[X4U] Looking back at Panther and forward to Tiger

[Andrew Swanson]

At this point I have trouble remembering which Panther features I use 
all the time were added at Panther.

1) I do know that better Exchange integration (through Outlook Webmail) 
has been profoundly useful to me, getting me almost entirely off of 
Classic.
2) The Finder Sidebar (and its integration into open and save dialogs) 
is also something I use all the time.
3) Command+Tab is nice. I use it more than Exposé.
4) Having a local copy of the iDisk certainly speeded things up for me.
5) The improved printer utility really grew on me.
6) The return of labels was nice.

I'm sure there were other features added in Panther that I use a lot 
but no longer remember when they came in. Only the first of these would 
I have guessed I would remember as being among the features of Panther 
that I found most useful.

Now on to Tiger...
1) The feature that I'm SURE I'll find useful (and have, in fact, often 
wanted) is the ability to sync my Mail Rules. (Not the mailboxes, just 
the rules!)
2) The ability of applications to sync may prove very useful as well, 
just judging from how useful I find this feature of StickyBrain 3.2 
(and above). I'm hoping that the fact that it is built in to Tiger 
makes it even more useful (in StickyBrain 3.4 and in other 
applications).
3) Smart Folders in Mail (and Finder and...) look quite nice.
4) I'm not sure, but VPN on Demand looks like it may be useful....

   Andy


On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:

> I was more interested in talking about the features. Is the upgrade 
> worth it? Do we really need those new features? Probably not, but I'm 
> a mac addict and I can't help myself. I never use Exposé or FileVault, 
> for example. But I'm really looking forward to Spotlight and 
> Dashboard. I wonder if Apple isn't just constantly reinventing the 
> wheel. What happened to Sherlock? Wasn't that supposed to be the 
> answer to file searching and to grabbing useful web content and 
> presenting it in a more attractive centralized place? But indexing was 
> slow and always in the way. And I ended up finding it more attractive 
> to go directly to web sites to get that content. Will dashboard be a 
> better solution?