if Apple expects users to know they should search for applications, then there's no reason for Launchpad to exist. there's this thing called Spotlight.
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if Apple expects users to know they should search for applications, then there's no reason for Launchpad to exist. there's this thing called Spotlight.
Im, for example, using killall Dock like twice a work day - Mission Control just stop responding... and so its not working - showing all desktops etc. I have done clean install, having the latest OS and still having the issues. Im kinda suspicious it's having some issues with HyperDock - can any1 confirm?
There are two groups of people that desperately need the old-style scrollbars (including the scroll arrows):
- Anyone editing or manipulating large row-oriented data sets. This includes Excel spreadsheets, Photoshop layers, source-code text editors, source code review tools (like Code Collaborator) and many others. The scroll buttons were the only mechanism for stepping precisely one row at a time.
- Anyone with hand-eye coordination impairment. This runs the gamut from a relatively mild impairment like mine (that still makes it impossible for me to use most touchpad gestures) to full on Parkinson's Disease.
I've got a copy of Microsoft Office for which I paid $400. I've got a USB-Powered Canon Scanner for which I paid around $100. Both require Rosetta. "Letting go of the past" in this case means letting go of an awful lot of cash for upgrades (never mind tossing a perfectly good piece of hardware).
you bought software and hardware with certain requirements listed to run them... if you want to be able to run them, meet their requirements... that means no upgrading to the latest OS. If you can upgrade and they still run, then its a bonus... and shouldn't be expected.
It's a wishlist. I wish my Canon scanner worked on a 2012 MBP.
I wish I had a pony, too, but I don't expect that to happen, either.
In all seriousness, given Apple's long history of dropping old technologies like a used kleenex, I'm grateful they kept Rosetta as long as they did. I don't think it's coincidental that Windows 7 still supports all of my 10-year-old hardware and software, but Microsoft still hasn't figured out a viable mobile strategy.
I understand, unfortunately this is apple's way. But you cant exactly blame apple for this, as you chose to use their products, by which you agree to the way they run the show. If you are looking for great backward compatibility theres always windows, which is not as bad as some apple fanboys have you believe.
1) Siri.
2) iCloud accessible from the Finder, not just from apps.
Other than this I literally have no idea.
2) iCloud accessible from the Finder, not just from apps.
Other than this I literally have no idea.
My wish. Take your time and release a solid update in 2014, no need for annual updates...
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-Already-Has-OS-X-10-9-on-the-Table-for-2013-253471.shtml
No need for more iOS iGimmicks pasted on top of OS X in 2013.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-Already-Has-OS-X-10-9-on-the-Table-for-2013-253471.shtml
No need for more iOS iGimmicks pasted on top of OS X in 2013.
Yeah baby... To hell with iCloud, to hell with reverse scrolling, to hell with iOS scrollbars, to hell with aminations, to hell with Mission Control freak, to hell with parallel-yet-unproductive Spaces... need I go on...?
I was told by a developer that in order for an app syncing between Mac and iDevices to be qualified for Mac App Store, they must include iCloud support alongside DropBox or whatever WiFi-sync methods available. Hence no more app support for Snow Leopard. Those bastards at Apple...!
Thank goodness Jobs is in his grave now...
I think you'll see Siri but the Finder is a bane to Apple. In true iOS fashion they'd love to see it gone.
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1) Better support for multi screen..extend desktop. e.g connect to TV and still be able to use macbook pro.
2)close windows from expose. e.g you get a popup on safari, expose then click close..currently have to click popup then close it.
3) Do something useful with finder.
4) Dock. Make it more like windows, right click makes it show recent files, pages folders. Pin files etc. Dock currently is just an appp launcher
1) Better support for multi screen..extend desktop. e.g connect to TV and still be able to use macbook pro.
2)close windows from expose. e.g you get a popup on safari, expose then click close..currently have to click popup then close it.
3) Do something useful with finder.
4) Dock. Make it more like windows, right click makes it show recent files, pages folders. Pin files etc. Dock currently is just an appp launcher
- Better Finder so I don't have to use Forklift anymore (tabs, split screen etc)
- iCal normal interface and the ability to use contactinformation in the location description
- A normal way to lower the brightness of my external ACD with the function keys
- Activity panel back in Safari please!
- Contacts normal interface
- In MC, show the minimized windows
- I would like a light-weight maps application that is opened when clicking on addresses in for example mail or contacts
Ahh good point. Maybe a simpler finder. When you open a document in Pages you can choose iCloud or This Mac and that's it - no subfolders like we're used to.
I wonder what will become of the little smiling face in the corner of my screen....
kemo said:15960386 Mission Control just stop responding... and so its not working - showing all desktops etc. Im kinda suspicious it's having some issues with HyperDock - can any1 confirm?
No, it works fine with Mission Control. MC is laggy though with a custom image, disabling hyper dock doesn't do anything to it's performance.
I did disable the animation btw.
windows 7 was already miles ahead of OSX & windows 8 is just an entirely different ballgame.
let's hope Apple finaly wakes up & applies touch support to OSX the way it's done in iOS.
it would be even better if Apple could find a way to merge iOS and OSX into one, as microsoft did with Windows 8.
let's hope Apple finaly wakes up & applies touch support to OSX the way it's done in iOS.
it would be even better if Apple could find a way to merge iOS and OSX into one, as microsoft did with Windows 8.
is that some type of joke? Win7 and Win8 isn't even close to OSX... Trying to make a non-touch OS run like a touch OS like Win8 fails miserably in doing is NOT a good idea.
Apple won't merge iOS with OSX. once they do that they will lose all the money from the laptops/notebooks.
OSX also capable of touch and even better than windows. all those gestures are touch.
I've actually tried windows 8 on different systems (beta!) and it runs surprisingly well on all of them.
and windows 7 is in alot of ways more stabile then OSX. I'm saying this from a professional perspective and I've actually tested this. Cubase runs better on windows and Studio One runs better on it as well.
Digital Performer, wich was always a Mac only DAW recently came out with a Windows 7 version as well. which -surprisingly- also runs better on the windows side! so apparently Microsoft made their system a lot more robust lately.
a lot of audio and video professionals are moving from OSX to Windows because of this very reason, & I can only expect Windows 8 to be even better. and if you look at the consumer market, touch is the way forward. Most consumers will not even have a laptop in few years time because everything can be done on a tablet.
- Allow more customization when it comes to badges in the dock. Like for the mail app, it would be handy if there's a badge for unread private emails and another badge for unread work emails.
- License some popular video codecs: from a Mac - the ultimate creative multimedia machine - I would've expected when I quicklook a avi file(divx, etc), that it would actually play it..
- Safari is still crap, oh and where is the option to re-open the last closed tab? Without having to go to history manually..Just steal some more Chrome features, just like you did with the search bar
- Mission control is more or less OK, except for the choppy animations once in a while. But pretty please, give us also some window management like Snap in windows 7.
- When I want to know the file size from multiple files, now I have to select them, right click, press option (so the "Get info" changes to "Show inspector") and then I can see the total file size for all these files. Works great, however if I forget to press the option key, and just press "Get info"..well..You'll have fun closing all 'Get info' screens one by one. Just fix this mess Apple and set the default behavior for multiple files to show the inspector and not an info screen for every file. Average Joe doesn't know the location of the option key, and it isn't intuitive anyway.
- Fix every bug in Finder, and allow more customization in Finder. Oh yeah, and view options for every folder gets confusing. And moving files (not copying) with a shortcut is also too cumbersome.
- Make it possible to move every window from an application to an external monitor without having to drag them manually one by one
- Make it possible to hide all other windows from an application except the one you're working on (example: 10 textedit windows, I just want to see the active without having to minimize the 9 others..)
- Fix airdrop, srsly..
- When cycling (cmd-tab), give us somehow a visible hint, that a certain app doesn't have any windows anymore..So I don't wait and then realize that there aren't any screens left. Or maybe just leave out the apps in the cmd-tab screen that don't have windows..Don't know if that's a good idea though, too lazy to think about
- Scrollbars look nice on iOS, but not so nice on OSX. Make them a bit more refined. And make it possible in settings to have scrollbar arrows.
- License some popular video codecs: from a Mac - the ultimate creative multimedia machine - I would've expected when I quicklook a avi file(divx, etc), that it would actually play it..
- Safari is still crap, oh and where is the option to re-open the last closed tab? Without having to go to history manually..Just steal some more Chrome features, just like you did with the search bar
- Mission control is more or less OK, except for the choppy animations once in a while. But pretty please, give us also some window management like Snap in windows 7.
- When I want to know the file size from multiple files, now I have to select them, right click, press option (so the "Get info" changes to "Show inspector") and then I can see the total file size for all these files. Works great, however if I forget to press the option key, and just press "Get info"..well..You'll have fun closing all 'Get info' screens one by one. Just fix this mess Apple and set the default behavior for multiple files to show the inspector and not an info screen for every file. Average Joe doesn't know the location of the option key, and it isn't intuitive anyway.
- Fix every bug in Finder, and allow more customization in Finder. Oh yeah, and view options for every folder gets confusing. And moving files (not copying) with a shortcut is also too cumbersome.
- Make it possible to move every window from an application to an external monitor without having to drag them manually one by one
- Make it possible to hide all other windows from an application except the one you're working on (example: 10 textedit windows, I just want to see the active without having to minimize the 9 others..)
- Fix airdrop, srsly..
- When cycling (cmd-tab), give us somehow a visible hint, that a certain app doesn't have any windows anymore..So I don't wait and then realize that there aren't any screens left. Or maybe just leave out the apps in the cmd-tab screen that don't have windows..Don't know if that's a good idea though, too lazy to think about
- Scrollbars look nice on iOS, but not so nice on OSX. Make them a bit more refined. And make it possible in settings to have scrollbar arrows.
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There's an app for that.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?mt=12
(or you can get a free beta version here: http://www.bettertouchtool.net)
I could come up with a lot I'd really like to see, but if they would finally please add ZFS, I'd be set for years to come and I'd release all pressure from Apple to please me with any new features for at least 5 years haha.
ZFS is worth a LOT to me.
I just have a really hard time trusting all my digital life to an archaic filesystem any longer (and in modern times, let's be honest, we keep TONS of personal irrecoverable stuff on our computers)
I don't really feel very positive about third party implementations and I'm not a NAS fan.
Glassed Silver:mac
ZFS is worth a LOT to me.
I just have a really hard time trusting all my digital life to an archaic filesystem any longer (and in modern times, let's be honest, we keep TONS of personal irrecoverable stuff on our computers)
I don't really feel very positive about third party implementations and I'm not a NAS fan.
Glassed Silver:mac
There's an app for that.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?mt=12
(or you can get a free beta version here: http://www.bettertouchtool.net)
Indeed
. There's actually an app for most of my complaints, but I'd rather see this integrated in osx .