The Official Mac OS X "Tiger" Thread

[divinatum]

Purelogic you seem to never have problems :p

Div I think its an iMac issue, same thing happened when the iMacs first came out, if there was 2 audio things playing at the same time there was distortion.

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jagdedge has gotten it on his powerbook, and i got it once on my iBook :pinch: apple better fix that... I fear taking a screenshot now =\

[Spartan_X]

ok, I'd been using tiger for a few days now and it runs great on my iBook G4 12", the first complain I have for the moment is QT7... before I was able to go full screen with any video and it will run just fine, now if I try to go full screen the frame rate will drop and sometimes it will even crawl. :no:

then the world clock widget is not working for me... it just doesn't give me an option to accept any change (see the picture) . :pinch:

I still working my way around it but I don't think tiger is much of a change; spotlight, dashboard and the dictionary are useful for everyday tasks but thats about it... besides from a little performance increase I feel tiger as exiting as panther when it came out... :pinch:

[SYPHADIUS]

^ just press return when you have picked your choices... that should work.

[Spartan_X]

^ just press return when you have picked your choices... that should work.

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nope... it doesn't... :pinch: :no:

[divinatum]

try viewing the widget in safari, see if something is corrupt.. /Library/Widgets/ Control click World Clock, Show Package Contents... Find the WorldClock.html file and try clicking the i and see if the Done button is there If it isn't i'm sure someone will post the widget for you to download again

[Spartan_X]

try viewing the widget in safari, see if something is corrupt.. /Library/Widgets/ Control click World Clock, Show Package Contents... Find the WorldClock.html file and try clicking the i and see if the Done button is there If it isn't i'm sure someone will post the widget for you to download again

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it works randomly on safari and most of the time it says that there was an error opening the page... :p

[SYPHADIUS]

what version of OS X tiger do you have? I would say re-intsall.

[Spartan_X]

what version of OS X tiger do you have? I would say re-intsall.

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retail, clean install... everything else works fine, its just that widget the one that is crazy... :p

[PureEdit]

I would wait and see if 10.4.1 fixes the issue, I know somebody who had trouble with the iTunes widget and a reinstall didnt fix it.

what version of OS X tiger do you have? I would say re-intsall.

As of now, there is only one version of tiger unless you count beta versions.

[Southern Patriot]

nope... it doesn't...  :pinch:  :no:

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That widget in particular is on the schedule for an update in 10.4.1 (a little birdie told me so). Maybe that will fix it for you.

[Spartan_X]

That widget in particular is on the schedule for an update in 10.4.1 (a little birdie told me so).  Maybe that will fix it for you.

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yipeee!!! now Apple is a bit more like Microsoft... :p fixing little things that can brake something else... :laugh:

how they also fix the fame rate issues on QT7... :yes:

[divinatum]

PithHelmet also adds a 2nd help menu in safari.

[am_fek]

A little tip:

Quartz 2D Extreme is disabled by default. Enable it by installing the Devleoper Tools and then running Quartz Debug (Spotlight for it). Go to the Tools menu and choose 'Enable Quartz 2D Extreme'. It will be greyed out if your hardware doesn't support it.

Once it's enabled, quit and restart applications that you want to test out, and experience them in their 2D accelerated glory. Windows now actually resize easily, very impressive.

The Window List (Tools menu) runs in the background and shows accelerated windows in green (this is usually just the window you're working in). This way you can actually see when Quartz 2D Extreme is active. The Frame Meter also gives you an indication of how much CPU is being used to render the window. Resize Safari a bit and watch the CPU needle stay pretty much the same.. cool :)

Christ knows why this is disabled by default..

[Southern Patriot]

Spotlight for it.

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Christ knows why this is disabled by default..

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I think you coined a new phrase there, akin to "google it".

As for why it was disabled, it can cause problems with drawing on some Carbon apps.

[Timan Veteran]

Hmm Spotlight doesn't search within .plist files :(

Is there a way to add things to spotlight to get it to search within or is it a limitation?

[Elliott]

Hmm Spotlight doesn't search within .plist files :(

Is there a way to add things to spotlight to get it to search within or is it a limitation?

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For some reason, plist files are now, by default, binary files in Tiger, so Spotlight doesn't search through them. There must've been a reason for the change though.

I don't see that much of a difference by enabling Quartz Extreme 2D. Still seems the same speed, and CPU usage is the same.

Edited May 10, 2005 by jagedEdge

[am_fek]

Strange, what kind of machine are you running on? There is quite a noticeable difference for me in resizing, scrolling, etc.

[the evn show]

Is there a way to add things to spotlight to get it to search within or is it a limitation?

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Yes, there is:

You can create an importer but it's not the sort that regular users can do. If you're not comfortable with writting your own then maybe somebody else will write one for you. Cocoa has some nice XML classes now so it's not too hard to load up plist files and strip the data out of them. Once the importer is written, the rest of us will be able to install it and use it on our own systems.

To be honest, I don't think there's going to be much of a deman for a .plist importer - 99% of the time the plists would just be cluttering up the search results. All the same,

[Elliott]

Strange, what kind of machine are you running on? There is quite a noticeable difference for me in resizing, scrolling, etc.

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12" 1.33GHz PowerBook G4 with a GeForce FX Go5200 and 768MB RAM.

[MMike6]

hey,

gotta question regarding upgrading to tiger. got my mini with panther and ilife preinstalled. got my tiger upgrade dvd today. just wanted to do a clean install but realised that ilife isnt included on the tiger dvd :angry: so do I have to upgrade from panther to tiger to keep ilife or is there another possibility?

I would definetly prefer to do a clean install :happy:

[Huy]

Clean install Tiger.

Get your Panther restore DVD that has iLife '05 on it, pop it into your Mac Mini.

Install iLife '05, onto Tiger. It is the "Install bundled applications" or "install additional applications" icon, NOT the "install Panther" icon. :)

iLife does not come with Tiger. You can also upgrade to Tiger while keeping iLife (and Panther).

[MMike6]

gd'day mate :D

thanks for the tip. ill go for clean install and add ilife afterwards...

cheers

[divinatum]

Dpes anyone's UI sounds just.... stop working? but like iTunes still plays and the noise when you change volume is there still?

[prz]

Dpes anyone's UI sounds just.... stop working? but like iTunes still plays and the noise when you change volume is there still?

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This has happened to me once. I unchecked both options, rebooted, rechecked them and that fixed it. :ninja:

[toastyghost]

Dpes anyone's UI sounds just.... stop working? but like iTunes still plays and the noise when you change volume is there still?

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Happens to me often. When restarting Synergy, when applying a new guiKit in Shapeshifter, when I've done Spotlight searches, all sorts. I don't mind too much, its not like that sizzle noise is vital to my working of the OS.

They always come back after reboot too.