The web site for the project is, appropriately, 
A couple of notes about Tiger… Damn you Apple for making Spotlight exactly like the little bastard cousin of LaunchBar, then using the same UI paradigm and activation key. I’m going to try keeping Spotlight with the default Cmd-Space hotkey, but that means retraining my brain to hit something else to get LaunchBar… which I now do almost reflexively (today, after installing the new LaunchBar, I hit Cmd-Space to launch LaunchBar… and wondered why nothing happened.)
I’m switching back to Safari on my machines at home, just to see the new features and play around with the RSS integration. I’m curious if Safari is better in this release, but I’m also looking forward to the next update which claims to be ACID2 compliant. Not even Firefox can make that claim, so I’m curious to play around. With some of the DHTML things we want to do at work, I’m hoping we have a solid platform to work off of.
Quick links of things to look at:
- Safari and setting your default feed reader
- Brent Simmons on Automator (and why it’s the best feature of Tiger
- Dan Wood, author of Watson, gives his rundown of Tiger (he’s excited about Quartz Composer, I think
) - John Siracusa’s technical rundown of Tiger in Ars Technica
More on this later. So far so smooth. I did have trouble installing the update on my iMac. Turned out there was minor filesystem corruption on the computer that Disk Utility couldn’t fix (incorrect number of thread records). In fact, the installer just choked and said something like “Installer encountered an error. Please retry installation ” or something. I ended up running Disk Utility off of the installer DVD manually where I saw that Disk Utility was choking on this error. I suggest running Disk Utility and verifying your disk manually if the installer wigs out.
Luckily, I have a copy of DiskWarrior around from my iSight troubles and I was able to use that to fix things right up. BTW, if you have the downloadable copy of DiskWarrior, it’s tough to actually use it because you need to boot from something else. Making a bootable CD/DVD is just annoying enough that I found it easier just to boot my iMac into Target Disk Mode (hold T while booting your Mac). The computer then behaves like a big firewire drive. Just run a firewire cable between the iMac and my PowerBook and I can run DiskWarrior from my PowerBook. After about 30 minutes or so of chugging along, I had a working disk and the installer got moving past the disk check.
Spotlight took a LOT of hours to get through my disks… I have over a half-terrabyte attached to my iMac now (530 GB per mfr), and it’s about a third full. My PowerBook only took a few hours to get indexed, though.
On the whole, though, big thumbs up for Tiger. I’m busy with my own projects right now, but I hope to dive into Automator and the new SDKs soon.
May 3rd, 2005 at 1:22 am
Good info on Tiger - I have the same (incorrect number of thread records) thing as you did. Looks like a copy of DiskWarrior is in my future - kinda rots that the installer won’t tell you the issue….
May 3rd, 2005 at 3:14 pm
hi – I just got Tiger and got the same disk error whilst installing…I’ll try your advice. But is this really just a ‘minor’ error? And if so why can’t disk utility fix it during the install…?!
May 3rd, 2005 at 4:31 pm
i only thought it was minor because I’ve had no actual problems with my computer. Maybe someone knows and can shed some light on it?
May 8th, 2005 at 11:54 pm
I have the same (incorrect number of thread records) problem, and I tried to fix it by starting the utility from the DVD manually. It still cannot fix it. What do I do, especially if I do not have the money to buy some other utility?
May 9th, 2005 at 1:01 am
Not sure what to say to you… You could see if the Apple Store genius bar or some small local Mac reseller would consider doing something for you for free or for a small fee. Other utilities aside from DiskWarrior are cheaper, I think. You can google around for those.