Finally got Tiger installed on my powerbook, hoo boy what a process. It's always a big deal to upgrade an OS when it's on your main system, said sytem being a notebook well, all my work is in a thin aluminum box. I opted for the clean install which basically means wipe your hard drive and install the new operating system all fresh and clean. It took a while because I duped my hard drive to an external drive before going ahead with the installation - just in case. Then spent some time migrating apps and stuff back. The external drive was USB2 not firewire so it took just a wee bit longer.

Happily, the only thing that didn't work properly afterwards was iCal which kept crashing. Curious, I googled for iCal not working on Tiger and found an entry that mentioned if you had a SIMBL directory in your system library>input managers directory to just remove it and iCal would be working again. Hmmm, I had installed pithhelmet for safari which used the simbl application helper, so since pithhelmet was no longer working i just tossed the directory and - voila- iCal works like a charm now.

The other surprise was the iSync is no longer needed for synching your contacts and calendars to your ipod, all of that is now controlled by itunes. Okaaay. I guess that makes sense, kind of, turning itunes into an ipod applications manager.

Dashboard has been poofed from my dock since i use Konfabulator, heck, I paid for it so I'm not gonna toss it, and besides the widgets seem superior to dashboard's at this time.

Barring any more surprises - I think Tiger is pretty slick.