Apple Announces OS X Yosemite; Upgrade is Available for Free from the Mac App Store

As it was expected, besides new the new iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3, Apple today announced that OS X Yosemite is available as a free upgrade for Mac users from the Mac App Store. Most of its features have been already known but now it also brings a new Today view, a redesigned Spotlight and updated versions of Safari, Mail, Messages and iTunes.

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, said the following about it:
“OS X Yosemite is the most advanced version of OS X we’ve ever built, with a brand new design, amazing Continuity features and powerful versions of the apps you use every day. OS X Yosemite ushers in the future of computing, where your Apple devices all work together seamlessly and magically. It’s something only Apple can do, and it’s available today.”

Yosemite comes with the Continuity feature that makes your Mac and iOS devices work in synchronization. Here’s a quick breakdown of the new features:

Today view in Notification Center – allows for quick access to informative widgets for Calendar, Weather, Stocks, Reminders, World Clock and social networks
New Spotlight – rich information tothe desktop deliver from Wikipedia, Maps, Bing, App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, top websites, news and movie showtimes
iCloud Drive for storing any type in iCloud
Streamlined new Safari with performance and battery life
Updated version of Mail, which comes with Markup for quickly filling out and signing forms and PDFs right within Mail, plus Mail Drop, which makes it easy to send large attachments up to 5GB for free
Enhanced Messages which allows to add participants to your ongoing group conversations, see their locations on a map and quickly access attachments and even mute notifications
iTunes 12 comes with a new look and makes it easy to switch between browsing your music library and discovering new music on the iTunes Store
Family Sharing allows family members tobrowse and download each other’s iTunes, iBooks or Mac App Store purchases.

OS X Yosemite is available as a free upgrade today from the Mac App Store and it supports all Macs introduced in 2009 or later, and some models introduced in 2007 and 2008.
Download Mac OS X Yosemite here.

Comments

Mega List of Windows 7 Drivers

W indows 7 has just been released all over the world and I am sure many of you are gearing up to upgrade the OS of your PC to Windows 7. One thing which comes to my mind immediately when I think of upgrading my OS, is about the compatible drivers.

Dash up Your WordPress Dashboard Interface

Do you have a multi-author blog ? Do you want to brand your WordPress dashboard with custom logo and unique interface? Then this post is for you only. In this article I am going to tell you how you can change the avatar of WordPress admin page with new style and add some cool features to it. Let’s start. Fluency WordPress Plugin Here is a WordPress plugin for you called Fluency with which you can customize your WordPress admin page according to your needs without any knowledge of PHP. Some top features of Fluency that I personally like are – Display your own custom logo at the top of the WP Menu once logged in : This is my favorite option, with this plugin you can also add your own logo on top of WordPress admin page. A good option if you’ve a multi author blog. Hot keys for menu/submenu access : Fluency provides you with features of hot keys with which you can easily open menu and submenu. Now, no need to take mouse to every menu, simply use the hot keys f...

All Seeing Eye Chrome Add-on Runs Text Searches of Your Entire Browser History

W e use our browsers daily and at a certain point, we might want to find that interesting website that we accessed a few months ago. But by using the default browser history is either too difficult or almost impossible to do that. That’s why this Chrome extension is so awesome. The All Seeing Eye add-on indexes all text in your Web history, letting you run text searches. All Seeing Eye indexes all of the text of every page you visit in Chrome and even captures a screenshot of each page you visit for a quick visual search of your Web history. The default Web history tells you only the URL and title of each Web page you have visited but with the Chrome extension All Seeing Eye, your Web history expands to include all of the text of every page you have visited along with screenshots. The moment after you install the All Seeing Eye from the Chrome Web Store, the extension starts indexing all of the text of every page you visit and capturs scre...

Techy freaks

Search This Blog