OS X 10.10 Yosemite: All The Little Things

[MikhailT]

OSX Yosemite is the brand. 10.10 is the product name.

No, OS X is the brand. You don't change your brand name every year, the one that's consistent over time is the brand.

Yosemite is the product name, product names can change any time and it is usually what customers know it by.

Another example, Windows is the brand but Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 are the product names as well as the version.

 

[Lunfai]

you don't need to:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/19174174/

I read through that, don't know if I was blind but didn't see it.

The first post in the thread here has a summary of things mentioned in the thread and has been updated by the thread starter WhackyNinja.

I don't see what you found mentioned though. Nice new feature.

I've uploaded some screenshots:

 

[Amigastu]

I saw a post in another thread that is is not. The dev. of the TRIM enabler app mentioned he is updating his app to work with Yosemite.

Thanks for the info, good to know there'll be a solution even if Apple don't want to play nice.

 

[Wetware.]

Text to speech

Can someone please check to see if the new english UK voices are available in Yosemite?
iOS 7 got two really realistic ones.
Mavericks only has 4.

 

[Sky Blue]

I read through that, don't know if I was blind but didn't see it.



I've uploaded some screenshots:

Thanks, I've added it to the list

 

[parlour]

Yosemite finally brings easy batch renaming to the Finder. Just select more than one file, right-click and select “Rename # Items …”

You then get this dialog. You can also add text, replace text and pretty much everything you might want to do when batch renaming files.

Finally it’s no longer necessary to muck around in Automator for batch renaming.

 

[floku]

Drawing in Preview

Are the new controls in Preview the same as in the markup menu in Apple Mail? Until now you couldn't draw with a pen on images and PDFs and annotate them. The only option was the signature menu. It seems to me as if you can draw freely with a new pen tool in addition to the new shape recognition feature (draw a speech bubble -> creates a real speech bubble). Is this true?

 

[stueee123]

Yosemite finally brings easy batch renaming to the Finder. Just select more than one file, right-click and select “Rename # Items …”

You then get this dialog. You can also add text, replace text and pretty much everything you might want to do when batch renaming files.

Finally it’s no longer necessary to muck around in Automator for batch renaming.

This is an amazing addition, great find!

 

[Watabou]

Yosemite finally brings easy batch renaming to the Finder. Just select more than one file, right-click and select “Rename # Items …”

You then get this dialog. You can also add text, replace text and pretty much everything you might want to do when batch renaming files.

Finally it’s no longer necessary to muck around in Automator for batch renaming.

Oh wow, this is awesome. I tried a bunch of massive rename apps and found them clunky and some were paid so I resorted to command line apps instead like zsh's zmv which is pretty cool, and a new one called massren that lets me use Vim to edit the filenames.

But this is a much better option, it's right there in Finder and it looks pretty cool too.

 

[fredcintra]

Are the new controls in Preview the same as in the markup menu in Apple Mail? Until now you couldn't draw with a pen on images and PDFs and annotate them. The only option was the signature menu. It seems to me as if you can draw freely with a new pen tool in addition to the new shape recognition feature (draw a speech bubble -> creates a real speech bubble). Is this true?

yes it is true

 

[WhackyNinja]

Don't want to read the entire thread but you can encode video files by right-clicking the file and selecting the encode file option.

Thanks I have added this to the MAIN list. Sorry for the delay

 

[VacantPsalm]

It seems that you can now use Javascript instead of AppleScript for Automation: Javascript for Automation

Ah neat...... oh.... OH! Oh snap! That is actually really really cool. That makes things a lot more interesting for me. I have never gotten an handle on AppleScript, I just don't get the syntax. (And yet I love Obj-C. Dag-nabbit pseudo english AppleScript!)


Video encoding, mass file renaming. Alright, this version is really growing on me. I was ho-hum about many of the things announced at the live event, but there are neat things popping up. Can't wait until Dark Theme shows up.

 

[53kyle]

You can now activate notification center in mission control, but it is probably a bug. Trying to click on anything in notification center will actually click on whatever is behind it.

EDIT: You can't scroll in it either, so it is either very buggy or is itself a bug.

 

[Takuro]

As people have already pointed out, "dark mode" didn't ship with DP1. However, Cult of Mac found a way to force the OS to use system resources for "dark mode" by renaming some of the resources used for graphite mode. In doing so, they confirmed it's incomplete — although who knows if they overlooked some other necessary resources that control window color. At the end of the day, it's a rough hack, so it's incredibly hard to judge how far along Apple is in developing this.

It'll be interesting to see how Apple works this into the design aesthetic of such an otherwise light and cheery OS. They really only showed the effect on the menubar and dock during the keynote, but it looks like to avoid weird inconsistencies, their answer is going to be to simply recolor the entire UI systemwide. I think a lot of people will be using this, even the non-pros.

 

[bhcho99nz]

Dictionary

I don't remember this being in Mavericks, but now the three finger tap for dictionary can do translations. If you have (for example) the Spanish-English dictionary, you can look up an English word to get the Spanish translation.

 

[activate]

The telephone integration is not working from Safari for me but the notification does come up if I do it from maps. The call doesn't take place though.

Eg.

 

[bryanzak]

Sys Prefs > Users & Accounts > Current User + Login Options > Network Account Server [Join] > Open Directory Utility > Authenticate > Services / Active Directory > click edit icon > arrow down > User Experience > Network protocol to be used ? smb/afp.

~ Cheers

That has nothing to do with Connect to Server. That defines the protocol for network home folders associated with AD accounts.

 

[pickaxe]

[...]dark mode[...]

Thank you for that post. Based on these resources it would appear that:

1) Dark Mode will color everything, in particular the window chrome. That's reassuring.

2) The concept of Dark Mode came up very late into the development cycle. This is reassuring - this may mean the reason it was not implemented in iOS 8 is that it was conceived very late, and not just a general reluctance to add a Dark Mode to iOS.

 

[kristoffer4]

Can you attach a file to a mail via spotlight? That is one of the things I do the most with Alfred at the moment.
Also does mail finally recognise google stars for emails?

 

[TechiEmmanuel]

Full screen in Messages no longer has pillarboxing. It fills the entire screen.

 

[294307]

Just wondering whether it is now possible to independently change the scrolling direction for USB mice and internal/external trackpads in System Preferences? In Mavericks and OS X versions before, if you change the scrolling direction for a USB mouse, it also changes it for the trackpad as well.

 

[pickaxe]

Yosemite finally brings easy batch renaming to the Finder. Just select more than one file, right-click and select “Rename # Items …”

You then get this dialog. You can also add text, replace text and pretty much everything you might want to do when batch renaming files.

Finally it’s no longer necessary to muck around in Automator for batch renaming.

Oh god, yeah!

That said, I'll probably stay with Name Mangler or A Better Finder Rename because they're more mature and flexible.

Full screen in Messages no longer has pillarboxing. It fills the entire screen.

I just tried it in Mavericks and it doesn't seem pillarboxed?

That said, does Reminders go full-screen now?

In Mavericks and OS X versions before, if you change the scrolling direction for a USB mouse, it also changes it for the trackpad as well.

Just for that 1% chance that you did not know this, Scroll Reverser does this. I agree that this feature is really needed.

 

[cambookpro]

Full screen in Messages no longer has pillarboxing. It fills the entire screen.

It did do this in Mavericks, but only if the current iMessage window filled the entire width of the screen.

It may've been a bug, but otherwise it was a really weird implementation. Would be pillar boxed if the current window didn't stretch to fill the width of the screen, but wouldn't be if it did.

I've attached some screenshots, obviously with messages blurred.

 

[Takuro]

...this may mean the reason it was not implemented in iOS 8 is that it was conceived very late, and not just a general reluctance to add a Dark Mode to iOS.

I'm not entirely sure about that one. Apps in iOS 7 use a mix of light and dark translucency. A example of light translucency is the Control Center. An example of dark translucency is the Remote app. They can coexist just fine. In Remote App, the majority of the window is whitespace until you navigate to a song — it's fine to mix light and dark UI's in iOS because it natively runs them as full screen.

In OS X, it's a little more important to have UI consistency, since apps run windowed the majority of the time. I think this is the only reason that Apple went the extra step of creating two alternate themes. As they specifically said, the dark theme is aimed at pro users who are content developers. I think there's actually a big possibility that the dark theme could look very weird with some apps that have a lighter color palette for their content. Apple's pro apps (see Final Cut), which already tend to have darker UIs, will look right at home, though.

 

[antoniogra7]

About the feature of safari that allow you to search in specific sites, it seems to works just like chrome's. After you search in one site it learns how to do it and next time you can do that from the address bar.

Before searching for the first time in tumblr:

After doing it once: