretty good. Better autodetection on laptops.
http://www.mepis.org