Automator

As I understand it, Automator is the old script recorder on steroids, but it would still require an application that is scriptable in order to work. ...

samfrog88 listed these as his main uses: web design, video editing, and image editing (Photoshop) Based on that, if you're doing mostly ASP code, it'll be easier on the PC with built-in ASP server. If you're doing mostly PHP, it's the other way around for OS X and Apache. Photoshop is the same on either platform other some windowing issues that some users prefer on...

along the lines of where automator is. ...

Panther: phenomenally successful. Over 14 million active users. Most successful Mac OS. Mac OS X Tiger on track to ship in first half of this year. 200 new features. Improved Windows connectivity, .Mac sync, Safari adds automatic RSS detection, Automator. "No time for all of them." Will discuss a few.

I have a vague interest in teaching myself some OpenGL (I can already program in Java, C, C++, Python, etc). What's the point of OpenGL? Is it only really for games programmers? More to my real point, when programming for other Mac users, what would be most useful/interesting for a programmer (working alone) to know? AppleScript (seems to be of decreasing...

When? Not yet. 8A323 is still too buggy/unstable for me to use day-to-day, even on non-critical stuff. There's also the brand new problem I have that I'm sure the tech reviewers will be complaining about: I just don't see a "killer" reason to upgrade. Spotlight will probably be nice, and the new Mail will help. iChat AV would be cool if I could ever get it to work...

Why use iPhoto? Try ImageCapture. It downloads the pictures to your ~/Pictures directory from which you can move to wherever you want.

-folder droplets (e.g. if files are placed in this folder, send them via FTP to this address) -parsing of XML data from Final Cut -top to bottom processing of media (e.g. we have a client that sends us monthly photos to add to their website. We currently have to add them to the database, color correct them, create multiple-sized thumbnails and then post. This could...

I can't wait to try out Automator! If only i was a premier ADC member (?).

A lot of what will be introduced in Tiger has not been announced yet. Among the rumoured but unconfirmed changes are significant changes to themes/appearance. The official run down is here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/ Features Spotlight: A new search technology that searches metadata for instant search on files, email, bookmarks, websites, contacts, photos,...