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Apple Releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5 with iBooks App
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In general, agree. But iBooks already has one killer feature - you can change fonts! Not being able to change fonts in the Kindle mac app (and being stuck with Times Roman) has been driving me crazy.
And you can resize the iBooks window too (or go fullscreen). I hope they polish it up a little more before the final release though.
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its the first version but how do you know what is going on in the app there is no status bar! I usually just get a beach ball when its thinking. Itunes sync for ios is clunky and outdated if you have several 1000 books its frustrating to find the book you want then send to ios device. This part has been broken for a long time in my opinion.
its the first version but how do you know what is going on in the app there is no status bar! I usually just get a beach ball when its thinking. Itunes sync for ios is clunky and outdated if you have several 1000 books its frustrating to find the book you want then send to ios device. This part has been broken for a long time in my opinion.
Noticed a couple of things.
1. iBooks, while a welcome addition, does not sync bookmarks across devices. Opened book I started on iPhone and it showed no bookmarks. I'm sure they'll add syncing in final release.
2. iPhoto pre-release beta has a cool feature. If you mouse across an album in either direction it will scan through your pictures right in thumbnail so you can quickly check if a particular picture is there or to just do some GIF-like effects with a lot of pics. Brilliant touch.
3. Safari feels snappier! Haha.
1. iBooks, while a welcome addition, does not sync bookmarks across devices. Opened book I started on iPhone and it showed no bookmarks. I'm sure they'll add syncing in final release.
2. iPhoto pre-release beta has a cool feature. If you mouse across an album in either direction it will scan through your pictures right in thumbnail so you can quickly check if a particular picture is there or to just do some GIF-like effects with a lot of pics. Brilliant touch.
3. Safari feels snappier! Haha.
Ah this sucks!
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Haha my android phone gallery has that feature
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Haha my android phone gallery has that feature
That's been in iPhoto for ages
Uh, what? No, you would double click a PDF in the finder, and it would open in the App. It would work just like pages. You wouldn't have to
open a "whole window."
Right now if I want to read a PDF stored in iBooks I have to open iBooks and double click the PDF to load Preview. How is that better?
Until Apple changes it, I'll be sticking to Dropbox syncing my PDFs and ignoring iBooks entirely.
That's been in iPhoto for ages
Yup, you got me. I'm a Mac n00b -- 2013 MBA is my first Mac so I had that coming
Uh, what?? PAGES? Last time I checked Pages doesn't display PDF's
. Or did you mean Preview? And exactly how is YOUR way any better? Help yourself, stay on DB, you sound a bit like your pouting.
Uh, what?? PAGES? Last time I checked Pages doesn't display PDF's
And exactly how is YOUR way any better? Help yourself, stay on DB, you sound a bit like your pouting.
It would work just like Pages' model.
If you want to use iCloud, you can save in iCloud. If you don't, then iBooks would load PDFs from the finder just like Preview does today, and how Pages works with Finder-saved Pages documents.
It is better because to open iBooks-stored PDFs you don't have to open two apps.
Perhaps the best way would be to include a PDF viewer within iBooks (with annotation tools) and leave Preview as is, then we'd both be happy.
You can go full screen, but you can't USE full screen if you have a high-res monitor.
Yeah, I have the same problem. Enhanced Dictation has not work since DP 1. Has anyone found a fix to this?
It would work just like Pages' model.
If you want to use iCloud, you can save in iCloud. If you don't, then iBooks would load PDFs from the finder just like Preview does today, and how Pages works with Finder-saved Pages documents.
It is better because to open iBooks-stored PDFs you don't have to open two apps.
Perhaps the best way would be to include a PDF viewer within iBooks (with annotation tools) and leave Preview as is, then we'd both be happy.
You do realize that OS X is PDF based in terms of the DNA of the system, right? That's why most of the system reads PDF's by nature. Preview is not the designated PDF reader in the system. Check it out.
Because he would've not become a photographer before 2004?
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I have the weirdest bug with DP5: When I have a safari window open, and any other scrollable window on top of it, let's say mail, and I scroll in mail, it still scrolls safari!
You do realize that OS X is PDF based in terms of the DNA of the system, right? That's why most of the system reads PDF's by nature. Preview is not the designated PDF reader in the system. Check it out.
Please, you know what I meant.
Safari hate uhhh.....?
Stable, lot of features and tailored to work with the Mac....I would take them as "pros"......But I dont like the RAM management Safari uses, for Apple sakes, the thing is a browser, no a modelling software as Autocad.....!......(sorry for the hyperbole, but I am not hater, neither fanboy)......
Stable, lot of features and tailored to work with the Mac....I would take them as "pros"......But I dont like the RAM management Safari uses, for Apple sakes, the thing is a browser, no a modelling software as Autocad.....!......
(sorry for the hyperbole, but I am not hater, neither fanboy)......Iphoto beta
Anyone else has this problem? When opening the new beta Iphone all 4 cores of my macbook air go up to 100%, and stay there for a full 3 minutes. Cant do anything with my macbook anymore.
Anyone else has this problem? When opening the new beta Iphone all 4 cores of my macbook air go up to 100%, and stay there for a full 3 minutes. Cant do anything with my macbook anymore.
No I wouldn't! Previously my choice for editing and sharing images was photoshop. Which when just playing with a camera is hardly a fun and inspiring experiance! The joy of iPhoto is the simplicity yet good results you can get thus pushing you to take more images and become a better photographer - it's like a gateway drug!
And your choice of rebuttle is most odd - sucks?? Very strange!