Problem with being such an early adopter is you have to wait around for all the third-party apps that you're used to to be updated. WeatherPop earns the distinction (if you can call it that) as the first lil' app that I use that released a 10.4-compatible version.
But so far, Tiger itself is pretty sweet. Spotlight is pretty much Apple's souped-up take on LaunchBar so it'll be interesting to see what happens to it after a few months.
Dashboard, while very snazzy, has one major flaw/difference when compared to Konfabulator. It runs a bit more like a traditional app. So you have to hit F12 to activate Dashboard, and then all your Dashboard widgets appear on screen. With Konfabulator however, their widgets actually float on top of your desktop so they feel like they're more constantly available. I like the Konfab way of handling the widgets but the Dashboard widgets are pretty well done.
Oh, and in case anyone does the same as me, the instructions for enabling Postfix (so you can run smtp off your machine) for 10.3 still works.
Comments (5)
I always preferred WeatherDock.
But isn't there already a Dashboard widget for weather?
Posted by kaige | April 27, 2005 10:13 PM
Posted on April 27, 2005 22:13
Yeah I'm not a big Dock user so I limit it to just what apps I have open. I prefer to have info things up on the menu bar but that could be problematic at times cause I wind up with too many things up there.
Dashboard's weather widget looks really nice but I don't want to have to go into Dashboard just to see it. With WeatherPop I can see it no matter what I'm doing.
Posted by Ben | April 27, 2005 10:34 PM
Posted on April 27, 2005 22:34
You can hide WeatherDock from the dock and have it appear only in the menubar. It also does international weather, and, best of all, it's free.
I'm curious what what services you have running on locally your laptop. Got any tips to share with a newbie?
Posted by kaige | April 27, 2005 11:34 PM
Posted on April 27, 2005 23:34
Ok, you convinced me, I switched to WeatherDock. ;-p
Eh, what do you mean by services? Only things I run are PHP, MySQL, and Postfix. Although I still have to reinstall MySQL and reconfigure everything.
Posted by Ben | April 28, 2005 12:10 PM
Posted on April 28, 2005 12:10
Yeah, that's what I meant. I was able to get PHP and MySQL running. But actually taking it to the next step... being able to making the connection as a local test server for Dreamweaver, or easily pushing edits to a a remote site... I'd been having trouble with.
Posted by kaige | April 29, 2005 4:07 PM
Posted on April 29, 2005 16:07