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MacDevCenter.com: 20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About:

Heard anything about Tiger lately? Unless you’ve been living behind soundproof Windows for the past few months, you know that Apple has just shipped Mac OS X 10.4, better known as Tiger.

Help — under Mac attack!:

The following is Chad Dickerson’s article – reproduced here. Click on the above link to get to the original post.

Boy, my last column about Macs in the enterprise really touched a nerve. My editor probably ratcheted up the intensity of the response with a headline and deck (what we call the subheadline in the biz) that went beyond the point that I was making. The headline was “Want a Mac? You’re on your own” and the subheadline was “I love Macs and I use one myself, but I can’t afford to spend time supporting them.” Those are not the headlines I would have written for my column and I’ll definitely take a more active role in watching the headlines for my more controversial columns (and, frankly, I could write the most glowing tribute to Apple imaginable and someone would find a reason to say I was shilling for Microsoft between the lines. Believe me.)

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macosxhints – Enable multiple home folders on different disks

It may be obvious to the Unix buffs out there but it was new to me: you can add multiple values to the home property in Netinfo Manager. Open Netinfo Manager, under users, find your username, then select the home property and add a new value, for example, /Volumes/external_disk/users/me, with everything after /Volumes/ being the path to your home folder on an external disk. Now the first value points to a home folder on an external disk, the second value points to a home folder on your internal disk.

Linux News: Developer: But Macs Are Slower, Right?
On the other hand I think the intuitive bottom line on the Macintosh versus PC productivity debate is actually pretty simple: I’ve never met a PC user whose focus on the job he or she was supposed to be doing wasn’t significantly diluted by the need to accommodate the PC and its software, but I’ve never met a business Mac user who considered the machine anything other than a tool, like a telephone or typewriter, for getting the job done.

Linux News: Commentary: Macs Are More Expensive, Right?
Everyone knows PCs are faster than Macs, but Macs cost more. Right? There are two issues here: cost and performance Right now I want to focus on the cost side of the myth, leaving performance for another column, possibly in late September

Recover from a single-user password-protected boot: “I recently was faced with a hanging login window on boot. After reading, it seemed the netinfo db was correcupt and I needed to boot single-user to fix it.
When I tried, it was asking for a password. Using the install disk to…”

(Via Mac OS X Hints.)

Quickly repeat a single character in Terminal: “In the Terminal, if you press and hold Option, then type a few numeric keys, then press a character, the result is that the character will be repeated that many times. For instance:

Option [hold] and 10, followed by K will r…”

(Via Mac OS X Hints.)