Mac OS X x10.4.8 Tiger has over 200 new features including
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Spotlight - Spotlight is a powerful full-text and metadata search engine, which can search everything from Word documents to iCal calendars to Address Book cards, as well as any text within PDF files. The feature is also used to build the concept of smart folders into the Finder. Spotlight will index files as they are saved, so they can be quickly and easily found through a search-as-you-type box in the menu bar.
iChat AV - The new iChat AV 3.0 in Tiger supports up to four participants in a video conference and ten participants in an audio conference. It also now supports communication using the Jabber protocol. A Jabber server called iChat Server is included on Mac OS X Tiger Server.
Safari RSS - The new Safari 2.0 web browser in Tiger features a built-in reader for RSS and Atom web syndication that can be accessed easily from an RSS button in the address bar of the web browser window. An updated version of Safari, included as part of the free Mac OS 10.4.3 update, can also pass the Acid2 web standards test.
Mail 2 - The new version of Mail.app email client included in Tiger featured an updated interface, "Smart Mailboxes" that utilize the Spotlight search system, parental controls, as well as several other features.
The Dashboard allows for miniature applications called "Widgets" to appear and disappear rapidly from the screen.Dashboard - The Dashboard is a new mini-applications layer based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which returns the desk accessories concept to the Mac OS. These accessories are known as widgets. It comes with several widgets such as Weather, World Clock, Unit Converter, and Dictionary/Thesaurus. More are available for free online. Its similarity to the Konfabulator application caused some criticism.
Automator - A scripting tool called Automator to link applications together to form complex automated workflows (written in AppleScript, Cocoa, or both). Automator comes with a complete library of actions for several applications which can be used together to make a Workflow.
VoiceOver - VoiceOver is an accessibility interface that offers the user magnification options, keyboard control and spoken English descriptions of what is happening on screen. VoiceOver enables users with visual impairment the ability to use applications via spoken commands. It also allows a user to work collaboratively with other users on a single Mac by allowing multiple users give voice commands to scroll text, etc. VoiceOver is capable of reading aloud the contents of files including web pages, mail messages and word processing files. The complete keyboard navigation lets the use control the computer with the keyboard rather than mouse, a menu is displayed in a window showing all the available keyboard commands that can be used.
A complete built-in Dictionary/Thesaurus based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, accessible through an application, Dictionary, a Dashboard widget, and as a system-wide command (see below).
.Mac syncing - Though this is not a new feature, .Mac syncing in Tiger is much improved over Panther. Syncing tasks in Tiger are now accomplished through the .Mac system preferences pane rather than the iSync application.
QuickTime 7 - A new version of Apple's multimedia software has support for the new H.264/AVC codec which offers better quality and scalability than other video codecs. This new codec is used by iChat AV for clearer video conferencing. New classes within Cocoa provide full access to QuickTime for Cocoa application developers. The new QuickTime 7 player application bundled with Mac OS X Tiger now includes more advanced audio and video controls as well as a more detailed Information dialog, and the new player has been rebuilt using Apple's Cocoa API to take advantage of the new technologies more easily.
New Unix features - New versions of cp, mv, and rsync which support files with resource forks. Command-line support for features like the above-mentioned Spotlight are also included.
Xcode 2.0 - Xcode 2.0, Apple's Cocoa development tool now includes visual modelling, an integrated Apple Reference Library and graphical remote debugging.
New applications in Tiger
Automator - Automator uses workflows to process repetitive tasks automatically
Grapher - Grapher is a new application capable of creating 2D and 3D graphs similar to that of Graphing Calculator.
Dictionary - A dictionary and thesaurus program which uses the New Oxford American Dictionary. It has a fast GUI for displaying the Dictionary, and allows the user to search the dictionary with Spotlight, to print definitions, and to copy and paste text into documents. Dictionary also provides a Dictionary service in the Application menu, and Cocoa and WebKit provide a global keyboard shortcut (^?D by default) for all applications that display text with them. The Dictionary application is a more feature-filled version of the Dictionary widget.
Quartz Composer - Quartz Composer is a development tool for processing and rendering graphical data.
AU Lab - AU Lab is a developer application for testing and mixing Audio Units.
Improvements
An upgraded kernel with optimized kernel resource locking and access control lists, and with support for 64-bit userland address spaces on machines with 64-bit processors.[
An updated libSystem with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions; combined with the aforementioned kernel change, this allows individual applications to address more than 4GB of memory when run on 64-bit processors, although an application using Apple libraries or frameworks other than libSystem would need to have two processes, one running the 64-bit code and one running the code that requires other libraries and frameworks.
A new startup daemon called launchd that allows for faster boots.
The printing dialog in Tiger now features a drop down menu for creating PDFs, sending PDFs to Mail, and other PDF related actions. However, the user interface has been criticized for creating a hybrid widget that looks like a plain button but acts like a pop-up menu. This is one of only three places in the entire Mac OS X interface where such an element appears.
Dock menus now have menu items to open an application at login, or to remove the icon from the dock.
The Window menu in the Finder now features a "Cycle Through Windows" menu item.
This will install MacOS-X on AMD and INTEL CPU Platform
Both the AMD and Intel sides of the install have been slipstreamed to be up to date on security updates, itunes & QuickTime
Remember to check your processor which must support SSE2 or SSE3.
Before you install mac osx86
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1) Create a new partition and make it primary partition (for it to be able to boot)
2) Make that partition into Fat32 for mac osx to recognise.
3) Boot from DVD and go to diskulitily.
4) Select that partition and go to erase tab to reformat the partition into mac partition.
5) Close the app, and go thru the installation like installing winxp
Changes are :
The 3rd party driver list :
- GMA900 kext loading errors are fixed
- GMA950 Working
- Nforce3 Pata/Sata working
- Via Pata/Sata working
- Intel Pata/Sata working
- jMicron ICH8 working
- Titan for ATI and Nvidia cards is included
- Ac97 sound working for any Ac97 sound device that was working before
- SoundBlaster 128 PCI card is working also with Ac97 kext
- Include the same HDA patches as before.
- And a whole bunch of other support is added in also.
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