Mac OS X Tiger Version 10.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger Contents Page 3 The Power of UNIX, the Simplicity of Macintosh Page 6 Spotlight Page 12 Dashboard Page 15 iChat AV Page 18 Automator Page 20 Safari Page 22 QuickTime 7 Page 25 H.264: The New Video Codec in QuickTime 7 Page 27 .Mac Sync Page 28 .
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 3 The Power of UNIX, the Simplicity of Macintosh Apple uses open source software and industry standards in Mac OS X, beginning with a UNIX-based foundation that provides unparalleled innovation, stability, and performance and creates a base on which Apple can deliver industry-leading technologies.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 4 Introducing Tiger Key new features in Mac OS X Tiger include the following: • Spotlight. Find anything on your computer instantly with Spotlight, a new desktop search engine completely integrated into Mac OS X. Spotlight quickly searches everything on your personal computer—including documents, images, movies, music, email, contacts, appointments, and system preferences—and finds what you need with pinpoint accuracy. • Dashboard.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 5 • H.264. A new video codec designed for the future of video, capable of delivering incredibly high-quality video at remarkably low data rates. H.264 meets the needs of emerging video technologies by scaling from 3G mobile phones to 1920-by-1080resolution high definition video. The H.264 standard has already garnered broad support across the industry and has been ratified as part of the Blu-ray and HD-DVD high definition video specifications. • .Mac Sync.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 6 Spotlight Mac OS X Tiger introduces Spotlight, a new desktop search technology that finds virtually anything on your computer as quickly as you can type. Built into the core of Mac OS X, Spotlight searches across your entire system to provide results from your applications and files. It locates exactly what you need with pinpoint accuracy, even with just a few keystrokes. With Spotlight, you can organize and access information on your computer in ways never before possible.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 7 The Spotlight Menu 1 2 5 4 3 Metadata: Data about data Metadata is data about a file, rather than the actual content stored in the file. Every file on your computer includes metadata. For example, a file can include information on its author, the date it was created, its copyright date, the camera a photo was taken with, or the person who emailed you a document.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 8 The Spotlight Results Window 1 5 3 6 7 2 4 1 View the current search term or perform another search. 2 The results window shows all the relevant items on your computer that match the search term, organized by category. 3 View thumbnail previews of images, movies, and PDF files. 4 See expanded information about each file by clicking the button next to the item.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger Advanced search Spotlight offers more advanced ways to focus your search. Try adding “kind:images” or “date:today” to a Spotlight search and see how Spotlight narrows your search results accordingly. For example, typing “Yosemite kind:images” will find only images with Yosemite either in the name of the image or in the metadata of the image.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 10 The Finder Search Window 1 4 2 3 6 8 Searchable metadata Spotlight extracts metadata attributes from your files, so you can use them in your search. If you can’t remember the name of an attribute, just select Other from the search filter to choose from a complete list of supported attributes. 5 7 9 10 1 The Spotlight-powered search field performs fast file searches based on filename, metadata, and document content. 2 Designate the location you’d like to search.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 11 Mail Mail uses the power of Spotlight for faster, more accurate searching. You can quickly search through all of your messages and use new Smart Mailboxes to organize your mail automatically. You can create a Smart Mailbox by saving your search in Mail or by selecting New Smart Mailbox in the Mail menu and describing the search criteria. When you open a Smart Mailbox, Spotlight gathers related messages from all of your mailboxes into one mailbox.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 12 Dashboard Dashboard is a dazzling way to quickly access a new class of convenient, lightweight applications called widgets. With just a click, widgets such as a calculator, a world clock, or a stock ticker swoop onto your screen with an elegant animation, and with another click they vanish just as quickly.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 13 Stocks. Get the latest prices of your stocks. Address Book. Quickly locate contact information in your Address Book. Calendar. View the current day and date. Weather. View the latest weather information and get a six-day forecast for just about any place in the world. Unit Converter. Quickly convert weights, measures, and currencies. Dictionary. Look up definitions and thesaurus entries. Phone Book.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger Customizing Dashboard You can add widgets, hide widgets, and drag widgets to position them anywhere you want them to appear on the screen. Widgets can even be added to Dashboard multiple times. Each instance is unique and can be edited to display different information. For example, you can have multiple sticky notes or display multiple instances of World Clock, each configured to show the local time. 14 The Widget Bar shows you all the widgets available on your system.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 15 iChat AV Mac OS X Tiger takes the innovative one-to-one audio and video conferencing introduced in Panther to the next level with multiway conferencing. With iChat AV, you can now video conference with up to three friends and audio conference with up to nine friends over the Internet—with the same high-quality full-screen video, crystal-clear full-duplex audio, easy-to-use interface, and effortless setup that have set iChat apart from the competition.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 16 Quartz graphics engine, provide the filtering and image anti-aliasing required to make video look great even full screen. Fast broadband Internet connections, now available to nearly 30 million U.S. households (or 30 percent),2 provide the bandwidth necessary for video to flow between users. iChat takes advantage of high-performance computer hardware and broadband Internet connections to enable multiway video and audio conferences.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 17 Multiway Audio Chat iChat AV extends the one-to-one audio conferencing introduced in Panther with multiway audio-only conferences, allowing you to chat with up to nine colleagues. iChat represents each participant with a buddy icon and provides a sound meter that shows who is talking. Behind the Scenes Advanced technologies make setting up and using iChat AV effortless. Quartz Extreme acceleration.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 18 Automator Automator is an innovative Tiger application that helps you automate otherwise complex and repetitive tasks without any programming. Whether you’re renaming a group of files, adding color profiles to images for print use, or administering a group of computers, Automator makes it easy to automate these complex or repetitive tasks. In Automator, there’s no coding or scripting. You simply drag actions into a step-by-step workflow.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger With more than 150 built-in actions in Tiger, Automator is ready to put the power of Mac OS X and its world-class applications to work for you. But you aren’t limited to the built-in actions. Developers can create actions for their applications that easily plug into Automator. 19 The Automator Window 6 7 2 1 5 4 3 1 The Library list lets you instantly browse all of the actions and workflows you can use in Automator.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 20 Safari Safari, the supercharged web browser for Mac OS X, is the fastest and easiest-to-use web browser ever for the Mac. Its blazing-fast rendering engine is built on a modern, standards-based open source core. It displays web pages quickly, makes finding websites a snap, and is filled with innovative features—all delivered in an efficient and elegant user interface with the attention to detail that you expect from Apple. Safari lets you know when RSS feeds are updated.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger Safari uses the PDF engine built into Mac OS X to display PDF documents inline in Safari. A handy contextual menu provides viewing and navigation controls. 21 RSS Feeds in Safari 2 1 3 4 5 6 When you enable private browsing, Safari does not add items to history, add items to the downloads window, save information for autofill, retain cookies, or retain a history of your Google searches.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 22 QuickTime 7 • • • • • • • QuickTime 7 delivers the following free player features: H.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 23 Multichannel audio. Enjoy the full effect of your surround sound movie or game experience with QuickTime 7 and surround speakers. QuickTime 7 Player can play back up to 24 channels of audio in nearly any configuration, including stereo, quadraphonic, and 5.1 in the AIFF, WAV, MOV, MP4 (AAC only), CAF, and AAC/ADTS formats. New and improved playback controls.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 24 Full-screen controls. Even in full-screen mode, QuickTime 7 Pro provides easy access to all the controls you need. Simply move your cursor, and floating controls appear: pause, play, stop, fast forward, and rewind, all in full-screen mode. To make your movie presentation even snazzier, customize the background color and placement of your movie with new full-screen user preferences. Concurrent exports. Your productivity improves dramatically in QuickTime 7 Pro.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 25 H.264: The New Video Codec in QuickTime 7 • • • • • • • • • • • • Apple is one of many technology companies supporting H.264 as the foundation for the future of digital video. Other companies that support H.264 include: Broadcom DirectTV Intel Mitsubishi Panasonic Philips Samsung Scientific Atlanta Siemens Sony Texas Instruments Toshiba • • • • • • • Industry trade groups supporting H.264 include: Blu-ray Disc Association DVB DVD Forum ISMA ISO/MPEG ITU-T 3GPP H.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 26 Apple’s implementation of H.264 in QuickTime 7 uses a set of advanced technologies and patent-pending techniques to create pristine video at low data rates. The H.264 encoder: • Produces the best possible quality at the desired bit rate in an optimal number of compression passes. • Offers a single-pass encoding mode for preview and live encoding scenarios. • Optimizes for streaming and CD/DVD playback with peak-constrained variable bit rate (VBR) encoding.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger .Mac Sync Mac OS X Tiger advances the state of the art by integrating intelligent, high-performance synchronization services right into the operating system. In Tiger, the preferences and controls for what and when you sync appear in your favorite applications, such as Safari, iCal, Address Book, Keychain Access, and Mail—including multiple Mail accounts, Mail rules, signatures, and Spotlight-powered Smart Mailboxes.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 28 .Mac As an integral part of Mac OS X Tiger, .Mac is the perfect companion. Tiger ensures simple setup and access to all of your .Mac services. You get innovative software, including your own ad-free .Mac email account, elegant web page creation with HomePage, and easy-to-use Backup software.3 Mail Address Book Bookmarks HomePage iDisk iCal .Mac Sync Mail • Supply your .Mac account name and password, and Mail automatically configures your .Mac email account.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger Parental Controls Family Pack For up to 5 computers The Mac OS X Tiger Family Pack includes a software license designed for families. You can install Tiger on up to five computers for just $199. Designed for multiple users Mac OS X is a multiuser operating system, a characteristic inherited from its UNIX-based foundation. Fast User Switching makes it more convenient than ever to have separate accounts for members of a household, classroom, or office.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger Mail The new version of the world-class, standards-based email application included with Mac OS X features a new look, searching and Smart Mailboxes powered by Spotlight, parental controls, an HTML-based text editing engine, .Mac synchronization of mail settings, and a slideshow view that displays attached images full screen.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 31 Slideshow With Mac OS X Tiger, you can preview images full screen with the new slideshow feature integrated into the Finder, the Spotlight results window, Preview, and Mail. To preview images in the Finder in slideshow view, select one or more images and choose Slideshow from the Action menu. Email is one of the most popular ways to share photos today. Click the Slideshow button to view the pictures full screen.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 32 Other Notable New Features Dictionary and Thesaurus Based on the New Oxford American Dictionary (Second Edition) and the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus (First Edition), the latest versions from the highly respected Oxford collection of reference resources, the Dictionary and Thesaurus is available throughout Mac OS X Tiger as a stand-alone application, as a Dashboard widget, and from the contextual menu (shown here).
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 33 Address Book The built-in contact manager has been enhanced with Smart Groups that automatically gather related contacts; envelope printing; and Address Book sharing with family and friends through .Mac. iCal iCal continues to redefine the personal calendar application, helping you manage your life and time better than ever before.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 34 64-Bit Computing How much memory do you get with 64-bit computing? It’s important to understand that 64 bits isn’t just twice as good as 32 bits. The amount of memory an application can use doubles for each bit in the address, so a 33-bit application could use twice as much memory as a 32-bit application, a 34-bit application twice as much as a 33-bit application, and so on. A 64-bit address space is over four billion times larger than a 32-bit address space.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger Windows Compatibility Open standards are designed to provide seamless interoperability between solutions from different vendors, giving computer buyers the freedom to choose the best solution for their needs. Modern computer networks thrive on a heterogeneous mix of computers that not only deliver optimally matched solutions, but also ensure resilience in the face of unexpected system failures and security breaches.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 36 Windows compatibility features in Mac OS X Tiger include the following. Active Directory. Tiger has built-in support for Microsoft’s proprietary Active Directory service, including Microsoft Kerberos authentication. Mac OS X can read from the Active Directory server, allowing Mac OS X users to participate in Windows-managed networks.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 37 UNIX-Based Foundation Mac OS X is the first operating system to combine the tools, libraries, and commands expected in a world-class UNIX operating system with common productivity applications like Microsoft Office, the latest Java software, and an elegant user interface that makes UNIX configuration simple.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger UNIX enhancements in Tiger • 64-bit libSystem and Accelerate framework for high-performance computing • Encrypted swap file • RAID 0+1, 1+0, JBOD, and faster mirror rebuilds • SSL-enabled WebDAV file system • SQLite open source database • Updated UNIX tools, libraries, and commands – FreeBSD 5: Darwin 8, the open source core of Mac OS X, includes the latest components from the FreeBSD project.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger 39 Product Details Product Availability Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger” can be purchased in several ways. The single-user version is $129; the Mac OS X Family Pack, which includes a five-computer license, is $199. Both are available from the Apple Store and Apple Authorized Resellers. Volume licensing and maintenance programs for customers who need 10 or more licenses are available directly from Apple.
Product Guide Mac OS X Tiger • • • • • • • • • • • • • iChat Image Capture Internet Connect iSync iTunes Mail Preview QuickTime Player Safari Sherlock Stickies System Preferences TextEdit • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Utilities Activity Monitor AirPort Admin Utility AirPort Setup Assistant Audio MIDI Setup Bluetooth File Exchange ColorSync Utility Console DigitalColor Meter Directory Access Disk Utility Grab Grapher Installer Keychain Access Migration Assistant NetInfo Manager Network
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