Apple Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger [OLD VERSION]

Apple's long awaited new operating system brings more than 200 new features to Mac users. Technically speaking, Tiger boasts an open source core, 64-bit system, and support for the High Definition H.264 video codec. But, every user will enjoy the highlights of this new release: a new search tool, cool new mini applications, real-time RSS feeds in the browser, improved email, amped up audio and visual conferencing, parental controls, automation of tedious, repetitive tasks, and the list goes on.

Apple's long awaited new operating system brings more than 200 new features to Mac users. Technically speaking, Tiger boasts an open source core, 64-bit system, and support for the High Definition H.264 video codec. But, every user will enjoy the highlights of this new release: a new search tool, cool new mini applications, real-time RSS feeds in the browser, improved email, amped up audio and visual conferencing, parental controls, automation of tedious, repetitive tasks, and the list goes on. table width="100%" border="0" !--DWLayoutTable-- tr td width="80%" align="left" valign="middle"pbOS-Level Search: Spotlight/bbr Handled by Tiger's search technology, Spotlight, users may search across documents, images, movies, music, PDFs, email, calendar events, and system preferences with one keyword. Spotlight reviews text content, filenames, and keywords (metadata) applied by users and automatically stored by files to return search results. Results are fast and smart, providing previews of returned files and the ability to filter them by kind, date, people, and location. /p/td td width="20%" align="center" valign="middle"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_spotlite.jpg" width="200" height="170" align="middle"/td /tr tr align="center" td valign="top"!--DWLayoutEmptyCell-- /td td valign="top"font size="-1"bSpotlight Search Return/b/font/td /tr /table table width="100%" border="0" !--DWLayoutTable-- tr td width="85%" align="left" valign="middle"p/pp/pp/ppbMore Robust Conferencing: iChat AV/bbr iChat AV updates the Panther version with various new features. Enjoy three-dimensional, multi-participant video meetings with better resolution and compression. Conduct audio conferences with up to 10 members utilizing a graphical panel with sound meters for each speaker that indicate who is speaking. Purchase and run your own Tiger server and conduct instant messaging behind your firewall. /p/td td width="15%" rowspan="2" align="center" valign="middle"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_audioichat.jpg" width="149" height="292" font size="-1"strongiChat Audio Conferencing /strong/font/td /tr tr td align="center" valign="middle"pimg src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_ichat.jpg" width="440" height="112" align="middle" brfont size="-1"biChat Video Conferencing/b/font/p/td /tr /table table width="100%" border="0" tr tdbParental Controls/b/td /tr tr tdSet computer profiles for children using the aptly named Parental Controls and limit their access to system controls, documents, printers, burners, applications, email, chat, and the Web. With multiple profiles, parents can set varying levels of access for each child. Even downloaded or emailed applications are subject to parental approval first. /td /tr /table table width="100%" border="0" !--DWLayoutTable-- tr td width="50%" rowspan="2" pbDrop and Drag Tool Panels: Dashboard /bbr Pull in mini applications from a menu, named the Dashboard, to complete frequent tasks, like tracking flights and stocks or looking up words in the dictionary. Add and rearrange these panels, called "widgets," on your desktop as you choose, and hide or show them with the click of a button. Some other widgets include a calendar, calculator, weather report, yellow pages, language translator and unit converter. /p /td td width="30%" rowspan="2" img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_dashboard.gif" align="absmiddle" width="320" height="180"br font size="-1"                         bDesktop with Dashboard Widgets/b/font/td td width="20%" align="center" valign="middle"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_translator.jpg" width="165" height="118"br font size="-1"bLanguage Translator Widget/b/font/td /tr tr td width="20%" align="center" valign="middle"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_stocks.jpg" width="101" height="138"br font size="-1"bStock Tracking Widget /b/font/td /tr /table table width="100%" border="0" tr td width="100%" align="left" valign="top" pbAutomated Repetitive Tasks: Automator/b brChoose pre-programmed "actions" from a library and automate tedious tasks when they have to be done in bulk, like editing images for slideshows and creating birthdays in the address book. There are hundreds in the can and sure to be more as third-party vendors create and make them available./p /td /tr tr td width="100%" align="center" valign="middle"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_automator.jpg" width="460" height="344" align="middle"br font size="-1"bAutomation of Image Editing Task with Automator/b/font/td /tr /table table width="100%" border="0" tr td width="100%" align="left" valign="top" pbrbReal-time Browser: Safari/bbr img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_safari.gif"br Quickly view news headlines and article summaries from around the world with Tiger's browser, Safari . Take advantage of RSS protocols to get the latest news updates automatically. /p /td /tr /table table width="100%" border="0" tr tdpbrbImproved Mail/b/p/td /tr tr tdpTiger's email program, Mail, uses Spotlight to manage your mail. Find messages easily and let Mail automatically organize your messages as they come into the box. New photo resizing, archiving, and slideshow options enhance your ability to share and enjoy pictures via email./p/td /tr /table table width="100%" border="0" tr td width="100%" align="left" valign="top" pbrbCentralized Computer Sync: .Mac Sync/b brUse .Mac to sync all your Mac computers, wherever they are. .Mac Sync allows you to conveniently sync your Safari bookmarks, iCal appointments, Address Book contacts, passwords, and Mail settings for multiple Mac computers over the Internet. /p /td /tr tr td width="100%" align="center" valign="middle"img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/editorial/tiger_sync.jpg" align="middle"br font size="-1"bAutomation of Image Editing Task with Automator/b/font/td /tr /table table width="100%" border="0" tr tdpbrbVoiceOver/b/p/td /tr tr tdpApple's spoken interface technology, VoiceOver, gives people with visual and learning disabilities equal access to Mac./p/td /tr tr tdpbrbEnhanced QuickTime 7/b/p/td /tr tr tdpFeaturing the new standards-based H.264 video codec, QuickTime 7 brings you incredible video quality with lower data rates and smoother playback./p/td /tr /table