Alright guys, here are 5 cool new features of the new Mac OS X Yosemite.
The first is obviously the new design.
As you can see it’s got new icons, it has new fonts, and it’s similar to last year's
iOS 7 design overhaul.
It’s been the same for years, but with OS X Yosemite it has a translucency feel to it.
It's got a flatter modern look.
It's colorful and it might be difficult for some people to get used to because it's so,
it resembles iOS.
This is uh, Yosemite is like the first turning point for Mac OS X in terms of making it consistent
with iOS as far as the designs resembling each other.
Personally for me I like this new design.
It didn’t take long for it to grow on me because I'm used to iOS 7 now, but I'm glad
that they are making it more consistent across the board as far as iOS and Mac OS X.
The second cool new feature is called dark mode.
So not only did we get a new design we got a new option to change the theme I guess you
could call it.
If you go into your system preferences into general you’ll see a checkbox that says
“Use dark menu bar and dock”.
So check that.
What it does it changes the menu bar and dock and menu bar overlays to a darker color.
So this is dark mode.
So if you're a fan of night mode themes like for your apps like me then you will like this
new dark mode especially if you don't like that new translucency feel I guess this kind
of tones that down and makes it easier on the eyes.
I think it looks really good.
I might have dark mode enabled most of the time when I'm using this operating system.
Cool new feature number three is the new notification center.
At the top right you got your notification center button and when you click that you
will see that you have your today feature just like on iOS so you can see an overview
of your day.
You got your reminders, your birthdays, all that good stuff.
Plus it has widgets now that we can add any type of widget: a calculator, calendar, stocks,
weather.
You can add weather so at the bottom you got the edit button.
You can add and take away these widgets and move them around in your order however you
want it.
And also developers are going to be able to create custom widgets for this that you can
add via the Mac app store.
So the notification center has definitely improved on Yosemite.
Number four: spotlight search got put on steroids.
It now acts and looks like an old dear friend of us Mac users, an app called Alfred.
So you may not need Alfred anymore with the new spotlight search.
I don’t know.
When you access spotlight search it pops up in the middle of your screen, and it searches
a lot more than just your Mac’s hard drive.
It searches the web and even gives you direct results from Wikipedia, iTunes, the Mac App
Store, and sites like Fandango.
So stuff like that, it gives you intelligent results directly in Spotlight search.
A lot better than the previous versions.
And the fifth and final new cool feature of Yosemite is Safari.
I’ve never been a big fan of Safari on the Mac, but this new Safari with Yosemite has
a new look to it and has some useful features to make it a more appealing browser.
First of all the green maximize button on Yosemite is now a full screen button so if
you click that it puts everything on full screen.
It’ll put that app on full-screen, and Safari does a great job at just reducing the clutter
itself.
So when you put Safari in full screen mode you do get the most real estate.
It looks really good so also now when you click in the address bar it gives you a drop-down
menu of your bookmarks and your most viewed sites which I like I like that feature.
The browser itself is really fast and it’s smarter too.
So it actually gives you results sort of like the new Spotlight search does.
It gives you intelligent results from top sites so if I search somebody or something
it gives you a little drop-down menu suggestion with the top site like Wikipedia so and then
I just got quick access to the Wikipedia page which is cool.
I like that feature.
You also have a new button that gives you a view of all your open tabs on one single
screen so you can manage your tabs more efficiently.
All these features make it a great browser but not great enough for me personally to
switch from Chrome.
Alright guys that was my video of 5 cool new features of Mac OS X Yosemite and my question
to you is what is your favorite new feature that you like about Yosemite or that you’re
looking forward to with Mac OS 10.10.
I'm quite curious to know so leave your answer down below.
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My name is Andy with MyTechMethods.
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