Mac OS X Tiger eases dealing with an ever more complex, connected world. Features such as Dashboard, Spotlight and VoiceOver will change the way you interact with your Mac — and the rest of the planet. The gorgeous Aqua user interface lets you control advanced timesaving technology without you hardly lifting a finger.

Looks Great, Makes You Look Great

Mac OS X wraps its powerful functionality in a user interface that’s both intuitive and gorgeous. Known as Aqua, the Mac OS X interface presents title bars with the eye-pleasing look of brushed metal, brightly colored buttons that immediately signal their functions and crisp, photo-realistic icons that appear almost graspable. Designed from the ground up to make computing virtually second nature, every visual element gives you important information about the activity status of your Mac.

Find Anything in No Time Flat

Mac OS X Tiger introduces a revolutionary search technology that lets you find anything — files, emails, contacts, images, calendars, you name it — on your system as fast as you can type. It’s called Spotlight and you’ll find nothing like it in any other operating system. No more rifling through folders buried within folders to find something that may not even be there. With Spotlight, Mac OS X Tiger gives you a whole new level of access to everything on your computer.

Get Instant Access

Thanks to Exposé, even if you have dozens of applications open, accessing any one of them requires just the press of a key. Similarly, with Dashboard, Mac OS X Tiger provides instant access to your widgets as well. A semi-transparent layer containing your widgets, Dashboard zooms on top of your Desktop with a click of a function key. Press the key again and it disappears just as quickly.

And the Mac OS X Finder makes navigating the files and folders on your Mac easier than ever, giving you a clearly laid out, customizable window with all of your available disks, folders and files easily accessible with a single click.

Automate with Ease

Why perform the same series of tasks over and over again when you can automate the process? Mac OS X lets you do just that — with Automator, an innovative new application that allows you to easily automate time-consuming, repetitive, manual tasks with just a few mouse clicks. Or with AppleScript, a powerful and easy-to-learn scripting language built into Mac OS X.

Share Your Mac

Sharing your Mac with other users is painless and simple. Mac OS X features Fast User Switching, which lets different users of the same Mac, with just one click, switch to their desktop with all their applications and documents exactly as they left them. Your and everyone else’s system preferences also stay perfectly intact when switching from one user to another. (Mac OS X lets you easily set all of your preferences from one convenient System Preferences location.)

Go Beyond the Keyboard

Typing isn’t the only way to input text into your Mac. With Inkwell, Mac OS X lets you write on a graphics tablet and turns your written words in any application into typed text. You can also talk to your Mac. Apple’s Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis technologies enable speech-savvy applications to carry out your voice commands and even speak back to you in plain English. Building upon its speech recognition technology, Mac OS X Tiger delivers VoiceOver, a spoken English interface that allows you to access the Mac through speech, audible cues and keyboard navigation. Apple is continually seeking to enhance its Universal Access features to make the Mac more easily accessible to everyone.