I just watched the Yosemite presentation. I don’t want to seem negative but what ACTUAL changes are there ? Looks to me like someone spent a lot of time making OSX prettier ! Guess I should be more patient - the proof is on the pudding eh ?
On 3 Jun 2014, at 6:14 am, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Thanks Daniel, > Yes, some 'interesting' developments ;-)) iDisk brought back (& improved) as > iCloud Drive? > WWDC Keynote Wrap. <http://www.mactalk.com.au/content/wwdc-wrap-3447/> > > Yosemite... Yosemite means literally “those who kill”. > Quite a lot to study and absorb over the next few days. > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > > On 3 Jun 2014, at 3:54 am, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > >> For those interested,…a brief rundown of the WWDC keynote which just >> finished shortly,… >> It's worth watching the full keynote video as parts of it were quite funny >> :)) And you get to see the cool features in more detail, probably better >> then I'll explain here,….lol (and no doubt I'll miss some,….lol) >> >> OSX 10.10 - Yosemite >> http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/02/apple-announces-os-x-yosemite/ >> http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/02/icloud-drive-mail-drop-os-x-yosemite/ >> Redesigned interface - a lot "flatter", more integration with iOS. New >> iCloud Drive, make and receive phone and calls text through an iPhone (very >> cool and easy) and very easy Personal Hotspot (super cool). >> Continuity is the biggest new feature of OS X Yosemite, improving the >> connection between Macs and iOS devices. >> Improved Airdrop and a new feature called Handoff. (passes information from >> iPhone to iPad to Mac and back again). Starting writing an email on your >> iPhone, get close to computer,..carry it on. And vice versa. Same with text >> etc. Pages documents. >> Redesigned icons and interface. Mail improved. Spotlight improved. >> iCloud Drive - a bit like Dropbox with "folders" for similar apps. Some >> third party things look like they can use it as well. >> Improvements to Safari. (behind the scenes as well as features). >> >> iOS 8 >> http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/02/apple-announces-ios-8/ >> New features, Quicktype, Mail Improvements, Health. >> Much faster notifications and more can be added. Easier to reply to things. >> Improvements to keyboards and more predictive typing suggestions. QuickType >> learns users habits. Access to third party keyboards. >> Improvements to Messages. Group conversation changes per "thread". Record >> and send audio and video messages direct into the app and send. Lift to >> listen, lift to record and send. (really cool). >> Healthkit added,…and the new App to "tie it all together" called Health. >> Siri updates. Can say "Hey Siri" to start without accessing it by touch. >> Extensibility - Apps can share information from each other via the iOS >> "access". >> Family Sharing. Up to six family members can now "share" photos, calendars, >> reminders, music, apps and movies. All with the same credit card. When child >> purchases an app, it gets sent to parent to approve the purchase before >> going ahead. >> >> Quite a few for developers too. New developing Tool called Swift. >> Metal used for graphics. (looks and sounds cool). They had a really good >> demo to show off the power of some of this with a Zen Garden. Just worth the >> watch for that! And it's coming free to iOS8 when it comes out "US Fall". >> >> You can watch more here - http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2014/ >> >> Hope that little summary helps. >> >> Enjoy >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <dan...@macwizardry.com.au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Apple** > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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