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So they finally went and announced Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, due for release April 29. I only found out while browsing Yahoo! News and wondering, why would “Apple set to release upgrade to Mac OS X” be front page technology news?, before I read the article and subsequently got reduced to over-excited convulsions.

Looking forward to:

• Smart folders for Address Book. This way, instead of manually sorting address book entries into folders, I could, say, specify a smart folder with “all phone numbers with area code 650” to lump most of my friends in the Bay Area into one folder.
• Smart folders for Mail.app. My current Mail.app rules do the job well enough when categorising e-mails, but smart folders would allow for a certain e-mail to exist within different folders (just like in Gmail labels).
• iSync compatibility with the newest phones (specifically Series 60 using SyncML). Another excuse to upgrade my phone.
• Safari RSS. I like NewsFire very much for reading most newsfeeds, but being able to distil all the information on any crowded but RSS-enabled page (that I wouldn’t want crowding up my NewsFire feeds) would be perfect. No more stupid ads and gratuitous flash graphics while scanning ESPN. Also, Safari 2 has that RSS “detection button” feature that I miss when switching from Firefox.
• Dashboard widgets. The widgets for dictionary, iTunes, weather, translator, address book, calendar and the unit converter all look potentially useful.
• Scientific / graphing calculator. Oooooh.

The best part? With the trip to the Bay Area coming up, I can get a copy for US$69 at school (S$248 here, S$148 educational). Woohoo!