Mac OS X 10.4

Mac OS X 10.4 , whose trade name is Tiger , is the fourth major version of the operating system Mac OS X of Apple.

It was marketed the April 29th 2005.

Innovations

Apple promoted more than 200 innovations at the time of this major update. Among the innovations of Tiger, one finds:

technology Spotlight, system of research with indexing. Traditional research without preliminary indexing takes time enormously, especially when one deals with great quantity of data or if one must carry out a research in the contents of a file. Spotlight indexes the contents of the hard drive to provide the result of a research instantaneously.
Smart Folders , intelligent French files (but the expression “ files dynamiques ” is more suitable). The dynamic files are in fact an application derived from Spotlight. It is not a question any more of creating a file into hard where the user will arrange with the hand the files or under-files which it wishes, but to define one or more criteria (name, date of modification, etc, ; the possibilities are innumerable) which will determine the elements to make appear in the dynamic file. The system manages then itself the contents of the file according to the criteria seized by the user. The file preserves its place in the traditional tree structure and is not modified, it acts only of one layer of abstraction.

the virtual instrument panel Dashboard, accessible on pressure from a key of the keyboard, which posts small applications called Widget S ( Gadget in French) such as a clock, a computer, a converter of numerical data or a summary of local weather forecasting. The possibility for no matter whom knowing there a little in programming to create a widget makes that several hundreds of widgets exist already at present (of which one which makes it possible to consult Wikipedia directly). Apple announced at the beginning of August 2005 that more than 1000 widgets summers have create. See the page on the site of Apple which count all existing Widgets.
Automator, application containing a certain number of preset scriptée action. Allows the users not knowing anything with the programming to easily create scripts in AppleScript or Perl.
the API S

Core Image, delegating a major part of graphic calculations and of returned to the video chart
Core Dated, a Framework making it possible to program the " part easily; model of données" of an application based on the Reason for design Model-Sight-Controller (MVC Design pattern).
Video Core

a better support 64 bits, not yet complete.
ACL S
QuickTime 7
Safari RSS
Xcode 2.2
the format of the captures of images (Order + Maj. + " or + Maj Orders. + ') in png.

A version for x86

There exists to date a version of Apple Mac OS X Tiger for processor X86 (Intel and AMD) since Apple announced the abandonment of the microprocessors PowerPC of IBM in favor of Intel and of the x86. The exit of these new machines was to be made as from June 2006 but they were marketing at the beginning of 2006 at the time of MacWorld. Apple wishes to lock its system with DRM to oblige the purchase of its material x86 and to prevent its installation (illegal, since the system is not on sale " with part" in its Intel version) on other computers Intel processor. A beta release of Mac OS x86 is however currently in diffusion on networks of P2P, and it is possible to circumvent checking DRM of this version to start it on a completely normal PC, having the Instruction set SE (Pentium 4, Athlon 64,…). This action is illegal, even by having in its possession a license of the original software. Moreover, that requires a modification of the system which returns complex least updated: indeed, an update will carry out a rebootstrapping of the modified files, returning the restarting of the PC under OS X impossible. Consequently, the crackers are forced to place at the disposal of the interested parties ISO images of OS X with the last updates and modifications as soon as Apple proposes an update of its OS.

History of the updates

April 29th 2005: Mac OS X 10.4.0 (build 8A428)
May 16th 2005: Mac OS X 10.4.1 (build 8B15) (remote loading)
July 12th 2005: Mac OS X 10.4.2 (build 8C46) (remote loading)
October 31st 2005: Mac OS X 10.4.3 (build 8F46) (remote loading)
January 10th 2006: Mac OS X 10.4.4 (build 8G32) (remote loading)
February 14th 2006: Mac OS X 10.4.5 (build 8:14) (remote loading)
April 3rd 2006: Mac OS X 10.4.6 (build 8I127 in PowerPC version) (description of the update and bond towards the remote loading)
June 27th 2006: Mac OS X 10.4.7 (build 8J135) (description of the update and bond towards the remote loading)
September 29th 2006 Mac OS X 10.4.8 (build 8L127 en PowerPC version) (description of the update and bond towards the remote loading)
March 14th 2007: Mac OS X 10.4.9 (description of the update and bond towards the remote loading)
June 21st 2007: Mac OS X 10.4.10 (description of the update and bond towards the remote loading)

External bonds

the official Web site
Innovations of Mac OS X 10.4 - Tiger (nonofficial site)
an evaluation of the innovations of Tiger
Widget wikipedia (compatible with the French wikipedia)
Extracts on iTunes France from the music from introduction to MacOS X 10.4 during the first starting of Mac (Bytecry, by the group Weevil)

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