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Tiger was unleashed yesterday evening in Singapore at 6pm. I was the second person at AppleCentre Orchard to collect my copy of Tiger from the cashier. Can literally feel the excitement in the air when I was queuing though there was not fanfare at the store itself, except for a few cameras and Apple Singapore staff. Left the shop immediately after collecting Tiger. But only installed it when I reached home late at night.

Initial feelings about Tiger (though I’ve used it for only about an hour or so) is that it feels quite good and fast. Spotlight, the main innovative feature of Tiger, is quite exceptional. It indexed my hard disk (about 45GB worth of data) in about 25 minutes. As for Dashboard, it is really quite a fun feature to have. I’m able to check the weather for Singapore or any country, search Britannica, check up words in the dictionary, and even play games. Safari has also been given an update and can now support RSS feeds within the browser. Though this is not something new as Firefox has had this feature since last year, it enables those who don’t want to download another browser to read RSS feeds in Safari. For me, this feature is not as crucial as I’m using NetNewsWire for reading RSS feeds. And there’s Automator, but I haven’t used it yet so I can’t comment.

In general, a good update. Worth upgrading.