Time for a Tiger
While the sun was setting this evening, I drove up to the Catalina foothills. Tucson’s sunsets are the kind that are so rich and colorful that you think photographs of them have been photoshopped. Just beautiful. Anyway, on the way back I stopped at the local swanky mall (I think the proper marketing-speak is “upscale”), which is home to an Apple Store. I bought Tiger. The shop was packed. They were handing out scratch-cards and I ended up winning an iPod shuffle, which was a nice surprise as I never win anything. Then I came home and while Spotlight was indexing my computer with metadata goodness, I put the kid to bed and made the first stage of a recipe for croissants. (They take three days to make!) Then I finished a paper I was supposed to draft and now I’m having a beer. I imagine people like John and Belle go through life in this well-adapted manner all the time, but personally I’m still trying to figure out what was in my lunch this afternoon that caused all this to happen. Naturally I’m now warily waiting for the house to catch fire or the cat to explode or something, because things clearly need to balance out.
Hi there,
I just got Tiger as well, what are your impressions?
I’m impressed, although if anyone is using a virtual desktop hack like Desktop Manager or Virtue, disable it, turn it off, and remove it from the list of programs that execute at startup before installing Tiger. (Trust me, the weird focus problems you run into otherwise are just too awful)
Luckily disabling those programs fix the problem.
-RS
you have a nice day, and the cat should suffer?
I thought you’d got past all that substitutionary atonement stuff from your disreputable youth.
First thoughts on Tiger
When I got onto this computer at London’s Apple store, I noticed a blog entry apparently written by someone apparently using this very computer. Yesterday I was one of the people who queued halfway round the block to get in to get a first glimpse of …
3 days for croissants? Try the recipe in Vol. 2 of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. It takes about 12 hours in elapsed time, but about ten minutes total work. It is tricky to figure out the right timing for fresh croissant in the morning, but manageable with only one wake-up in the small hours.
Way ahead of schedule, and a free Shuffle to boot. Congratulations.
I’m going to hold out for OS 10.5. Liger will be designed for its skills and magic.
Got mine through the Education section of the online Apple Store. I installed it late last night/early this morning, and things are fine – although the whole system seems a little more responsive. While I have a G4 iMac, I’m sure Tiger is really optimised for G5 Macs, so they should see an even bigger boost.
I had awful times with Jaguar, owing to a conflict with Default Folder, so I’ve taken to waiting a few days to see what problems are reported, but it sounds like the water’s fine.
j.q, wade right in. tiger has been non-vicious so far.
btw, i thought liger was 10.9?
Default Folder has already released a Tiger-friendly upgrade. Though you may not actually need it thanks to the addition of Spotlight to open/save file dialogs: the feature which really made my day.
I had problems with the iPhoto keyword plugin and the GPGMail plugin for Mail.app. That’s all.
I won a free song from ITMS. I thought about getting “Eye of the Tiger” in tribute, but I ended up getting “Common People”.
Congratulations, Kieran! Will you be dancing in silhouette from now on?
You are James Lileks and I claim my five pounds.