You can do handwriting recognition if you have a tablet.
Unless you mean like just drawing on notes like a lot of iPad note apps.
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You can do handwriting recognition if you have a tablet.
Unless you mean like just drawing on notes like a lot of iPad note apps.
Yeah, I should have been more precise. I know there is handwriting recognition, which I don't think is very useful on a device that has a keyboard.
I want to be able to draw, or more precisely, write formulas and sketch diagrams, write on my keynote slides and sign documents. Support for that is very limited in OSX, compared to what is available on Windows - even Linux provides more sophisticated tools, which I am using right now through macports.
I don't think free-hand tablet input is a big priority for Apple right now unfortunately.
(Mac) OS X displays this preference pane, if it does not know on which hardware it runs (Hackintosh, VMware and Parallels). I think even my 10.4.11 (Intel) within VMware Fusion v3.1.3 does this.
I don't know if this is new, but the Wifi icon in the menu bar has 4 lines instead of 3.
Or, I'm completely off...
Or, I'm completely off...
Only deal breaker for me ATM: Can no longer drag files into the Open File dialog box to select it.
Hopefully its just a bug and they will fix it. Reporting it ASAP
Hopefully its just a bug and they will fix it. Reporting it ASAP
Ugh. There goes MiddleClick, then. Hopefully somebody figures out a way to make it a double tap again.
Just tested gestures, and it does! Its just like going back a page in safari
OS X Mountain Lion is pretty awesome.
Excellent. I don't really understand what the excuse is for not having this in Finder now. It's going to really frustrate me if they have incorporated these gestures into most, but not all of the apps. It's not good for the general consumers either- imagine how jarring they'll find it to suddenly have something that's been so consistent not work. That is of course, assuming that they aren't trying to de-emphasise Finder as much as possible in Mountain Lion, and encourage the single-task state that's used in iOS further. Not complaining, just observing/wondering.
Browsing the cloud in Finder wild be a step towards file syncing iCloud/Mac.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, and I hope I'm wrong, but how I understand the announcement from Phil is that file sync will only work via app-centric saving. E.g. you can only sync Pages documents if they are saved the optional "new way" in Pages but not if they are saved the "tradional" way in Finder.
I found out yesterday (after asking the same question
) that you can use Google Image Search to find similar pictures, and therefore find wallpapers from screenshots, and sometimes higher-resolution versions of pictures you've downloaded ----------
That's how I understood it too, sadly. Browsing it in the Finder would be iDisk all over again. Though you can technically achieve just that with Dropbox (probably minus the syncing-with-iWork-on-iOS-part, though)
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That would makes sense because it seems that Apple is trying to get away from the Finder and have apps handle all file management like they do on iOS.
I would hope not. If they try to do that in a future OS, they will sell a lot less copies of that (and less future computers with it preinstalled), and I'm pretty sure they know that.
Yes, just look at all those iPads not selling because of not having a "proper" file system.
File system is passe, and will eventually go the way of the Terminal. Popular with more tech savvy but not so much with the average consumer.
