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149 of 197 customers found the following review helpful:
 Some actual *information*, 2004-10-15
None of the reviews so far have actually, well, *reviewed* the product in question.
In the interests of providing some actual *information*, I present this small list of features that are slated to be in Tiger, once it becomes available.
Perhaps the best known enhancement coming is Spotlight. Spotlight extends search across the entire system. Searching for a particular word will search all of your e-mail, all of your folders, all of your documents, and the Internet for items that are relevant to the term. Recently, Google announced a product that will do more or less the same thing for Windows machines. I suspect Spotlight was their inspiration.
iSync will have an expanded role in Tiger. Applications will be able to write to a Sync framework to allow them to easily synchronize data across machines using .Mac. Right now, iCal, Safari Bookmarks and address book contacts can be synced using iSync, but with this framework any application could, for example, synchronize preferences.
The Automator will be for Tiger what WinRecorder is for Windows - the ability to perform a series of GUI operations once and define them as a single automated task.
Dashboard promises to revive the old notion of "desk accessories" - things like calculators, dictionaries, thesaurus -- all things that you need to consult, but that you don't want to clutter your desktop. Like Expose', the dashboard will come and go as you need it and will have small, useful tools. Since these tools will largely be written in DHTML and Javascript, it will be easy for developers to make new ones.
Safari will get RSS support. When a page has an RSS feed associated with it, you'll be able to quickly bookmark the feed and be notified when it updates. In addition, the feed text will be tied in with the summarization engine. So instead of the first few words of an article followed by "...", the RSS page will show meaningful summaries of the article text.
There's a lot more. These and other details can be had at http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/
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