Tiger's 200 New Features

An anonymous reader writes "If this hasn't already been posted, Apple set up a page listing, by software section, all of the new features for OS X.4, or Tiger. Given that every upgrade touts over a hundred features, it is interesting to see all of the enhancements to this upgrade to see what adopters get out of the box. There are a lot which are tweaks, some new non-Spotlight oriented features and a few that are interesting, mostly security related features. 2 words: stealth mode. "

Wrong intro

[NorthDude]

If this hasn't already been posted

I think you really meant : "If this has already been posted"! :-P

O yeah, My first first post maybe?

Programmer Base 10 math Calculator

[th1ckasabr1ck]

You guys might all be excited by Spotlight and Dashboard, blah blah blah... But personally I'm really excited for the "Programmer Base 10 math Calculator".

This new feature allows you to use different systems like base 8 or hexadecimal. Take that Microsoft.

Coincidence?

[empty drum]

Every time Apple improves upon OSX, Microsoft delays the release
of Longhorn another 6 months.

Coincidence?

I think not!

:)

Stealth Mode already ported to Linux!Thanks Apple!

[zr-rifle]

iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -i ! eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -P INPUT DROP
/bin/echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

WoW....

[Anonymous Coward]

If it's a tiger, shouldn't it have Prowl mode?

Cats rock!

You guys are all crazy

[Tibor the Hun]

I was just sitting at my freelance gig, reading some online encyclopedia (win supersite, I believe) and the scientist there said that there are only 2 features: spotlight and something else. He stated that all other ones are pretty much nothing.

He also said, and I'll have to agree with him on this one, that SP 2 is a much better update than Tiger, and it's FREE!

I don't even know what you MAC people are cheering about, you're not even getting a firewall OR pop-up blocker, not to mention malicious software detector with you're upgrade your paying $$ 4! LOL!

Re:charging for . release?

[JohnFluxx]

Why is a barn door not stable?

Re:Wrong intro

[NorthDude]

First of all, it was not really a correction of its spelling. More of a rework of its structure. My previous post, you see, was a simple joke about slashdot posting so many dupes. I know, I know, those jokes are getting old these days but I just got out of bed, am on a hangover, have not yet drank any coffee, and found it quite funny anyway.


So now, In an attempt to calm down the moderators, I'll post another joke (ripped from a newsgroup):

Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates are gathered one night, when an angel miraculously appears. The angel grants them each one question.

Linus goes first, asking, "Tell me how long it will be before Linux is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." The angel looks into the future, and then answers, "It will be 10 years before Linux is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." Linus chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."

Then Jobs steps forward and asks, "Tell me how long it will be before the MacOS is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." The angel looks into the future, and then answers, "It will be 20 years before Mac OS is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." Jobs chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."

After a while, the two turn to Gates, who is shuffling around and staring at the ground mumbling. "Well, Bill, aren't you going to pose your question?" they ask him. "Oh, all right," he says with annoyance, "How long will it be before Windows is completely secure and the last bug is squashed?" The angel looks into the future, then looks further, then ... the angel chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."

Re:2 words:

[Rosyna]

Hmm, I wonder if font book is scriptable.

Also, Playing DVDs in the dock is by far the only reason I am getting Tiger.

Re:Stealth Mode already ported to Linux!Thanks App

[jmelloy]

You're right, that didn't need a GUI at all.

Stupid Macs

[Wylfing]

While Apple fiddles around with ridiculous improvements like these, Microsoft is hard at work breaking new ground in computing. I hear they're going to make it so icons act like previews of the document! You can keep your toy Macs, I'll wait for a real operating system, thank you.

Re:Password Helper

[rastakid]

I think a lot of network admins will breath a sigh of partial relief when they see the Password Helper. There will always be the "[kids_name]123" password people, but there are a decent number of users who want something secure but easy to remember, and to know roughly how secure a particular password is.

No, you don't understand. This tool asks you the name of your child and then adds a number from a certain pool to it. The pool contains numbers like '111','321' and '123'.

Re:Spotlight

[pla]

With Quicksilver, one can spare oneself a lot of poking about and futzing with the mouse

With Bash, one can spare oneself ALL use of the mouse.

Re:Coincidence?

[gstoddart]

Every time Apple improves upon OSX, Microsoft delays the release

of Longhorn another 6 months.

Don't forget removing 5 more features. :-P

someone had to say it

[SuperBanana]

"Use command line file commands on HFS+ items with proper results"

Being both a Mac User and a Command LIne Junky. This makes me happy.

Ditto here!

(ducks, runs for cover)

Re:Stupid Macs

[macmastery]

Yeah, you'll have to wait until Mac OS 8 comes out to get that feature.

Oh wait....

Re:Stealth Mode already ported to Linux!

[peebeejay]

Oh, I can just see telling my 80 year old mother to type that in!

Re:Awsome.

[Rico_Suave]

Considering how horribly slow 10.0 was, it could only get faster.

Re:Stupid Macs

[dmarcoot]

yeah, i been waiting for windows to have that since i first saw on a mac in 1998

Re:Typical

[EduardoFonseca]

Calm down man... Longhorn will be here in... hmmm... sometime. ;)

Re:Typical

[mike260]

a) they dont mind posting a dupe

Neither do Apple - "Scriptable Font Book" counts as two seperate features.

Bestest feature of them all.

[loopdreams]

Don't know about you guys, but I'm almost creaming myself at the thought of the Korn shell being included. ;) The other 199 features can go take a hike.

Re:Will we see...

[Acts of Attrition]

Will we see an article like: Longhorn's 20,000 New Features!*

*new since Windows 3.1!
Also includes ground-breaking new usability features, a couple of which weren't borrowed from Mac OS X Tiger (we got them from KDE and Gnome)! New security failure features as well!!

Re:Typical

[justin12345]

This won't change anything! There is still no software available for Macs! They still can't run:

1) Netsky-P
2) Zafi-B
3) Sasser
4) Netsky-B
5) Netsky-D
6) Netsky-Z
7) MyDoom-A
8) Sober-I
9) Netsky-C
10) Bagle-AA

What good are they?

Re:Programmer Base 10 math Calculator

[Anonymous Coward]

The joke ---> .

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Re:200+?

[Tim Browse]

How about:

Dashboard Keyboard Activation Preference
Easily change the default key that activates the Dashboard.

That's my favourite so far :)

Re:WinXPSP2 vs. OSX 10.4

[Porter Doran]

Now perhaps you could explain Sun's versioning scheme for us.

Re:Linuxtard!

[KarmaMB84]

That's GNU/Linuxtard, sir.

No, no...

[Hamster Lover]

that'll come in the Cougar release, once OS X "matures".

Re:Coincidence?

[master_p]

So Microsoft has fallen into a Duke-Nuke'm style situation, right?

Re:Anyone knows when MacOS XI will be here?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mac OS XI ditches the previous Unix underpinnings and goes back to OS 9 technologies; the long awaited Copland.

I've got an early beta here.

Shit I've broken my NDA with Apple....

Re:"Erronious" [sic] secure deletions?

[menace3society]

No, that's the beauty of it. Tiger's built-in AI reads the document, figures out what it says, and then writes something subtly different over it. That way, when the NSA gets your Hard-drive and they try to recover data from it, they'll stop when they find the note to Suzy telling her to buy milk, and won't keep looking for the plans to bomb to the San Diego zoo in that same file.

Re:Stealth Mode already ported to Linux!

[Doyle]

Simply save it to a shell script called view_grandchild_photos and give it desktop link. Voila - she'll be running in stealth mode in no time! ;)

Re:Spotlight

[Anonymous Coward]

There's some pretty exciting stuff coming in the next few years.


Unfortunately, you won't be at Apple when it comes.

Re:Spotlight

[As Seen On TV]

Why not? Information is supposed to be free, isn't it?