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Apple Unveils macOS 10.14 Mojave With Dark Mode and Finder Photo Tools (venturebeat.com)
Alongside iOS 12, at its developer conference WWDC on Monday, Apple also unveiled macOS 10.14 -- named "Mojave" -- the upcoming software update for the company's laptop and desktops lineups. The headline feature of macOS 10.14 is dark mode, a feature that people who work during late hours might appreciate. VentureBeat: A new Mojave feature called Dynamic Desktop can subtly change the desktop throughout the day, morning, afternoon, and evening. There's also Desktop Stacks, which can automatically clean up a messy desktop by arranging desktop contents into stacks based on content, date, or tag. Gallery View in the Finder lets you see content in a Photos-like display, including full metadata from cameras that can appear in an optional second sidebar; you can rotate photos and do basic automation of Actions within the Finder. The macOS screenshot creation tool has been expanded, as well, to enable instant creation of screengrabbed videos from current screen content.
Continuity has been expanded with Continuity Camera, leveraging your phone's camera to instantly add photos and scans to programs that request them. It also includes a Mac version of the Apple News aggregation app that debuted on iOS two years ago, including the Stocks feature and new sidebar that were shown off for the updated iPad version of News earlier in the Keynote. Voice Memos is also being brought to the Mac, as is Home, the HomeKit app from iOS. Apple also announced a collection of heightened security features for macOS, including protection by default of camera access, microphone access, your mail database, message history, and other private data. Apple has also redesigned the App Store, and is bringing favicons to Safari tabs.
Continuity has been expanded with Continuity Camera, leveraging your phone's camera to instantly add photos and scans to programs that request them. It also includes a Mac version of the Apple News aggregation app that debuted on iOS two years ago, including the Stocks feature and new sidebar that were shown off for the updated iPad version of News earlier in the Keynote. Voice Memos is also being brought to the Mac, as is Home, the HomeKit app from iOS. Apple also announced a collection of heightened security features for macOS, including protection by default of camera access, microphone access, your mail database, message history, and other private data. Apple has also redesigned the App Store, and is bringing favicons to Safari tabs.
I thought all the OS X names used Cats. Now are the Deserts?
I guess I havn't cared about OS X in many years.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Apple releases its new version of the Gnome desktop, featuring things that have been in the actual Gnome desktop for ages. Thunderous applause from the audience and comments on how innovative and new these features are. Local fanboy is heard saying everybody is already copying Apple's new features.
I hate Dark Mode.
Why is it all the sudden more popular than brighter and sunnier?
I am a long time MacOS user, and currently using 10.11 El Capitan (and even that upgrade was forced on my by Turbotax). High Sierra looks undesirable (due to APFS and nag popups trying to run 32 bit software, which I cannot replace). This one does not seem to add anything of value either.
It may be just me, but making all user experience about giant pictures popping up is not really that attractive.
Can we get them to stop adding 'bling' and focus some of that developer time on making the OS more stable. The stability has gone down hill with every release since about 10.11 - odd freezes, decreasing performance, lag when waking from sleep, etc.
Wasn't that the name of the fake Windows 8 version that they were trying to fool people into liking on those obnoxious commercials a few years back? Why would anyone want to bring back those memories?
Safari/Webkit currently has the worst SVG implementation of all evergreen browsers.
SVG Masking works completely different in WebKit (due to a wrong implementation of the spec), so graphics using masks may look totally different on Safari. Performance is not really great, and there is the limitation to sRGB only in filters (missing part of the SVG 1.1 spec) and numerous other bugs,
It would be wonderful if Apple started working on closing the gap to the other browsers, so we could finally have cross browser for SVG 1.1.
Just as a reminder, SVG 1.1 was initially released in 2003
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...but not until 2019.
While this is certainly one way to fix the problem that the macOS App Store is a stagnant wasteland, perhaps enabling an avalanche of iOS apps on Macs was not the best way to fix that?
Well, we wouldn't want to rush into anything. Fifteen years isn't nearly long enough for their engineers to get their minds around that spec.
Windows, OSX, Linux... seriously, what *fundamental* improvements have been made? New emojis? Seriously, who cares?
What I want to know is whether my wifes mid-2010 iMac 27" will still be supported. I know, I know, many people will say "that machine is 8 years old, just replace it already". Frankly, I disagree: a Core i7 870 with 32GB is no slouch. It should be fine for years to come.
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Ok, I looked at the Mohave Preview page. It has some interesting features, but man, that Apple website is really getting annoying.
For one thing, they put the web page in one long column, as if they assumed we were viewing the web page using a phone. But if you're using a big computer screen (as I am), it's a lot easier to see a summary of the web page at top of the page, and then click on a link to whatever I want to see. Apple should use responsive web design, and display the page using a layout that's suited for the screen's width.
Also, they don't just show the information these days. No, they use white text on black background, and they graaaadually fade in the text, and graaaadually raise the text higher in the screen as it appears. Are they trying to be dramatic or something? I don't mean to be grumpy, but that's just annoying.
They used a video in the "Stacks A really neat way to manage files." section. That video is fine; it shows how the stacks feature works, so it adds to the web page. (And it auto-played just once, and had a "Replay" button beneath it - thank you.) But this sliding and fading in - my opinion is that if it doesn't add to the web page, then it subtracts from it.
It would be wonderful if Apple started working on closing the gap to the other browsers, so we could finally have cross browser for SVG 1.1.
See my other post above - if Apple isn't interested in implementing POSIX they aren't going to even get out of bed for browser standards. Good luck.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
When the key feature of new new release is "Dark theme" UI theming, you know that Apple is done innovating with OSX.
Poor Steve must be getting a lot of coffin rash from all the rolling over in his grave
Seeing mega-millionaire Apple execs promoting being able to turn other highly paid execs into cartoons for a group video conference was embarrassing.
Almost as embarrassing as buying a Lego toy house that just sits on a table doing nothing while you virtualize it and play a video game. WTF?
That seems like big news to me.
Considering the insignificant market share of Linux and OSX for gaming, this seems like a gift to Microsoft and D3D
Have they actually SEEN Mojave? I wouldn't want to name an OS for it.
Yet Microsoft did just that. To get the word out that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 had fixed most of the technical issues of Windows Vista, Microsoft rebranded SP1 as "Windows Mojave" and showed it to people.
Now Apple wants to put out macOS Vista Service Pack 1.
I have no idea if a Sierra is better than a El Capitan or if a Yakkity Yak beats a Gusty Gibbon or whatever other nonsense code names they use.
On Ubuntu, the general rule is that later in the alphabet is a later release. Yakkety comes after Gutsy in the alphabet and is therefore later. There are a couple exceptions to this rule. First, "hog" releases (Warty Warthog and Hoary Hedgehog) were the first two. Second, this has to reset roughly every 13 years or 26 semiannual releases, as the Latin alphabet has only that many letters, putting Artful, Bionic, and Cosmic after Zesty. (Source)
Is this sarcasm or stupidity? I really cannot tell.
Let's honor San Francisco for what makes it unique.
On Linux the redshift utility has been doing this for years.
You live and learn, or you don't learn much.