Posted on 04/08/2015 9:42:26 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple today released OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 which includes the new Photos app and improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.
With Photos you can:
• Browse your photos by time and location in Moments, Collections, and Years views
• Navigate your library using convenient Photos, Shared, Albums, and Projects tabs
• Store all of your photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library in their original format and in full resolution
• Access your photos and videos stored in iCloud Photo Library from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iCloud.com with your web browser
• Perfect your photos with powerful and easy-to-use editing tools that optimize with a single click or slider, or allow precise adjustments with detailed controls
• Create professional-quality photo books with simplified bookmaking tools, new Apple-designed themes, and new square book formats
• Purchase prints in new square and panoramic sizes
It’s easy to upgrade your iPhoto library to Photos – just open the app to get started. To learn more about Photos, visit: https://www.apple.com/osx/photos/
This update also includes the following improvements:
• Adds over 300 new Emoji characters
• Adds Spotlight suggestions to Look Up
• Prevents Safari from saving website favicon URLs used in Private Browsing
• Improves stability and security in Safari
• Improves Wi-Fi performance and connectivity in various usage scenarios
• Improves compatibility with captive Wi-Fi network environments
• Fixes an issue that might cause Bluetooth devices to disconnect
• Improves screen sharing reliability
Enterprise content
For enterprise customers, this update includes the following:
• Addresses an issue that could cause Macs bound to an Active Directory server to become unresponsive at startup
• Provides the ability to set a umask that’s respected by GUI apps
• Fixes an issue installing a configuration profile for 802.1x with EAP-TLS
• Resolves an issue where folders from a DFS share point might “disappear” when viewed from the Finder on some Macs
Security Content
For detailed information about the security content of this update, see Apple security updates.
How to update your Mac
1. You should back up your Mac before installation. To do this you can use Time Machine.
2. Use the Updates pane of the Mac App Store to check for the latest Apple software updates, including this update.
3. Other software updates available for your computer might appear, which you should install. Some updates might need to be installed before other updates appear.
4. Don’t interrupt the installation process once you’ve started to update your system.
5. You might experience unexpected results if you have third-party system software modifications installed, or if you’ve modified the operating system through other means.
You can also download the manual installer for this update. This is a useful option when you need to update multiple computers but only want to download the update once. Manual installers are available from Apple Support Downloads.
Well, I am not familiar with the BSD distros, other than when I was looking for a ‘doze alternative there did not seem to be as many pathways/distros based upon it so I went the Linux route.
Having made that decision, and learning more and more about it as time went by, I became more and more convinced that I had to convert over to this OS because there were just so many choices available that some distro or other solved a problem here and there if I toyed with it.
About ten years ago I acquired a new laptop, preconfigured with XP, that I then converted to a dual-boot Win/Linux machine. I never went online with XP and did the majority of the work I needed to do in Linux with the exception of the CAD/CAM programs that I needed to run in XP.
Roughtly ten years, and... NO adware, malware, rootkits, crashes, BSOD occasions, or security breaches of any kind.
Think I will stay with it. :)
I tend to prefer the 2D drafting software I am used to in the ‘doze environment set up under WINE, as that way I do not have to convert all the drawings I have already generated to the next version time and time again.
Looking at possibly running a VM soon although the instructions on how to do that are quite confusing thus far.
The high-end software, however, I must still run in XP. *sigh*
Yeah, that's been my experience with Linux also. That's why it's my primary desktop system at work, and my secondary at home. You can get an astonishing amount of real work done, with little or no hassle.
> ...I am not familiar with the BSD distros...
As you say, they are fewer in number than Linux distros. And they're all pretty similar. I've got a two decades of work and home experience with NetBSD, which is my recommendation for server and embedded applications. I haven't used a Unix desktop in a long time. Solaris/SunOS is the work of the devil, I avoid it like the plague. But FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSD386, are all pretty good.
The pkgsrc package system used by NetBSD is superb, if highly conservative. They leave the bleeding edge for others to cut themselves on. But it's very solid stuff, and I use it for my mission critical, high security servers.
Yeh, I know, and it is really bad manners on My part. Just can’t help it once in awhile.
I don’t really hate all Apple users. In fact, the very first computer I ever built was an Apple ][ when I was living with the Nihonjin in the early 80’s.
Certain individuals just set off a reaction sometimes, but I do acknowledge that I probably should not push their buttons so much.
It just annoys sometimes when I can post on the ‘doze threads to address a probem or solution and even poke fun at their OS since I am a Linux proponent and they will at most throw a jab or two back.
Quite different on the mac threads.
Too late. *grin*
Interesting FUD article. . . taking minor negative quibble quotes out of context from generally positive reviews to make this FUD article you linked to which I have no doubt was commissioned by Samsung. Try reading the REAL reviews from reviewers all of whom have actually used the Apple Watch for a week for better balance than your cherry picked negative comment FUD article .
My first week with the Apple Watch — Ben Bajarin — TechPinions
What the Apple Watch Does Best: Make You Look Good — Laura Stern — New York Times
The Apple Watch - A Day in the Life — Nilay Patel — The Verge
The Apple Watch: Half Computer, Half Jewelry, Mostly Magical — David Pogue — Yahoo Tech
Apple Watch Review: Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve — Farhead Manjoo — New York Times
Basically if it detects anyone who doesn't pledge undying worship to the LGBT movement it will either report the incident to the GAYstapo or self destruct the 'puter in the middle of the night and burning down the house/apartment.
Little Timmy Cook is jumping for joy over this new bit of tech. He was heard to say it make him feel like a little boy... (you can make your own jokes here:)
*gasping for breath* OK, you win the award for the biggest laugh of the night! *still laughing*
Thanks for the smiles. :)
No, Utilizer, you post on Mac threads to demonstrate your total ignorance of the Mac platform. You've done it quite often on this thread. . . you do it very well, incidentally. Since you've been told before the correct facts, you must be deliberately lying. Your posts are disruptive and rude. Always. Never worth anything and offer nothing of value.
Also, I should point out;
Have you seen the responces I have gotten when I make a comment about the macmachines/macfanatics on other (non-mac-centric) threads?
But as I stated previously, despite the experiences I have undergone with the macophiles, I do not hate macmachines.
After all, I may need to print a calendar some day or even a photo or two.
(ducks!) *grin*
I always thought it was Frankenstein's Monster after a botched gender reassignment procedure. . .
Which is the intent of certain posters. . . the anti-Apple hate brigade represented so far on this thread by Utilizer and DennisW, and a few others who have yet to show up but most likely will before long.
yeah, it is. I saw the video of the launch. . . er, failure to launch. if I recall correctly it was a Vandenberg.
Or was it a submarine launch? I really don't recall which launch failure it was. There was one at Van that did that. . . but I think this may be the sub launch failure.
There was a problem with the first-stage engine nozzle. It got wet because the water plume from the submarine launch followed the missile more than expected. Launched from the Tennesee in March 1989. Google for Trident II failure.
thanks, that's the one I was recalling. Do you remember the rocket at Vandenberg that made a similar spiral in crash?
I'm not aware of any as photogenic as that Trident test. But I'm no expert, I just googled.
Somebody put together a compilation of launch failures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McbCwSW2moo
The Trident launch is at 13m32s, just before the Challenger.
A fair percentage seem to occur within a rocket's length of the pad. Those are terrifying but boring.
Good grief, I had just updated only a few weeks back! Apple cannot seem to take a break for a while.
I am here to defend normal American against the gay haters frrom Cupertino including their fag-in-chief Tim Kook
Your bosses injected their family problem into technical, market, academic and political discussions. Now, their altar boys demand that their word be the last word on the matter.
We didn’t want to hear about it from them to begin with! We didn’t want to hear about it in their media sponsored by them, the universities, the politicians, their own offices or the managers they control, body and soul.
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