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Post by amirmc »

crozewski wrote: post #110
bri3d wrote: post #94

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I'm especially shocked this has taken so long because the technology is ancient: Windows has had a "Use this computer as a Bluetooth Headset" option buried in the Bluetooth preferences for a long time now. The Address Book in Mac OS 10.0 and 10.1 would also let you send and receive SMSes with compatible phones (no joke): http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/11/27/sms.html And Linux has had a few projects (li…

Sending SMSs from Address Book was a phenomenal feature. A shame that they yanked it years ago. Good to see its return.

I remember that that I could do far more with my Sony Ericsson W800 (and Salling Clicker) than I could with my first iPhone. Dialing numbers from the address book, sending and receiving SMSs while the phone was in my bag/pocket, turning the screen saver on and pausing music if I left the area - and reverting on return. Apart from the UI polish, this was the least impressive part of keynote (at least for me) as those were things I had to give up on.

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Post by foxhedgehog »

mwarkentin wrote: post #77
bane wrote: post #58

I'm really looking forward to this. Unlike iOS7, the flatter design here doesn't make me feel like a bunch of amateur artists got a hold of a free copy of Adobe Illustrator. I actually like the new look quite a bit. Now, to pray that they've made some under the hood progress on multi-monitor support. Moving work back and forth from desktop to mobile also sounds really amazing. I get a hint of it when working with gma…

There were multi-monitor updates in Mavericks - fixed most of my issues. What's still an issue for you?

I've also had this: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/132351/does-os-10-...

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by avn2109 »

sanderjd wrote: post #74
jordigh wrote: post #45

So... Oh Ess Ten Ten Point Ten? Is that how it's pronounced? I suppose it's better than OS X X.X.

I always say Oh Ess Ex, but maybe I'm weird.

I have been loudly referring to it as "awwwww sex" since my college days and don't intend to stop now.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by fernandotakai »

yeldarb wrote: post #108
mwarkentin wrote: post #77

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There were multi-monitor updates in Mavericks - fixed most of my issues. What's still an issue for you?

This: http://superuser.com/questions/665004/how-do-you-prevent-the...

another two:

* when you fullscreen a window, there's a white (sometimes black) bar where the menu bar used to be * app switcher changes monitor depending on the monitor you last used the dock (which makes no actual sense).

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by fernandotakai »

unicornporn wrote: post #140
rsync wrote: post #105

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You need to come to grips with the fact that SL was the high-water mark for OS coherency/consistency/quality from Apple. You can't pour all of this time and energy into iOS and phones and still make something as clean as SL. Which is too bad. FWIW, I continue to run SL on an early 2009 Mac Pro with no problems or annoyances ... hope that can continue.

I guess you can, until you run into a piece of software that wont run on SL. SL is my favorite OS X version by far too. But Lightroom 5 requires 10.7, so that's where I'm at now...

i wish i could stay on SL -- spaces was quite awesome, expose worked better, really lightweight and fast.

i stayed on SL for as long as I could (aka had to upgrade my computer).

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by spyder »

quackerhacker wrote: post #102

The upgrades to Safari look amazing! [0] Less chrome, Javascript benchmarks (impressive), and the spotlight search in the url...nice! I hope Apple changes the zoom button to maximize the screen. [0] https://www.apple.com/osx/preview/apps/

Oh, the JSBench performance:

Safari: 6.5x

Chrome: 1.1x

Firefox: 1x

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by girvo »

archagon wrote: post #43
devindotcom wrote: post #38

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First thing I thought of. "Look at how the background beautifully interacts with the translucent menu bar." Didn't we all turn that feature off back in 2007?! Though in fairness that was partly because it was such a hog on Vista. I've left translucency on in Win 7, though it sure isn't a productivity boost and it ain't 'beautiful' either.

Apple people like to mock Aero's translucency, but I... always liked it. Anyone else? Anyone?

Yep! I loved it, always have. But I'm a weirdo who really liked Vista too :(

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by cmelbye »

eunoia wrote: post #139
Rudy78 wrote: post #106

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windows/views do overlap on iOS. Apple specifically mentioned translucency when demoing Control Center in iOS6 at WWDC last year. They are using the same playbook for OSX

Overlapping UIViews with interactive transitions between view controllers have rapidly become the hallmark of a good iOS UI experience. I personally haven't ever seen overlapping UIWindows though...

That's not what he means. The naming of which view or window class we're referring to is meaningless. iOS 7 features the same concept where views slide and transition onto the view you're looking at (which as you pointed out is not new in iOS) using translucency to indicate depth and layering. For example, see notification center, control center, and others. That was a new concept, and it's been brought to OS X now.

Re: OS X Yosemite

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Post by cmelbye »

Joeri wrote: post #40
buckbova wrote: post #14

> Apple has done away with the faux-3D shelf look here and has put the icons on a simple translucent background instead. I like the faux 3d dock . . . it'd be nice if this was configurable.

When they switched from the 2d dock to the 3d dock a lot of people said the same thing. I like how apple is slowly reversing their design decisions. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the return of the spatial finder ;)

Similarities between the new dock and the dock in pre-Leopard is an exception, I think. There is much more not in common design-wise than there is in common.
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