Detailed Reviews of Mac OS X "Tiger" Preview

An anonymous reader writes "AppleInsider has been publishing some very detailed articles on Apple's new Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger' operating system, which include numerous screenshots of the system. So far the publication has discussed overall installation and Spotlight search technology, Safari with RSS, a new Mail revision with Smart Mailbox technology, and a websearch enabled Mac OS X Help application."

RSS?

[Kenja]

So now they have a broweser thats guaranteed to give you repetitive stress syndrome? How is THAT a good thing?

Smart Mailboxes.

[Luckboy]

Well, no matter how smart my mailbox is, my mail is still stupid.

I'm tired of people trying to convince me that my breasts need to be larger, when clearly that would only make my penis look smaller.

Mailbox feature I need...

[stienman]

Since I don't email illiterate people, I'd like my mail program run spell check and grammer check on incoming mail. If it isn't at high school level then it's automatically binned.

-Adam

I'm holding out for OS X 10.5

[Mr. Neutron]

"Kitten"

Re:RSS?

[System.out.println()]

It's not even innovative. I've had my homepage set to Slashdot for years and I get the same effect!

Re:Mailbox feature I need...

[ColonelPanic]

spell check and grammer check

Heh heh heh heh.

Re:Not much news...

[Bearpaw]

It seems like most of these features were explained at Jobs' keynote address at WWDC.

I have a hunch that the lead-off to this story should have been "An anonymous AppleInsider editor writes ...".

Apple and Aliens

[TheTXLibra]

It takes a moment of background story, but this does relate...During the 4th of July celebrations (which for some reason, came on the 3rd of July this year) my sweetie and I joined my best friend and his wife and kids in the park to watch the fireworks. Being the "Evil Uncle" of his son, Gabe, I managed to convince him the previous year that we celebrate July 4th each year to commemorate our fending off the aliens attack on Earth. This year, he and I spoke further on the issue...

GABE: "So, we fought off the Aliens with their own technology?
ME: "Why...ah, yes, as a matter of fact, we did."
GABE: "So aliens have laptops too?"
ME: "Yes, well, sort of. Actually, no..."
GABE: "Arrrgh!"
ME: "See, they captured an alien ship back in the 50's and reverse-engineered the operating system."
GABE: "Hmmm...And they used it to blow up the aliens?"
ME: "Not quite. See, it takes money to fund these sorts of top-secret government wossnames. So what they did was eventually market the operating system in the private sector, as a competing OS. However, since it was the government that gave out the OS in the first place, they decided to keep it close to home, in federally funded areas... like Schools."
GABE: "You mean..." his eyes went wide "Apple Computers are made by aliens? Oh no!"
ME: "No, Apple Computers are made by Apple. However, their OS was originally hacked from an alien spaceship. That's why they never managed to produce clones like the PCs."
GABE: "And we made the aliens blow up with an Apple computer?"
ME: "No, we just used their technology to remove their shields, so that our weapons could blow them up."
GABE: "Did we use alien weapons?"
ME: "Nope, just good old fashioned American-made missiles and stuff."
GABE: "Good," he nods sagely. "Cause next time, we might not be so lucky."
ME: "Indeed. And THAT'S why we celebrate the 4th of July, every year."
MY FIANCE: "Just for the record, Sweetie, our kids are never going to be home-schooled by you."

Re:Most inconsistent user interfaces

[Anonymous Coward]

If I wanted a mish mash of colors and widgets I would just get a Windows PC.

To be fair, I think you should consider looking into Linux. It can get quite exciting to have a qt app, a gtk1 app, and a gtk2 app running, all with different themes. Throw in an old motif app and xmms, and you can have a lot of variety.

Re:v^HsmartFolders

[Jeremy Erwin]

Probably because iTunes uses Smart Playlists. "vFolder" is pretty uninspiring. Is it a "fifth generation" folder? Is it shaped like a 'V'? Will it be used in litigation? Is it associated with a verb, or action? Is it an assistant to a real Folder? Will it bring Victory? Does it does it refer to the designer's first experience of love, rolling around in a meadow, surrounded by violets?

Re:Smart Mailboxes.

[andawyr]

That's ok - they have creams and stuff to help you fix that too...

Re:What is it with men and lesbians

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing would happen because he doesn't have a girlfriend. Hello, this is Slasdot!

Re:What is it with men and lesbians

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm guessing it's because we can *relate* to them.

"Oh, you like pussy? What a coincidence! We should eat out sometime - perhaps my wife!"

Re:What is it with men and lesbians

[Anonymous Coward]

Please do not pretend to be a girl on the Slashdot. It gets the nerds all hot and bothered.

Re:Mailbox feature I need...

[bsartist]

I'd like my mail program to run spell check and grammar check on incoming mail.

Alternatively: Grammer check? What's that, filtering out all the gratuitous Frasier references?

Re:Mailbox feature I need...

[rjstanford]

I'd like my mail program run spell check

I believe that you mean that you'd like your mail program to run a spelling check... or possibly to run a spellcheck. But unless you mean a program called spellcheck you need the indefinate article. And the "to" as well. At least, if you want to receive your own email...

Re:Grrrr

[ratell]

Personally, I can't wait for the Thundercats version... Thundercats Ho!!!

suggested rewrite

[sammy baby]

The "private browsing" mode dialog box in the Safari preview [appleinsider.com] is certainly well intentioned, but isn't sufficiently clear about its purpose. I suggest the following rewrite.

When private browsing is turned on, webpages are not added to the history, items are automatically removed from the Downloads window, information isn't saved for AutoFill (including names and passwords), and no one will know that you went looking for "bukakke" [sic] on Google. But we're not cleaning up those skanky-ass tissues for you, so pick up after your damn self, okay? Perv.

Re:I'm holding out for OS X 10.5

[Anonymous Coward]

Other upcoming OS X releases:

Mac OS X 10.6 Tiger Lily
Mac OS X 10.7 Cougar (which will be renamed Mellencamp for 10.7.2)
Mac OS X 10.8 Snagglepuss
Mac OS X 10.9 Hello Kitty (which will replace Aqua with Pink)

Re:I'm holding out for OS X 10.5

[Philippe]

You mean like this [joyoftech.com]?

Re:v^HsmartFolders

[nmk]

Well, for one there really isn't any precidence for the way Apple is implementing smart folders. BeOS had something like this, but I'm not sure if the feature was as powerful. The "smart folders" name is derived from the iTunes "smart playlists". So since they are inventing this feature, they can call it whatever they want. Perhaps they should call them "fuck you troll" folders.

Re:Smart Mailboxes.

[ArsSineArtificio]

My spammers are just confused. They keep offering to increase the size of my mortgage by 30%.

Re:Mailbox feature I need...

[bheer]

indefinate

Heh. I hereby propose (drumroll) bheer's law: "In any slashpost critical of another's grammar and/or spelling, the probability of a grammar/spelling error rises to twice the /. average."

Re:Mailbox feature I need...

[Anonymous Coward]

you need the indefinate article

Heh heh heh heh.

Re:Mailbox feature I need...

[Anonymous Coward]

Or perhaps he is referring to the infamous mail client 'run' which he wants to spell c-h-e-c-k.

God I hate these unambiguous posts.