It was here just a second ago

John Siracusa makes me laugh. :)

The other notable change to the Finder comes thanks to a combination of file system notification APIs introduced in Panther (but not leveraged by the Finder at that time) and the features added on as part of Spotlight. The Tiger Finder now correctly shows files when they are created and makes them disappear when they are deleted.

If this doesn't sound like a big deal to you, then you probably haven't used the Mac OS X Finder very much. Or maybe you simply have low expectations for your file manager. (A Windows user perhaps? F5!) But you know how crazy we "graybeards" are, always doggedly holding onto the quaint notion that the file manager should actually reflect the state of files on disk in something approaching a timely manner.

This is an occasion to celebrate -- I find myself opening different folders and going back all the time just to work around this problem. But it's fixed in Tiger!

And as for Windows, it's still all about the F5.