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macOS 10.13 All The Little Things!
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New "Now Playing" widget, similar to the one in iOS, it dosen't replaces the iTunes widget. Although it seems to be a little bugy, album artwork is not showing up.
It also shows videos playing in Safari, works with Spotify's desktop app too!
Nice little change!
It also shows videos playing in Safari, works with Spotify's desktop app too!
Nice little change!
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Why it doesn't replace the old one? What's the gain? I mean there are tons of things in Mac OS that Apple should kill/update like the Dashboard.
Not sure why people care so much about tiny icon changes. We need to direct our anger at things like the state of iTunes. For some reason Apple hasn't given us separate apps that aren't slow as hell.
I'm guessing so you can play a paused song in iTunes from Control Center even if something else is playing and occupying the Now Playing player? Seems clunky, but it's still a beta.
I also agree that Dashboard needs to go. I've been calling for it for years. I mean they just killed the RSS feed in Safari which doesn't seem very necessary, so not sure why Dashboard is still alive. It wasn't been updated in like half a decade and there's no development for it anymore.
I'm guessing so you can play a paused song in iTunes from Control Center even if something else is playing and occupying the Now Playing player? Seems clunky, but it's still a beta.
I also agree that Dashboard needs to go. I've been calling for it for years. I mean they just killed the RSS feed in Safari which doesn't seem very necessary, so not sure why Dashboard is still alive. It wasn't been updated in like half a decade and there's no development for it anymore.
My guess is that Apple is keeping Dashboard around for those niche groups of people who still use it, just to give them that option.
With that said, Apple did update the Title Game background to match Yosemite in 2014. However, no updates for the following OSes.
Still don't think Notification Centre is a viable alternative to Dashboard. Just seems more inconvenient with no real benefit of its own. I'd love Dashboard to get a complete overhaul and widgets to be sold on the MAS, but I realise that is extremely unlikely. Perhaps as a compromise NC widgets could run in Dashboard (again, not very likely) - but nothing compares to the convenience of widgets which can completely overlay your screen with a transparent background enabled by one button tap.
Once you're used to the calculator, calendar, weather being available in a keystroke, scrolling up and down Today view in NC seems oddly fiddly.
i'm amazed at how many mac users i know have never even seen the dashboard (much less mission control). so many options, so many unused. check out people's downloads folders if you really want to see something astonishing...
You're correct, the average user will never use the vast majority of features. It seems that some people don't know how to access anything other than desktop icons or the dock. A lot of people on here complain about how Apple is "dumbing things down" by moving to the cloud and starting to automatically optimize local storage, but these are massively helpful to the average user. Most people never got into the habit of backing up their files, thus the cloud is massively useful.
I thought I remember reading that only like 12 percent of people use Touch ID. The stat may be dated or just wrong but it wouldn't entirely surprise me. My brother had no idea it existed before I told him and my sister doesn't even use a password at all on her iPhone...
i know apple created the downloads folder so that people wouldn't have a million files on the desktop (not that that hasn't happened anyway), but when i look at friends & clients DL folder... there's lots of item_1, item_2, etc etc. they've just kept hitting the download button (and wondered where the file went). funny as hell (or sad, perhaps...).
seems most people live on the desktop, and find their work thru spotlight, or 'all my files'. but it's all okay...
seems most people live on the desktop, and find their work thru spotlight, or 'all my files'. but it's all okay...
Extremely unlikely.
EDIT: 89% used TouchID in April 2016. That stat is probably higher now. http://appleinsider.com/articles/16...e-80-times-per-day-89-use-touch-id-apple-says
This is good to hear. I remember reading that 12 percent stat on a front page macrumors thread a couple years ago. Either it was way off or adoption has been way up since then. Regardless I should have just looked it up instead of parroting an old and/or false stat.
Okay... I just installed High Sierra... and after some install issues (multiple prohibitory signs with forced reboots) I notices a weird black rectangle... that kept following my mouse cursor.
Long story short. There is a new option (or if it is not new it wasn't on by default beforehand) that can be found under:
System Preferences → Accessibility → Zoom
(I had Zoom by scroll gesture turned on)
And at the bottom it reads "Zoom Style" → Options.
Under Options... there is a new checkbox for "show preciew rectangle when zoomed out".
I have no idea why it was checked to begin with. Googling didn't help either. (Only found it by accident.) And I don't understand why that would be useful. As scrolling zooms in... it's not like a fixed factor... so you can see the area that it would zoom into... So really no idea why it is there... and what it would do for you!
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![Screen Shot 2017-08-23 at 01.41.11.png]( "Screen Shot 2017-08-23 at 01.41.11.png")
[doublepost=1503443541][/doublepost]One other thing. I think the system font San Francisco changed slightly. I noticed this in the menu bar and in other instances. (Sadly I don't have before and after images.) But the system font in High Sierra seems to be a bit 'taller'. And/or maybe a bit more condensed.
Maybe someone with both Sierra and High Sierra installs can verify and confirm this?!
Long story short. There is a new option (or if it is not new it wasn't on by default beforehand) that can be found under:
System Preferences → Accessibility → Zoom
(I had Zoom by scroll gesture turned on)
And at the bottom it reads "Zoom Style" → Options.
Under Options... there is a new checkbox for "show preciew rectangle when zoomed out".
I have no idea why it was checked to begin with. Googling didn't help either. (Only found it by accident.) And I don't understand why that would be useful. As scrolling zooms in... it's not like a fixed factor... so you can see the area that it would zoom into... So really no idea why it is there... and what it would do for you!
[doublepost=1503443541][/doublepost]One other thing. I think the system font San Francisco changed slightly. I noticed this in the menu bar and in other instances. (Sadly I don't have before and after images.) But the system font in High Sierra seems to be a bit 'taller'. And/or maybe a bit more condensed.
Maybe someone with both Sierra and High Sierra installs can verify and confirm this?!
Individual mail-windows in Mail can no longer have the toolbar show Icon & Text. (Which is a bummer... because I like to ALWAYS see toolbar icons w/ their text labels!)
![Screen Shot 2017-08-23 at 09.38.58.png]( "Screen Shot 2017-08-23 at 09.38.58.png")
Huh. You are right. Not even right clicking the bar gives you the option.
This actually started with, I think El Capitan. There they removed the ability to have it with the window for SENDING NEW emails.
What the hell is the new App Store icon even supposed to be? That looks like three popsicle sticks.
Contacts icon was tweaked in the latest beta.
![Contacts Icon.png]( "Contacts Icon.png")
That happened like two betas ago
Safari Extension Gallary is starting to direct people to the Mac App Store for apps that have the extensions bundled (not sure if that's limited to High Sierra though)
https://safari-extensions.apple.com/
https://safari-extensions.apple.com/
I find it quite strange that they've pulled the iTunes 12.7 Beta and haven't released a new build yet. At this point it seems that the final version of iTunes 12.7 will be released with macOS High Sierra which makes me think a new major version (13) wouldn't be released this year... unfortunately.
I'm guessing the final build has the 4K stuff in it. Probably holding that back.