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Mac OS X Yosemite Beta Opens
New submitter David Hames (3763525) writes Would you like to test drive the newest release of the Macintosh operating system? Apple is opening up the beta for Mac OS X Yosemite starting Thursday to the first million people who sign up. Beta users won't be able to access such promised Yosemite features such as the ability to make or receive your iPhone calls or text messages on your Mac, turn on your iPhone hotspot feature from your Mac, or "Handoff" the last thing you were doing on your iOS 8 device to your Mac and vice versa. A new iCloud Drive feature is also off-limits, while any Spotlight search suggestions are U.S.-based only. Don't expect all your Mac apps to run either.
Ars has a preview of Yosemite.
...except that my "redemption code" which pops me over to the App Store says "This code has already been redeemed". Did we break their site already?
Not Son of Sam! Ruff!
"it doesn't blindly clone mobile design elements with no regard for how people use desktop operating systems"
The first two pages or the Ars thing are all fonts and flattened icons and such, while the last page is "Apple has done no harm to the Finder in Yosemite, but it hasn't fixed any of its problems either." and "Functionally, the Dock doesn't change much."
I'm glad to see Apple is spending its time focused on important things, like pushing its also-ran version of Windows UI aesthetics.
Wow, they copied the horrible UI cues from Windows 8
Am I the only person who hates the flat UI style that Microsoft, Google, and Apple have all adopted? I hated it being shoved onto my iPhone, and now it looks like the same nonsense it coming to OSX.
And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
My parents stayed there once. My dad complained it was full of bugs.
From what I see in some screenshot, UI just looks too plain. I want to see some depth not a peace of paper.
announced the beta are already signed up even if they didn't get an email. I logged on under the email I requested a code for back right after the developers conference and got the code.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
But give free updates for iOS?
National parks are selling commercial naming rights?
Are you sure he wasn't talking about your mom?
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Important Info: OS X Yosemite Beta Seed
Today we have released a public beta build of Yosemite for people who are part of the OS X Yosemite Beta Program. This is an open-to-the- public seed of similar pre-release software that you test for us. The build they received is 14A299l which is identical and not any newer than your current build 14A298i. There is no benefit in moving to the public seed build. Participants in the public seed get access to the pre-release software and a lighter version of Feedback Assistant. We suggest that you DO NOT participate in the OS X Yosemite Beta Program. If you participate in both programs, you may experience the following issues:
* You will have multiple projects listed in your projects list in Feedback Assistant and the AppleSeed portal.
* Installing the public seed build will prevent you from seeing additional software update OS X builds that are only available to the AppleSeed Program.
* If you write bugs using the OS X Yosemite bug form while using the public seed build, they may not get screened.
Please remember your current participation in the Apple Software Customer Seeding Program contains many added benefits:
* You receive additional information in the form of release notes, emails, and bug correspondence
* You have access to a discussion board
* You have access to more detailed bug forms
* Your bug reports are screened by engineering
* You will have access to builds not available in OS X Yosemite Beta Program
We appreciate all that you do for the AppleSeed Program. Your steadfast participation truly makes Apple software a high quality product. If you have additional comments or questions, please post on the discussion board.
followed by Marmite, then Vegemite. Then Bovril, Oxo, Herbox, Knorr and Maggi.
http://www.acetonestudio.com
I can fix any current Mac OS. Just go into the apps folder (flower-shift-a is the shortcut), then into utilities, then run shell application. Enlarge the window to full screen. Bingo, you're in a bash shell where you can talk to a proper unixy command line interface.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Apple seems to have removed the ability to customize the chat bubble colors in Messages.app in Yosemite. If you liked that feature (as I did) and want it back, I've got your back! https://github.com/kethinov/Bu...
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
The linked Ars Technica review pretty much only looks at surface level details, like icons, window buttons, menus, etc. Doesn't say anything about functionality, speed, or lower level concerns.
And this line is misleading:
Microsoft got the idea from Apple, who started their public beta program with the first version of OS X back in 2001.
"Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff."
- Deep Thought
...and got a gigantically unhelpful email from someone who obviously didn't bother to pay attention to my support ticket. It helpfully informed me that 1) the code was already redeemed, 2) they couldn't tell me who did that due to privacy, and 3) told me to have a nice day.
I miss the days when Steve would come in and yell at people, relentlessly, for not doing their [ redacted ]-ing jobs, at all.
Feels like I've already been doing beta testing since the last major release of iTunes has been released. It's been very buggy, especially where podcasts are concerned. They keep throwing more features in which seem to break basic functionality and slow the application down. It now takes over two seconds to delete a podcast episode since version 11.3 came out. And that's for every episode. If you want to delete three episodes it takes over six seconds. How do you write something that bloody slow? I fear updating to the new version in Yosemite for how bad it's going to be.
Those of us of a certain age will probably find the codename of the new OS X oddly familiar.
The so-called "Blue & White" PowerMac G3 was also code-named "Yosemite" (http://apple-history.com/g3blue). Mine still works fine, 15 years later - it'll be old enough to drive and vote soon.
Too bad my Yosemite Mac won't be able to run Yosemite OS X...
Like Lynx and Caracals.
...and if they were good enough for my Dad, they're good enough for me.
It's always "change for the sake of upgrades" with these guys. Microsoft went from flat icons, to 3D icons tilted one way, to 3D icons tilted the other way, and now back to... flat, yes, I'm glad we're continuing to improve by revolving around in circles. Possibly they got the idea from the "busy" cursor.
Prepare to buy new copies of all your software because they have old-fashioned icons but, not sufficiently old-fashioned icons.
If you just want a UNIX shell, why are you running all that graphical crap at all? Real men want a text mode UNIX. Here, let me help you...
From the login window, in the user name field, type:
>console
and hit enter.
Now, loginwindow.app and the window server go away, and you're in a real UNIX shell. And get off my lawn.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Terrible font - Helvetica Neue roman needs to die in a fire when compared to Helvetica medium or Lucida Grande.
Font is too thin, spacing is too wide. Looks weak, girly, empty, frail. Ick.
Terrible color scheme - too luminous, too garish, colors conflict with each other and are hard on the eyes. Unpleasant to view.
Flat UI elements simply suck, look insubstantial and weak.
Translucency is better, but still sucks. Why do we need this?
Can't look at it. Don't want to look at a UI that hurts my eyes.
If the future of the Mac looks like this, I'm leaving the platform. Jony Ive should never be allowed to touch an interface - ever.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
What is soo bad that it makes people afraid of change, give headaches, cause confusion, or just makes uses apathetic to upgrade to shiny gradients, colors, shadows, animations etc?
Well I tell you one thing? I HATE BLINDING WHITE ALL CAPS office 2013. I HATE FULL SCREEN. I hate less functionality. I hate no buttons (Apple is removing all buttons in iOS 8 because it ... gulps does not have real ones). Is there anyone who hates the leather bound address book as much as we all hate Metro and flat 72 pixel fonts?
Anyone like seeing only 2 videos instead of 7 on youtube on our phones due to big fonts and flat elements?
There is a reason Skuemorphism was used. Namely ... IT WORKS. People can replicate real world objects quite efficiently and maybe just maybe the reason real world objects look, act, and function a particular way is because it was THE BEST way to use it. Nothing is wrong folks with pretty gradients and animations that are soothing to the reader. I can still read my MS word documents fine in older colorful versions of Office. No really I can really read without distraction when a distinction between element panes are visible in non-white anti skuemorphism crowd.
Proof: Look at the Iphone 1? The reason Apple won the 1st battle from MS and blackberry overnight is because they were pretty and drop dead gorgeous. Android won battle 2 but still Apple never got defeated.
If IOS looked like it did in 2007 it frankly wouldn't sell. People wanted the gum drops of Safari.
http://saveie6.com/
Is this the release that adds support for HiDPI on external displays? I was pretty disappointed when I got a 4k display to find that it was unusable under OS X 10.9.3. (You can drive it at 4k, but cannot scale the interface).
I wish I could run this in a Parallels Desktop VM, under 10.9. That would be much more convenient than having to set up a separate boot partition. But right now it appears unsupported... unless someone knows better?
I was a long time Mac user at a former employer. Started on a discless Mac Classic with connectivity to the "server" over Appletalk. (That was fun, I'd start Quark and go make a cup of coffee in the microwave at the end of the hall)
I had a Beige G3 tower with one of the last iterations of the Classic OS, and a Blue and White with one of the first implementations of OS X. The blue and white and its replacement a crystal were awesome!
After all previous home computers being Windoze boxen, I finally decided to take the plunge and move to a Mac to replace my 9 year old Dell XPS running XP.
Frankly, if I had it to do over again, I would have simply bought a top end Windows 7 box (Dell and HP both had systems still on their Web sites) and spent a third to half the money and a tenth of the headache...
Really, I don't see any improvement over the OS X version delivered on my last work computer. In fact, in many ways I think Mavericks and the current iMac are worse.
The Samba networking stack is a mess, I'm still fighting a mouse lag / stutter issue, I can't use my existing SMB NAS to make backups using Timemachine, the "form over function" is so bad that I've bought nearly $200 worth of peripherals to have an optical disk and accessible ports.
The hardware and OS issues are bad enough that had I to do it over again, I would have bought a Win7 box and simply upgraded the hardware to what I really wanted or built my own box. It would have been cheaper and probably would have used less time.
To top it all off, I ended up buying Parallels and Windows 7 anyway, as the Mac version of Quicken is so neutered and broken that it was unusable for my purposes.
So... I REALLY hope that Apple treats Yosemite as a fix release and stops wasting time on the eye candy and fluff. The OS really needs to "just work".
I miss you. I miss when apple made cool computers and made a truly unique OS environment that was simple enough for a kid to install from scratch (i would know considering i had a system 6 mac back in the early 90s)
Its just not the same anymore. Im sitting here on PC, bored. Mac OS X looks like linux, or is it linux looking oh who cares. Computers suck now.
May as well go push the buttons on a dishwasher, just as fun as twiddling with a computer these days.
Anyone like seeing only 2 videos instead of 7 on youtube on our phones due to big fonts and flat elements?
If you're talking about iOS 7 or 8, ten the font sizes are adjustable for accessibility. Choose a smaller size.
There is a reason Skuemorphism was used. Namely ... IT WORKS.
It works FOR BEGINNERS.
Skuemorphism is a visual metaphor. Metaphors can help introduce people to new concepts by referencing old familiar ones. But once the concept is understood, the metaphor gets in the way and can only mislead or clutter. Skuemorphic buttons were good for teaching computer newbies about mouse clicking on screen items. Skuemorphic buttons were good for easing phone users over from real buttons to touch screens. But people who know how to use computers or phones don't need them.
Notice that most clickable things on the web do not have Skuemorphic button chrome. In the beginning they used purple text and underlining to indicate which text was clickable. Even that is not needed any more as people have more experience of the web.
If IOS looked like it did in 2007 it frankly wouldn't sell.
Absolutely. But we're more sophisticated people than we were in 2007.
Like Lynx and Caracals.
obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1056/
Did you mount a military-grade, variable-focus MASER on an unlicensed artificial intelligence?
Actually if you have access to the latest iOS 8 developer version call handoff is working with the Yosemite public beta...
TXTs (Even non iMessage) are also coming over...
So basically what you are saying is more features are available in the flat white versions of apps?
http://saveie6.com/
No I'm saying exactly what I said. In a nutshell: "But once the concept is understood, the metaphor gets in the way and can only mislead or clutter."
BTW, I notice that you said there's nothing wrong with gentle gradients and animation. Well there's more animation in iOS 7+ than iOS 6-
And what are the gradients for? If it's just a subtle effect for a background that makes an app look pettier, OK, but when it's used as a pseudo 3D effect, it's likely to clash with the proper 3D transform based layer animation. Flip a screen with pseudo raised bits and shadows, and it becomes clear it's just a sham.
You also state that you hate the vast amount of white. But you're looking at larger expanses of white when looking at a website such as slashdot classic, or a word processor file. If it's too bright, turn down the brightness!
Oh, and if you're confused by the lack of outlines on buttons, there's an accessibility option to add them.