Sunday, June 05, 2005
Techtalker - Tiger on the prowl
After the fox, here comes the tiger
What is the IT world coming to? After the fox, enter the tiger. With Firefox challenging Microsoft's Internet browser, IE, Apple is now challenging Microsoft's Windows with Tiger.
Though it is known as Mac OS X 10.4, the code name is tiger. Apple claims that the operating system has over 200 feature improvements. Spotlight is one, which indexes your entire hard disc so that searching becomes easier. Though it does not scan networked hard drives or remote shared folders. Something that Google search, or the
MSN and Yahoo beta searches are doing today. But amazingly, it indexes not just word files, but even items like shutter speed of the digital camera that clicked the picture which is now on your hard disc.
The killer application no doubt is iChat, which allows you upto four video chats and nine audio chats simultaneously. The simulation is good giving everyone the impression that they are sitting around a table while chatting. But for this you need a very powerful machine plus great broadband speeds as well.
There is an improved Quick Time for movie freaks, and some enhanced security features like a password generator. You can now tell your Mac to read your email with a voiceover feature. Safari, the web browser has an inbuilt RSS support so that you can scan news in a simple searchable list.
Off course Steve Jobs took a jibe at the Longhorn which is yet to be launched my Microsoft. "They're shamelessly trying to follow us," Jobs remarked last week at Apple's stockholder meeting, stating that Longhorn is yet to appear. "They can't even copy fast", he said. Longhorn is now scheduled in 2006, though it was originally supposed to appear in 2004.
Not all have loved the Tiger. Some crib about the time that one of its features, spotlight takes to run. Others doubt whether the Apple share would increase. The steep price is another dampener. The love that Apple has for the feline is legendary. After the Jaguar came the tiger.
Will it leap ahead of competition just like a tiger? Only time can tell.
What is the IT world coming to? After the fox, enter the tiger. With Firefox challenging Microsoft's Internet browser, IE, Apple is now challenging Microsoft's Windows with Tiger.
Though it is known as Mac OS X 10.4, the code name is tiger. Apple claims that the operating system has over 200 feature improvements. Spotlight is one, which indexes your entire hard disc so that searching becomes easier. Though it does not scan networked hard drives or remote shared folders. Something that Google search, or the
MSN and Yahoo beta searches are doing today. But amazingly, it indexes not just word files, but even items like shutter speed of the digital camera that clicked the picture which is now on your hard disc.
The killer application no doubt is iChat, which allows you upto four video chats and nine audio chats simultaneously. The simulation is good giving everyone the impression that they are sitting around a table while chatting. But for this you need a very powerful machine plus great broadband speeds as well.
There is an improved Quick Time for movie freaks, and some enhanced security features like a password generator. You can now tell your Mac to read your email with a voiceover feature. Safari, the web browser has an inbuilt RSS support so that you can scan news in a simple searchable list.
Off course Steve Jobs took a jibe at the Longhorn which is yet to be launched my Microsoft. "They're shamelessly trying to follow us," Jobs remarked last week at Apple's stockholder meeting, stating that Longhorn is yet to appear. "They can't even copy fast", he said. Longhorn is now scheduled in 2006, though it was originally supposed to appear in 2004.
Not all have loved the Tiger. Some crib about the time that one of its features, spotlight takes to run. Others doubt whether the Apple share would increase. The steep price is another dampener. The love that Apple has for the feline is legendary. After the Jaguar came the tiger.
Will it leap ahead of competition just like a tiger? Only time can tell.
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