50 things about OS X Mavericks, which you might not know (part 2)

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OS X Mavericks, presented at the launch of October 22 is a major upgrade of the desktop operating system from Apple. Let's go through the most important innovations OS X Mavericks and learn why you should upgrade as soon as possible on it.

notice

Notifications were first introduced in OS X Mountain Lion, providing functionality that was achieved before the installation of third-party app Growl.

29. interactive notifications

In OS X Mavericks interaction with notifications to a new level. Now we can answer the message, FaceTime call or delete email directly from the notification, without opening the associated application.

30. Push-notifications for sites

The new notification feature - is getting push-messages from the site when new content is added to them. It may be news, auction updates, sports scores, or something else. Notifications will be sent even if Safari is closed at this time.

31. Notifications received in your absence

When you leave your Mac blocked delivery of notices and does not stop on the return, you can see notifications about events occurring in your absence. All messages, email, and propushennye calls will be displayed on the lock screen. If you are using a desktop computer or just want to hide such a notification from prying eyes - this is done very easily. Go to "Settings" - "Notifications" and remove the checkmark "Display notifications on your lock screen" in the right applications. This technique should be familiar to you on iOS.

tabs Finder

Sometimes you have to work with multiple folders, Finder, and to keep for this purpose several windows - a luxury, especially since Finder is usually used in conjunction with any other application.

32. One window - several tabs

The solution to this problem suggested itself by itself. And in OS X Mavericks Apple has added in the Finder to open the possibility of multiple tabs in a single window. The mechanism of the tabbed resembles that of the browsers. You can open folders in new tabs, drag and drop files from one tab to another, all in a single window Finder!

tags

A new way of filtering and fast information search - tags. They can be added to any documents, including stored in iCloud. The same applies to all files and folders.

33. Tags in the Finder

In the sidebar of the Finder, you'll find a new section with tags. By default, their names correspond to colors, but you can easily rename them to something more appropriate. To assign a tag to any document - do a right click and select the desired tag from the list.

34. Tags applications

You can add a tag to the document as it is recorded. In the Save dialog, along with the name and the destination directory has the option tags. Before you hit "Save" button, add the tag to your document, and then you will be able to find it quickly.

35. Tags to iCloud

Tags in iCloud are particularly useful for different types of documents related to a single project. For example, you have a table in Numbers, Pages document and presentation in Keynote - can all be grouped into a single project, using tags. After that it will be very easy to find all the resources of a particular project and view it in the Finder.

36. Filter by Tag

Any document can be assigned to more than one tag. For example, I have a phone bills: the corporate phone and my own iPhone. I appoint for both tag "Accounts" and for each "Work" and "Home", respectively. With this approach, it will be much easier to filter out the documents of the same type, but relating to different events.

Hi-tech

On presentations OS X Mavericks Apple showed several proprietary technologies included in the new operating system. This refers to optimization to increase the battery life, improving the overall performance and responsiveness of the OS.

37. Timer Coalescing

The essence of this technology lies in the fact that the system includes small low-level operations for joint implementation. Thus, increasing the downtime of the processor in which it operates in the sleep mode. And this, in turn, has a positive effect on the overall power consumption and longer battery life from the battery. Apple claims that due Timer Coalescing, CPU activity can be reduced to 72%. And proshodit is so fast that you do not notice any difference in performance.

38. App Nap

This technology is also designed to save energy. If you're like I use in multiple applications with multiple windows, App Nap helps improve battery life. The operating principle of this technology is quite simple - the system keeps track of application windows that are not in focus at the moment and slows them (provided that the window is not performed any background process, such as playing music or downloading files). When you switch to a suspended application, it instantly comes back. According to Apple, App Nap technology can reduce CPU usage to 23%.

39. Safari Power Saver

If you are using an Apple computer for a long time, you should be familiar with the position of Steve Jobs with respect to Adobe Flash. You have to give him credit, Flash was indeed very gluttonous to resources, and it was therefore not included in the iOS. For the same reason Flash is not installed in OS X by default, although you can install it yourself. OS X Mavericks determines the content, which is the main page, disabling autoplay for all kinds of advertising and other content located on the edge of the page. Slowing content will occur as long as the user interacts with it. So Safari Power Saver saves precious battery power.

40. iTunes HD Playback Efficiency

Another technology aimed at increasing energy efficiency. She works full-screen video playback on your computer. While playing the video graphics system is used more efficiently, reducing the number of references to a disk drive. The assurances of Apple, even playing music has become more efficient in terms of power consumption. As a result, the processor will use 35% less energy while watching a video than ever before.

41. memory compression

Everyone knows that the more operavtivnoy memory installed in your computer, the faster will run operating systems and applications. When using a large number of applications, memory inevitably end (especially if it is established less than 4GB), and the system will have to write data to disk applications. And it is fraught with delays in reading, because the speed of reading from disk is much smaller than RAM. memory compression technology allows application data to compress and keep them in memory, instead of discharge into the swap-file to disk. This approach will speed up the application downloading is restarted. According to Apple information, minimized applications can load 1.4 times faster than before.

Internet Accounts

With the release of OS X Lion appeared integration with Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Vimeo. In OS X Mavericks is on LinkedIn support, the largest social network for finding and establishing business contacts.

42. LinkedIn

Adding a LinkedIn account in OS X Mavericks is very simple:

• launching the system settings;
• open item "Uch. Internet accounts ";
• choose from the list of LinkedIn;
• enter your account information;

monitoring system

System utility that is in the folder "Utilities" on lonchpade or in applications, has been redesigned and has a new interface. Section "Disk Usage" and "Disk Activity" are now combined into a single tab. By the way, the tabs are now located at the top.

43. Energy

A new tab has appeared in OS X Mavericks. It displays detailed information on the energy consumption of each of the running applications (current and average of energetic). In a graph shown in system power consumption over the past 12 hours. With this tab, you can keep track of what applications consume the most energy and complete it if you need to preserve battery life for your current task.

Universal access

44. accompanying text

OS X Mavericks provides support for subtitles, to facilitate computer use for people with poor eyesight. When the subtitles are displayed where possible. default style, you can choose from the available tracing options, classic or large text. These options are found in the system settings, in the section "Universal Access", select "accompanying text."

45. Switch Control

Switch Control is an assistive technology that simplifies the interaction with the computer for people with limited mobility or problems with fine motor skills. When you turn on Switch Control, an additional panel to specify the actions that can be activated using a keyboard, mouse or trackpad. set of actions can be edited manually.

46. Dictation and Speech

Dictation is included in the system settings, select "dictation and speech." Now this function can work without connecting to the Internet, which may be useful in some cases. In OS X Mavericks, there was also a continuous dictation. To be able to work offline, need to download 491MB of data, but do not have to every time to connect to Apple servers to process the next request.

Mac App Store

47. Automatically update apps

Several new options have appeared in the section of App Store, in the system settings. They allow you to customize the behavior of the system to update. By default, OS X Mavericks checks for updates to applications purchased through the App Store, and downloads them in the background. When the updates are ready to install, the system will notify you.

48. Automatic installation of applications

This option will always support your applications up to date. When it is turned on, after downloading updates automatically install them.

49. Automatic installation on all your Macs

Familiar from iOS feature, which when uploaded to one of your application any device to automatically download it to all the other linked to your account. The same thing is happening in the new OS X Mavericks when the option "Automatically download software bought on other Mac».

Battery Information

50. Extended information about the battery status

A new feature that displays applications with significant energy consumption, in the drop-down menu displays information about the battery. To use this feature, you must enable the option "Show battery status in menu bar", which is located in System Preferences, under "Energy saving". Now when you click on the battery icon in the menu bar, you will see a list of the most power hungry applications (if any).

conclusion

Key innovations OS X Mavericks, noticeable at first glance - is the emergence of iBooks and Maps. Also, here you can include an updated Finder, with its tabs and tags that will help improve the interaction with the file system and make working with documents and files more convenient.

But many features designed to enhance system performance and increase battery life, and remain "behind the scenes". In fact, for the average user is not so important to know about the existence of all of these features and technologies. The main thing is that everything works and it works just fine.

Overall, the update came just gorgeous we obtain improved performance, increased autonomy, a lot of new pleasant things and all for free! Everyone who has not yet been updated, highly recommend it.