As we were train this calendar month ’s issue , we picked up an amazing little tidbit from our securities industry - enquiry folks . Just a twosome of month after the introduction of Mac OS X 10.4 — or Tiger — about one-half ofMacworld ’s readers are already using it . ( Apple does n’t expect one-half of the world-wide Mac - using population to have made the electrical switch to Tiger until June 2006 . ) Judging by the volume of letter we ’ve received about our July covering story , most of you who ’ve made the switch have some strong opinions about the new bone .
Early Adopters Speak
Mary Stamper — My thoughts on Tiger ? Dashboard : I like the idea of little political platform that do n’t take too much infinite or meter to open . But I wish Apple would just go ahead and give us true virtual desktops ; I could allow one for accessory program , another for papers I ’m working on , and so on . I also wish Dashboard apps were n’t determine to HTML and JavaScript concoction . Why ca n’t I just put OS X ’s own Calculator in there instead ? Safari RSS : throw to find and tap the RSS - provender bookmarker to bring up a Web pageboy is clumsy . I might as well go to the page in the first place . Spotlight : Why bother navigating through folders in the Finder , even if I know where the data file I want is ? Now I can rent Spotlight do the work — and do it very well . I also apply it as an practical app launcher . I ’ve got a gross ton of apps on my scheme — there is n’t enough room for all of them in the Dock , and I do n’t use most of them often enough to apologise put them there . Spotlight solves the problem dead .
Peter Campbell — For my natal day this yr , I bought myself a brand - new iMac running Mac OS X 10.3.5 . Then Tiger add up out , and I decided to kick upstairs . When I beat my discs , I chose the Archive And Install option — and then the problem began .
Although my iMac was a plain - vanilla organisation , some programs worked after the upgrade and others would n’t . I tried repairing permit ( as suggested in Apple ’s online forum ) , but the job persisted . I was so discomfited that I did a completely clean reinstall of OS X 10.3.5 and all my program , and put Tiger off . But after about three days , I resolve I was not move to permit Apple beat me . Since a clean install of 10.3.5 had worked , I figured I would do the same with Tiger . The clean install claim much less metre to execute than the Archive And Install one , and Tiger worked without any of the problems that I had go through or others had describe . Once again , my instinct about upgrades held true : Do n’t do it ! ( I will quickly supply that now that Tiger is up and running , it is nothing short of beautiful — fair , simple , and responsive . )
Christopher Kintz Rindge — Apple ’s decision to release Tiger only on DVD is a slap in the face to the many truehearted Apple customers who have only CD drives . When I called Apple about amaze Tiger on CD , the company told me that I could consecrate the DVD and ship it back along with an additional $ 9.95 ( for merchant marine and handling ) , and the company would exchange the videodisc for a set of compact disk . This is crazy ! Why not just betray me the CDs in the first home ? My syndicate include three generations of loyal Apple users . We bonk Apple products , but they should n’t be this hard to corrupt .
Lynne Rudie — Your articles on Tiger were wondrously informative , but they made me kind of grouchy . I ’m a graphic designer . For those of us who make our living on our Macs , upgrades are disruptive . We have to tot to the price of the computer software the cost of the time we fall back getting everything run smoothly again and learning how all the young stuff work . Your small sidebar ( in “ Tiger Arrives,”July 2005 ) about how to do the upgrade does n’t narrate even half of what ’s involved in mystify a real , work Mac range productively after a major upgrade . Do n’t get me wrong , I love my Mac . But it ’s not a toy dog — Tiger is going to have to wait .
Mark Abraham — I finally found a problem with Tiger : iCal no longer display the correct day of the month in the Dock after you quit the app . regretful move on Apple ’s part !
Peter Ronai — The Apple advertizement for Tiger on the inside front cover of the JulyMacworldshows a screenful of Dashboard widgets . At least two are embarrassingly inaccurate . The Dictionary widget sound out that metatarsal mean “ any of the bones of the foot ( metatarsus ) . ” In fact , the metatarsal pearl are found in the eye of the foot and represent only 5 of the substructure ’s 25 bones . Second , the Conversion widget indicate that 60 miles per 60 minutes convert to 96.55789 kilometers per hour . The correct figure is actually 96.56064 kilometers per hour . I would have dangerous reservations about using Dashboard .
Classical Gas
Jamie Phelps — YourPlaylistcolumn about carry off classical music in iTunes was quite good ( “ Corral Your Classical Music , ” July 2005 ) . One thing you neglect to mention was the Grouping rag . I use group to judge the overall piece ( “ The Lord of the Rings , ” for good example ) and Song Name for the title of individual front ( “ I. Gandalf , ” “ II . Lothlorien , ” “ III . Gollum , ” and so forward ) . Too bad neither iTunes nor the iPod allow me to ruffle by Grouping ( only by Song Name or by Album ) .
Glenn Pillsbury — chime in on Kirk McElhearn ’s editorial about divvy up with classical medicine in iTunes : having recently converted our extensive authoritative solicitation ( more than 2,700 tracks and 18 GB of music , with dozens of earned run average - base genres ) , I require to recommendDoug ’s AppleScripts for iTunes . As mentioned in the clause , one of the big headaches with classic discs is piteous data from CDDB ( the on-line medicine database that supplies cut across entropy for iTunes ): movement title placed in the performer column , composer in the album chromatography column , misspellings , and so forth . Several book from Doug ’s situation helped me correct that data across several tracks at once . In particular , I found the Put This After / Before That , Swap This With That , and supplant Text In Track Names script priceless .
AirPort Assistance
Michael and Sarah Russo — We want to thank Andrew Laurence for his July 2005Mobile Maccolumn ( “ Fix AirPort Printing Problems ” ) . Our home web includes two Macs and a Windows XP box , along with an AirPort Extreme Base Station that has a Canon i960 connected to it ; those components are all get in touch to a Linksys router , which in bend is feed by a cable television modem . We ’d been clamber to get the XP loge to impress . I had tried connecting to the printing machine via IP , as the Apple Knowledge Base intimate , but that never worked . Lo and behold , I read the “ AirPort Does Windows ” section of the article and tried the tip about using Bonjour for Windows , and my home internet is now fully functional . Merci to Andrew and to Bonjour !
What the “L”?
Rob Martini — You folk have been a terrific help to me . Thank you ! Because I ’ve have difficulties with my shelling , the July issue ’s “ Unix Tip of the Month ” ( Mac OSXHints ) regarding battery life was most welcome . But I did n’t get the results I expected . Nothing come up regarding “ Hz enumeration ” or “ infrangible soap capacity”—values that will help me figure out whether I need to replace my battery .
It seems that you were one of the many readers who erroneously entered the numeral1instead of a minuscule L ( cubic decimetre ) when you enroll the control in Terminal . Try it again with the letter , and you should get the issue you want.—Ed .
Adobe Redux
JD Warrick — David Sawyer McFarland ’s clause on what will bechance when Adobe consumes Macromedia was very interesting ( “ Adobe Swallows Macromedia,”Mac Beat , July 2005 ) . But if you really want recognize what will happen in the aftermath , I have just two word : Remember Aldus .
CameraWorld?
Gary Wright — OK , what ’s the deal with digital television camera ? My latest issue ofMacworld(July 2005 ) has two article commit to cameras , take up four page . The April effect had reviews of picture spectator , photo printers , and a camera , and the January exit had two television camera article that consume 13 pages . While I expectMacworldto cover software for photographers , I do n’t pledge to it to read about photographic camera . There are raft of photography clip out there , but there are damn few Mac magazines . In gain to Mac computers , photography and canoe are two of my by-line . But that does n’t mean I want to see articles inMacworldabout camera and canoes . And do n’t even get me start on the percentage of page thatMacworldhas devote to the iPod .
As always , we invite readers to severalize us what they ’d wish to see more of in Macworld.—Ed .
iProblems
Jose Donida — I recently purchased an open - box iPod mini . When I loaded the software and hooked up my iPod with the USB cable , nothing happen . iTunes did n’t open , the iPod just flashed its “ Do not unplug ” content . The disk icon of the iPod did show up on my desktop , so I strain drag the euphony out of iTunes and into the iPod — again , nothing . I return that iPod and buy a brand - new one . I load the software on my Mac and hooked up the Modern mini to the computing machine — again , nothing . After reading the user guide , I realized my problem : The iPod software package require OS X 10.3.4 , but I was running 10.3 . I want this to act , so I decided to update to OS X 10.3.9 . Unfortunately , it ’s a 117 MB download , and I have dial - up service . After three hour , I ’d downloaded only 50 megabit . That ’s when I started glint at the personal computer in the playroom . Sure enough , I dilute the iPod software on it and was able to download the music to my iPod without a hitch . Why did n’t Apple include the OS update on the CD that comes with the iPod ?
