Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Tour

By Scott McNulty

His Steveness only had a little time to demo a few of new features of Tiger during the keynote, and it is still months away from being released. What is a good Mac user to do?

Take the newly unveiled tour of Tiger, of course! Using Quicktime technology Apple has put together a tour that highlights the following features of Tiger:

  • Spotlight – System wide search done correctly
  • Dashboard – Widgets for everyone
  • Safari RSS – another way to keep up with
    TUAW.com
  • Mail – A new interface, and smart mailboxes
  • iChat AV – video conferencing for the rest of us
  • Automator – Make your Mac roll over
  • VoiceOver – You talk, your Mac listens
  • Parental Control – Keep the kids from being
    naughty
  • .Mac Sync – .Mac integrated fully with the OS? You're
    soaking in it
  • Quicktime 7 – You won't find H.264 on the periodic
    table

Gaze upon the future of the Mac operating system and weep with joy. Things are getting interesting, folks.

Is it just me, or should Apple consider renaming Tiger the X-Men? Mac OS X 10.4 X-Men, it has a nice ring to it, but I
bet there would be copyright issues.

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