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Your lack of attention to detail disturbs me greatly. There are so many little things that were changed and you didn’t post any of them. So I will have to see what I can show you. (I will try to avoid repeats but you may have seen or at least heard about some stuff already. This is by no means complete a complete rundown and I avoided anything Apple already showed to the public.)

So, here goes (I’m linking to screenshots) …

The Language & Region preference pane has changed pretty dramatically (considering “All the Little Things” standards).

All the functionality is still there, though, just laid out differently (for the most part). Clicking on “Advanced…” gives you three tabs to customise further, General (now with the ability to directly change the format language independently of the system language, so that you can, for example, have an English UI but German month names – at least I think you couldn’t directly change that before) and mostly (or completely) unchanged Dates and Times tabs. The UI for adding a system language also changed. Hmmm, m-dashes—

The Input Sources tab in the Keyboard preferences pane was also changed and now shows you how the keyboard layout you have actually looks. Also (and this seems quite useful) when adding a new input source.

Unchanged for years, the keyboard viewer was also given a visual overhaul.

The Mission Control pane now has a checkbox that allows you to decide whether all displays have separate or the same spaces.

The Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane allows you to be more granular with accessibility. Previously this was one checkbox in the Accessibility pane, globally granting access to all apps. Now you can individually deny or allow apps to control your Mac for accessibility reasons.

In the Notifications pane you can now change preferences for Do Not Disturb.

The iCloud pane has a checkbox for Keychain sync.

The look of the Bluetooth pane was changed.

Moving on from System Preferences, I think Apple added some dictionaries to the Dictionary app (e.g. Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Dutch), though I’m not sure. I know that, e.g., the German dictionary was added with Mountain Lion, but I’m not sure about the rest. You can see the complete list here.

Maps displays a nighttime view wherever it’s actually night, just like in iOS 7. North Korea is looking pretty dark.

Also, the Maps app may not have any Preferences – but the View menu is pretty useful. It allows you to display labels in local languages (instead of always in English or, I guess, whatever other language your system is set to), it allows you to display a very useful scale and it allows you to display large labels. Here is screenshot of Maps with large labels in the local language and the scale all displayed.

The new Energy tab in the all-new Activity Monitor is very cool. It shows you the energy impact of apps, which are in App Nap and which are using which GPU (integrated or dedicated), also in general which GPU your Mac is currently using. This will be great for identifying battery hogs.

Assigning tags in Finder is done using a popover. You can get to this popover either by control-clicking on files and folders and clicking on “Tags…” or by clicking on the new tags toolbar button. Also visible in the screenshot, the new column header style in list view in Finder is now always used, even when you do not group (or “Arrange” as the Finder calls it) your list (for example by kind).

Here is the new UI for adding credit cards to AutoFill in Safari.

Look at that web inspector. All-changed and all-around cool and useful.

Safari’s new power safer feature seems to already work very well, effectively disabling Flash ads.

The UI when clicking on the little downwards arrow next to a document name in the title bar has also changed. It’s now a popover, you can immediately change the name, ad tags, move the file around to other places (including iCloud) and lock the file. I can’t see any way to get to Versions from this place anymore so it seems like you have to go through the menu now. Maybe I just overlooked something, I’m not sure.

So, that’s it for now from me.
 
Is this back for THIRD PARTY KEYBOARDS?

"Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys"
 
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The UI when clicking on the little downwards arrow next to a document name in the title bar has also changed. It’s now a popover, you can immediately change the name, ad tags, move the file around to other places (including iCloud) and lock the file. I can’t see any way to get to Versions from this place anymore so it seems like you have to go through the menu now. Maybe I just overlooked something, I’m not sure.

So, that’s it for now from me.

Right click on the arrow or title or title bar?
 
Right click on the arrow or title or title bar?

It doesn’t look like that works.

Control-clicking on the file name shows the path of the file (as before, I think), clicking on the file name or control-clicking on the downward arrow just shows the popover.

It seems you really have to go through the menu.
 
This could just be me, not sure. I'm noticing that for some reason, 3rd party app menubar items (upper right hand corner, to the left of the clock) are displayed in the *reverse* order in which the apps were opened (newest apps are furthest right.) Possibly a bug.
 
This could just be me, not sure. I'm noticing that for some reason, 3rd party app menubar items (upper right hand corner, to the left of the clock) are displayed in the *reverse* order in which the apps were opened (newest apps are furthest right.) Possibly a bug.

Same for me. Hard to say if it's a bug or not though because it doesn't really affect anything.
 
It doesn’t look like that works.

Control-clicking on the file name shows the path of the file (as before, I think), clicking on the file name or control-clicking on the downward arrow just shows the popover.

It seems you really have to go through the menu.

Looks like file management got higher priority than Versions.

Can versions be turned off somehow? App settings or so? (In ML only via terminal.)

In Finder, on control-clicking a file, does the context menu show something to add tags or is that only possible with the file info pane? Drag tags from sidebar on to the file?
 
In Finder, on control-clicking a file, does the context menu show something to add tags or is that only possible with the file info pane? Drag tags from sidebar on to the file?

You can add tags by right clicking a file in finder and then either selecting one of the color or clicking the tags menu item.

Almost forgot there is also a tag menu bar item for Finder.
 

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Your lack of attention to detail disturbs me greatly. There are so many little things that were changed and you didn’t post any of them. So I will have to see what I can show you. (I will try to avoid repeats but you may have seen or at least heard about some stuff already. This is by no means complete a complete rundown and I avoided anything Apple already showed to the public.)

Thanks mate, very good. The only thing that I couldn't locate was the safari power feature.
 
Already set to that. Seems to work as expected everywhere but Finder and System Preferences (3 finger swipe did not work in System Preferences in 10.8 either).




No difference. I've done SMC and PRAM resets and I can't get the old way back. Is anyone able to get the option to appear?

Press and hold works for me, although the popup only appears after you release the button. I'm still scared sheetless that I might accidentally hold it for too long and force shutdown my Mac!
 
When an app is minimized and you do a Command + tab does it bring the minimized app up front? Thanks!

No, it works just like in Mountain Lion.

If you want to un-minimize a window, hit Command + Tab until you're selecting the app that is minimized, and before letting go of Command, hold Option, then let go of Command. That will cause the window that is minimized to be maximized instead of simply bringing the app to the foreground without showing you its window. This has been around since... gosh... at least Leopard. =)
 
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what do you mean that warcraft3 is working? is not suppose to? i think even in mountain lion was working. the real question related in games...games like starcraft 2/diablo 3/league of legends that are build for opengl v3 how more fps are in mavericks?
 
And how about C&C Generals and C&C3: Tiberium Wars?


Ad. Warcraft III: It's pretty old game, and 10.9 has changed many APIs :)
 
tagging also in Apps?

Hi,

just an innocent bystander, not yet buying the devel-account to install the preview.

But looking at Tags makes me think: is this just a glorified replacement for labels, or did they go the whole nine yards?

Is it also possible to tag mail messages? Calendar items? Contacts?

THAT would be helpful (and kinda like Project Center we once had in MS Mac Office).

greets
simon
 
Battery life so far is 15% plus better on my MBP 15" 2011.

Got 7 hours out of it the other day including 3 hours of running a website (Cisco networking academy) that makes heavy use of flash.

My battery health is ~91, so a new machine should get another 10 plus percent on that, and even more if not running flash...


(I have a developer account)
 
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