tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8631789.post111539088874277378..comments2023-10-31T09:23:08.189-07:00Comments on From Where I Sit: Tiger, tiger burning bright, in your computerMichael J. Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09840859418177870381noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8631789.post-1115498608819910462005-05-07T13:43:00.000-07:002005-05-07T13:43:00.000-07:00Ah, students.If you tell it to, it will erase your...Ah, students.<BR/><BR/>If you tell it to, it will erase your hard drive. If you don't, it does an update - all your files live happily in the same place they were. That's the default install in OSX. Just like 10.3.7 to 10.3.8 upgrade.<BR/><BR/>What you'll get? Dashboard - more fun than any one person should have and beautiful to look at. Remember Desk Acessories? Picture a whole layer of desk accessories accessed via a hot key.<BR/><BR/>As a writer, you'll love Spotlight. It searches inside the files on your hard drive. That's right - inside. A "new" concept called metadata (coming in a year or so to a Windows desktop near you). Looking for an article you wrote some time back featuring ice cream? Click on the magnifying glass in the upper right hand coner of your screen and type in "ice cream". ,<I>Any</I> file - including E-mails, .pdfs, web pages, Word, Powerpoint - with ice cream in it is pulled into a window. If you want to be crazy, you can create a "smart folder" that automatically updates based on the content you specify.<BR/><BR/>As for saving your data to an external drive - buy a firewire drive and get a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner by guru <A HREF="" REL="nofollow" HTTP://WWW.BOMBICH.COM/> Mike Bombich</A>. Link the drive up, run the software, select the target and source, click a button, type your password and it creates a duplicate of your hard drive. You can then use "Startup Disk" and select that drive to start up your Mac. We use it at school all the time. Want to be industiral safe? Buy a second hard drive and alternate at a regular interval. If you download psync, it'll only update the changed files. Bad news, it won't run under Tiger <I>yet</I>, but you'll get a 10.3 backup that will boot your computer.<BR/><BR/>Tiger is a revolution. Lots of new features under the surface. Ease of use in my estimation has increased greatly. <BR/><BR/>As the ad used to say, "Try it. You'll like it."<BR/><BR/>RickAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com