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Tiger is somewhat US centric. I’d like Apple to set European defaults if the user selects a European country when installing. As a European, I just never use US Letter, I use A4. I never use Fahrenheit, I use Celsius. I never use Inches, I use metric measures. (Why use a dead english king as base for measuring lengths more than 200 years after independence from England, when the rest of the world and all of science use metric measurements?) I’m not interested in the weather in Oslo, USA in the weather widget, I want Oslo, Norway. An ESPN widget is much less interesting than a FA Cup or Champions League widget. The Stock widget only has US stocks, the People widget is US-centric and the Ski Report widget only seems to list US resorts. Give us some useful European widgets, and hide the US ones for European installations. I want a way to globally turn off spell checking. I find spell checking while typing annoying. Specially since Apple doesn’t include a spell checking dictionary for my native language, Norwegian. Apple, why do you bother me with trying to spell check my Norwegian text in totally different languanges? It is not useful. Just plain annoying. Steve Jobs, why don’t you try to spell check your keynotes with a Spanish dictionary and see how useful that is. I’d prefer Apple to fix the Apple Mail program so that it can deal with IMAP folders with tens of thousands of e-mails efficiently, rather than more eye-candy and feature bloat. Better synching between macs would be great. I have a couple of stationary macs at home, a macbookpro and a couple of stationary macs at work. A software update mechanism for third party apps (specially shareware apps) would be great.