Make your Mac a communications hub that puts you in control. If you feel flooded by the steady stream of news and information to the point where you forget all your relatives’ birthdays, Tiger can help. Take advantage of smart organization and Internet software that gives you more time to enjoy connecting.

Spin the Web

You’ll feel right at home on the Internet with Mac OS X Tiger. Receive news feeds from news organizations, community websites and weblogs with Safari RSS, the first browser with built-in support for RSS. Scan news feeds and view them together in a simple, ad-free list. With Safari RSS, you find all the articles that interest you from all across the Web. Ready to build your own home on the Web? Sign up for a .Mac account and create a web space to share photos, self-publish a weblog or just keep friends and family in your digital loop. Or use Personal Web Sharing, publish web pages or share files on the Internet — right from a folder in your hard drive.

Keep in Touch

The digital life can feel pretty hectic. How can you stay in contact when you have to be three places at once? Why, Mac OS X Tiger, of course. Send, receive and manage your email with Mail 2, the easy-to-use yet powerful email application that lets you create Smart Mailboxes using Spotlight search technology. And since it’s fully integrated with Address Book 4, Mail even makes managing your contacts a snap.

If you prefer instant contact, try iChat AV 3 and turn your IM sessions into full-blown video and audio chats. With iChat AV in Mac OS X Tiger and a video camera like iSight, you can engage in multi-way conferences — with up to three of your friends or colleagues — with true-to-life picture quality and crystal-clear audio.

Get Organized

Even face-to-face time gets easier with Tiger, thanks to iCal 2 and Address Book 4. iCal helps you organize your schedule by letting you create as many separate calendars as you need. Create a calendar for home, a different one for school, a third for work and so on. Thanks to seamless Mac OS X integration you can even invite create iCal event invitations and email them via Address Book, the ultimate contact-management solution. Actively access the contents of every Address Book card: Click on a home page URL to launch the website or click on an email address to send a message. And to keep things tidy, create Spotlight-driven Address Book Smart Groups by selecting certain criteria — say, every contact with a birthday in the next 30 days — and Address Book automatically creates a folder containing every contact meeting that criteria.

Stay in Sync

You don’t even have to be at your desk to know what your next appointment is and the number you need to call. That’s because iCal works with iSync, the built-in synchronizing software, to sync up the calendar and contacts on your Mac with your cell phone. Or sync multiple Macs with all your contacts, Safari bookmarks and iCal events using .Mac sync. A .Mac account gives you this syncing capability and so much more. Mac OS X automatically configures your .Mac email account for you, integrates your iDisk right into the Finder and keeps it synced so you always have its contents with you even when aren’t connected to the Internet.