My Mac OSX 10.4 'Tiger' just arrived. I just finished installing it, it's great! anyone else receive it yet? What do you think of it?

How's this for sad:
As of 06:56 PM PDT, 04/28/2005
04/14/2005
07:54 AM PST
� OS X V10.4 "TIGER" RETAIL-INT
Preparing Shipment

I ordered 2 weeks ago, and I'm not going to get it tomorrow. Since I'm having it shipped to my office, it'll be Monday at the earliest.

murphy, that sucks! hope you get it soon so you can enjoy it.

It's great so far. I have installed it on my 17" Powerbook first and I'm just about to install it on the 15" Powerbook.
Also looks like we are finally getting iTms down here very very soon ^

hey 744 i just installed it on my 15" what is iTms?

Don't be discouraged if your order status still says "preparing shipment". Nearly all of them should be delivered by Friday, regardless. The signals being sent back to update the statuses are running a little slow, due to crazy amount of orders being processed right now. (More of the pipe has to be dedicated to getting the orders shipped, so there's less available to transmit the "thumbs up" that it's shipped.)

Even customers who ordered Tiger on Thursday (before 2 PM Pacific) will be getting theirs on Friday.

It's been a little hectic around the office.

iTunes Music Store = iTMS = iTms

I hope you're right. Having software update taunt me with QT7 this morning didn't improve my mood. ;-)

I had problems with using the Upgrade install, fireworks kept freezing, also printing didn't work. I had to reinstall using the Archive option and everything is better now.

I hope to create some of my own desktop widgets.

Spotlight is slower than Quicksilver though more functional. I liked Quicksilver for very quick application launching. With Spotlight I have to search, wait a few seconds, arrow down two times and press enter. With QS I can start typing for example "Word" then hit enter and it will launch MS Word.

I think my battery life has improved. I can tell for sure that my boot times are about 1/2 of what they use to be.

RSS in Safari is really great. As is the RSS screensaver, though I don't usually use a screensaver on my powerbook.

Safari is also much faster.

I like the new mail interface.

I like automator, but don't know what I would use it for yet.

Two days ago, I was making a 20x30 poster in iPhoto. It required doing a constrained crop to 98 pictures. I was thinking how useful it would have been to use automator. The crop wouldn't always have been a nice as doing it by hand, but I could have cleaned a few up manually.

I hear a software update is expected soon, so keep an eye out. Maybe run the "check for updates" each day for a while.


Some ideas:
Go beyond startup items and have automator go through and do all of the things you usually do in each of those startup apps that are launched, without you having to do it, such as:
automatically launch Safari
open up several tabs with each of your favorite web sites in it

Track your freq. flyer mile acquisition progress daily in a spreadsheet:
each day at a certain time, launch Safari
go to your freq flyer pages
scrape the current point total from it and paste in a spreadsheet
Have the spreadsheet generate a pretty chart or graph or something,
integrating each day's results as they're acquired
if you really wanted to get fancy, you could dump the info into SQL
and generate a web page with a pretty picture/graph with PHP or something

Hotkey shortcuts of all varieties

Sometimes AppleScript can be a hassle. I'm hoping this is much more ...for lack of a better word... automatic.

Feorlen and I are going to the Apple Store opening here in SFO tonight.
Any other FT'ers going to be there?
JD

Looking forward to running Tiger but it's finals week around here and I can't afford to have any glitches. I'll give it a whirl in a week or so though!

I am actually rather pised at apple. I bought it back in March, and was PROMISED I would get it BY today. Heres what Fedex says at 6:34PM EDT (past last delivery time of the day)

Ship date Apr 28, 2005
Estimated delivery date May 2, 2005 by 4:30 pm

Last scan was still in NJ at a sort facility...so I aint getting it today. :-(

arg... that's bad. It should have been overnighted to you if it shipped on 04/28. If you want, PM me your order #. I'd like to take a look and see where the bottleneck/disconnect was. This is being watched very closely by all.