{"id":22,"date":"2005-04-28T12:34:59","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T12:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-07-21T10:15:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T15:15:52","slug":"david-pogue-likes-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2005\/04\/28\/david-pogue-likes-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"David Pogue Likes Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFrom Apple, a Tiger to Put in Your Mac<\/a><\/p>\n

NYTimes’ David Pogue likes 2 features of “Tiger” enough to give it the tumbs up.<\/p>\n

On Spotlight:<\/p>\n

But with apologies to Mac-bashers everywhere, Spotlight changes everything<\/a>. Tiger is the classiest version of Mac OS X ever and, by many measures, the most secure, stable and satisfying consumer operating system prowling the earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On iChat AV:<\/p>\n

Mac OS X’s built-in programs have been upgraded, too. Of these, iChat AV<\/a>, which permits free audio and video phone calls over the Internet, is the most spectacular. Up to 10 people can join a single audio conversation. And as long as one of the participants has a G5 Macintosh, four Tigered people with fast Internet connections can have a full-screen video chat. Your three partners, wherever they happen to be in the world, appear on three vertical panels, gorgeously reflected on a shiny black table surface. It may remind you of the flat, spinning panels that imprisoned the trio of villains at the end of “Superman II.” But it’s a jaw-dropping visual stunt that can bring distant collaborators face-to-face without plane tickets<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other 198 features:<\/p>\n

The rest of the 200 features don’t fall into any one visionary category; they’re an assortment of tweaks and upgrades that pile up like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watching his little funny video stories is usally worth the trip, too. If we could only figure out why the NYTimes doesn’t use QuickTime<\/a> to let you see them…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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