The longtime Mac 'stickies' pop-up notes are part of Dashboard, too, making it a true control panel for your business and social life. But then it adds treats like a language translation tool, a running stock price ticker, a version of the Oxford American Dictionary, a continually updated weather report for your location and, of course, a widget called Tile Game. This impressive toolset includes predictable stuff like a calendar, clock and a calculator. A double-click anywhere makes them disappear.

A similar search feature won't be in Windows until the next version, code-named Longhorn, is released in 2006.Īnother Tiger tidbit is Dashboard, a system of small but powerful applications that can be displayed as a set of icons on the screen by hitting a function key (F12). Ironically, Bill Gates has said that putting 'information at your fingertips' is Microsoft's guiding principle. Same goes, of course, for music in iTunes, where metadata includes artist, studio, album title, date acquired and more.Īs you accumulate saved Web pages, calendars, e-mail, contacts and such, this search power means that information is truly at your fingertips.

Spotlight can search out stuff like every picture taken in March, every photo made with a 2.8-inch focal length setting, with key words you associated with an image and other stuff. As Spotlight finds different file types, it integrates with Mac's iLife multimedia tools (iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes and GarageBand) to find multimedia items using not just file names and content but the so-called metadata that computers attach to a file.įor example, if you move a photo from a digital camera onto a Mac, iPhoto stores it in a system of named and date-coded albums.

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