“If you’re upgrading to OS X 10 (El Capitan), or even if you’ve been using it for a while, these tips, tricks and utilities are sure to make your life a lot easier,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld.
“Learn how to wrangle Spotlight, 10 steps to improve your Contacts experience, 6 disk utility changes you’ll need to be aware of, a quick guide to fixing Mail problems, great extensions for Photos, 24 essential utilities, how Notes are more useful these days — and much more,” Evans writes.
“The shortcuts in here are focused on El Capitan, but we will be making available other Knowledge Packs with even more tips — for OS X in general and iOS in particular,” Evans writes. “Check back soon!”
Get the OS X El Capitan Knowledge Pack here.
MacDailyNews Note: Today is Good Friday. As such, the U.S. financial markets are closed for the day and posting will be less frequent today.
I don’t want to register with Computerworld in order to read this. Guess I will move on.
Yeah…don’t highlight web articles that require registration. No way would I EVER register at Computerworld.
Same here. I followed the link all the way until that message popped up. Just dive into El Capitan and experiment with the newer features. And, decide for yourself which of them are most important to your needs and/or usage(s).
I entered one of my “throwaway” Gmail addresses (the one I use for ridiculous registration requests like this one) and was able to download the PDF file right away.
Was it worth the download?
I’m still using Mac OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite. My only gripe with Mac OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan is the way the dumbed down the Utility App. I was hoping they might bring it back in the latest update of 10.11.4, but didn’t happen. Oh well, maybe they will put it back in Mac OS X 10.12.x (Fuji) then again maybe not.
Just do the basic google for ‘Disk Utility 13 on 10.11’, or something similar, and you’ll find several pages about doing a very basic hexedit on the old app. (Also how to get it, if you don’t have a 10.10 partition hanging about.)
Great suggestion. Another one is to simply use diskutil in the command line. I recently had to look up how to use it to create a JBOD HD array in 10.11. FWIW, lots of articles on how to do RAID 0 in diskutil (stripe) and RAID 1 (mirror) but none on JBOD. The argument I stumbled upon through trial and error was “concat.”
Why are these commenters so scared to give an e-mail address to Computerworld? People need to chill.
It’s not just an email address they want. On the second sign-on page, they ask for a mailing addresse and telephone numbers.
I was willing to use a throw-away email address, but I back out at the second page.