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OS X 10.9 to Bring Enhancements to Finder, Safari, Multiple Monitor Support, and Multitasking
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So don't use those apps. If a developer is a moron, automatic termination is going to be the least of your problems.
And yet in the past apple has done exactly that. The upside is that if they do a limitation that's completely arbitrary, it should be easy to hack around.
But iOS's dock only holds the 4 apps you choose to use most often. Since OS X's dock holds so many more, you can have nearly all of the apps on your Mac sitting in your dock.
Plus, unlike iOS, apps in your dock are ALSO IN Launchpad so you end of having 2 icons of the same app to click on. That's just odd, and the reason I said the 2 together are redundant.
At the very least, Launchpad should not show apps that are already in your dock, and then it would function like iOS. Dock for the things you use most, and Launchpad for everything else you only want to open every so often.
Bah-humbug. What Apple should do is bring out an application for OSX and iOS that would translate all older software back through Classic and even AppleI and DOS to run on the latest OS both iOS and OSX. There is a tremendous amount of very useful legacy software out there and data that requires these older applications.
There is also a tremendous amount of educational software that has never been rereleased on OSX. The 1990's were they hay-day of ed software.
We're not upgrading hardware because we can't use our older software on the new hardware and new OSs. Apple would make a lot of money on new hardware and OS upgrades if they would do this.
There is also a tremendous amount of educational software that has never been rereleased on OSX. The 1990's were they hay-day of ed software.
We're not upgrading hardware because we can't use our older software on the new hardware and new OSs. Apple would make a lot of money on new hardware and OS upgrades if they would do this.
"Ability to keep a dedicated Space or full-screen app open on a single monitor within a multiple monitor setup."
This!
This!
What if I want to be rendering a video in the background while listening to a song in the background on youtube while editing a picture in forground.
Pausing apps in the background wont work unless its optional.
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How was Lion not a real update? I use versions, notes, reminders, etc single day. Possibly the most used update ever.
Pausing apps in the background wont work unless its optional.
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How was Lion not a real update? I use versions, notes, reminders, etc single day. Possibly the most used update ever.
I don't see how what you posted disagrees with what I said.
If the application supports automatic termination (and all of Apple's do) then the OS decides at what time to kill it.
I don't trust it to, so I will always disable automatic termination.
Yeah it has been a long time coming, for sure."Ability to keep a dedicated Space or full-screen app open on a single monitor within a multiple monitor setup."
This!
or quite possibly
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My list of things I'd like to see
1. Siri
2. Some UI changes
3. make the 2D dock an option
4. full screen reminders
5. Toned down skeuomorphed apps
6. better use of NC with weather/ stock widgets
7. more of a built in customizable gesture support
I'm sure these will be among the 9000+ new features.
Of course it will be optional.
No, it means it will be set app by app, by the developers. Apps doing things like rendering will keep going full speed, but apps that serve no purpose in the background will have the option to use less resources.
SSD!
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Ah, okay. Is that spelled out somewhere that I missed? Just wondering, but thanks
So then you think Apple's programmers are a bunch of morons. If you honestly believe that, you're a fool for continuing to use their OS.
I want to be able to define the physical layout of my monitors (for example, monitor 2 is to the right of monitor 1)
Lets say i have 4 desktops
Monitor 1 has desktop 1, monitor 2 has desktop 2. My cursor is on monitor 1.
I do a swipe (or any kind of control i set for switching desktops) and monitor 1 cycles through desktops (1-2-3-4-3-2-1).
At any time (desktop 1,2,3 or 4 being shown on monitor 1), i can move the cursor to the right (the physical direction of the second monitor) and have it appear on the desktop 2 that is currently on monitor 2. By doing the same gesture, i can now cycle monitor 2 through desktops 1-2-3-4-3-2-1 and so on.
When i cycle to the same desktop shown on monitor one, i have sort of a mirror mode.
Thus, i can choose what i display on each monitor independently. I don't want to move windows, i open one app (or a set of apps) on each desktop when i turn on the machine and not have to move them again.
That's what i need.
I don't know of a third party application to enable that.
Actually it seems that there are a lot more stuff being said about OS X than about iOS. Awkward...
Really hope this is true. The current fullscreen mode is more aggravating than useful. And Safari has gotten pretty bad in comparison to other browsers.
Tabbed Finder...like seeing Bigfoot.
It is kind of funny that if you want to use Full Screen Apps or Spaces you might as well turn your other monitors off.
Being able to peg full screen apps to monitors (particularly if they keep their menu bars too), will be great. I will add a third monitor if they do it right.
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The last cut-off for OSX was 64-bit support. That was not arbitrary.
It's not really multitasking if it doesn't process in the background
Why is it, that I'm increasingly unhappy with multitasking in OS X?
It's never been as good as Mac OS, and it's getting dumber and dumber in OS X.
Not only can't you put an App into the background to finish its processing, without it jumping back to the front, to bug you with something inconsequential (Windows-stupid came to Mac); but increasingly, when you put things into the background, they don't continue processing at all !! They only begin to process when you switch back to the App. This is even true of Safari, which is only rendering webpages!!! Tabs just sit there in abeyance until you switch to the tab and then it continues loading the page.
Not only am I increasingly unhappy, but Apple seems H*LL bent on dumbing OS X down, gutting any actual multitasking, until it become unitasking, like iOS !!
Suspended in the background is NOT multitasking.
Macs have phenomenal power, these days, yet 1990s technology Mac OS's co-operative multitasking worked much better.
Yes, I know OS X/Unix is 1960s technology - and it really shows.
Why is it, that I'm increasingly unhappy with multitasking in OS X?
It's never been as good as Mac OS, and it's getting dumber and dumber in OS X.
Not only can't you put an App into the background to finish its processing, without it jumping back to the front, to bug you with something inconsequential (Windows-stupid came to Mac); but increasingly, when you put things into the background, they don't continue processing at all !! They only begin to process when you switch back to the App. This is even true of Safari, which is only rendering webpages!!! Tabs just sit there in abeyance until you switch to the tab and then it continues loading the page.
Not only am I increasingly unhappy, but Apple seems H*LL bent on dumbing OS X down, gutting any actual multitasking, until it become unitasking, like iOS !!
Suspended in the background is NOT multitasking.
Macs have phenomenal power, these days, yet 1990s technology Mac OS's co-operative multitasking worked much better.
Yes, I know OS X/Unix is 1960s technology - and it really shows.
LMAO, what a shame when people feel it's awkward for Apple to be having a show about Macs.
I like that, or something to make launchpad non-useless to me. So much quicker to have a fully populated dock and use spotlight otherwise.
LMAO, what a shame when people feel it's awkward for Apple to be having a show about Macs.
And it is genious; iOS is the big money, not Mac OS (even though it does have a large profit).
And yes, I really like OS X