“OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 3 isn’t particularly ambitious, yet there is still plenty to go over, including Dark Mode, updated QuickTime icon and more,” FairerPlatform reports.
• Dark Mode – Dark Mode is now officially available
— To enable Dark Mode, go to System Preferences > General > Theme > select “Dark”
• Interface tweaks – System Preferences, Mail and iCloud Preferences have all been tweaked, including a new font in Notification Center and Safari favorites bar
• QuickTime icon and FontBook icon
• Settings – Continuity/AirDrop settings have been removed from the System Report. Also, removed the “Allow Handoff between this Mac…” toggle in System Preferences
• FaceTime Audio and Video now have separate tabs
• Time Machine is now very, very minimal
Read more in the full article here.
Those icons don’t look “flat” to me. Even with my old man aging eyes, they look great and 3D.
“Time Machine is now very, very minimal.” Maybe that means new backup options are coming. I hope so.
I understand the need for Time Machine for new users, but Apple ought to get serious and buy Carbon Copy Cloner and do another few things to make total recovery easier when things go boom.
About once every 3-4 years a HD/SSD seems to crap out on me. The ONLY way I can get back to work quickly is to have a recent bootable clone that can get me back up in an external case in 1 minute.
I have also wondered about Apple providing a one-click answer to keeping the Home folder on a separate partition, so the OS and data can be kept apart for easier backup, recovery and use. The limitation at the moment is also that if you use BootCamp, it won’t let you have 3 partitions. so the home folder on a separate partition can’t be used (at least easily) on a MBPro.
Well, the bullet item regarding Time Machine should have inserted the word “icon” because all that’s changed is the icon has become minimalist.
With regards to the home folder on a separate partition, I’ve been doing that for years. Apple created that for education many years ago so students could have their home directory on a thumb drive. My machine boots from an SSD and my home directory is on the internal hard disk drive. There’s no way I would pay for an SSD large enough to hold my home directory (Pictures is almost .5TB), so spinning disk is the answer for now.
I tried moving “add on” apps (like the iWork suite) off the SSD but that totally confused Software Update: It knew I had Pages installed, so every night it would update to the next version and not “see” it when it checked the next night. I gave up and moved Mac Apple Store apps back to the SSD.
” The limitation at the moment is also that if you use BootCamp, it won’t let you have 3 partitions.’
Sure you can. You just need to make sure the BootCamp partition is the second partition. The way I do it is to install OS X, then make my BootCamp partition the size I need for my Windows install plus the size I want for my third partition. Go through the install process for Windows and then use Disk Utility to partition the Windows partition into two partitions. That’s the way I currently have one of my MacBook Pros setup. One first partition has 10.9, the second has Windows 7, the third has 10.8.