There always has to be a Miscellaneous section because not everything will fit into nice neat categories. There are, besides the things I've outlined elsewhere some other complaints I have against Mac OS X. The complaints here are no less severe, I just didn't have enough to make an entire page on them.
Dashboard
There are two issues I have with Dashboard. One is that it takes forever to load the first time you access it after a restart. With the widgets you see up at the top of the page it takes a full 15–20 seconds to be fully loaded. The point of Dashboard is quick access to that info, thus, the purpose is defeated by such long load times. The other problem I have with dashboard is the "Widgets" pseudo-widget. My problem is that it is taking up space in the Widget Dock (or whatever you call that), when there is a button right above the Dock that does the exact same thing. I find such redundancy an waste of space. All of my widgets would fit onto one page if that Widgets widget wasn't there.
Window Switcher Despite the wonder of exposé, I still often use Command-Tab to switch applications. There is a simple reason. Whenever I am typing at the computer, it is very very easy to just hit those two keys. Exposé requires a hand to go to the hot corner and then you need to select the window. It's possible to activate it with the keyboard, but it is much easier to just use Command-Tab. The problem is that when you try to switch windows using command-` or control-F4 you are not presented with the a list of open windows. Instead, you must move trough all of the open widows blindly until you get to the one you want. A window switcher that works like the application switcher would be undeniably useful.
The Login Window While there might be many things on my site that could be construed as (or just are) my personal preference, there is absolutely no excuse for this error. Say I have 5 people in my family that use the computer, plus a guest account and any test accounts I have on the computer at the time. No problem, right? In Panther 5 accounts easily fit into the login window. In Windows, I'm pretty sure more than 5 fit. So what the heck happened? My screen is 1200-friggin-pixels-tall. Why on Earth to I have to scroll to access a fifth user? The point of the login screen is to be a quick and easy place to login. Tiger certainly defeated this purpose by making you scroll if you have more than just four users.
Preview and Icns Files
It used to be in Preview that when you opened an Icns file, each level of resolution of the Icon is treated as a page in a drawer. You could then export each page to whatever format you wished. However, this is not the case in Tiger's Preview. Now you can only export the top page.
Completely Random Dvorak Bug This issue is entirely a mistake at Apple. Whoever updated the keyboard layouts for Tiger accidentally copied the Command-key table into the Command-Shift-key table for the layout with Dvorak normal keys and Qwerty Command keys. This means that there is no way to do any key combination that includes the shift key in the DQ layout.
Dropshadows
There are two things that I notice about dropshadows. One of these things is that the shadow for the mouse will randomly disappear. I'm sure there is some reason for this, and it certainly doesn't impact anything, but I still find it a little odd. The other thing is that whenever you minimise something the drop shadow of the window goes away, until the window comes back entirely. This could just be an issue with weak GPU's but, for me at least, it's a little flustering.
Not-So-Fast User Switching I couldn't live without FUS, my life would be completely insane. I live with 4 other people that all use the computers, and it would be horrible if we had to log each-other out every time we sat at a computer. Also, since I live with so many people, it's important that if I get up from the computer and don't return, the computer prevents others from messing with my account. The way to do that right now is to lock the screensaver. I cannot use the current feature that logs you out after X minutes because under no circumstances should I be logged out. There is a big difference between logging out and just switching users. The problem with the screensaver method is that it requires everyone else to switch to the login screen and then enter their credentials. Why can't there just be a feature somewhere to have the login screen pop up after x minutes, or, even better, for it to switch to the login screen after the screensaver.
So-called Threads in Mail Threads are insufficient in Mail. When I first saw the feature demoed way back when I was like "Wow! That's cool and useful!" Then I actually used it, and it was immediately apparent how unusable this "feature" is. It, in reality, is in no way similar to the threads that everyone is used to with messageboards on the internet. Instead of grouping what should essentially be conversations, all it does is put different emails with some of the same subject into one so-called "thread". This is a big problem because emails can have the same title and have no relation to each-other, being separated by years. Two emails with the subject of "Next Meeting Details" would be in the same thread even if one was an April 03 annual planing meeting for Budget Council, and the other an August 05 get together of a small club. The opposite of this is exactly true. If someone replies to an email but changes the name of it, suddenly, it will be a new thread. If Apple does not have the technology, or cannot have the technology due to limitations in the email standards, to organise emails into real threads, then they should not attempt to half-implement it in a program.
The Input Menu The problem: the input menu has this little coloured flag there. Why is this a problem? Because Apple has apparently gone to great effort to make the icons in the menubar grayscale (except in extreme circumstances). Why then go to such lengths, and then spoil it with a colourful flag? In order to get the flag out of my menubar I switched to Dvorak. An imperfect solution, but at least my menubar has just one colour. Although it would not work to make the flags grayscale, it would be possible to use abbreviations for languanes (like EN, ES, FR ...). Or, they colud just use a keyboard icon, like in Windows.
Web Development Apple seems to completely ignore web developers. Besides the blatantly obvious lack of FTP support, there are a variety of other things that show Apple's indifference. The one that I find most annoying is the fact that you have to be a Unix genius, or have to ask people on the internet, to know how to install basic components of the web server, like a database. Not only that, but you have to edit random configuration files in obscure places to get anything to work properly. The whole point of Mac OS X is so that I never have to see the command line again. Had I wanted to use the terminal all the time I would be using Linux. This web server is installed in every single copy of Tiger, and there is an entire "Sites" folder in everyone's Home folder. You'd think they could make it easy to use. Really, it could be nothing more than a Preference panel to manage the webserver... but Apple needs to do at least this much.
Exposé Can't Handle Alike Windows Look at that. What is wrong with that? I had 6 windows maximised in SubEthaEdit (meaning they had the same dimensions), and I went to exposé. But instead of stacking 3 by 2, all six windows went into a row. This means that they are 1/4 of the size the could be, rendering them not nearly as readable as they could have been. What caused such a bug? It's very easy to replicate. Whenever you have windows where one of the dimensions is the same, it will just put them in one row. Try it for yourself!
Dictionary
Apple has attepmted to integrate a dictionary with the rest of their OS. Likewise they've integrated a spellcheck with the OS. What's crazy is that these two separate databases of words are not connected. There is one huge database for spellcheck, and another one for the Dictionary, and they are not connected. What's even crazier is that both will offer ideas for corrections when you misspell a word. It seems to me that there is a lot of wasted effort going on here. They should just integrate these two services, so that there aren't two competing systems trying to do the same thing.