Tiger

Don’t be alarmed, but this is a not-characteristically-VC techie post. “Techie without the technical know-how,” you might say.

Mac people: an exhaustive review of Tiger from Ars technica: it’s TMI, baby–too much information. But use the dropdown menu to skip to the “Dashboard” section for screenshots of Tiger’s most relevant feature for me: the widgets feature, called Dashboard. Konfabulator is a cool shareware program, but it had its glitches and burps. I got tired of it and deleted it. It will be fun to run little XML windows in the background. Think “bloglines” where the information you’re gathering is the weather in a favorite city, your beloved’s flight pattern, and so on. (My favorite Konfabulator widget was the werewolf detector: it was a moon, the moon at that moment: full, half, and so on.)

See, I am not a real geek. When it comes to computers, I am shallow. I just like fun stuff and/or greater efficiency. I’m into Widgets.

And revolution, of course. But that’s another blog entry.