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incidentally, that Yosemite screenshots topic is overwhelmingly focused on desktop backgrounds that are not integral to the Yosemite operating system. Maybe after the OS released – when the confidentiality agreement with Apple does not apply – users will be more inclined to demonstrate how things appear in everyday, normal use. Things like apps, and windows ;-)
incidentally, that Yosemite screenshots topic is overwhelmingly focused on desktop backgrounds that are not integral to the Yosemite operating system. Maybe after the OS released – when the confidentiality agreement with Apple does not apply – users will be more inclined to demonstrate how things appear in everyday, normal use. Things like apps, and windows ;-)
I haven't between following this too closely, but between the WWDC partial NDA lift on the API side and the public betas on the UI side, it seems to me that Yosemite is basically available/visible to the public in practically every sense.
Thanks … it may seem that the pre-release is public in practically every sense, but a mass of stuff does (and should) remain private.
I would post my favorite, but someone already has, LOL. 
Yeah, I like the dark scheme the best, and I use the large mode because it's otherwise too small for my bad vision.
I've been limiting my Yosemite use to apps that have been updated for it, so I'll probably add the second row in a month's time.
And yeah, I removed my clock with Bartender like I said I would, haha. Love it.
Yeah, I like the dark scheme the best, and I use the large mode because it's otherwise too small for my bad vision.
I've been limiting my Yosemite use to apps that have been updated for it, so I'll probably add the second row in a month's time.
And yeah, I removed my clock with Bartender like I said I would, haha. Love it.
This app is awesome looking!
However I downloaded the app from the MAS using Yosemite Public Beta 6 and it just doesn't open
However I downloaded the app from the MAS using Yosemite Public Beta 6 and it just doesn't open
This app is awesome looking!
However I downloaded the app from the MAS using Yosemite Public Beta 6 and it just doesn't open
I'll check it out, maybe Yosemite PB6 broke something.
That said, the MAS version is uBar Lite, which is just meant to discover uBar. Because of sandboxing it is missing tons of features, so I suggest you get the full version of uBar at ubarapp.com
Yeah I realise I just want to test it out first
I'm a high school student, so I'll have to get this by pestering my Dad: p
Man this has come a long way in a short period of time. I'm really starting to like and could seeing using it daily.
The only thing I would recommend and I think I mentioned it before would be Handoff. Anyway to get that to show in uBar?
Yeah I realise I just want to test it out first
I'm a high school student, so I'll have to get this by pestering my Dad: p
Good luck! Remember, uBar = productivity investment
Thanks!
Indeed the release notes are jam-packed with features suggested by users. I'm checking into Handoff, hope to have it solved for the official release of Yosemite!
Good luck! Remember, uBar = productivity investment
Thanks!
Don't you worry, I'm getting a job soon so if my Dad doesn't get this, I will
Also I can't even seem to download the trial, it sends me to a page saying Safari can't find the server
broken link?EDIT: Never mind, it works now.
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Sorry if this has been gone over already but as a new macbook user, does using uBar have any measurable impact on battery life at all? Have there been any tests done for this?
Very interested in purchasing this program as a former Windows user it makes things feel more familiar!
Very interested in purchasing this program as a former Windows user it makes things feel more familiar!
It doesn't affect battery life in the slightest! As a 3 year old OS X user, even I found this app awesome.
From the start, I've always made CPU usage my number one concern. Everything is done to consume the minimum possible. If you check activity monitor, uBar should be at 0.0% most of the time, and "spike" to 0.1-0.5% every now and then. Other than that, the only way to get it to use anything non-negligible would be to expand/reduce the rows wildly
. Of course these numbers will vary for everyone, but the bottom line is uBar is made to use nearly nothing!
Yeah, no memory issues here either. I just use it because it takes up less space than the dock and let's me see what the heck I'm doing. Plus I have folder shortcuts. I haven't used Windows as my main OS since 2006.
The latest update:
Release notes for 2.3.4
Release notes for 2.3.4
- Feature: Desktop and Trash can be hidden (Suggested by Sveinn Davíðsson)
- Feature: The menu can be hidden (Suggested by Simon Gustavsson)
- Feature: Files dropped onto bar area now launch in default application (Suggested by Oliver Schmidt)
- Feature: Drag & Dropping files onto applications and the bar shows a descriptive tooltip
I was on vacation for the past 2-3 weeks. I'm back, so here goes:
Release notes for 2.3.5
Release notes for 2.3.5
- Feature: Polish localization added (Thanks to Tomasz Nastula)
- Feature: Turkish localization added (Thanks to Abdullah Aloglu)
- Feature: Swedish localization added (Thanks to Anders Holm)
- Feature: Drag a removable volume to the Trash to eject it (Suggested by Anders Holm)
- Feature: uBar menu will launch iTerm instead of Terminal if it is installed (Suggested by Jordan Brough)
- Feature: Clicking clock area will launch BusyCal instead of Calendar if it is installed
- Feature: uBar menu icon shows visual feedback when clicked (Suggested by Frederic Nimmermann)
- Feature: uBar menu icon shows tooltip
- Tweak: Bar items now half-highlight on mouse-down prior to mouse-up (Suggested by Oliver Schmidt)
- Tweak: Trash icon is darker on Yosemite when using the light theme to improve contrast
- Fix: Calendar no longer repeats days in certain cases (Reported by Josh Carroll)
- Fix: Control-clicking Favorites now displays contextual menu (Reported by Matthias Ferber)
Wow, seems like you were working and not relaxing!
I ran into that calendar number issue this month. Glad to see it's fixed.
I ran into that calendar number issue this month. Glad to see it's fixed.
Wow, seems like you were working and not relaxing!
I ran into that calendar number issue this month. Glad to see it's fixed.
Actually other than the awesome people who did the localizations over the past 2-3 weeks, I did all those updates this afternoon
The Calendar bug was daylight savings time related. Damn DST!
Actually other than the awesome people who did the localizations over the past 2-3 weeks, I did all those updates this afternoon
The Calendar bug was daylight savings time related. Damn DST!
Nice!
Ahhh, seems like most companies don't think about DST. I know Apple themselves have had issues in iOS due to it.
Yeah DST breaks code that works 99%+ of the time, so it's hard to catch. And it also breaks things we assume are axiomatic (there are 24 hours in a day).
So for example, to add a day to an NSDate object, I was adding the following number of seconds: 60*60*24
That doesn't work with DST, because you end up on the exact same day since you actually needed 25 hours worth of seconds added.
So I used the "structured" API method way of adding a day and it works.
I bet a developer at
just went 60*60*24 = a day and that did it.
This release has two new themes. The first is Platinum Neue, which resembles what is unofficially referred to as the "unified" OS X window look. Why Platinum Neue? Because after the Pin-stripes and Brushed Metal of early Mac OS X, the new look is basically a reversion to the Platinum theme of Mac OS Classic... in my opinion. Neue means new in German, and is a play on the Helvetica Neue font used in Yosemite. So Platinum Neue is the "new" OS X Platinum look.
The second theme takes the iTunes album art of whatever is playing in iTunes and uses it to color uBar. The algorithm doesn't always get what iTunes 12 does, but close enough. This is more of a fun mode.
Of course, introducing colour in this manner will obviously bring up the matter of custom theme options... That will come at some point, but I'm focusing on other features and fixes at the moment.
Developer mode will probably be useful to me and a very few OS X developers. It shows PIDs and WIDs.
Release notes for 2.3.6
The second theme takes the iTunes album art of whatever is playing in iTunes and uses it to color uBar. The algorithm doesn't always get what iTunes 12 does, but close enough. This is more of a fun mode.
Of course, introducing colour in this manner will obviously bring up the matter of custom theme options... That will come at some point, but I'm focusing on other features and fixes at the moment.
Developer mode will probably be useful to me and a very few OS X developers. It shows PIDs and WIDs.
Release notes for 2.3.6
- Feature: New Platinum Neue theme
- Feature: New Now Playing theme that dynamically uses iTunes artwork
- Feature: Developer mode shows process and window IDs
- Fix: Temporary files downloaded by certain apps no longer trigger download notifications (Reported by Jordan Brough)
- Fix: User Applications folder contents no longer repeated in Applications if it is a symlink (Reported by Garrett Walbridge)
Hum, interesting... Noticed that stuff that wasn't in the iTunes store was defaulting to white.
That's pretty cool though.
That's pretty cool though.