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29 April 2005
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UPDATEOver the next couple of days a substantial discussion on Tiger is going to inundate the internet. There'll be some good and useful discussions, there'll be pictures of people opening boxes and taking photos of it, there'll be people typing a lot of info about Tiger that we've probably all read before (and sorry folks, I'll probably end up being one of those people too!).
But in the meantime, this article is going to remain on the site and be updated occasionally, pointing you to what I believe are some of the more useful sites that discuss Tiger or introduce you to the great new OS from Apple.
To start the ball rolling, a superb (and very lengthy...go get a coffee
for this one!) article on the "ars technica" website by John Siracusa.
It's a great read....
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/1
Version Tracker have launched a separate section dedicated soley to widgets (I think widgets are going to be a big thing with Tiger and this move by VT shows their importance...
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/cat/widgets
Apple have updated their downloads section to include download areas dedicated to:
Macworld and Macintoch have both now got pages that list software updates from companies other than Apple. Often small updates are needed when a new OS comes out and both the following pages provide detailed lists:
- http://www.macintouch.com/tigercompat.html
- http://www.macworld.com/2005/05/news/tigerupdates/index.php
Macintouch also list hardware and software that either definitely has issues or that some are reporting problems with:
http://www.macintouch.com/tigerreview/incompatibility.html
More on widgets...
http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/
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