I finally got the new OSX Tiger installed on my mac last week, which went amazingly smoothly and quickly. It's fairly impressive that you can just push in a dvd and upgrade the entire operating system without a glitch and all of your settings are remembered (although it's still highly recommended to back up everything anyhow). Congrats to the Apple OS team, you have one happy customer.
However, one hilarious weird anomoly in the whole process was that the clever weather widget that's part of the whole new Dashboard thought that I lived in a different Toronto than the large Canadian city in which I do reside. I was looking out the window of my apartment and it was sunny and about 19oC outside but the weather thingy was telling me that it was rainy and only about 12oC. It took me a bit to figure out that it was giving me the weather for Toronto, Ohio (I think) and that I had to choose the Canadian city from the search. All fixed and now very handy, but it seems a little strange that the system isn't clever enough to determine your country first and then choose the appropriate city.
In general, the widgets are a bit American-centric, which is unfortunate considering the wide base of Apple users outside of the States. The Phone Book, for instance, only searches the American Yellow Pages but there's no indication that it's a country-specific look-up. I don't really mind that they don't ship with a Canadian phone book, but it would be at least useful to know right away that the installed phone book isn't Canadian.
But... that's just some nitpicking on an otherwise very worthwhile upgrade.
Comments
rob - May 25, 2005 6:35 am
Same thing happened to me!! I live in Munich Germany and it showed Munich Utah or something like that! You would think that my computer is in Germany, Keyboard and time zone that there would be a kind of intelligent widget.
Very very American! Should be on the box
"Designed by California!, and we think everyone lives there to"
Anthony - June 8, 2005 10:33 am
Hi!
I too live in Toronto and can't seem to figure out how to add Toronto to my weather widget. How did you do this? Mind you, I would like to have Toronto as well as other cities in my widgets, can you add cities from different countries or does it have to be from the same country?
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Daniel Burka - June 8, 2005 12:38 pm
Anthony: To set Toronto, Canada, for the city in the weather widget, just click on the wee "i" in the bottom right when you hover over the widget. Then in the city field, enter "Toronto, Ontario" and you'll be all set to go. And, if you drag another weather widget out of the tray underneath (click on the plus sign) you can have the weather for several cities displayed at once.
peter parkern - October 23, 2005 6:43 pm
The answer is simpler, when you turn the weather widget around, punch in your city then hit "enter" first, it'll give you a list of cities in the world with that name and you choose the appropriate one, then you hit "done". If you don't hit "enter" it'll choose default american cities first. The dashboard, though I love it, should come with better explanations but luckily someone figured it out.