Parallels 7 still works fine for me in Mavericks, although if I was going to do any serious gaming I would have upgraded to 8 for that alone.
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WWDC14 Thread of iOS 8 and Mac OSX 10.10
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Parallels 7 still works fine for me in Mavericks, although if I was going to do any serious gaming I would have upgraded to 8 for that alone.
Once you sign up at https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/guide you will get an email once chosen.
The email will contain a key you redeem in App Store. From there on out it will be like it was with any Mac OS X update.
infiniteloop
Member
Beautiful Buttery Scrolling
Meus Renaissance
Member
So what is the point of a public beta distinct from the DP?
I would personally install it on a secondary machine. Not worth it to risk experiencing glitches with a beta on a machine that you need for daily work. What is DP?
Technosteve
Banned
to beta or not to beta that is the question
xcode beta is open to everyone.
xcode beta is open to everyone.
I read earlier this week that the Developer Preview will be updated more frequently than the public beta.
The point is that with the PB channel you can send feedbacks to Apple in the proper way, and don't need to mess with torrents either. The first PB is the same build as DP4, actually, according to reports on the internet.
You can already do that on Mavericks.
Son of a bitch, you're right. For some reason when I was trying to go through one of the Apple pages it told me I needed to pay for the Developer license to get it. Tried a different one and it let me download. Thanks!
infiniteloop
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Public beta is available
Mark Gurman ‏@markgurman 6m
The public beta is ONE BUILD NEWER than the current dev seed.
Mark Gurman ‏@markgurman 6m
The public beta is ONE BUILD NEWER than the current dev seed.
How do you get it? I didn't get an email yet from Apple.
You don't need an email, head to https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/redemption
edit: I'm getting a download error 5.07 gb for the curious
edit: I'm getting a download error 5.07 gb for the curious
infiniteloop
Member
Anybody that downloads it, can you tell me what the name of the installer app is?
Is it 'Install OS X Yosemite' 'Install OS X Yosemite Public Beta' or something different?
Want to make sure I block the process name so no one at work installs it
Is it 'Install OS X Yosemite' 'Install OS X Yosemite Public Beta' or something different?
Want to make sure I block the process name so no one at work installs it
Weird! I wish my home Internet was as fast as my work Internet. It sucks that so much of the Internet is blocked at my work. That's cool that you can at least download stuff like this. I did a speedtest the other day at work and it was ~700 Mbps up/down at work.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
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It's saying I've already redeemed the code :/
Check under purchases. It might be listed in there.
Meus Renaissance
Member
So iCloud will be dead on other devices e.g. I wont be able to access my contacts, Notes etc if I upgrade to iCloud Drive? Wow
infiniteloop
Member
this is the thing about releasing iOS 8 in sept and OS X in Oct... surely all the iCloud data/photos stuff is going to be out of whack until you're running the latest OSs on all your devices?
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
It's giving me a "we'll be back soon" sign. I assume it's down?
Ovek
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it’s installed. and then if you reopen the app store, you get the iTunes 12 beta.
something I haven’t seen mentioned before. when you drag an item off the dock and wait, instead of the “puff of smoke” cloud, you get a clear text popover that says “remove” on it.
Still not liking the shape and contrast of the white, borderless buttons on the grey toolbar (I think I have a thing for wanting single pixel border outlines on buttons) but other elements of the UI are nice. there’s a lot of subtle animation on radio buttons and checkboxes that screenshots don’t reveal.
The use of small fonts on the dark, translucent background in NC really benefits from the retina display. As an example, click on the weather to get extended forecast on a regular ~100 ppi display. text is a little muddied. typical for small white text on black backgrounds. it’s super sharp on the retina display on the macbook, as expected
there’s a section for Extensions in sys preferences where you can get more NC widgets but link to app store is broken now. no way to add more at this time.
I have Gmail setup in Mail and there’s now the gmail initials of the sender in a grey circle to the right of the message. I don’t know if this is gmail only but it now adds something that’s seen in the gmail iOS app and webapp.
safari does seem snappier. For real. loading new Gaf pages with extensions running is now faster than before.
edit: seeing blurred, colourful webpages show through the entire safari titlebar is weird. it’s not distracting for text pages but with lots of images, it seems weird. like some sort of old-timey shapeshifter theme.
something I haven’t seen mentioned before. when you drag an item off the dock and wait, instead of the “puff of smoke” cloud, you get a clear text popover that says “remove” on it.
Still not liking the shape and contrast of the white, borderless buttons on the grey toolbar (I think I have a thing for wanting single pixel border outlines on buttons) but other elements of the UI are nice. there’s a lot of subtle animation on radio buttons and checkboxes that screenshots don’t reveal.
The use of small fonts on the dark, translucent background in NC really benefits from the retina display. As an example, click on the weather to get extended forecast on a regular ~100 ppi display. text is a little muddied. typical for small white text on black backgrounds. it’s super sharp on the retina display on the macbook, as expected
there’s a section for Extensions in sys preferences where you can get more NC widgets but link to app store is broken now. no way to add more at this time.
I have Gmail setup in Mail and there’s now the gmail initials of the sender in a grey circle to the right of the message. I don’t know if this is gmail only but it now adds something that’s seen in the gmail iOS app and webapp.
safari does seem snappier. For real. loading new Gaf pages with extensions running is now faster than before.
edit: seeing blurred, colourful webpages show through the entire safari titlebar is weird. it’s not distracting for text pages but with lots of images, it seems weird. like some sort of old-timey shapeshifter theme.
infiniteloop
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Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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:lol, well somebody had to say it.
Thing is it's always true!
Safari definitely gets better with each and every iteration... or 'seems' to anyway
Give it time, Apple installer time estimates are usually nothing but lies
My install is stil hung at 4 minutes remaining... ugh...
My concern is not how it looks, but how well it performs. Blows my mind how my ~3.000 Best MacBook Pro We've Ever Built can't even handle lag-free scrolling in so many apps. Not a problem for my mother's bargain bin Windows laptop, though.
How's the latest DP in this regard? I'm talking about the original rMBP from 2012.
:lol, well somebody had to say it.
Thing is it's always true!
Safari definitely gets better with each and every iteration... or 'seems' to anyway
How quickly we forget Safari 4.x-5 and the force reloading of tabs
Meus Renaissance
Member
Scrolling up/down on Chrome is terrible
To revert back to Mavericks, I would need to reinstall it, correct?
To revert back to Mavericks, I would need to reinstall it, correct?
:lol, well somebody had to say it.
Thing is it's always true!
Safari definitely gets better with each and every iteration... or 'seems' to anyway
its true. especially loading gifs. single gifs under 3 or 4 MB in size start playing super fast - no wait time. pages with multiple gifs still take some time but, in my opinion, less time than before.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
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You should have made a partition of your hard drive if you are going to install beta operating system. Try using Time Machine backup to restore previous operating system and data back to your computer.
OK, so iTunes 12 has a pretty big change to navigating store vs local than before.
it used to be that you clicked the iTunes store button and then there was a new list of section buttons for music, movies, etc.
But now, when you enter the store, the buttons to move between music, movies, app sections in the store are the same buttons you use to move between those sections in your library.
So, if youre browsing apps in the iTunes store and want to go back to your music, you cant just hit a single button (used to library) to see your music. you have to click the music" button on the left side of the window and THEN hit another button in the middle of the titlebar to switch from iTunes store to My Music. (or click my apps first, then go back to music)
or, if something is playing, hit CMD-L to go to your library and see whats playing.
hmmm . not liking this change. will file a report once the feedback assistant servers arent broken.
it used to be that you clicked the iTunes store button and then there was a new list of section buttons for music, movies, etc.
But now, when you enter the store, the buttons to move between music, movies, app sections in the store are the same buttons you use to move between those sections in your library.
So, if youre browsing apps in the iTunes store and want to go back to your music, you cant just hit a single button (used to library) to see your music. you have to click the music" button on the left side of the window and THEN hit another button in the middle of the titlebar to switch from iTunes store to My Music. (or click my apps first, then go back to music)
or, if something is playing, hit CMD-L to go to your library and see whats playing.
hmmm . not liking this change. will file a report once the feedback assistant servers arent broken.
The Real Abed
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People must have killed the server. Damn. I want my Yosemite! Maybe they're just adding more servers. Or something.
Meus Renaissance
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What are people's experiences with Chrome so far? Specifically scrolling