Tiger Tips: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The good: Tiger's built-in firewall includes a new "stealth mode" which makes your computer invisible to the outside world so that it can't even be pinged. To enable it go to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Firewall -> Advanced -> Enable Stealth Mode.The bad: Virtually everything I download in Safari - stuffit files, disk images, etc. - prompts me with a warning that it may contain an application and/or a virus and asks me repeatedly if I am positive I want to post-process it. Yes, I'm positive. Now stop bugging me, dammit! Is there really no way to turn that off? Or am I just being dense and blind about where to toggle it? If I disable the post-processing of "safe" files in Safari's general prefs, it will stop warning me. But it also won't expand anything - so instead of being nagged, I have to click a few more times. Neither is a good solution. If the files are "safe," why can't I make it stop prompting me?
The ugly: The Dashboard Widget "well" is way too big when you call it up. I'd rather have it resizable and relocatable like the OS X Dock.
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DonIncognito said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
If someone finds a solution to Safari's nagging warnings, please post! I can't believe they didn't even include a "Don't show me this again" checkbox...
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Dogzilla said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
A few of my own nags:
- it seems like every single Dashboard Widget is about 3x too big. Am I missing something obvious and they're resizable? Why does every widget developer make their widgets so huge?
- Previous reviewers must have been running on dual 2-mhz G5s. Spotlight is pretty slow on my 1.67 G4
- Mail's Search Entire Message doesn't. Doesn't seem to find *anything* for me. Maybe it's turned off by default?
- Would it kill Apple to license some decent TTS voices? The ones available frankly suck compared to what's available from AT&T.
- I'd dearly love to get Spotlight's menu off my menubar. That spot's reserved to ASM on my macs. Is there any way to get rid of it?
- RSS Screensaver should support multiple feeds
On the other hand, there's an awful lot to like here. Haven't made my own Dashboard widgets yet, but I'm looking forwrad to it (I'll make em small). Safari 2 rocks - compliance is great and RSS feeds are great. The RSS screensaver is wonderful. Automator looks cool. New Mail looks cool. Tiger is faster than 10.3.9 on my machine.
Overall, I love the update.
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Jeff said 4:32PM on 9-06-2005
Yes, please stop the nagging!
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Allan L. said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
If you don't need to have your downloaded file opened or unzipped/expanded as soon as you download it, you could always:
hold option while clicking on the download link
and have your file(s) downloaded without any prompts (or warnings) whatsoever.
I have been doing this since pre-Tiger and never get a warning message.
Again, this will not open your files immediately (that's why the prompt doesn't come up), but I think it's worth it.
Actually, I have my Kensington Expert Mouse set to "option+click" when chording the top two buttons.
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Mike C. said 4:21PM on 6-24-2005
Mail: Uhm... why is there no indicator letting me know when it's actually downloading messages? Why do I need to have sounds turned on to find out that I don't have any new messages? (Sorry, the Activity Window doesn't cut it -- having a second window open isn't reasonable.)
Mail: why can I still NOT use Home/End to jump to the top/bottom of my Inbox?
Automator: Incorporating iTunes-anything into a Workflow brings it to a halt. The app just sits there, spinning.
Spotlight: Kudos to Apple for remembering us keyboard jockey-types... Command-Enter (opens the Top Hit) and Command-Arrow (jumps between groups) work great.
AirPort: changing the meaning of the AirPort status menu item without saying so was mean. ;)
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Travis said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I think to get rid of the warning (atleast for me) is go to Safari -> Prefrences -> Uncheck open "safe" files after downloading.
I haven't gotten one of those boxes after doing that.
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RP said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Remember the first Tiger preview? Instead of the Dashboard Dock, there was a black, repositionable plus sign that would expand into a small window-type thing that is very similar to Motion's Dashboards (the little semi-transparent mini-windows for changing settings of items.
Here is a archived page of a video showing this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040630032524/www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/theater/dashboard.html
I love this archiver site!!!
If only they kept that design and allowed multiple widgets on that old design....
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Laurie said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
To address a few of the comments above, I said "If I disable the post-processing of "safe" files in Safari's general prefs, it will stop warning me. But it also won't expand anything - so instead of being nagged, I have to click a few more times. Neither is a good solution."
The point is I WANT to open "safe" files after downloading. I want dmg files to mount and sit file to unstuff. I don't want to have to double-click them after they download, nor do I want to be warned or prompted every time I allow Safari to do it for me.
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Jonathan Horak said 6:07PM on 9-07-2005
In response to "The Ugly" you can Change the Dashboard shelf's background image.
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Laurie said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Sure, I can change the image - just not the size or the location.
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DonIncognito said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
While we're on the subject of annoyances, who was UI-ignorant enough to design the iTunes widget? The volume control on that thing is atrocious. I thought Apple realized that the whole "let's make applications look like real-world things" idea was a bad thing after QuickTime 4 Player.
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Cyberwhore said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Can someone please help me get rid of the pop up that informs me that I am still connected to the internet and asks if I wish to stay connected.
HELP ME!!!
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