“Mac fans are getting keyed up for the immanent [sic] launch of Tiger, which, according to Apple, will launch in the first half of this year. Macworld readers were asked: ‘What Tiger feature are you looking forward to the most?’ in an online poll. With 1,532 votes cast it emerged that more than a quarter (29 per cent) were most excited about Dashboard,” Macworld UK reports. “Almost another quarter (24 per cent) is looking forward to searching with Spotlight. ‘Crystal clear video in QuickTime 7’ was the most popular choice of 15 per cent of readers. While the next popular new feature, Automator, was the choice of 7 per cent. Less popular choices were iChat AV (5 per cent), ‘Up-to-the-minute RSS feeds in Safari’ (3 per cent), .Mac Sync (2 per cent) and ‘VoiceOver’s spoken English interface’ (1 per cent).”
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MacDailyNews Take: Not to single out one feature, but we’re really looking forward to Tiger’s Automator and hope it lives up to its promise.
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