OS X 10.10 Yosemite: All The Little Things

[innominato5090]

FileVault now displays the wallpaper (in blurry form) as soon as you push the Power On button of your Mac. Pretty great actually

Nice!

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?

I was watching WWDC sessions (session 217 – https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/?id=217) this morning and apparently Markup is an extension! So you can use it on every image from every application.

 

[antoniogra7]

If you pinch out while already zoom out in Safari you get the new Exposé-like mode for tabs.

 

[iGrouch]

New Look Up look:
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Yes, I am not convinced that so much transparency in Yosemite is so good.


But the pop up for dictionary lookups is a big improvement when it comes to legibility and clarity.

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I don't know if someone already posted this here, but this is what shows up when you click on "About This Mac"
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Yes, information up front. Evertt McKay in his book UI is Communication, highlighted the fact that to see the serial number on the About this Mac panel one had to experiment, and if lucky would discover that clicking on on the version label would cycle through to the serial number. Not very discoverable, particularly for novice users. Somebody at Apple read the book.

This make sense for people looking for support from Apple. The information can be found easily and is little bit of a UX improvement. The number of times I have got queries over the phone about what RAM to get for a particular Mac, and I'm thinking about the fussy steps to give a user to get me the serial number so I can find out what vintage the Mac is to check in MacTracker.

 

[WhackyNinja]

If you pinch out while already zoom out in Safari you get the new Exposé-like mode for tabs.

I think thats already on Mavericks. Then again I havent used Safari often since ML soooo

 

[Intelligent]

Just installed the beta on an external drive without logging in to iCloud or anything.

Oh my god. Has nobody mentioned the Spotlight Search? Absolutely terrible. Big blank bar in the center of the screen? Really?

And how did it manage to find webpages right off the bat before I even opened Safari & I didn't log in to any of Apples systems?

Its just a developer preview number 1, not a finished product.

 

[294307]

Oh my god. Has nobody mentioned the Spotlight Search? Absolutely terrible. Big blank bar in the center of the screen? Really?

When I first saw it when I was watching the keynote I did think it looked a little odd. I think it'll just be an adjustment period for the people that don't like it. It does seem so much better in functionality than the current Spotlight, albeit a little resemblance to Alfred ;-).

 

[antoniogra7]

I think thats already on Mavericks. Then again I havent used Safari often since ML soooo

In Mavericks you got a different interface, like if each tab was a card, much like pre-ios7 safari. In Yosemite you get a grid with the tabs, also accesible through a button, it was showed in the keynote, but I believe they didn't mention it was accesible through that gesture.

 

[redpandadev]

New batch renaming pane available in Finder:

 

[PsykX]

New batch renaming pane available in Finder:

Ok now, this is a very cool option. See this is the kind of feature that will attract not only home users, but also enterprises.

Should have told me earlier, I just happen to have made an Automator Service today just to rename a few files

 

[antoniogra7]

New batch renaming pane available in Finder:

Woah, that's really cool. I always made a quick automator workflow each time I had to do that.

 

[Jacksonc]

How does Spotlight compare to Alfred?

 

[Watabou]

Script Editor has gained Javascript syntax highlight and support.

(Also, Apple thinks Helvetica Neue is an appropriate font to use for scripts )

 

[Weaselboy]

How does Spotlight compare to Alfred?

Good thread here discussing that topic. Check out the links in my post #3 in that thread.

 

[VacantPsalm]

How does Spotlight compare to Alfred?

Unless I missed something huge, it doesn't do everything like Alfred or Quicksilver does. It searches for more things, but it doesn't do all the insanity.


Edit: Ninja'd.

 

[WhackyNinja]

In Mavericks you got a different interface, like if each tab was a card, much like pre-ios7 safari. In Yosemite you get a grid with the tabs, also accesible through a button, it was showed in the keynote, but I believe they didn't mention it was accesible through that gesture.

Added to the list.
Just need a screenshot, please and thank you

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Woah, that's really cool. I always made a quick automator workflow each time I had to do that.

New batch renaming pane available in Finder:

If you pinch out while already zoom out in Safari you get the new Exposé-like mode for tabs.

Script Editor has gained Javascript syntax highlight and support.

(Also, Apple thinks Helvetica Neue is an appropriate font to use for scripts )

All added to the list Thank you~

 

[ssdeg7]

Disagree. I feel OS X is the product name and 10.10 is the version of the product. Just like Photoshop is the product and CS6 or whatever is the version. In both cases we have brand names of Apple and Adobe.

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This makes it very easy to understand. 3 lines of info.

Line 1: Brand - Apple (the logo)
Line 2: Product Name - OS X
Line 3: Version number - 10.9.x in my case.

In 10.10 it's the same deal.

Actually OS X is read OS ten (it comes after OS 9) not OS X, so actually you are running Mac OS X Mavericks.

Mac OS X Yosemite = Mac OS 10.10
Mac OS X Mavericks = Mac OS 10.9

 

[Watabou]

There are new alert tones added to the Messages.app. These are the same ones Apple added to iOS 7.

The preferences window has also been cleaned up, as you can see.

 

[hlfway2anywhere]

Disagree. I feel OS X is the product name and 10.10 is the version of the product. Just like Photoshop is the product and CS6 or whatever is the version. In both cases we have brand names of Apple and Adobe.

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This makes it very easy to understand. 3 lines of info.

Line 1: Brand - Apple (the logo)
Line 2: Product Name - OS X
Line 3: Version number - 10.9.x in my case.

In 10.10 it's the same deal.

Actually OS X is read OS ten (it comes after OS 9) not OS X, so actually you are running Mac OS X Mavericks.

Mac OS X Yosemite = Mac OS 10.10
Mac OS X Mavericks = Mac OS 10.9

Apple dropped the "Mac" from OS X with Mountain Lion.

So the8thark is correct. it's OS X 10.10, or OS X Yosemite. Which is EXACTLY what Apple calls it. OS X is the Operating System. the version is 10.10 (Yosemite)

 

[Watabou]

Can people stop arguing about version names in this thread? It's not the place for it.

Personally, I couldn't care less what Apple calls their operating system. Who cares which one is the brand name, product name or if OS X 10.10 sounds weird. Just use the damn OS.

 

[3282868]

Oddest thing, suddenly after days and hours of use, posts and attempts at "hand-ff" and "Continuity", this "magical" thing happened

 

[ssdeg7]

Oddest thing, suddenly after days and hours of use, posts and attempts at "hand-ff" and "Continuity", this "magical" thing happened

Did you do anything special besides activating handoff is system preferences on the Mac?

 

[3282868]

Did you do anything special besides activating handoff is system preferences on the Mac?

No, I can't figure it out. I followed recommendations and directions on many threads, logged out then back into iCloud on my iPhone 5s and '13 nMac Pro, nothing. AirDrop works for somethings.

The only thing I did was install "Little Snitch", hadn't in years and wanted to check why a network process was eating a steady 96% CPU. After install, restart, approving rules, etc noticed Mail then Safari appearing as I used my iPhone. (and now Apple Maps)

 

[ssdeg7]

After install, restart, approving rules, etc noticed Mail then Safari appearing as I used my iPhone. (and now Apple Maps)

I've tried lots of things but nothing works, hope it works better in the next betas

 

[pickaxe]

If you pinch out while already zoom out in Safari you get the new Exposé-like mode for tabs.

How smooth is the transition? The transition to Cmd+Shift+\ in Mavericks is super choppy.

 

[baryon]

Can anyone check whether there are any changes in the way that Finder remembers and handles icon sizes, spacing, window size, and all the things that you can set in "Show View Options"?

Currently in Mavericks and before, window size is remembered on a per folder basis, which means every folder you open could have a different size which is really inconsistent, while icon sizes are remembered system-wide for new folders and on a per-folder basis for folders that you've changed manually. Which is also very inconsistent as you could end up opening 10 folders, each with a very different view without being able to have a true "default". Has this changed at all?

Personally I would prefer it to work more like it does in Windows (gasp, I know) but at least there Explorer retains the same window size and view for all folders once you change it, but you can still get specific folders to have a different view.