June 11, 2005
My Lethargic Tiger
Installed
OS X Tiger yesterday. Not the best system software update, though.
Everything runs slower now. It turns out that the memory requirements on my iMac are the bare minimum required to run this. So now I have to spend another hundred dollars for more RAM. Grrr.
Dashboard seems neat, if a little too flashy for its own usefulness. Still, some of those widgets might come in handy. The nifty Dashflix displays your current Netflix queue and which DVDs you currently have circulating. Nice!
Posted by mhinrichs at June 11, 2005 06:14 PM
Amigo-I recommend software for individual DVD rips. I did that recently with my Ramones Paul Collins' Beat DVD, which is basically 2 acts in one night. Your friend, Calvin
I'm ignoring Tiger for the time being...the two selling points (Dashboard and Spotlight) can be achieved with Konfabulator and Quicksilver...both free/shareware
I really don't need a widget that tells me the time in France or a widget that gives me a new pumpkin pie recipe every time I start my Mac...Dashboard just looks like too much desktop clutter...as a designer, this is very important to me. France can wait.
A widget for Netflix seems a bit over-the-top, but to each his own...convenience can be taken too far sometimes. Waiting an extra 33 seconds to check the actual Netflix site probably isn't much of a strain (on one's time or one's body or one's...mind)
Quicksilver is a system-wide search thingy...I doubt if it differs much from Spotlight
I've never used AppleScripts, so AUTOMATOR is of no use to me...the world needs less automation and more INNOVATION.
I'll wait until Apple releases Ocelot next year...I heard they're going to be bringing back several vital OS 8 elements for the old-school PowerMac crowd
Kurt
