Yes, Preview in OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) has a freehand tool. Access it within Preview from the 'Markup Toolbar' icon of the.JPG or.PDF file you have open. When you click on that icon, the Markup toolbar appears, and the freehand 'sketch' tool is the 3rd icon from the left, in blue in the image below. OS X 10.10, aka Yosemite, sports a more modern look and bridges the gap between Apple's desktop and mobile devices. The new Continuity helps you hand off tasks from iPhone to iPad to Mac, but that. The Mac App Store makes it easy to find and download Mac apps as well as widgets and extensions — like editing extensions for the new Photos app. You can browse Mac apps by category, such as games, productivity, music and more.
This fall, the 11th consumer version of Mac OS X will be released, for free. OS X 10.10 is better known as Yosemite, and the main thing you need to know about it is that it’s a big visual redesign. All of the features and functionality we’ve come to expect from Macs are still here, but they have a new look that’s closer to the redesign we saw last month on iPhones and iPads with iOS 8.
Every year since the release of the iPhone, we’ve wondered how Apple would negotiate the fact that it has two big, important operating systems. And every year, there are small signs that the two are coming closer together, but they never quite merge, and Apple has so far been adamant that they never will. With Yosemite, that strategy is clearer than ever. Instead of making the Mac ape the iPhone and iPad, Apple is making sure that they all can work together both functionally and aesthetically.
It’s easy to say that Yosemite does to the Mac what iOS 7 did to the iPhone, but that’s not quite right. The design principles in iOS 7 and many of the ideas that make iOS 8 so exciting are lurking behind the semi-translucent interfaces on Yosemite. But they’re not simple copies; this is Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite — emphasis on the Mac.
Stay tuned for Continuity
The best parts of Yosemite aren’t available for users in this beta because they rely on iOS 8. Once both operating systems are released, the idea of Apple’s unified ecosystem will turn into real, tangible benefits for people who have both Macs and iPhones.
You’ll be able to take calls on your Mac directly, and both iMessages and text messages will work across the Messages app on both platforms. There’s also going to be a feature called 'Handoff,' which lets you start an activity on one platform — like looking at a webpage or composing an email — and then continue it on the other. Also, AirDrop will (finally!) work across both iOS and OS X, making shooting files across devices much easier.
My favorite feature will probably be 'Instant Hotspot,' which lets you turn on internet tethering directly from the computer so you don’t have pull out your phone and dig through the settings. Heck, it even shows you your phone’s battery life.
It all works through a combination of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and your iCloud account — you’ll need to be signed in for all your devices to work together. iCloud Drive is also going to be a big deal in Yosemite, syncing files from your Mac and iOS devices into the cloud just like Dropbox.
Unfortunately, we weren’t able to test any of this and if you sign up for the beta, you won’t either. But if Apple applies the same quality and polish to Continuity that it has to the rest of Yosemite, it’ll be worth waiting for.
Inspired by iOS 8
The first thing that strikes you when you log in to Yosemite is how much brighter and cleaner everything is. First impressions matter, and Apple makes a good one. The dock is a simple, rounded rectangle filled with colorful icons. They’re bold yet detailed, but they come right up to the edge of looking cartoonish, which could put off some people. But they’re not as extreme as the icons in iOS, and no fooling, that new Trash icon is gorgeous.
The next big change is the menu bar — specifically the font you’ll find both there and throughout the rest of the OS. It’s Helvetica Neue, and this design choice has faced its share of criticism. I won’t delve into the minutiae of kerning and apertures in fonts, but I will say that it makes a better first impression on me than the old Lucida Grande font. Especially on a Retina display, text feels more balanced and easier to read.
Open an app like Safari and you’ll be struck by the next big change in Yosemite: the toolbars and other 'chrome' that surround apps has all changed — usually for the better. Although Apple didn’t go all-out with mimicking iOS 8, there’s nevertheless a 'flatter' look across the board. The different pieces of the OS aren’t as stark as iOS’ flat white; instead the gradients are subtler (and thus cleaner) than they were before, but not so much so that they feel antiseptic. The buttons are cleaner overall, but some, like the share button, feel a little unbalanced. The classic Mac 'stoplight' buttons are flatter too, and they only reveal their purpose when you hover over them. One of them, the green button, now maps to full-screen instead of to maximizing your window — but you can double-click in the toolbar area to get the old behavior.
So far, so good, but we haven’t gotten to the most divisive part of Yosemite yet. The part that, like it or not, is going to have critics making comparisons to Windows Vista until they’re blue in the face.
Translucent is the warmest color
In Yosemite, many of the UI elements are translucent, which means they show what’s behind them in a gauzy, blurred-out way. The theory is that it will help give you some sort of spatial 'context,' a hint about what’s behind whatever window you’re currently using. In practice, I found it mostly distracting, especially in app sidebars.
The translucency is even more prominent in the toolbars you see at the top of every app window. For example, as you scroll down the page in Safari, the colors and elements of the web page show up as ghostly colors in the toolbar area. It’s the same effect we’ve seen on iOS, but on the Mac it’s much more distracting to see moving colors in a spot that’s meant to be static. Unlike Vista, Yosemite at least only shows it on the active window, which prevents everything from turning into a muddled mess of see-through windows.
Throughout its history, even Apple has shown that it is not immune to the temptation to create eye-candy effects just because it can. I don’t really believe that’s what’s happening here, but I’m also far from convinced that the information conveyed by translucency is worth the experience of seeing all these hazy colors. I let out a sigh of relief when I found the 'Reduce transparency' checkbox hidden away inside the 'Accessibility' settings. I haven’t checked that box yet, but probably will before the beta is up.
Notification Center
The new Notification Center in Yosemite is great. It’s split into two simple views, 'Today' for your widgets and 'Notifications' for, well, your notifications. The latter works basically as it has since Mavericks: you can reply to some pop-up notifications inline, and everything is aggregated into app buckets with a small 'x' button to clear them.
But the big new change is the addition of widgets in the Today view. Instead of being scurried away in the ill-fated Dashboard space, they’re now available in a single, scrollable pane on the right hand side of your screen. It’s the same basic idea as the widgets that are coming to Notification Center in iOS 8, and they’re wildly more useful than I expected them to be.
Apple has created a few default widgets for you to use (in Apple’s parlance, they’re actually called 'Extensions'). There’s a basic 'Today' view that shows the weather and upcoming appointments, a great little calendar view, a world clock, weather, and even a calculator. More will come when third-party developers are able to release them in the App Store, and you can manage them with a simple drag and drop.
Spotlight
Apple’s search tool now appears smack in the middle of the screen as a big, pop-up search box. We’ve seen this interface before — both Alfred and LaunchBar do the same thing — and it’s a much better user experience than the old menu-style drop-down, giving Apple more space to present detailed search results.
In addition to showing full previews of a file you’re hunting down, Spotlight can show you some intelligent web results for certain searches. If you type a name that you don’t have in your contacts, for example, you can get a tiny Wikipedia preview. You can grab movie showtimes, maps, and even recent news results. Most of these little previews are interactive, too: if you search for a contact, you can email or call them right from Spotlight.
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All those extra features are great, but sometimes Spotlight feels a little inconsistent. Yes, you can get information from the web, but searching for something like 'Skype' is more likely to give you contact info and less likely to allow you to just open up Skype’s website. Spotlight is super powerful as an app launcher and for local search, but it’s not going to obviate launcher apps like Alfred and LaunchBar anytime soon — they still are more extensible and more powerful.
Safari
Safari is receiving its biggest visual overhaul in a long time. Apple has minimized the size of the toolbar, going to extremes to cut out visual clutter and leaving you with a view that cuts out tabs and bookmarks in favor of a simple address field and just a few buttons. Even the address bar has been simplified, showing only the top-level domain of the site you’re visiting until you click it.
But hidden beneath that sparse exterior is a lot of power. When you click on the address bar, you’ll see a small drop-down with your top bookmarks and most frequently visited sites. The autocomplete is also enhanced — in addition to history, bookmarks, and search results, you can also search Wikipedia, Maps, and iTunes, just like Spotlight. Safari’s Reader button has been moved to the left, thankfully distant from the page-refresh button, and there’s a condensed 'add' button for bookmarks and your reading list.
Tabs get some attention, too. When you have a ton, you can now scroll through them horizontally — though unfortunately you still can’t 'pin' them as you can in Chrome and Firefox. The 'show all tabs' button is also much nicer — giving you grouped thumbnails of all your open tabs up top and a list of other tabs from your iCloud-connected devices underneath.
But the best thing about the new Safari is that it’s just stupid fast. I haven’t run it through a full suite of benchmarks, but in my day-to-day browsing it feels like it’s running circles around other browsers. I’ve been a Chrome user for some time now, but it’s increasingly hard to justify using it when Safari just feels this much better on OS X.
Other apps
Along with a slightly updated look, Mail gets access to a new cloud service called 'Maildrop' which is an optional place to store large attachments for a month rather than email them directly. A new feature called 'Markup' lets you annotate images and PDFs directly within the Mail app. It’s neat to draw circles and arrows, but the best part is that you can directly sign PDFs with the trackpad. Messages has a couple little features like the ability to rename group chats and send short voice messages. Both are nice, but probably not enough to convert you if you’re not already an iMessage user. One thing that might: you’ll be able to send regular old SMS texts once iOS 8 comes out.
The Calendar app finally has a proper day view, showing you more detail about what’s going on in your daily events in a side panel instead of in a pop-up. Plenty of other apps and settings have received tweaks, too: Facetime has been slightly redesigned, you have more granular control over sharing options throughout OS X, and there’s even a 'dark mode' for the entire OS that should please photographers, video professionals, and goths.
In any giant visual overhaul, you’d expect there to be places that the designers missed, little corners of the OS that are easy to forget. But by all appearances, Apple has been sweating the details in Yosemite. Sure, there are a few system apps whose icons have yet to be updated and there’s a handful of rough edges, but there are just as many small, pleasantly surprising graceful touches.
This isn’t just a cut-and-paste of the design aesthetic of iOS layered on top of the Mac, it’s taking that aesthetic and making it feel native. It doesn’t lock you into using Apple's devices, but the features that work hand-in-hand with the iPhone are probably the most exciting ones.
More than anything else, Yosemite is an example of Apple at the height of its powers. It takes part in an ecosystem of devices that ensures each one feels distinct and appropriate to its use, but nevertheless is recognizably Apple. When somebody takes a cheap shot at Yosemite by comparing its translucency to Windows Vista, just smile and start up your iPhone’s hotspot from your menubar.
Yosemite will be out this fall as a free upgrade for most Mac users. If Mavericks’ upgrade numbers are any guide, more than half of the entire Mac install base will be using Yosemite in relatively short order — and they’ll be better off for it.
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Since the Mac OS X Yosemite Preview version released, many Mac users can't wait to upgrade their system to the new Yosemite. While this new Mac OS X Yosemite might come with some possible problems that frustrate Mac users. Read on before you upgrade to OS X Yosemite.
1 Dark Mode & Looks
Yosemite offers the Dark Mode option that changes the outlook of menu bar and Dock from the white appearance to translucent black material. While some of the users found the Dark Mode option quite appealing, a large part of the Mac users found the looks bland and unappealing. Users found the option being quite primitive with the toggle on or off by a check box feature in the System Preferences. Moreover, changing the system settings in Dark Mode is not exposed in normal API.
The review of the users towards Mac Yosemite's 'Dark Mode' option is pretty bad. They literally termed it as one of the terrible screen display feature. The users did not find the display fonts appropriate and the display setting by 'Dark Mode' option is unattractive on the 'non-Retina' display. The users feel that the sophisticated Mac display if replaced with the latest Mac Yosemite OS X makes the appearance more complicated and plain that looks like an amateur drawing rather than the renowned Apple Mac desktop.
2 Bugs & Issues
Many of the Mac users have been getting the message of 'This Code has already been redeemed' before downloading the Yosemite. This has turned out to be a large-scale error and frustrate the users. The error appears in the App Store while redeeming the Yosemite Beta Code. There have been many bug issues when working with the Apple's new OS X with the users and this is one of them.
The bugs include poor management of dual iTunes accounts, crashes in Activity Monitor, making and receiving calls with the FaceTime app, and unreliable WiFi connections. Some users also face problems with safari as it crashes the moment one opens it. Apps like Final Cut Pro X, Aperture, iMovie and many more Apple apps seems like are not compatible with the new OS X and crash any moment. Many of the users also face the problem in the storage section of 'About my Mac', where they are unable to view the original disk space and the folder shows a file created by the name of 'Others' that is created on its own without the knowledge of the user.
3 Gmail and Mail Bug ProblemsPreview App For Mac Yosemite Free
Many users have been complaining about the Gmail and Mail sync bug problems. The Gmail and mail bug is the most common one that is experienced by the frustrated Mac users. First, there is the problem of synchronizing Gmail and Mail app with the new Yosemite OS X. If by chance it synchronizes with your Mac, then the apps might slow down or crash the moment you open them. No new emails or messages are displayed in the app while it is open.
Many users found that when they were scrolling the mail app, it randomly quit scrolling and they had to reopen the Mail app to enable the scrolling yet again. The most frustrating bug in the Gmail app is when the users try to delete a message in the mail, not after long it reappears unexpectedly. The message disappears for only a temporary short time. If you choose to work with some other random mail app, then the bug makes sure that the app uses default and random Gmail settings, which is irritating for the users.
4 Notes Crashes
The users have been facing the problem of Mavericks Note crashes in the Yosemite OS X. The Notes app does not sync many Microsoft Exchange Account of the users, nor does it sync from the Mac to Exchange Server, and also neither from the Exchange server to the Mac. The app might come up and show in the display settings of the Mac, but the users were unable to type anything and the app ignored all the Keyboard input but the mouse input worked fine with the Yosemite OS X.
The app also freezes after the users launch it after the update. The user complained about this particular app being crashed repeatedly even after a fix has been submitted to Apple. If the app is synced with the help of a Wi-Fi connection, then too nothing updates after the sync and which is clearly a trouble for the users. If a note is due before the current date or the date, you have mentioned in it and you study it, then the users will not be able to find an updated study schedule.
5 iPhoto App BugPreview App
If you are planning to install Yosemite OS X, then you have to update your iPhoto to 9.5.1 version to work with the latest Mac operating system. However, still after the update too many people have been experiencing quite a lot of issues and bugs with the iPhoto app. Even after the use of updated iPhoto app, many users have been unable to edit their images. The users did subsequently many refreshed attempts, but still the images go distorted, unclear and do not provide any chance of editing them.
Many a times a black screen appears when you enter the edit mode of iPhoto app in Yosemite that stops the users from editing the photos. The iPhoto app also crashes down immediately after the users open it in Yosemite OS X. In addition, the images that are shared on social networking sites are shared in reduced sizes. The elements and options in the app also do not display properly in Yosemite OS X.
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