What’s on Your Tiger Dashboard?
So after about a day of using Tiger, I’m underwhelmed. Hopefully as I use it more, I’ll find more little things that make it worthwhile.
Here’s what’s on my Dashboard at the moment: Weather, Hula Homer, Stocks, Calendar, Gmail (but it doesn’t seem to refresh ever), iTunes controller, and a webcam view from the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas pointed at random parts of the Bellagio. I also downloaded “Dasher,” which opens the Dashboard after I’ve been idle instead of starting a screensaver, which I think is pretty cool (and would be better if the Gmail widget worked). But besides that, when the novelty wears off, I know I’m not going to open it very often. There’s not that much to do from the Dashboard.
More bad news: On my 1GHz 12″ Powerbook, Spotlight is much slower than advertised, definitely never updating as I type. I type my full search and wait another 1 or 2 seconds before anything shows up, and then the results fill in over the next 3 or 4 seconds. It took 4 hours to index my hard drive, but maybe it couldn’t enable everything because it was an upgrade from Panther? I tried playing a few HD trailers in Quicktime 7, but they were choppy. Automator is really slow when you try to drag an action into a flow. Safari does seem faster, but the RSS stuff pales in comparison to what I have now using Bloglines.
The best part of Tiger so far? A new “Add Image to iPhoto Library” action when you right-click on a photo in Safari. Great for adding photos I get as Gmail attachments.
