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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.
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.
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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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)
Not Gnome 3.x. That was a step in the wrong direction.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
Btrfs, excellent Others: systemd, exciting (*WTF* reboot denied) Yet another new default desktop, jay Snapd because? I must be old, really liken apt-get dost-upgraden to be boring.
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.
They probably have a SomethingKit to replace it.
But come on. OpenGL is a nih thing.
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.
Nope. Read the release note, they don't care about Vulkan, they want everybody to use their own Metal API.
On Linux the redshift utility has been doing this for years.
You live and learn, or you don't learn much.