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Friday, April 29, 2005
Open Source Friday: Spotlight on the Tiger
Only two items today, mostly because I'm still trying to figure out the differences between Mono, .NET, LAMP, and C#. (I think LAMP == .NET and Mono == C#, but I've got more reading to do.)Firefox still spreading
People are still turning on to Firefox:Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) Internet Explorer still dominates the market, with a hefty 86.63 percent of the market, with Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL - news) Safari browser trailing in third place with 1.26 percent of the market. Opera alone commands about 1.03 percent, and Netscape has about 1.08 percent.
Other studies have confirmed OneStat's findings. In a recent report, Janco Associates found that Firefox is now the browser of choice for 10 percent of business users, with IE at 83.07 percent.
Mac Tiger
D sends us this article on the newest Mac operating system release:One nice thing about Windows, though, is that Microsoft sics a new version on its customers only once every few years. (Windows XP, for example, made its debut in 2001. The next version is scheduled for 2006.) Apple has asked its faithful followers to upgrade Mac OS X about every year, at $130 a pop (or free with a new Mac). What could Tiger offer that could justify yet another expenditure?
Apple's Tiger Web site lists over 200 new features. Not all of them are, ahem, likely to set off a mass exodus to the Macintosh. Will anyone upgrade to Tiger because, for example, "you can easily find any glyph by typing its Unicode ID"? ...
But with apologies to Mac-bashers everywhere, Spotlight changes everything. Tiger is the classiest version of Mac OS X ever and, by many measures, the most secure, stable and satisfying consumer operating system prowling the earth.
So, Spotlight does searches faster -- via indexing, I suppose -- and prettier. Who doesn't like pretty and fast?
One final quibble, though. The sentence "Tiger is the most secure, stable and satisfying operating system prowling the earth" might not be true, but at least it means something. When you add "by many measures" and "consumer operating system" you're left with a statement so mild that it lacks meaning.
2 Comments:
I do like my Mac and I do like OS X, but it does seem like they have pricey updates a little too often. Still, I may end up with Tiger if I buy a new computer soon as I think I might. I have not checked out Tiger yet and have not read that much about it but if I am not mistaken I think one of the things that makes spotlight so useful is not just that it would find file names with "Hammer" in them but would also find, say, IMG0097.jpg that had been labeled in iPhoto as "Hammer and friends drown sorrows after Packer loss." I could be wrong about this, tho. Spotlight that is, not the Packer loss.
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5:20 PM
The article indicates that there is enhanced indexing available for other Mac software. So iPhoto and iTunes and iWhatever would play nicely with spotlight.
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