A couple things that stuck out as I went through the WWDC coverage of Tiger:

The new Xcode seems pretty slick. I’m not a huge fan of IDEs in general and tend to do most of my work in vIM, but for larger projects I won’t deny that an IDE is handy. I used the current version of Xcode last semester for some Java projects and found it a bit buggy, but with luck that will probably be ironed out in the new version. Completion for Java class, method, and variable identifiers is definitely a good thing.

Automater as a GUI-based AppleScript tool seems interesting, mainly because I haven’t gotten around to learning much AppleScript myself yet (the syntax reminds me so much of VBA that I shudder at the thought). I’d probably use it just for the cute robot icon alone.

I guess Dashboard is essentially the same thing as Konfabulator, but I’m having trouble feeling outraged about it. Konfabulator never struck me as particularly cool or interesting, and I certainly wouldn’t have paid $25 for it, so the fact that its functionality is now part of the operating system is neither here nor there as far as I’m concerned. And it’s not the case that Dashboard is somehow a ripoff of Konfabulator - they weren’t the first to do widgets, not by a long shot.

Mmmm, 64-bit pointers.

The new displays aren’t part of Tiger, exactly, but damn are they hot. And now that there’s a 30″ display available, the price has dropped on the 23″ - it’s only pretty unlikely that I’ll get one now, instead of fantastically implausible.