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macOS 10.12 Sierra: All The Little Things!
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Forgive me if this is has been mentioned, or maybe this was in Safari previously and I'm just now noticing it:
I clicked a hyperlink here in MacRumors, which opened a new tab. Instead of the back button being grayed out like it usually is in new tabs, it was lit up. I clicked it, and it closed the tab and took me back to the previous MR tab I had been reading.
I've never seen this behavior before (in any browser, although its been a bit since I used Chrome or FF on a regular basis), and thought it was a really cool feature! Again, sorry if this has been mentioned or isn't even new.
I clicked a hyperlink here in MacRumors, which opened a new tab. Instead of the back button being grayed out like it usually is in new tabs, it was lit up. I clicked it, and it closed the tab and took me back to the previous MR tab I had been reading.
I've never seen this behavior before (in any browser, although its been a bit since I used Chrome or FF on a regular basis), and thought it was a really cool feature! Again, sorry if this has been mentioned or isn't even new.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/11/9890966/microsoft-onedrive-free-storagetheverge.com said:
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This information is outdated and therefore no longer correct! See also:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/0...lows-you-to-enable-trim-for-third-party-ssds/
Check out GeoTagr on App Store to use your iPhone for geotagging your DSLR photos. I do this and it's amazing.
Something so simple, it's a wonder they didn't do that years ago. It's finally as it always should have been.
That sounds like an awesome feature, I'm surprised it's never shown up before. It always seemed counterintuitive to disable the back button in those instances. Neat.
Haha wow, I feel silly then...all these years I thought it did! I even made an AIM account for my mom so I could screen share with her whenever she has computer questions...well then! Good to know!!
Totally agree that screen sharing with iOS devices would be awesome though...
Before Yosemite, an AIM/iChat account was the only way to use screen sharing.
Screen Sharing was introduced as an iChat feature in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
I just looked it up and that looks really cool! I never thought much about tagging them later on my Mac that much, since I do all my edits there anyway, but I do find that if I have a lot of pictures, I can get a little lazy with how granular I get with the tagging, like tagging them all with the general neighborhood instead of actual locations. This looks like it could help a lot, thanks for the recommendation!
Thanks for letting me know, I somehow totally missed this feature two years ago! Good to know though!
I am quoting myself because I would like to know if this might have a reason. Before when automatic graphics switching was turned off only the dGPU was shown there.
Is the OS now maybe able to use both at the same time? Or did it that anyway before?
Hmm, I don't know anything about Google Photos and never liked Apple's Photos app, so I can't even tell the changes. I have my photos now just stored in normal folders and will try Growly Photo, what is a lightweight application looking very similar like iPhoto. It's free and I think it keeps the photos where they are without having a big library file.
You might have a look at it:
http://www.growlybird.com/photo/index.html
There is also this App for €/$ 2.99 on iOS and free for Mac and Windows to transfer photos using Wi-Fi. I never tried it, but I got it a while back when it was the free app of the week:
https://www.photosync-app.com
True. But it was correct at the time of release. So, if someone with a third-party Solid State Drive upgraded to Yosemite shortly after its release, they would be unable to boot unless they were using an OWC Solid State Drive.
79p a month for 50GB of space. If you're opposed to that but want massive backs ups and gobs of free space on a phone that costs a shed load, I don't know what to say to you. At some point, it becomes your issue, not apple's.
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That is not the case at all and you are misunderstanding the issue. It has absolutely nothing to do with OWC SSDs. If you read the articles you linked, the issue was Yosemite started a feature called KEXT signing. So if you had installed a third party SSD (from OWC or anybody else) and hacked the KEXT files to enable TRIM, Yosemite would recognize the hacked KEXT file and slam on the brakes unless you disabled KEXT signing.
So you had two choices.... just install Yosemite and use your third party SSD without TRIM, or turn off KEXT signing and hack the KEXT to enable TRIM. Either one worked fine. Nothing in Yosemite made it stop working with third party SSDs. All it did was complicate hacking to enable TRIM.
If you just installed Yosemite to a third party SSD like we are discussing here with Sierra, it would work just fine.
Here's a screenshot of when you click and hold it. Sorry, it's in Dutch. But it just says 'Close and return to '... ' etc (webpage of MacRumors). Works kinda like the deep links in iOS 9 and onwards. Pretty cool indeed!
This behavior is present in Safari 9.1.1 for El Capitan. I had noticed it before Sierra was announced.
Yeah, I was kind of surprised by this omission too. I like Flux, but I like Night Shift better. I have kind of a crazy work schedule and don't always want Flux to stick to a schedule, or automatically come on at sunset or whatever. I like Night Shift because you have the option to turn it on and off wheneber you want - a super simple option that I haven't figured out how to do with Flux (although maybe I'm missing something super obvious? Haha)
Surprised no one has replied yet. Flux has always had this option—just click the flux icon in your menu bar and choose one of the options under "Disable". There're also some nice effects. I like "movie mode" for working late—it's easier on the eyes than the daytime blue, but not distractingly candle-yellow.
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All Apple did (apart from the fact that the details in both those clickbait articles are obsolete) is remove TRIM functionality from the drives. That is a FAR cry from "prevents booting from the drives".
If you're interested in actually booting fast off an external SSD, probably the far more important point than TRIM is to get a UASP compliant USB3 enclosure. But of course since no-one has been printing click-bait articles on some "scandal" involving Apple and UASP, you've no idea about this, do you.
I just checked in 9.1.1 on my iMac that is still running El Cap, and it did not behave this way.
It works slightly different in El Capitan. In El Capitan if you click a link that takes you to another page within the same tab you can press and hold the back button and choose to get back to any page that you had visited previously within that tab. The back button does not respond in El Capitan like you described it does in Sierra.
I'm really not talking about myself. Really. I don't know how many times I need to stress that.
Point is that the average consumer does not expect to have to pay extra for a feature they probably don't even understand. Especially if they have paid "a shed load of money" on a phone.