Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright

This has nothing to do with William Blake.

I really like Tiger.

First, Spotlight is brilliant. Smart folders are excellent. While I do a fair amount of freelance projects and use Macs at home constantly... I really wish I was using a Mac full-time at work. I go between a Win2k machine and a Mac -- 95% of the time on the Dell. Spotlight would be so helpful here at work because I'm always forgetting how I filed things. I don't have nearly the amount of files at home as I do here.

Second, my phone finally syncs with iSync and Address Book via Bluetooth.

Third, Mail is a little uglier, but it's way faster and this is on my dual USB iBook (a G3!).

I like Dashboard, but I wish it weren't a separate layer. I'd like to have the weather floating on my desktop all the time.

I haven't even played with Automater yet.

I really didn't think I would see a huge difference with Tiger, but I'm happily surprised.

Oh and iTunes supports podcasting, which is great. Safari and RSS is nice, but I won't switch from NetNewsWire. It works perfectly and is an app I wouldn't want to live without.

Thanks to John Gruber for keeping us all up-to-date on Tiger details. It helped me make the decision to finally go pick up a copy.