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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.
Dont feel bad. apple hasn't cared about osx for quite a while either.
Someone thought Google naming Android versions after desserts was a great idea, but the message got mangled by iOS's autocorrect on its way to upper management.
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Nobody is forcing you to use Dark Mode. But for those of us who want it, it's a nice option.
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They changed to mountain ranges with OS X 10.9 Mavericks (followed by OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS 10.2 Sierra, and macOS10.13 High Sierra).
You'll note they also went from "OS X" to "macOS".
I don't know of a "Mojave" mountain range, though.
Due to APFS? What's desirable about keeping HFS+ as compared to APFS?
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)
Honestly I don't get why they even have to have all these silly code names. Maybe for internal stuff, but once it hits the streets I'm fine with names like 10.14 or 18.04. Otherwise you get people asking 'Does this run on Mavericks or do you need Sierra?" which means nothing to me. "Does it run on 10.9 or does it require 10.12?" makes more sense to me as 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.
I kinda stopped caring when Apple Stopped caring. The Last Mac that I got was 12 years ago, it was my primary laptop for about 6 years, and I am on my second one.
After iOS and the iDevices became apples money maker. The Macintosh lineup has gotten rather bland. They are still fine systems, but nothing really wows me, like they use to. Compared to a Asus Zenbook or even a Dell XPS I am not seeing anything really big for the differences.
Even the Apple style of laptops seems to be about the same as a 2002 powerbook. Thinner lighter, But still a gray metal laptop.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
True, it's no Oildale, but at least it's not Stockton!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
+1 I'll stick with El Capitan for now.
STILL waiting for an upgrade for my old-ass MacPro, however . . . Anyone? Bueller?
I'm on El Capitan. Was unpleasantly surprised to find out that it doesn't implement the POSIX sem_init() function call.
Oh, it compiles alright, with a warning that the function is deprecated, but the headers are hardwired to simply return an error for each sem_init(). Honestly it would have been much more useful to simply leave it out and let the compilation fail, instead of putting in a runtime failure.
(Yeah, I know they offer grand central dispatch, but that doesn't help much when you are porting software that already has sem_init() being used).
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
Due to APFS? What's desirable about keeping HFS+ as compared to APFS?
For fixed drives I can't think of any reason but for portable drives it can be handy for old Xboxes, as they can read HFS+ formatted external drives*, but not NTFS ones. Why this should be so for an MS product is simultaneously baffling and hilarious.
* The 360 did at any rate.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Even the Apple style of laptops seems to be about the same as a 2002 powerbook. Thinner lighter, But still a gray metal laptop.
There are many things one could complain about Apple's laptops, but their design is still very good. Maybe making the same design for such a long time has allowed it to be super optimised, and removed many of the kinks in it. They would need very good reasons to change it in my opinion.
Exactly.
Just like Volkswagen made essentially the same Beetle for a few DECADES, and Volvo made essentially the same car for around 6 years, sometimes a good design only needs the occasionally tweaking.