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.
NT4 SP6?
lo lol lol lol
Funny, I thought MS came out with the “Metro” desktop for *doze. :-/
Every time Apple lists all the great new features they’re rolling out it reminds me of just how backward their stuff is compared to the alternatives the rest of us have been enjoying for a long time.
And what pray tell have you been enjoying for a long time?
LOL! No, although all of the NT4 servers I had the dubious pleasure of working with over the years were pretty f***ed up before they were retired.
It was XP, I believe around the time of SP2. SP2 itself was a special treat, but as I recall it was a smaller patch that acted just like somebody had driven a 16-inch spike through a tire, through the wheel well, and into the gas tank. Total loss, had to restore the whole machine from backups. Veritas BackupExec, another special treat....
NT4 SP6 was so bad it was actually pulled and replaced by 6a within 24 hours of it’s release.
I'm dying to find out what "alternatives" you think "the rest of us" are enjoying that make Apple's gear look backward.
Seriously.
Sure, Apple isn't first with every feature, and in a few notable instances they've been late to the table. But they usually are years ahead of everybody else.
So... what are you speaking of?
Starting from the top of the list... the ability to sort my photos by date or other attributes. Being able to upload the photo in original format. Etc... etc...etc.
And for minor app feature stuff like that (which for the sake of discussion I'll grant you they were late with) you slam Apple for being backward compared to the competition in general?
Well, ooookaaaay.... to each their own. Ain't freedom of choice wonderful?
Just about the time 2000 came out, I was hip deep in converting the whole org from Netware and Groupwise to a Windows domain and Exchange, and had turned server maintenance over to somebody else.
Ah, those heady days of yesteryear in computing! :)
> ...had turned server maintenance over to somebody else.
Don'tcha just love how those words slip off the tongue?
That's not to say they're not the most advanced things in the existence of time... of course they are.
Yep. When they bought another company, and they asked for a list of what I needed to get them integrated I had a list of hardware, cabling, and software licenses, and at the end of the list "a brace of grunts".
Well, on that we can agree in part -- I have the same observation sometimes. Here's how I see it, as one who is nobody's fanboy:
Apple generally gets the visionary concepts and system design right, and is generally first to market with those concepts embodied in a solid product.
Others are later with the system designs, but to make up for that, they often bring out many smaller non-visionary but useful features.
Apple follows later, adding those feature it deems most useful. So the features sometimes appear after somebody else had them. But what differentiates Apple's products, in my opinion, is not the individual features, but the vision and the excellence in system design and execution. For me, lists of "new" features are often anti-climactic.
Everybody's got their areas where they're tops. Can't all be the same.
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