I’ve encountered very few bugs — some third-party apps were a little unstable at the beginning of the test period, but it has been a long time since I encountered anything particularly egregious. I have been using it on my Mac for all my work. The public beta will be also available soon.I’ve been lucky enough to have used Mojave for months. A slightly deeper lookApple released the beta 5 of iOS 12.3, macOS Mojave 10.14.5, tvOS 12.3 and watchOS 5.2.1 to developers for testing. It’s fast and mostly familiar — you should be flying through your tasks within a few minutes of installation. Therefore, the UI will be slow as hell in Mojave, like this: Unusable, if you ask me.Mojave is an incredibly stable OS.
![]() Mojave Not For I 2011 Upgrade Your ApplicationsMac Pro (Late 2013, plus mid-2010 and mid-2012 models with recommended Metal-capable graphics card)Looking at the new Mojave features 1. Compatible MacsThe following Macs are compatible with macOS 10.14 Mojave: Some readers may want to read my enterprise guide to upgrading to macOS Mojave here. You may see some short-term sluggishness while the OS moves into your system, this is normal and usually passes quickly — see it as the hardware/software equivalent of rearranging furniture and unpacking the boxes when you move house. Once you do upgrade, make sure to visit the App Store to upgrade your applications. IDG Before you upgradeDon’t just rush into the upgrade always back up your system first.StacksThere was cheering, too, when Apple introduced Stacks. I have to confess that I take childish delight in switching between modes just to see the effect — I find it a remarkably effective way of ensuring I continue to miss important deadlines. (Touch Bar users can even create a button to keep there.)Overall impression: Dark Mode looks great. While it is easy to toggle between Light and Dark Mode in System Preferences>General, I found it even more effective to create a small Automator application to switch between these modes that I keep available in my Dock. I have to say that I really enjoy using this mode for research, editing images or exploring content, but I’m less enamoured with it when I am working in Word or Mail.![]() You can double-click to open a file, or drag it directly into an app or document.What does this mean? It means getting to the file you need is as easy as swiping out with four fingers on the trackpad and a tap or two on the relevant Stack.Overall impression: I’m finding Stacks to be a great way to work. On the mouse, use one finger. On the trackpad, use two fingers to scrub or swipe through thumbnails of files in a stack. You can also scrub through Stacks to flip through thumbnails of the files inside. If you use tags (and you really, really should), Mojave is even more powerful, as it’s so incredibly easy to create items for use across multiple projects, each of which can be found by project tag directly from your Desktop.To open a stack, just click it and its files spread out neatly on the desktop. You can also choose to organize your stacks by date or by tags.I’m an immediate convert to this feature because it makes it so much easier to maintain a tidy Desktop. This is great when you want to resize images to specific settings, scale them to a different size, or any other task you can create an Automator action for.Overall impression: For me, the Quick Actions features are becoming the most useful, particularly as I work with Automator to build actions that are more relevant to my workflow. It also unlocks what for me are the gold dust in the new Finder: Quick Actions.These are fantastic, as you can build your own such actions in Automator and then have them easily available and usable in a couple of clicks — right from the Finder. Finder enhancementsWith an eye to a more visual Mac user experience, there are three key Finder enhancements: Gallery View, Quick Actions, and the new Preview Pane.The revamped Finder and its Preview Pane ( Command-Shift-P), lets you take a look at all the metadata for files and it lets you rotate images, combine files into a PDF, trim video, and more with no need to open an application.The Preview Pane (Command-Shift-P), lets you take a look at all the metadata for files and lets you to edit them directly in Finder. You must remain disciplined in terms of tidying up stuff you don’t need. My only real problem is that Stacks makes me less likely to tidy the contents of my Desktop, which means my iCloud storage slowly gets eaten up. It’s going to help most of us get work done a little faster, and the addition of what used to be QuickTime’s video screen capture should make it much easier to share instructions and problems with other Mac users.When you capture an image, you’ll usually see a small image preview appear on screen. This now operates in similar fashion to the manner of screenshots on iPad.While all your existing screenshot shortcuts work, Mojave adds a powerful new screen capture shortcut: ⌘+⇧+5.When you use this, you’ll be able to decide what kind of image to take (full screen, app window, video etc) and where you want the screenshot saved to. Screenshots transformedApple has changed the way you take Screenshots on your Mac. ![]() AppleThe redesigned App Store in macOS Mojave. While it puts entry-level scanners out of business, it’s an absolute gift to any pro user who needs a quick and easy way to acquire and deploy an image. When you are done you will see the scan/photo pasted exactly where you want it on your Mac.Overall impressions: This just works. Choose the one you want to use, ask it to take a photo or scan and then follow the instructions on your iOS device screen. Select this, and you’ll see all your active iOS devices that are logged into the same Apple ID. Continuity Camera is a huge time saverIf you keep digitized expense receipts, receive a paper document you must sign but can return digitally, or just want to scan an image or something else — or grab a picture to use in a report, Continuity Camera is your friend.It means you can use your iPhone or iPad to shoot or scan something, and you’ll immediately be able to use it on your Mac.To use this, just use the context menu (right click) in an Apple application (including Finder, Mail, Messages, Notes, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers,) and you’ll see a new Take a Photo or Scan Document option. Netflix party for macNews is particularly good to use on the Mac, but the inclusion of financial news within Stocks actually makes that app a little more interesting for those of us who don’t keep shares.Overall impressions: Developers should look at Apple’s key lesson in these apps — they not ony do what they do on an iOS device, but these apps show that Apple is also thinking about how to contextualize iOS apps for use on the Mac platform. What I liked about them is that Apple didn’t just port them across it also made some small but logical changes to the apps to make them more effective and useful on the Mac. It also supports elements of the iOS UIKit framework on the Mac.I’ve used all four of these new apps.
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