Sounds awesome - but it would still be nice to have some older Safari features back. Narrow tabs at the top and the pre-v6 version of the RSS reader. Even making them available via an addon would be nice.
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macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features
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I'm not sure why but I couldn't find anyone that would do a 2017 battery although many said that a pre 2015 battery replacement is no issue for them ?
Remember 20 years ago, when acquiring clever software and make bad implementation of it while incorporating it into your own product and thereby destroying both the product and the competition was what that other operating system was doing?
I think it will make more sense once Apple Silicon gets more mature. Adding Ray tracing support at the hardware level makes sense to have an OS upgrade. Macs don’t have drivers like Windows does so it’s not like we can install an M3 display driver to gain additional functionality. And it probably affects enough architecture changes it makes sense.
Totally agree, at least make it possible to run them with an additional download of some software components! But no, CS6 mustn't work.
dunno, something like proper window management that's not total crap like the current split view?
or an address bar inside Finder for manual input?
or improvements to Exposé, App Switcher, Dock, etc?
instead we're getting some half thought through new "gimmick apps" for the most part (not all of them are completely bad though, but they often feel that they're just trying to cram as many "shiny new things" as possible just to sell a "new OS", but they don't put too much thought in how actually useful those are and if the OS is actually getting better by such rushed attempts)
You can hit cmd + shift + G for manual address input.
Copy the password from your iOS phone and paste it into Ventura browser. No need to have the password visible while typing.WrongOne could argue that having to open up a password manager and viewing the password to manually enter it in opens yourself to shoulder surfing, “In computer security, shoulder surfing is a type of social engineering technique used to obtain information such as personal identification numbers (PINs), passwords and other confidential data by looking over the victim's shoulder.” Source
So it’s less secure and less convenient. Security isn’t just well coded software. It’s the entire package.
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yes, but the Finder equivalent in some Linux distros for instance just let's my type in anything right away, without even having to highlight the text field or bring up some pop up.
so if i want to go to the top level of my hard drive, i just hit / and i'm there, or ~ and i'm in my home folder, or type in any location i like, or the filename i'm looking for
In the Finder to quickly go to the top level of everything you can just hit cmd + shift + C.
To instantly go to your Home folder simply hit cmd + shift + H.
To go one directory up from where you currently are hit cmd + up arrow.
To go down where you came from hit cmd + down arrow.
To highlight/find a certain file or folder name within a directory you can start typing its name.
That leaves manual input of an uncommon path where you have to hit cmd + shift + G first to bring up the Go to Folder dialog. But tbh I can see the logic in that.
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I plan to update right away because each subsequent update always includes the latest security fixes. I am happy to see that Apple is rolling out security updates for predator malware on iOS among other zero-day exploits.
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If the keyboard lets you search globally what happens if you want to type a couple letters to find files, which might have similar names in other folders, in your current window?
Hey but at least it's not that eye-bleeding orange, might be worth upgrading to Sonoma just to get rid of Ventura's horrible login screen.
those still are more convoluted keyboard combos...
... which also reminds me of shift+cmd+. (i think, i only really know this by muscle memory and am not 100% sure of the actual key combo) to view or hide hidden files
and yes, they are more refinements and won't completely revolutionize the way we're working with my computers either, but they are not some hastily added bloat.
AND they are even easy to implement
the App Switcher could go from OK to awesome too, just by letting people apply W instead of just Q too. and of course if you could get rid of the Finder icon in the Switcher, which serves no purpose at all when no Finder window is open, and just makes navigating the Switcher slower and more illogical
or proper keyboard navigation in stuff like saving dialogs that offer more than just two options
Introducing pointless and useless things with a big marketing splash and leaving then languish until they're quietly dropped seems to be the entirety of Apple's playbook these days.
Touchbar, Force Touch, the iTrashCan.
Other than faster cpus, better screens, and better cameras, has any Apple product changed in the past 5 years? And those 3 things are just Apple buying parts somebody else improved for them. I guess there's been some very minor cosmetic changes.
In your opinion of course. I've been a Mac user for a long time and they make sense to me. I think I'd go nuts if my Finder window kept switching folders every time I hit a single key.
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it will show you the files inside the folder that begin with the word you typed in...
q would show you files that start with q, quick would show you files that starts with quick
if the typed in filename is not present in the current directory, it will automatically work like "Spotlight search" for global searches
One might say - we don't have the graphical user interface to be forced to remember dozens of keyboard shortcuts for everything
yes, i understand that...
stuff like shift+cmd+. isn't something i'd necessarily want to change, it's just that ctrl+h is still more memorable and cogent to come up with again all by yourself, if you haven't been working on a specific OS for a long time, despite the . in the Finder shortcut being used for hidden files too
i personally think both have their place...
there are things where GUIs are way easier and faster to work with, but there are also things that are way easier and faster via keyboard
so why not make use of both?
for instance, for a mostly mouse centric use, i'd personally put Windows above macOS, but the combination of mouse and keyboard is imo superior on macOS.
Nice thought but there is currently a bug persisting from beta that prevents Universal Clipboard from working. I am also impacted from it and while I can copy from my Mac to my iPhone, I cannot copy from my iPhone to my Mac thus breaking your suggestion.
Apple still has not resolved this bug as of iOS 17.0.1 and macOS 13.6.
So my point remains that there is no way to securely use iOS 17 and macOS 13 or older.
Personally, I'd way rather have an "underwhelming" update that is stable than a feature-packed update with a lot of bugs.
Eh. It's bad but there are enough pluses in Ventura to make up for it in my opinion. Stuff is wicked hard to find and it's a poor iOS-ported layout, but the search function thankfully works pretty well. I don't like using it, but I can always make the settings change I need and get out of there.
Yeah, I'm just thankful if they keep some level of feature parity with iOS and don't F anything up too badly, at this point.