Here we go again! We got the Apple event starting at Friday at 6 pm at the stores. This is going to be fun! I love these particular events and the last 2 (Jaguar and Panther) had 10% off sales. But the most important thing is that the wait is almost over.
Besides my most hoped for feature of increased speed, these are the things I am looking forward to the most:
Spotlight. I'm expecting a much better command of the great information I've been creating and collecting on my Mac. Includes what sounds like Quicksilver-like launch features. Including Cmd-Space to get into it.
Mail 2.0. Smart Mailboxes. Fully synch your mail between different computers.New transparent background synching hourly, daily or weekly. Resizes outgoing photos to small, medium, large or actual size and tells you how big an email will be created. It even creates slideshows!
Safari RSS. RSS support should be handy when I'm using a browser. RSS support should spread the gospel of RSS far and wide. Loads 1.8 x faster in Tiger than Safari 1.2 in Panther. NetNewsWire 2 should continue to be a major staple in my diet.
Address Book 4. Smart Groups. Hoping to see better multi-computer synching with .Mac. Prints a pocket-size address book too. Shared address books.
Dashboard. Seems great for the passionate amateur programmer. I'm sure I'll use a bunch of them. Know they'll look cool. Hope they are useful. Should help in customizing your machine to your own prefs.
iChat AV Wanna try this out with a couple friends. Got the iSight recently, so I'm ready to go. Hoping the increased true-to-life picture and crystal-clear conversation will finally make teleconferencing take off. I would love it if my customers and consultant colleagues would buy these so we could connect. The H.263 vs. H.264 comparison photos look convincing.
QuickTime 7. Looking forward to bigger and better movies on my computer screen.
UPDATE: I like Apple's comparison between Jaguar, Panther and Tiger. Looking at the comparison chart, it looks like the application upgrades and new things like dashboard may be less important than the vast improvement in security, graphics and other OS infrastructure. Actually, that would be my hope.