The latter example represents one of the more convenient applications of the robust search technology delivered by Spotlight, but is also telling of its fundamental convenience to you, the user. Remember that list of life goals that you unhelpfully saved as "Untitled.doc" and forgot about? Spotlight found it with your "skydive" search. The functionality extends far deeper than mere file names, too: thanks to a rapid and robust indexing feature, Spotlight can find all your emails in Apple's Mail program that have word "skydive" in them, for example, as well as pictures in iPhoto and from inside the text of documents. Type "skydive" as the search term in the Spotlight menu (accessible from every application in the top right of the screen) and, almost instantaneously, it finds and categorises every file on your computer that has that term. Think of Spotlight as Google on steroids for your own Mac. Two new technologies that have come to symbolize Tiger are Spotlight, a new system-wide search technology, and Dashboard, a feature that puts dozens of convenient utilities one keystroke away. Such was the challenge Apple engineers faced in coming up with the more than 200 new features packed into Tiger: how to improve on a phenomenal product that already met the vast majority of its users needs. To seasoned aficionados, this most likely isn't too surprising, as Apple has already been delivering a truly first-rate combination of performance and ease of use for years. While the list of improvements is numerous, current Macintosh users may be underwhelmed by what the Tiger delivers in terms of tangible benefits to how they use their Mac. Tiger is the latest and, it claims, the greatest. Whereas Microsoft's next-generation operating system, code-named Longhorn, has been in development for several years and isn't expected until the second-half of 2006 at the earliest, Apple has released major upgrades to Mac OS X at the rate of almost one per year. Since releasing the first version of Mac OS X in 2001, Apple has been working around the clock to ensure that its operating system consistently tops the competition. As part of its attempt to satisfy existing customers and woo new ones, Apple this week delivered Tiger, the fourth major upgrade to its operating system, OS X.
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