Amazon.com Product Description
Apple's long awaited new operating system brings more than 200 new features to Mac users. Technically speaking, Tiger boasts an open source core, 64-bit system, and support for the High Definition H.264 video codec. But, every user will enjoy the highlights of this new release: a new search tool, cool new mini applications, real-time RSS feeds in the browser, improved email, amped up audio and visual conferencing, parental controls, automation of tedious, repetitive tasks, and the list goes on.
OS-Level Search: Spotlight
Handled by Tiger's search technology, Spotlight, users may search across documents, images, movies, music, PDFs, email, calendar events, and system preferences with one keyword. Spotlight reviews text content, filenames, and keywords (metadata) applied by users and automatically stored by files to return search results. Results are fast and smart, providing previews of returned files and the ability to filter them by kind, date, people, and location. |  |
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More Robust Conferencing: iChat AV
iChat AV updates the Panther version with various new features. Enjoy three-dimensional, multi-participant video meetings with better resolution and compression. Conduct audio conferences with up to 10 members utilizing a graphical panel with sound meters for each speaker that indicate who is speaking. Purchase and run your own Tiger server and conduct instant messaging behind your firewall. |  iChat Audio Conferencing |
iChat Video Conferencing
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| Parental Controls |
| Set computer profiles for children using the aptly named Parental Controls and limit their access to system controls, documents, printers, burners, applications, email, chat, and the Web. With multiple profiles, parents can set varying levels of access for each child. Even downloaded or emailed applications are subject to parental approval first. |
| Drop and Drag Tool Panels: Dashboard
Pull in mini applications from a menu, named the Dashboard, to complete frequent tasks, like tracking flights and stocks or looking up words in the dictionary. Add and rearrange these panels, called "widgets," on your desktop as you choose, and hide or show them with the click of a button. Some other widgets include a calendar, calculator, weather report, yellow pages, language translator and unit converter. | 
Desktop with Dashboard Widgets | 
Language Translator Widget |
Stock Tracking Widget |
| Automated Repetitive Tasks: Automator
Choose pre-programmed "actions" from a library and automate tedious tasks when they have to be done in bulk, like editing images for slideshows and creating birthdays in the address book. There are hundreds in the can and sure to be more as third-party vendors create and make them available. |
Automation of Image Editing Task with Automator |
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Real-time Browser: Safari
Quickly view news headlines and article summaries from around the world with Tiger's browser, Safari . Take advantage of RSS protocols to get the latest news updates automatically.
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Improved Mail
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Tiger's email program, Mail, uses Spotlight to manage your mail. Find messages easily and let Mail automatically organize your messages as they come into the box. New photo resizing, archiving, and slideshow options enhance your ability to share and enjoy pictures via email. |
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Centralized Computer Sync: .Mac Sync
Use .Mac to sync all your Mac computers, wherever they are. .Mac Sync allows you to conveniently sync your Safari bookmarks, iCal appointments, Address Book contacts, passwords, and Mail settings for multiple Mac computers over the Internet.
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Automation of Image Editing Task with Automator |
VoiceOver
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Apple's spoken interface technology, VoiceOver, gives people with visual and learning disabilities equal access to Mac. |
Enhanced QuickTime 7
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Featuring the new standards-based H.264 video codec, QuickTime 7 brings you incredible video quality with lower data rates and smoother playback. |
Product Description
Mac OS X Server v10.4 integrates popular open source software technologies with innovative management tools, for a comprehensive all-in-one solution that's ideal for any corporate and educational institution. Use the power of 64-bit computing and over 200 new features -- including access control lists and secure instant messaging -- makes OS X Server v10.4 perfect for classroom labs, creative professionals and medium-to-large workgroups with high volumes of file sharing activity. Core network services (DNS, NAT, DHCP and Firewall) are integrated into the Server Admin utility, making it easier to set up and secure your local area network Built-in VPN server provides secure remote access from anywhere; L2TP and PPTP tunneling protocols supports encrypted, authenticated IP connections for Mac, Windows, and Linux clients Xgrid distributed computing turns a group of Macs into a low-cost supercomputer by streamlining the process of assembling nodes, submitting jobs, and retrieving results. Run a single job across multiple computers at once, dramatically improving performance and responsiveness Industry-leading management features make services easy to set up and manage from any Mac OS X Tiger system, anywhere on the Internet. GUI for configuring and monitoring network and Internet services; Support for SSH2 enables secure remote administration from the command-line Also supports open-standard SNMPv3 protocol for integration with third-party monitoring and management software Automatic Setup simplifies data center deployments by enabling you to set up multiple servers from configuration settings stored in a directory server, your iPod, or other external FireWire or USB storage device Hardware Requirements - Xserve or Xserve G5, Power Mac G5, Power Mac
