Overview of OS X Yosemite

October 16 released a new operating system for Mac OS X Yosemite. Perhaps, these words begin to look at the new Mac OS All editions of apple. Trite? Even as we do so differently.

We could make a very brief overview of Yosemite in the world and describe it in four words:

The flat, colorful, controversial, cool.

But for such a review, Apple does not pay us, so below you will find a detailed overview of all the chips ryushek and innovation.

Design

Let's start with the principal. After all, the design was the basis for Yosemite. Externally, the mobile OS has caught up and became a fellow like him around. Flat interface elements blur and translucency. How it affected the system? Controversial issue.

I was fortunate to become the owner of Mac's only a few months before the release of Yosemite, so with all my heart to love the old classic interface and I did not have time.

However, I enjoyed with iOS 4 version with the release of iOS 7, I became a follower of new trends genius Johnny Quince. Therefore the question of the attractiveness of the new OS is subjective. I am sure that the people screaming that the appearance of Yosemite makes them retching will be a lot, but they will be much less than those who find the system attractive updated design.

Translucency is now everywhere. For example, flipping the page in Safari, you'll notice that it goes under the top panel, turning it into a background color. Reporters The Verge pointed out that it is inconvenient and a bit distracting. However, it is not. The colors are very quiet and do not interfere with browsing.

On the plane, you can say the same thing. Sleek interface does not look much better or worse, it's just different.

Safari

Major changes in Safari - visual. It changes your bookmarks bar, now it looks almost identical to the bookmarks bar on your iPad. At the top of the page are open at the bottom - pages of other devices synchronized via iCloud.

Search services has increased. Added Yandex (or was it before?), As well as a secure search engine DuckDuckGo, for those who still wears tin foil hat.

Omnibox to Safari now displays your bookmarks and most visited pages. You can get rid of the bookmarks bar and open them from the omnibox.

Widgets

The notification center as well as in iOS 8 now has widgets. Standard available stocks, calendar, calculator, an overview of today and other basic widgets. However, third party developers will give the opportunity to create their own widgets and sell them in the Mac App Store.

I was not able to take widgets in iOS 8. Despite the fact that there are really cool widgets, their utility and convenience is reduced, if not to zero, then to a very small percentage. Did something happen the same thing with the widgets in Yosemite? I think yes.

Spotlight

We Spotlight is less useful than in the US. There he is now able to show the sessions in theaters, at a coffee shop, and much more, we have all this does not work. But as before, it can be used to open files, programs, and pages in Wikipedia. New same functionality is that Spotlight will show more personalized information, based on the same algorithm as Siri.

However, some features Spotlight still useful for us. For example, you can convert the units by entering only the first character of one of them.

Mail

Mail app has received a lot of innovations and the use of third-party clients now almost meaningless. First of all, is now in the mail, you can send very large files up to 5 GB. This file automatically will fill in iCloud Drive and the recipient will link.

A link to the file is valid for 30 days. And to use maildrop, namely the so-called this function, not necessarily to have mail account me.com. Gmail and others will also work.

Now you can make annotations directly into messages, sign the document using the trackpad as well as improvements in working with multiple drawers simultaneously.

iTunes

iTunes was the most important change - it has become easier and faster. And, remembering iTunes on Windows, we wish to iTunes 12 was released as quickly as possible there, because iTunes for Windows - it's a hell of hell.

AirDrop

AirDrop for iOS and Mac is now universal. That means you can transfer files from mobile devices to a computer and vice versa.

Function works great, though not without problems. Sometimes the connection is lost and reappears over time. What is the reason, I could not figure out.

But overall good AirDrop files are transmitted almost instantaneously and in a couple of clicks.

Handoff and Continuity

Continuity era will begin very soon, when the third-party developers will implement this feature in their apps. Many have done it immediately after Yosemite, others will do over time.

Continuity allows you to run applications on the iPhone, iPad and Mac, as if you do it on the same device. Most standard example - to start reading an article in the Pocket for iPhone and continue from the same point on a Mac.

The same applies to work with files, mail, and many others. Continuity possibilities are limited only by imagination of developers.

Handoff - it is very similar to the Continuity function, which allows you to make and receive mobile phone calls on a Mac or iPad. And it is as cool as it sounds. While working at the computer, you can not run for the phone to answer the call. And watching movies on the iPad in bed, you can break off and call someone you like right from the tablet.

messages

Messages received two notable innovations. Firstly, group chats, and secondly, Soundbites - a new chip, allows you to record a short audio message and send it via iMessage.

iCloud Drive

The new cloud storage from Apple looks very promising. On the Mac it appears as a separate folder. But for iOS definitely lacking in the native application.

At the same time, our review is coming to its logical conclusion, since the other changes in OS X Yosemite insignificant. How do you feel about the new Mac OS? Does it live up to your expectations or you are waiting for something else?