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Apple Releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 5 with iBooks App

Would give....

that iBook app a chance. Also a try for this iPhoto beta. Currently I like the tabbed Finder and the new Maps app. Safari I really dont care.....:(


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bushido said:
i havent tried a beta since DP2 since my wifi stopped disconnecting every few minutes on my retina mac book pro so i was wondering if this has been fixed and if i should bother again?

do i stand correctly that DP 4 & 5 are only available via mac store updates? so should i download DP3 and update to 5 through the mac store? (i cant check the dev center right now as i am not at uni which has a shared account through my prof.)
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Yes it was fixed in DP3 and even More So in DP4.
 
parish said:
You say "jokes", but even Apple has started saying Safari is snappier:

http://www.apple.com/uk/osx/preview/



so it's no joke :p

There are two things in Firefox that are missing from Safari IMHO; Re-open Last Closed Tab (Cmd+Shift+T) - incredibly useful when you inadvertently close the wrong tab - and Live Bookmarks (where an RSS feed sits on the Bookmarks Bar as a drop down)
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Reopen last closed tab is possible in safari using the generic undo shortcut cmd-z.
 
With iBooks its too little too late for me. I long ago decided to go with the kindle app on Mac and iPad and iPhone. Works very well and if I ever wanted to I could add a cheapo reader to take to the beach...So Apple - iBooks - no thanks.
 
ITunes Movie screen grab

Would someone mind confirming that you still get bitch-slapped if you try to take a screen grab from a movie in iTunes? (A somewhat unhelpful feature that was added in ML)
 
Michael Goff said:
How is IMAP better than pop3 anyway?

Edit: I mean functionally. I can read the Wikipedia article.
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Seriously?

  1. Scalability
  2. Server-side control freeing client-side to not store the only copy of mail
  3. Server-side alleviates any client-side crashes and losing mail
  4. Mapping across domains and large network deployments IMAP trumps POP3
  5. etc.
 
Cougarcat said:
Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. (I just use it for PDFs).

Let me revise: They should kill the PDF features and move them to iBooks.

Preview kept for images, or ideally, becomes a more capable image editor. Think a smaller version of Pixelmator.
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That makes absolutely no sense. I don't want every PDF I open to sync onto my iPhone and iPad.

iBooks is for your reading library. Preview is for opening and manipulating various non-traditional style text files (Text Edit is for text files, both plain and rich, naturally).
 
antonis said:
Reopen last closed tab is possible in safari using the generic undo shortcut cmd-z.
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I didn't know that - thanks :)

Although I guess that only works if you notice you've closed the wrong tab before you do anything else, but better than nothing.
 
Stack Overflow said:
That makes absolutely no sense. I don't want every PDF I open to sync onto my iPhone and iPad.
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That doesn't have to be the case, just don't save them to iCloud. Pages syncs across platforms, but only what you save to iCloud gets synced, obviously.

It makes less sense that the app you use for syncing can't view them, IMO.
 
ArmCortexA8 said:
Not a fan of iBooks, plus we all know the iPhoto / iMovie / Mail applications are pretty garbage, and its recommended to use more advanced programmes.
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How do we know that exactly? Every program satisfies a specific audience. If your needs are greater than what iLife and the other standard Mac applications offer, then you can find different software that fits your needs. That doesn't make the Apple applications "garbage".
 
Anyone having problems with Mail in this build? No new emails show up here! It says "xx new mails" etc., but the new mails don't show up anywhere! Quite a big problem... Never had it before this build.

EDIT: Strangely, new mails from today DO show up in if I click the "All e-mails" icon on the left. But not in any inbox. What is going on here....? And if I try to move them from there to the "inbox", they go to "trash". Am I the only one with this problem?
 
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Oh no. What have they done to Color Sync? It looked so good (I was really fascinated!) in the previous DPs. Now, it's back to the ugly gradients.

EDIT: Nevermind. Was just during installation.
 
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Now if we can just have a touch screen macbook air with a screen that swivels and folds down to cover the keyboard we have the best OS for the best tablet/notebook hybrid ever
 
ArmCortexA8 said:
Not a fan of iBooks, plus we all know the iPhoto / iMovie / Mail applications are pretty garbage, and its recommended to use more advanced programmes.
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OFFTOPIC:
Who recommends that, and why? How are they garbage? Compared to what? How do you define what software is more advanced? Is it the number of functions it has compared to other similar software? Is being advanced the most important factor when deciding what software to use? How about stability and ease of use? Or the fact, that the software you mention is free with/already included with OS X? Does it make sense to possibly spend money to replace functionality that's already available, even if you don't need any extra functionality? Does just the fact that more advanced alternatives exist suddenly make perfectly functional software garbage? Why would it be recommended to ditch software that works perfectly well? Should everybody use more advanced software just for the sake of using more advanced software? :confused:
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A question to the DP user: Now that there's iBooks, does the ebook section disappear from iTunes or how is this case managed? Do your ebooks exist in both programs, are they still stored in the iTunes folder or is everything moved to the separate iBooks app/folder? Would be nice to know, thanks in advance!
 
petvas said:
How do we know that exactly? Every program satisfies a specific audience. If your needs are greater than what iLife and the other standard Mac applications offer, then you can find different software that fits your needs. That doesn't make the Apple applications "garbage".
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No no no, people don't realise what application are a lot better than the ones included with the OS at no additional charged, however they too stripped down, and due to their integration into the OS when the application fails or gets corrupted, you are forced to reinstall the OS - bad design. Any applications integrated into the OS are not reliable enough, and I personally don't trust them.
 
ArmCortexA8 said:
No no no, people don't realise what application are a lot better than the ones included with the OS at no additional charged, however they too stripped down, and due to their integration into the OS when the application fails or gets corrupted, you are forced to reinstall the OS - bad design. Any applications integrated into the OS are not reliable enough, and I personally don't trust them.
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Every apps you mentioned never fail or corrupted on my computer? :confused: I'm using it every day. So how is it garbage again?
 
parish said:
You say "jokes", but even Apple has started saying Safari is snappier:

http://www.apple.com/uk/osx/preview/



so it's no joke :p

There are two things in Firefox that are missing from Safari IMHO; Re-open Last Closed Tab (Cmd+Shift+T) - incredibly useful when you inadvertently close the wrong tab - and Live Bookmarks (where an RSS feed sits on the Bookmarks Bar as a drop down)
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There is also another piece of truth to this - Safari 6.1 uses a new build of webkit which fixes an old bug (https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160212) which caused lag when dealing with a showing/hiding a large number of elements (or hovering effects using css). It would recalculate the background values of every element from the current one to the end of the list of neighbours - and causes quite severe slowdown if a site uses show/hide pagination.

It would also be fixed in Chrome if google hadn't forked a build of webkit which still had the bug - what it is with Google loving fragmentation! >.<
 
Anyone else having trackpad issues with this build? Randomly started this AM after installing DP5. Every time you move your finger over the pad to move the cursor it simulates a click on the softest of touch. Very strange! Keep dragging files everywhere accidentally.

MacBook Air 2012
 
You can also now redeem a new code for a full installer in the mac dev center.
 
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ArmCortexA8 said:
No no no, people don't realise what application are a lot better than the ones included with the OS at no additional charged, however they too stripped down, and due to their integration into the OS when the application fails or gets corrupted, you are forced to reinstall the OS - bad design. Any applications integrated into the OS are not reliable enough, and I personally don't trust them.
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That is a typical windows thing I hear all the time.

Please stop talking for *people* (your opinions speak for yourself only) and don't make assumptions like that, it is absolutely false.
 
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